FD-ISR and shadowprotect

[Atomas31]

Hi,

I have install FD-ISR (the original) on my laptop (with Vista), I've made 2 snapshots + my primary snapshot. The 3 snapshots are up to 114Gb... Now, if I want to make a backup image with my Shadowprotect is there a way to exclude the 2 snapshots made from being backup by shadowprotect and that way I should have a backup of only my primary snapshot (around 50Gb)?

The reason is a lack of space on my external hard disk and I can't buy a new one:(

Thanks,
Atomas31

[Minimax2000]

Unfortunately ShadowProtect works on sector level instead of file level. That means ShadowProtect cannot exclude files nor folders. This has a positive side effect. If you are forced to make a bare metal restore with SP all your snapshots are available too. So I would rather invest in a new hard disk.:)

Or you could anchor all your temp folders and therefore exlude them during snapshot creation. This keeps your snapshots small.

Frank

[Acadia]

What you could do is make Archives of those two Snapshots then delete those Snapshots. That way your ShadowProtect image would be much smaller. After the SP image is made, use those two Archives to recreate the two Snapshots then delete the two Archives. Sounds like a lot of work but that should work perfectly.

Acadia

[Atomas31]

-{ Quote: "Unfortunately ShadowProtect works on sector level instead of file level. That means ShadowProtect cannot exclude files nor folders. This has a positive side effect. If you are forced to make a bare metal restore with SP all your snapshots are available too. So I would rather invest in a new hard disk.:)

Or you could anchor all your temp folders and therefore exlude them during snapshot creation. This keeps your snapshots small.

Frank" }-

Hi,

Thanks for your answers!

@Minimax - Looks like you are right there is no way to exclude a file from a backup made with SP...

@Acadia - I can't make that since it would come back of me putting the total 114Gb (the 2 snapshots archive and the backup of the other snaps) on my external disk wich I can't...

I believe that I would have to delete the 2 snapshots make a backup image of my primary snapshot and recreate the 2 snapshots... Well that's live :wacko:

Thanks,
Atomas31

[MerleOne]

Have a look at this thread, it's the same question, only with a different imaging tool.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=240293

[Peter2150]

-{ Quote: "Have a look at this thread, it's the same question, only with a different imaging tool.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=240293" }-


Okay so you image and exclude those folders. Then if you restore, they aren't there. Wouldn't surprise me if it screws up FDISR. So how do you get them back. I will say this is a bad idea until someone restores the image. Saying a program will image it proves nothing. The proof is in the restore.

Pete

[MerleOne]

-{ Quote: "Okay so you image and exclude those folders. Then if you restore, they aren't there. Wouldn't surprise me if it screws up FDISR. So how do you get them back. I will say this is a bad idea until someone restores the image. Saying a program will image it proves nothing. The proof is in the restore.

Pete" }-

Just about restoring the other snapshots, you can do this from archives, if they were archived of course. If I were to perform such a partial backup, after restoration, the first thing to do would be to delete the now empy snapshots, create new ones and restore them from archives.

But I admit all this gets quite complicated so a full image is probably a much better idea.

[Peter2150]

-{ Quote: "Just about restoring the other snapshots, you can do this from archives, if they were archived of course. If I were to perform such a partial backup, after restoration, the first thing to do would be to delete the now empy snapshots, create new ones and restore them from archives.

But I admit all this gets quite complicated so a full image is probably a much better idea." }-


You are now getting to the reason, why I only keep two snapshots on the drive, and use archives. The 2nd snapshot, is totally stripped and is simply a place t o boot.

[MerleOne]

-{ Quote: "You are now getting to the reason, why I only keep two snapshots on the drive, and use archives. The 2nd snapshot, is totally stripped and is simply a place t o boot." }-

I'll probably do something similar, except my 2nd snapshot would be frozen, to be sure it remains intact and bootable.

[Peter2150]

-{ Quote: "I'll probably do something similar, except my 2nd snapshot would be frozen, to be sure it remains intact and bootable." }-

Mine is in the sense I never do anything to it. No need to freeze it really.