Paragon Boot Camp Backup

Discussion in 'Paragon Early Adopter Program' started by Paragon_MA, Oct 8, 2014.

  1. McWhorter Michael

    McWhorter Michael Registered Member

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    My Boot Camp partition is no longer booting. I am attempting to "Restore" but the only restore location showing is the external drive I backed up to. My internal drive is not listed. Is there something I need to do to make Paragon Boot Camp Backup find the internal drive for restore?
     
  2. PDADoc

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    After having installed the latest update, I'm now able to backup and restore with no issues whatsoever. It would be nice, however, to have the option to schedule backups; if this feature already exists, I've not yet found it.

    Also, perhaps a clearer option to performing complete backup sets and smart updates, so that only changed files are added to the existing backup?

    On an unrelated note, I'm somewhat disappointed with the lack of support received from the developers. After being involved in hundreds of hardware and software tests, I can't recall having a poorer experience. I'm glad to be involved in the process, as one more backup app that deals with Bootcamp partitions is always welcome, but a little help in making the product better couldn't hurt!
     
  3. criscoso

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    Hi,

    The product idea is great, long awaited!
    However, I doesn't work for me.
    I have an EFI formatted SSD drive and the program doesn't detect my windows 8.1 partition :(
     
  4. Ross Hopkins

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    First tijme using this and al I get is the following message
    There is no possibility to backup archve to its own location

    Weird, totally different disk and disk is clean/wiped...go figure!
     
  5. Ross Hopkins

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    Hi there,
    I think I have found the problem and it is now working. At first I erased and external drive and made a partition call bcbackup and it would not work, this time I just erased the total disk and not adding any partitions manually and it is working now.....be interest to see how it goes with restoring the bootcamp volume...

    Cheers
    Rossco
     
  6. Ross Hopkins

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    So far so good, backups working fine.......I tempted to force an error on the BC drive and try a restore......bur also scared ti do so at the same time...
     
  7. Ross Hopkins

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    Hi there,
    Well Paragon have done an amazing job, so much so that it is hard to believe this has not been done before by others like Winclone developers etc....

    I have used winclone until version 4 and it always came up with some issues, usually relating to chkdsk etc, so I have dropped that and I had made 3 backups using Paragon Boot Camp backup, then destroyed the windows OS by deleting system files, programs etc and could not get Windows to load in Boot camp. This was all intentional of course as I wanted to test the product properly etc...

    The it was time to restore Boot Camp, amazing it only took about 15 minutes (that really surprised me) and it was flawless, Windows in boot camp started up immediately and there were no issues at all.

    Paragon,
    you have done an amazing job of the product IMO and I am so pleased I have purchased your other products before elsoe I would not have known about your Boot camp backup..

    Great job and thanks

    Kind regards
    Ross
     
  8. Ihmchen

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    I run Yosemite 10.10.3 on my iMac. The Bootcamp partition has Win 8.1 I use VMware Fusion 7.1.1
    Today I install PBCB 0.570 and started a backup on external USB HD. It found the Bootcamp and everything went perfectly.
    I then opened win 8.1 and deleted one program and closed win and fusion.
    Than I did a Restore which went through without problems. However after station VMware fusion I get an error message: the virtual machine could not been started. "The file is not a virtual hard drive". I shut down the Mac and rebooted Windows with no problems. The deleted program was back again, the restoration was ok. But starting Fusion and running Windows out of the Mac session is no more possible!
    Please help!
     
  9. toastbrot

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    Hello there,

    I'm quite happy w/ PBCB on my iMac 27" running 10.10.3. Found one annoying bug in v 0.570 when after two successful backups I changed the name of the destination network drive from "Windows Backup" to "Bootcamp Backup":

    PBCB wouldn't let me add further backups to the .hdmbackupfile, oddly claiming "there is no possibility to backup archive to its own location". Suspicious, I changed the drive name again, this time to "BC Backup" and now the operation went through without a problem.

    It seems then, the app is checking only for the first few characters when comparing the names of target and destination drive. Please correct.
     
  10. hope22

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    Hi, I run yosemite 10.10.3 and wanna make bootcamp backup to restore tomorrow but i can't help myself wondering what format does the target disk for the backup need to have? NTFS? can't seem to find that details in the guide. thank you for the response in advance.
     
  11. sectorchan

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    Hi,
    I would like to move my Bootcamp from my MPB to my Mac Mini, but how can I select the image that I would like to use for the restore?
     
  12. gloryko

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    hi there,
    Need your help!!!
    I just change a new hdd for my mac mini, after I reinstall OS 10.9.5 to the new hdd. I used paragon boot camp backup to create a copy from my old hdd. It is my fault to format the old hdd too early, when I found the new hdd couldn't restore the backup, because it can't recognize the partition.
    Everything I have now is a big backup file with nothing can read it.
    Could anyone of you help me rescue my documents/photos from the backup?
     
  13. Ross Hopkins

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    Hi there,
    I had the same problem initially, so I just deleted the partition using disk utility, do not create another partition and just restore it to the empty space....worked for me.

    hope that helps
    rossco
     
  14. gloryko

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    Hi Rossco,
    Really appreciate your suggestion. However, the fact is I didn't create the partition, I just restore it to the new hdd. The software created a partition with the same size of original bootcamp drive (200 G in my case, Untitled drive, NTFS).
    I've tried create the partition by myself, then restore the backup to the partition. Still can't recognized after restored. No matter using disk utility to verify or repair...
     
  15. Ross Hopkins

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    Hmmm, seems really strange, if as you said the software created the partition itself, then it should do that again when restoring...., this worked for me when I did a restore, so I am at a loss as to why it does not work for you, sorry I can't help solve your issue...:-(

    Rossco
     
  16. Gray Matter

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    Running the PBCB v.570 here. I do a lot of testing and restoring of my system. I had previously done a successful backup of my iMac's Bootcamp partition to an external USB HD. I proceeded to do a test consisting of reloading my OS partition (10.10.3), deleting the BOOTCAMP partition, then recreating the BOOTCAMP partition, and reinstalling PBCB v.570. What I discovered was there was no way to restore from that previous backup file that was located on the external HD because it was not a choice in the Restore's base archive list, and there was no way to add it to the list directly. The only work around I came up with was to run the VMDK Mounter. Point it to the BOOTCAMP backup file on the external USB HD then use that as the source in PBCB and create another backup from it. After that backup was created at least I had a base entry now in the restore window where previously there was nothing. Obviously this solution seems tedious (double the work)! Paragon, you folks need PBCB to allow one the ability to add a backup file from another location to that base archive list.
     
  17. Ross Hopkins

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    Wow, this is great information and while may be tedious, still a lot less work than reinstalling everything on to a new bootcamp partition :)

    thanks for the info


    Kind regards
    Rossco
     
  18. njh1099

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    Hi

    I used this application to back-up my 80GB Boot Camp partition to an external Thunderbolt SSD drive.

    Could anyone share the steps required to restore this backup to the Thunderbolt drive, instead of putting it back on my internal HDD?

    Thanks very much.

    Nathan
     
  19. Trebuin

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    Still running strong with my drive attached to an apple router. I just have to manually mount. I'll be looking for a mounting program in the next few to make this much more automatic, though the lack of mounting helps me control the backups a bit more since I don't use bootcamp very much. BTW, this is compatible with Windows 10!
     
  20. icer1985

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    Hey guys,

    sadly "Paragon Boot Camp Backup" is not working for me either. I use Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite and Windows 7 Ultimate, but after installing the software on Mac, it only says "Source Disk not found" - even when I click "Select Source", it only shows an empty window.

    Anything I can do now? Hope someone can help. Thanks.

    Kindest regards
    Florian
     
  21. LarryJ

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    I recently downloaded and installed Boot Camp Backup and it seems to be running fine. Made a backup and was able to read from the mounted image. Question: I'm getting a trial countdown. What happens when it reaches zero?
     
  22. icer1985

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    Just get a free serial by registering.
     
  23. hali

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    Same issue, happened after clean install of OSX - it was working before but after re-installing OSX could not use Bootcamp backup to restore Windows partition so had to clean install Windows as well. I am using Fusion 8 but it was working yesterday before clean install of OSX. I did change the order of partitions - they are now as below. All other software is the same.

    Logs sent to beta-test@paragon-software.com - hopefully this is still the correct address..

    Code:
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
      0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
      1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
      2:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows10               25.0 GB    disk0s2
      3:       Microsoft Basic Data Shared                  70.0 GB    disk0s3
      4:                  Apple_HFS El Capitan              25.2 GB    disk0s4
      5:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s5
     
  24. Trebuin

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    I'm having to do a restore due to the backup program no longer being able to complete a new backup.

    1) The first restore resulted in an error saying the partition was mismatched, delete all the backups and create a new one.

    2) For the second restore, I deleted the bootcamp partition completely and didn't have that error.

    3) After the restore was complete, the boot of windows 10 errors with 0xc0000034. Microsoft recommends using a repair disk to repair this error. This repair failed. I ran a chkdsk on the drive and I have some orphan files. I'm having to do this through parallels because bootcamp does not recognize the repair CD.

    4) The second fix recommendation is the following:
    Refer to the steps:
    a) After you boot your computer using Windows 8 DVD or System Repair Disc, a black screen appears with gray text "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD". Press any key.
    b) Select the correct time and Keyboard type.
    c) Click Repair your computer in the lower left corner.
    d) Select Troubleshoot from Choose an option screen.
    e) Click Advanced options in Troubleshoot screen.
    f) Click on command Prompt.
    g) Type these following commands and hit enter after each line of command:
    Bootrec /fixmbr
    Bootrec /fixboot
    Bootrec /scanos
    Bootrec /rebuildbcd

    This resulted in a boot error 0xc0000001. I've seen this with winclone and they fix it by selecting "make legacy bootable"...details in a few.

    5) Still no success with the error 1
     
    Last edited: Sep 14, 2015
  25. Theo Tenuyl

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    I downloaded Paragon Bootcamp yesterday, I'm using Yosemite on a Mac Mini 2012. Anyway I'm trying to backup Bootcamp but it keeps coming up with, Error: Selected partition does not support this operation.
    I'm using Windows 10 is that the problem?
    It finds the partition okay, just won't let me do anything else.
     
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