Since my images start at 67 gig I can begin to test that. Flash drives can be different and that may well be the source of your problem
That it is a compatibility issue for Macrium with something is 100% clear the question is how and how much the program is responsible . It is really funny that it worked with disc PE but not installed dito , very peculiar .
pb1, are you saying the problem is running winpe from a properly prepared flash drive, or imaging to a flash drive?
I have never used the PE environment on a flash drive only as installed or on a DVD disc . The problem involves backing up and restoring using a Usb 3.0 flash drive . Everything worked with fl.drive and PE disc but when i switched to installed PE the problem occured after 4 restores . Very peculiar problem . I have stopped using it and got my money back , maybe i will be coming back to it in the future when i have bought a Usb 3.0 hard drive because the speed of the program makes it a beautiful piece of software .
In v6 of Macrium Reflect, if I set the "Macrium Image Mounting Service" start setting as "manual", the missed scheduled backup tasks that are supposed to run at next system start up do not run. Can someone confirm this? In v5, I used to put "Macrium Image Mounting Service" in "manual" start mode and Macrium never missed a scheduled backup that was overdue because the PC was off.
More major and exceptional successes with MRv6. I have Adobe Acrobat Pro XI. It uses 1.4 gb of disk space. I wanted to try the new Acrobat Pro DC, which off course is bigger, and went it installls it uninstalls the previous version. I didn't like the bloody thing. New isn't always better. Restored the system back. Worked perfectly and the restore took just under a minute. Amazing.
Pete--for those of us who are using MR v6 as a "standard" imaging program and haven't really tested this almost "rollback" type feature, can you give a little more detail as to how you did this? For example, did you do a manual incremental or differential before trying the Acrobat Pro DC? (Like how one might with AX64?) Once you determined you didn't like the new version, what was your process for reverting back?
Hi Alexhousek I cannot answer for Pete but it really depends on your schema. I run weekly full image (4 retained), daily differential (6 retained) & hourly incrementals (12 retained) which means I generally have an incremental that is no more than an hour old to rollback to. All one has to do is find the last incremental (but it count be a differential or full image) in the Restore section of Macrium, and click Restore Image, and assumingnthat one has previously elected to set up a recovery environment on disk...the system will reboot, and the rollback to the selected image will occur, automatically. Not much different to the 'warm' rollback in AX TM...is that what you were after knowing? Regards, Baldrick
HI Alexhousek Baldrick pretty much hit it. I take one automatic incremental at 9:00 am. The rest are manual. When I have about 20 incrementals, I take a differential and then delete the incrementals. For the restore, yes I have the recovery environment in the the windows boot manager. I just open the gui, click on the restore tab, select the image, the partition in the image and the restore partition. Then finish and the remainder of the questions. System reboots does the restore(generally less then a minute, and reboots back to the system. I heartily recommend you do a large number of restores. Then the how to do it becomes habit, and you have a high degree of confidence. Pete Actually the "rollback" feature is just a standard restore.
Well put, Pete. What I really like about the schema that I have set up with Macrium is that it does the equivalent automatically of what I was doing with AXTM manually (having to 'start' a new group with a manual full image each week and 'archive' the previous week's image + incrementals by renaming the 'folder' that they are held in/creating a new folder of the same name that AXTM would be looking to use). It is just 'fire and forget'...with just the odd check from time to time... Regards, Baldrick
Ok guys. Thanks. I think that makes sense. The first thing I need to do is install the boot menu, as up until now, I had planned on using a DVD disk (rescue disk) that I made. I've never used a boot menu before so I've been reluctant to use it. (So, I've been using both AX64 and MR v6. I've been leery of making the full switch to MR.) I do have another favor to ask. Can you help me decipher what scheme I choose for my MR backups/images? I'm not sure which of these are incrementals and which are differentials? I hope this picture will help? (I do remember that I decided not to do any images/backups on the weekend.) "D drive" folder is my documents HD which is a 1 TB HD. I did a manual image of it and will probably do one maybe once per month; if that. My C drive is a 128 GB SSD.
If you hover over each of the files you will get a popup giving you the salient points of the particular file, and that includes whether full, differential or incremental. Hope that helps? Regards, Baldrick
Well, it is relatively easy to change that, if you want to, to add differentials. I mapped it out on paper first and then played with the scenarios before coming up with my schema...which works perfectly for me.
Han, other than the server versions, the features are the same for them all... the only difference is the Support Structure. HOME has everything you need...
