Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

Uhhhhhh... Pete, can I borrow one of those 250?

 

I had no problems with 548 and only one with 549, but only did basic restores. Hopefully next version will be one size fits all. All and all I feel pretty good about the program......so far.

 

I see you guys are still persevering with this POS.

 

Well, this "thing" has saved my ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ (or, rather, my computer's ~ Snipped as per TOS ~) several times. In fact, the last one was several minutes ago.

 

Point of Sale?

I'm persevering with V1 - will upgrade to V2 once confident the developers will ever attain fast delta restores.

 

Anyone knows if I can delete the logs files in the backup directory. If some logs are required, how to delete the ones not required any more?

 

You may freely delete them if they bother you. You don't need them for the restore, browsing the backup data or mounting an image. The only reason you may need them is when collecting logs to send to the developer's support or to check by yourself what went wrong in case of some misbehavior, unless that type of error had not been logged at all...

 

Latest beta version, hot restore failed, rendering my Windows unbootable.
Luckily, cold restore on the same "snapshot" worked.
Obviously no logs collected, since there wasn't any to collect after the cold restore.
Oh yea, Windows 7 Ultimate,64-bit.

 

Well I have an idea! Since v1 - v1.3.7 and v1.4.1.48 and v2 - v2.0.0.528 Hot Restores seem invincible on a lot of machines, and with Windows 10 right around the corner, the dev team needs to cut to the chase and market "AX Hot Restore" or "Hot Restore 64," and be done with it so they can start working on a W10 version. It's officially been over two years in development, with no end to the kinks insight. At this rate, a W10 compatible version may not be available prior to the release of W11.
I'm not trying to be a wise guy with the embellishment but am actually quite serious, because if I were to upgrade to W10, I'd feel naked without AX 64!

 

Good to know and thank you Peter!

 

Hi im using the 439 Version and it seems to work for me. I did a hot restore withhin windows. What bugs me is that it took about 7 minutes to restore to the older snapshot.
7 minutes for transfering 32gigs from a hdd to an ssd is no time that impresses me when they state on there website: "to back up your entire Windows OS and restore it in seconds."
Is it only so slow for me or are others there with the same "speed"?

 

I only manually make snapshots so starting with the first snapshot (incremental) after the Base Line I delete them after the total number reaches ten to around a dozen. This in general is around a week or so. From the C: SSD to a SATA 6g backup drive, a total recovery (to the last snapshot) time from starting the recovery to the system up and 100% running takes around two minutes. I've actually timed it quicker than that but couldn't tell you what the record is.
I used the free Comodo Time Machine on an XP PC and a Vista Laptop all the time and when I built this x64 W7 SP1 machine I was really missing the convenience of CTM. Then AX64 came along and honestly, it felt like I never left CTM!

 

Any of you use AOMEI Backupper/Macrium Reflect with AX64 Time Machine?

 

rdsu, soorry I'm in your face once again

I'm not an AOMEI user but have been using Macrium since the beginning of my ALPHA testing with the AX64 Time Machine (January 2013)... it's always been my reliable backup to the product test (and believe me, I've used it during this phase ). I have found no discernible issues in using the two products together.

 

But what is your strategy?

Monthly full backup with AOMEI/Macrium and let TM automatic?

Do you have a partition with a specific size for TM, to control their backup siz?

 

In my case, my main use of the Time Machine is manual in nature... more as a snapshot tool than an imaging tool. Macrium is used as my main imaging tool with regular weekly INCREMENTALs, monthly FULLs, and an occasional on demand INCREMENTAL. The Time Machine has provided the on demand protective INCREMENTALs as needed.

My DATA is backed up separately and in most cases is not part of my imaging requirement.

It is hoped that at some time along the way, I may be able to consider Time Machine for all my imaging requirements... but I don't believe we're thgere yet.

 

Thank you both!

Currently I use AOMEI Backupper Standard to monthly full backup, and then daily incremental backups.
Also made a batch file, to run on first day of the month, to delete the old backup, save the previous month at another folder, and then AOMEI Backupper Standard starts the whole process...
This way I keep two months of backups...

Don't know if I will get the TM...

 

Me too, no issue so far. I mean AOMEI Backupper Pro V2.2 & AX64 TM V2 Build 548 (I think)