Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

About the license... I'd happily pay for a 'lifetime' license. Being the 'lifetime' license only available to beta testers and translators.
Anybody else outside from the besta testing/translating group can obtain a regular license for an annual fee.

Just a suggestion, tho.

EDIT: I almost forget about the Froggie group. That's a VIP group, so it's included in my previous pragraph of course.

 

Isso i cant send a PM it give me the following error The private messaging system is currently unavailable. i hope it will be fixed soon,i send you an email instead,thanks for your quick answer! and for constantly improve this great software!

 

Just to say that the "Restore Backup" procedure (aka the Cmd window) will froze if Webroot SA is active.

I have to shutdown WSA before restoring.

does anyone has the same "issue"?

 

I have WSA as well. No issues here and I've done plenty of restores. Not sure what your issues is and why it happens with your WSA. It's all clean here and I tried on 3 different machines also with WSA.

 

thanks for the input; i am a closed-beta tester for WSA , so either is my beta-build (v.131) or my settings.

 

Wouldn't the backup not be just the fresh install of Windows but also include AX64 TM?

 

Sounds good to me. Great idea

 

Maybe you could have it as part of the Wilders group of forums. I think it belongs here.

 

Personally I will not accept the offer of a free or discounted program. I appreciate it but I much more appreciate the effort that Isso and his team have put into this app and the way he has been responding to the folks on the forum. I know he said it will not make a big diff in the end but pennies add up to dollars and I feel he deserves my pennies. Thus he will get them.

I strongly suspect this will be the case for a good number of folks who have beta tested the app as well as participated in this thread.

 

I bet you are wrong about this. The program is too good to not buy. Even if all you want to do is use it as an imaging app that will allow you to take manual snaps occasionally (like when doing something you feel you may want to quickly back out of), its a gem of a program. In short, I would bet if someone tried it,,,,they will like it,,,and they will buy it,,,and they will then tell everyone who will listen about it. And not just because of the program, but also because of you. I was not kidding when I nominated you for the software developer of the year. And once the program is released commercially I will be telling everyone who will listen about it.

 

I haven't been able to test the Recovery Media but I think that's what it would be like.

 

NO, I do not think so,,,, unless the image you were restoring from was simply an image of a fresh install that had AX64 installed so the image could be made.

 

OK I'm here. My friend Manolito told me about this software and I just installed it and am about to make my first backup. I had a major crash lately and manolito helped me a lot in the process of getting my computer up and running again. I promised I'd be more diligent with backups and he has educated me a bit as far as the various options. But I am by no means a "Poweruser" like most of you guys so I'm going to give this one a go hoping that it will be pretty simple and straightforward. I did have Sysrestore on the computer and also Acronis. Those are gone now and I'm in the hands of the Time Machine.

 

I think it is a good choice because it is easy to understand and fast restore

 

Just as a point of interest, I have added the AX recovery iso as an extra entry to my Win7 boot screen using EasyBCD

before anyone says "But why bother ?" ....well, it`s not necessary, but just another option that`s available

I have actually used it this way as I have been testing firewalls recently and there`s been quite a few snaps & restores done -
works great, and don`t need to have the USB stick nearby (as long as the system is bootable of course).

 

Thanks, Froggie and Isso. Agree recovery media is the way to go, but handy to know should the recovery media go pear shape or if you did not get around to creating it.

 

Completely agree with you BG. It is a generous offer to make but all monies are needed by Isso & his team...so I will not be taking up the offer...but buying instead.

Balders

 

Hello Isso,

Here's a few observations I made after installing AX64TM on an XP/SP3 system:

There are some minor DPI issues using 120 DPI with the GUI (see attached).

When selecting the Make backup now button, it does nothing if no drive was previously selected. In this case my suggestion would be to auto-start the Select Drive/Destination Dialog and then continue with the backup.

It doesn't look like your application allows you to take snapshots on demand without first doing a full backup. Another tool that I have tried (Toolwiz Time Machine) allows snapshots without any kind of backup. I may have missed the reasoning in this thread behind requiring a full backup first, so I apologize if this has been asked before.

I tried a restore with one of the smaller snapshots (4mb) and was surprised to see a command window pop-up for the restore. Are you planning to hide this with a GUI since this seems a bit unpolished alongside the normal GUI?

Also, in my case, the recovery iso crashes when booting from CD. I was a bit surprised to see that XP SP2 was used to build the recovery CD. The crash was a 7b which usually means missing support for the hard disk . I could not get the iso to boot from a usb since none of the CD selections worked.The following entries are a bit cryptic and I would imagine that some users would not know what to do. Could you please explain the entries and if there's a way to boot the iso using Grub instead of booting from CD?

Code:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)cdrom(159)\I386="..CD on  9F" /minint /fastdetect /sos
multi(0)disk(0)cdrom(239)\I386="..CD on  EF" /minint /fastdetect /sos
multi(0)disk(0)cdrom(224)\I386="..CD on  E0" /minint /fastdetect /sos
multi(0)disk(0)cdrom(130)\I386="..CD on  82" /minint /fastdetect /sos

Al

 

It seems like there is bug.

When I mounted the backup the first time, there wasn't an option to unmount.



The "Unmount" option came out only when I mounted the same backup again.

I have 2 drive (G: & H: ) mounted

 

I cannot confirm this. The first time I tried a mount, I got a pop-up saying the mount was completed to which I had to select ok to regain access to the main GUI at which time the unmount button appeared..

Al

 

Isso, I agree with The Rollback Frog and bgoodman about your generous offer of a free registration of AX64. I'll pay for mine as well. You need the income now more than ever. However, I think that a well timed promotional Sale from time to time might induce folks to try it. If you have noticed Horizon will periodically put RBRx on sale to get new customers. It worked for me. As for me, I'm promoting the pending release of AX64TM everywhere I can.
PS: I agree that we need a forum so we can organize our input.

 

On Win7sp1x86, I cannot confirm this either... it works as expected.

 

Greetings Adric. AXTM is a hybrid snapshot/imaging program. As such it cannot perform its imaging function without a baseline reference image... initial full backup. TTM is just a snapshot program and as such can provide no recovery if the initial system, at time of installation, has been compromised. AXTM provides snapshot access if the system is in tact, and image restoration if the system is not. This cannot be done without that initial baseline snapshot.

The command Window showed up during the BETA testing, originally there was nothing there. I can't speak for Isso but since the system is basically unusable during the snapshot restoration, what's on the screen doesn't really affect much other than what the screen looks like during the restoration process. I'm sure Isso will explain what's going on...

 

Thanks for the reply.

It is strange that I need to mount the same backup twice to get the "Unmount" button.

I have tried a few times with the same result.

I am a user of Keriver 1-Click Restore Pro and have no problem mounting backup with it.

 

Thanks for the response.

I am using Win7 SP1 x64.