R-Drive Image Update

I do, on a regular basis, it has become gradually my favorite imaging software over the past few years : very stable, very few bugs, quickly fixed, recovery media is excellent, no side effect on the systems where it is installed.

I just wish image file naming scheme woud be improved so that incremental backups and differential ones are distinguishable.

 

Good points. I use it to and love it...wish more people would!

 

Thanks guys for sharing your experience.
I have one question: do you guys know if the current version support UEFI with secure boot on? All my computers are new ones with windows 8 and I don't want to disable secure boot now.

 

I don't know sorry, but the demo version allows for a boot media creation so you can try for yourself. Or ask their technical support. I happen to have to contact them soon, the latest build generates errors with my raid 0 setup when creating the image, reverting to version 5.1 solves the issue.

 

I've been using R-Drive for years. Best I've found so far.
I don't want imaging software that insists on using its own scheduler with 5 different services running all the time in the background. R-Drive has NO always running services to potentially cause stability issues and all my backups are scheduled through windows task scheduler. This is important to me because I have it imaging a windows server for a customer and the fewer 3rd party services running the better.

 

Can this restore to dissimilar hardware? Looked on site didn't find yea or nay.

 

R-Drive Image 5.2.5203

by R-tt Team » Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:29 pm

A new build of R-Drive Image version is available for download.
Improvements:
* R-Drive Image makes up for possible incorrect values for disk memory buffer alignment / maximum data transfer reported by the system.

 

R-Drive Image 5.2.5204

by R-tt Team » Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:31 am

A new build of R-Drive Image version is available for download.
Improved:
* Linux 3.11.6 kernel in the startup version.
* R-Drive Image makes up more accurate for possible incorrect values for disk memory buffer alignment / maximum data transfer reported by the system.

Bugfixes:
- A RAID created in the BIOS of the Intel chipset might not initialize properly in the startup version. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image might display dynamic disks incorrectly. Fixed.

 

i want to give this program a try but i am worried with the constant minor updates

some might see that as a positive but it makes me wonder if they are in perpetual beta mode or if QC is lacking

 

"R-Drive Image 5.2.5205

by R-tt Team » Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:38 pm

A new build of R-Drive Image version is available for download.
Bugfixes:
- There was an incorrect timeout for BIOS RAID initialization. Fixed.
- R-Drive Image doubled a partition which boundaries were outside the disk, but which NTFS files system was within the disk. (Windows can mound such partition). Fixed."

 

"R-Drive Image 5.2.5206

by R-tt Team » Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:52 am

A new build of R-Drive Image version is available for download.
Improved:
* Enhanced diagnostics for network tuning in the startup version

Bugfuxes:
- Some small bugfixes"

 

"R-Drive Image 5.2.5207

by R-tt Team » Wed Dec 04, 2013 7:35 am

A new build of R-Drive Image version is available for download.
Maintenance release."

 

"R-Drive Image 5.2.5208

by R-tt Team » Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:01 am

A new build of R-Drive Image version is available for download.
Maintenance release."

 

It is still nothing special.

 

"R-Drive Image 5.2.5209

by R-tt Team » Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:15 am

A new build of R-Drive Image version is available for download.
Improvements:
* Linux kernel 3.13.1 in the startup version.
* An enhanced graphic system in the startup version.

Bugfixes:
- Failure to write data to opened encrypted volumes. Fixed.
- R-Drive fails to copy GPT R/O partitions. Fixed.
- Wrong image size for disks larger than 4 GB in the e-mail report."

 

"R-Drive Image 5.3.5300

by R-tt Team » Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:29 am

A new version of R-Drive Image version is available for download.
New features:
+ Support for S.M.A.R.T. warnings. If a hard drive has a risk of a possible hardware failure, its S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) system throws special warnings. R-Drive Image displays such warnings and includes them into its confirmation e-mails.
+ Support for new GUI languages: Portuguese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

Bugfixes:
- Sometimes it was impossible to write images to CD/DVD discs. Fixed.
- An incorrect year in the License Agreement for the GUI startup version. Fixed.
- Some cosmetic bugfixes."

 

"R-Drive Image 5.3.5301
http://forum.r-tt.com/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_post_target.gifby R-tt Team » Mon Apr 07, 2014 2:03 pm
A new build of R-Drive Image is available for download.
New features:
+ A new GUI interface: Japanese.

Improvements
* Linux kernel 3.13.7 in the startup version.
* Driver schema optimization in the startup version that prevents many lockups during startup.
* New options in the startup version: driver load tracking to recognize drivers that can cause troubles. Such drivers can be disabled."

 

"R-Drive Image 5.3.5303
http://forum.r-tt.com/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_post_target.gifby R-tt Team » Thu May 01, 2014 9:12 am
A new build of R-Drive Image is available for download.
Improvements:
* The xgi video driver is added to the startup version.
* It becomes possible to specify the path to missing parts of a split image file."