Dear all, For the past few days I've been trying to resolve a problem our company is having. Our company installs industrial PC's for our customers, and our field engineers use a bootable USB stick with Paragon Disk Manager to install an entire OS onto the new hardware. Field engineers are trained to do the few steps it requires to actually restore an image on a disk. This has all worked great for the past few years. However nowadays we want to do an extra step after restoring an image. After restoring an image we want to push a few files from the USB stick onto the freshly installed OS. This is perfectly possible using the File Transfer Wizard that Paragon supplies, however the sheer number of files makes it prone to errors when having to do it by hand. I'll just state right now that baking these files into the image beforehand is not an option. These files change more frequently than the image changes. So my solution to this was to automate both steps using PSL. However I can't seem to get it right. When I create a backup of a drive using the wizard I can choose to "Generate script" rather than actually doing the backup. This function is missing from the restore wizard (I am using Paragon Disk Manager 10). The script_man.pdf document suggests that restoring an image using PSL is perfectly possible, however I have not been able to get it done. Using the backup script generated by the backup wizard, I tried to piece together how the restore script should look like, but to no avail. Here's what I'm trying to run: // This file was automatically generated by {VENDOR_NAME} script generator // Use {VENDOR_NAME} Script Interpretator to run this file // Time of creation: Wed Nov 19 13:03:29 2014 // Settings block settings surfacetest off verify off copyonetoone off hddrawprocess off allow64kcluster off donothidetarget on copyinsteadofmove off bigdrives off compressionlevel 10 sidafterdisk off sidafterpartition off defaultsidchanger on nodellabel off timeshift 60 oemcodepage 437 timezone 22 langnumber 3 slavecfg off notforslave off enablerestart on enablevirtualdb on autoconverttofat32 on sidparams "" bootcdiso ".\..\ISO\bootcd.iso" hotbackup lockimpossible tempdrive E vss2hbswitch off vssattempts 3 vsstimeout 120 endsettings // Turn off confirmation confirm off // Restore img = "E:\IMAGE\IMAGE.PBF" select disk 0 select partitions all options cmp = 10 mfs = 4096000 notempfiles label = "No comment" autonames hotbackup lockimpossible tempdrive E usevss restore // Apply all scheduled operations apply all // Exiting // exit(0) I didn't think most of these settings were necessary so I stripped them all down. But that gave me a myriad of errors. So I kept all of them assuming some of them may be important. The errors that I'm getting when I run this script are: Grammar: error. There is no rule which contains such word: "RESTORE". Grammar: error. There is no rule which contains such word: "APPLY". I was wondering if somebody could point me into the right direction or ideally supply a working sample any restore operation. Right now my train of thought is that this has to be done doing either select archive > (source select disk in archive > (destination select physical disk > apply. OR: format physical disk > select archive > (source select disk in archive > (destination select free space > apply. I'm going to continue exploring both of these options, but I hope that any of you may be able to help. Cheers
Well, while writing the above message things suddenly became clearer to me. I managed to get the restoring part working like this: // Turn off confirmation confirm off // Delete all select disk 0 delete all // Restore image unselect all select disk 0 select freespace first img = "E:\VI_S_IPC_IMAGE\VI_S_IPC_IMAGE.PBF" select image all restore Now all I need to figure out is how to transfer a file to an unmounted partition.
