Macrium Reflect

Have you considered testing without IR being in the equation?

 

What you describe is exactly what I would expect... except Outlook surprises me a bit (although it is a M$ product). The other Office elements and, for sure, Acrobat are not VSS aware, although the office elements do have a periodic SAVE that can be configured... maybe even Acrobat (I don't know).

 

Only to simplify things.

 

Pete, Barry, .....
You might want to try Shadow 5 from nticorp for your data backups.
It doesn't matter whether the data is in the C drive or another drive.

A change occurs when the file is Saved, whether manually while the program is still open or when you close the program. If you have AutoSave every x minutes then that's also a change and the change file gets backed up. Pretty much as close to real time as you can get without spending thousands of dollars for commercial software that duplicates at the transaction level.

I've used it only in the "One-Way" mode.

J

 

Thanks, I will take a look at this program. Much appreciated.

 

From the FWIW dept. (as in "learned this the hard (long?) way" )...

The WinPEs (Recovery Media) generated by REFLECT have their DEFAULT set to "Rapid Data Restore," which is fine as long as you know it. So, if you use that PE to do a manual restore of some kind, that will be the mode in use for that restore unless changed prior to the restore.

BUT... when an automatic restore (SYSTEM partition) is issued from within REFLECT running under LIVE Windows, part of the parameters of that task includes the RDR setting at the time of the request. This will either be your DEFAULT LIVE Windows setting or whatever you may have changed it to while issuing the restore request.

I had been playing recently with the DEFAULT RDR setting under Windows and forgot to set it back on. When I needed to return to a time point prior to a program test this morning, I issued the automatic restore and watched it BOOT into the Recovery Media and do a FULL restore... "What?" I said, I thought the Recovery Media had RDR set as the DEFAULT. I now know what really happens... (to me)

 

I may have misread your post, but I thought that after saving the files and making the incremental, you then reset the system using IR - I took reset to mean updating your IR snapshot from a second snapshot. Seems to me in those circumstances IR could conceivably have a bearing on it.

 

Hello.

New version released:
http://updates.macrium.com/reflect/v6/v6.0.499/details6.0.499.htm

 

Ya think that'll be long enough?

 

Date: 3rd March, 2015
Bug Fixes 6.0.499:

• Application Windows hidden by auto resize of Splitter Window
  The 'drag' line between Windows in the main application tabs could cause the upper pane to be hidden. this has been resolved.

• PowerShell integration check
  On systems without PowerShell installed Macrium Reflect now warns that the script cannot run.

• Parameter Incorrect' error when creating scheduled tasks from a Template
  This has been resolved.

• Date edit too long for some international settings
  The Scheduled Tasks date edit field was too short for certain languages. This caused the date to be unreadable. This has been resolved by using the numeric date.
  
  Source

 

I'm not sure whether it was available in the previous build, but in the current build there is an option to disable this when creating a rescue image.

 

That option has been there since the release of v6...

 

Ah, so I just missed it when I tried v6 for the first time... Thanks!

 

I would like to plug my external drive into a USB 3 port (I am currently using a much better situated USB 2 port) but my USB 3 ports are situated on the left side of the PC towards the front. If I use an L shaped plug this will not be an issue. I am not sure but I believe this is the correct plug,,,,could someone confirm this. Here is the description of the plugs I found on line

http://m.allputer.com/mobile.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1961

a second source describes theirs as follows

http://www.dx.com/p/usb-3-0-a-m-to-...dd-external-enclosure-data-cable-black-231288

From the pics they both look pretty much the same but I would prefer to be sure that they are.

Would either (or both) of these be the correct cable?

 

BG, it might be a bit more "universal" to just get what's usually called an EXTENDER cable (MALE/FEMALE standard USB3). These can be bought pretty short which sounds like what you need to make that USB port a little more more accessible. The other cables you're describing are special (USB-A to Micro USB) probably only for your device.

PS- THESE might be even more universal (if they don't block anything you need over there)...

PS2- THIS is one that should use your existing cable...

 

Thanks Froggie, the 2nd PS is the one I think is right for the job, much appreciated.

 

From the looks of it and the typical USB port orientation, that one should angle backwards if used on the LEFT side of your laptop.

 

Barry, enter "Left Angle USB 3.0 Male to Female Extension Cable" into the search bar for amazon.ca, there are several listed there.
The listing RBF gave is for amazon.com and not shown as "shippable to Canada".
J

 

Thank you very much

 

Hi

I cant remember ever having seen a discount somewhere on Macrium - do they ever have that ?
I am wondering since i am thinking of buying the home edtition . Do they have one now ?

When upgrading - how much does it usually cost - what did it cost now ?

And now a noobie question - is it possible to put the recovery media on the same usb stick as one uses for backups ?