It allows you to choose if you want to use an IFD or an IFL recovery enviroment. For faster recoveries select Image for Linux. Panagiotis
But, I just get my CD out and choose whether it is an Image for Linux, TBWinPE or TBWinRE disc. Have I missed something?
That option incorporates a minimal, recovery only, version of IFD/IFL in the first CD/DVD. You insert the first dvd and then it asks you if you want to initialize the recovery or not. You do not have to use another cd to start the recovery and it saves you some steps (have not used dvds for a long time but if I remember correctly, it automatically selects the image included for the restore). Panagiotis
Ah, so people still backup to optical media? It's been decades since I have done that. I didn't even think that was still possible.
Not to mention more expensive. First you gotta spend cash on a blueray burner and then the discs. For the same price you could get a 256GB+ usb 3.1 stick which will be muuuuuch faster and take up a lot less space. Most image software these days can also compress your backups, so that's even more storage on a stick.
True. But I don't trust anything truly. I keep images on external drives, SD cards, and, yes, a blu-ray disc. That way I'm covered for all but the nearly impossible scenarios. I've had both external drives and flash drives fail on me before, so a blu-ray disc in a fire-proof safe seems appropriate.
Multiple backups!!! Yes. A friend recently had a suitcase stolen from his car. It contained his laptop and USB external HD (backups). He's lost "everything".
That's what I want to prevent. I Even has a friend store an 8TB external drive for me at his house. I'd rather have too many backups and not need them, then need them and not have one.
Does anyone know what this error message could be about? I just got it today when I tried creating an image with IFW (VSS).
That looks like one of the error's I saw. Try disabling your security software one by one. Something may be blocking system32\confg\SAM
I still use optical media when I get a new PC. I set the machine up with all the basics and fully update it. Then, make a DVD/Blu-Ray image set. And store it away with everything that came with the new PC. Then if I want to start over, it's nice and clean and more reliable than anything MS does.
G'day Brian, I recently upgraded from v2.9x to v3.07 and I do not see the above checkbox selections in Backup Settings. Is it time for stronger eye-glasses? Cruise
Hi Cruise, The selections are on the Backup Options screen, just before you click Start. (see page 50 in the user manual) I wrote those instructions for ver 3.06a. Now with ver 3.07 you should not delete the differential .@0 file as it is needed for a metadata restore.
First of all, my internal SSD is almost 4 yrs old - so I decided to make a System Image in case it dies, but Windows 7 System Image tells me that I cannot because "a specified volume" is formatted as FAT32. When I looked at the SSD in Disk Management, sure enough it says that partition 0 (the 100MB partition) is FAT32 -- and partition 1 (the 'C' partition) is NTFS. My other 2 external drives are NTFS. Question #1 --- How did that happen? Why did my Windows 7 installation disk do this, if it would break the System Image tool? Question #2 --- Is it safe to convert 'partition 0' (it contains the MBR - right?) from FAT32 to NTFS ? Will it simply change FAT32 to NTFS or could it mess up the MBR? Question #3 --- How do I convert it if it doesn't have a drive letter? Would the the command prompt + C: /FS:NTFS -- work? Question #4 --- In the future, when using my Windows 7 Installation disc, how would I make sure that this doesn't happen again? Where did I go wrong the first time? It's been 4 yrs, but I'm pretty sure Windows didn't ask me if I wanted to split the SSD into FAT32/NTFS. Thanks
