Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by Isso, Jan 18, 2013.

  1. Isso

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    EASTER, thank you very much for your support!

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  2. Isso

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    Hi carfal,

    You are right. However for Vista the Winre.wim file doesn't exist anyway, that's why CD is needed.

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  3. Isso

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    twl845,

    The old versions of the programs would stop at 62.5% and eject the tray waiting for the user to insert the CD. That was confusing. Now the program checks - if the CD is there it proceeds with burning, if not - ejects the tray for the user to insert the CD. Also it ejects if the CD is there but not not suitable (for example if you insert a CD-R that is not empty)

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    silver0066,

    This error code means that the program cannot communicate with the driver. Do you have any antivirus/antimalware software that might block AXTM? If so you might try to add C:\Windows\system32\drivers\AXTrack.sys and files in C:\Program Files\AXTM to while list and see if it helps.

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    sevenstar,

    Received it, thank you! Will return as soon as I figure out the cause of the problem.

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  6. Scoobs72

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    Hi Isso, I tried my first restore today, but it failed with a "cannot restore MBR" error. I'll email the log files to you.

    Thx
     
  7. Isso

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    manolito,

    Thank you, I'll double-check this scenario. AXTM is supposed to both backup and restore Widnows system reserved partition. Do you have .axb files (along with .axd) in your backup directory? .axb files are the images of the system reserved partition

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  8. Isso

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    Thanks Zero3K, we have both actually, albeit empty :)
     
  9. Isso

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    Thank you Hanpu, I'm happy to hear it works fine for you. Yes, AXTM is fully compatible with SSDs and TRIM.

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    Hi Scoobs72,

    Looking forward to receive the logs, thank you. Do you by any chance have any security software that protects MBR from rewriting? I guess that might be the reason.

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    Hi Isso, the only security software I'm running is Spyshelter HIPS but it doesn't alert to any MBR-related activity. Nor does it show any issues in its log. Still, I'll disable it and test out another restore.

    Thanks
     
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    No, the restore still fails.
     
  13. aladdin

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    Hi Isso,

    I seem to have dropped the ball on this. I was supposed to upload some files to you and I plumb forgot about it, till the other day I was going through the old emails.

    So, I decided before I upload these files to you, to download the latest beta of AXTM and see what it does. I was pleasantly surprised that it worked on all my five machines which previously had Acronis True Home 2011 and/or Acronis Disk Director 11.

    I thought that you have done something. Or, it could be that now I have Acronis True Home 2013 on all of them.

    Do you still want me to upload the files?

    Best regards,

    Mohamed
     
  14. aladdin

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    Hi Silver,

    Just out of curiosity, do you have or had any Acronis products on your machine?

    Best regards,
     
  15. silver0066

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    Yes, I tried out Acronis while waiting for new version of ShadowProtect.

    Any suggestions?
     
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    I blocked those files with Kaspersky. Then I turned off Kaspersky. No change, I still get the same error.
     
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    It seems Acronis is your problem. What year of Acronis?

    Try the latest Acronis True Home 2013 and leave it installed and see if your problem with AXTM goes away.

    Best regards,
     
  18. silver0066

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    It was 2013. I currently am very happy with ShadowProtect and it does not play well with Acronis so I don't want to re-install Acronis.

    I just ran the Acronis CleanUp Utility, but that did not help. Are there any manual workarounds?
     
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    What are the links to them?
     
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    Well it supposed to work with Acronis 2013. It is the earlier versions that it had problems. Your problem might be something else.

    Sorry, can't be much help!

    Best regards,
     
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    yeah i have acronis 2013 last version and AXTM work fine whit it on Win8 and Win7 x64
     
  22. manolito

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    Yes, I do have an .axb file and an .axd file in my backup folder. The problem is that the .axb file does not get restored...

    Just rechecked it again, this time using a AXTM recovery CD instead of a USB stick. But nothing changed, the hidden partition does not get recovered and Win7 won't start after recovery.


    Cheers
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  23. Zero3K

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    I don't know why but the merging of backups has now stalled at 84.6%. Here are the logs to hopefully figure out and fix the problem.
     

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  24. guest

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    i am a old user of Rollback Rx , with AXTM could i do this?

    1- do a "baseline backup" named "0", of my system partition when i install AXTM
    2- install some softs , create a snapshots named "1"
    3- install other softs , create a snapshot named "2"
    4- install other softs , create a snapshot named "3"
    5- the softs of "3" are not worthy and corrupted my system , can i go back to "1" without loosing "2"?
    6- some Windows Updates are available, can i go back to "0" and update it (still be "0"), keeping "1" and "2" or after the updates "0" will becomes "4"?
     
  25. TheRollbackFrog

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    guest, although I'm not speaking for AX64 and Isso, I am speaking based on my testing experience...

    Yes, but from here on a new fork is being created if you wish to continue from this point and do snapshots, just like Rollback.

    After updating snapshot "0," your next snapshot will be "4"... it will be a new fork from "0" just like Rollback. Remember, you're not updating the pre-"0" system state, only the post-"0" system state. At this point you have 2-forks... "0, 1, 2, and 3" (no Windows updates installed) and "4" (Windows updates installed from here on)... exactly the same as Rollback. "0" remains unchanged (it's the baseline) and "4" becomes the "updated" baseline. If you return to snapshot(s) "0, 1, 2 or 3" you will be running an unUPDATED version of Windows, if you return to snapshot "4" you will be running an UPDATED version of Windows, rooted from its PARENT at "0."

    When bouncing from snapshot to snapshot, AXTM works exactly like Rollback in functionality... the difference is that AXTM's snapshots are REAL pieces of identifiable storage and may be managed on any storage volume you wish, and if an unBOOTable condition hits you along the way, using AXtM's off-line restoration environment (RECOVERY CD/USB) it may be used just like any other image creation/restoration tool.
     
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