Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

Been keeping an eye on this product and though it was time to try it. I forgot VSS doesn't like Ram Discs mounted when taking a back up so after unmounting mine I got the initial back up taken.

In order to test I installed a few apps and tried to roll back. On starting the restore function the command prompt window has just been sitting at 0% for the last hour. I take it that's not normal. Is it recommended you use the recovery media to go back to the initial back up and the restore function for moving between incremental snapshots?

Apologies if it's been covered but it's a big thread now and I'm struggling to find anything around this on the product site.

Thanks

 

About the mode of incremental backups, which seems interesting:
24 backups for the current day + 30 daily backups of the current month + 12 monthly backups for the year + 1 year backup.
For me, a perfect backup (about 750 GB... It depends of course on the size of the space used).
What do you think? HP.

 

OH...I will have to try that. However, if a snapshot is selected, will it also link to the main full backup and check that too?

 

I've had the same restore problem of freezing for a while, would freeze anywhere from 0% to 36%. This would happen about 75% of the time, came to the point were the software was virtually unusable, ( I was restoring around 3 to 4 times a day.) Contacted Isso and he sent me a link for version 1133 which has rectified the problem but is still under test by him. Been running version 1133 for a few days now and it's rock solid on restoring though it does show a number of errors in the Event Viewer (Isso is aware of this problem).

 

Hi Pete

Nice one...good news.

 

Thanks, I'll await 1133 before testing again.

Cheers

 

@pete

Ax64 boot cd is solid , that i can also confirm .

 

Tell us something that we don't all know...especially after Peter's latest post...

 

Maybe other visitors don't live on this forum like you. Their input is still valuable. Other's may appreciate it also.

 

Great forum to be at...but I am fairly sure that I do not live here.

 

Amen brother!!!!!

Thanks for the torture tests, my confidence was high before,,,,,its higher now for sure.

 

I do not want to hijack this thread. Peter, Panagiotis, Easter, and anyone else familiar with FirstDefense, please see my new thread in the FirstDefense forum.

Thank you!!
Acadia

 

Heading over there right now Acadia. Happy trails!

And thanks Pete. You beat me to the torture test although a recent system malfunction related to my usual unleashing salvo's of POC/Test malware forced me into it.

AX64 TM results, fabulous without question.

Regards EASTER

 

I decided to remove and then restore AX64. Strange things happened. AX64 seemed broke upon restoration. There was no icon on desktop only an indicator that a shortcut was there. When I clicked on shortcut I was not offered only the C drive for media to copy to. I attempted to reformat my portable drive only to see the fat32 option was no longer available only NTFS. I then try to uninstall AX64, but it seems there are bits hiding here and there. After uninstalling I scrubbed with PrivaZer then reinstalled AX64, but the icon was still not on desktop only a bit showing the shortcut. The question most applicable would be how do completely remove AX64 in order to get a clean reinstall? As far as the fat32 option disappearing, well that should probably be posted elsewhere. I will say I was using WD Passport 465 GB and downloaded their software, but it would not install. Again, maybe not relevant here, but maybe it is.
UPDATE: After 3 hours I seemed to have gotten this working. I still would like to know how to do a clean/complete uninstall.

 

Just tried AX64 and got "Backup error C1000103 code 0" at around 60% for the initial snapshot.

Setup: SSD partitioned into C: with Windows 7 64-bit and E: with data/games/etc (both NTFS) and 1 TB HDD, which has 50 GB of linux partitions with no drive letters in Windows, and 880 GB NTFS partition assigned drive letter D:. See pic of the partitions for details about free space. I was trying to make a backup of C: to D:\AXTM. My firewall, antivirus and other extra programs were turned off.

 

When I click on a backup and do a mount I get an error 0, code 0. What is that? I wanted to mount the drive and try a chkdsk within WIN XP..

 

I understand that manual backups do not auto merge, but does taking then occasionally mess up anything if most of the time I am set to Automatic Hourly Backup. Also, is there anything I should be aware of when doing a restore when manual backups are thrown in the mix with the auto backups?

 

I have not found that they mess up the auto backups in any way, and there does not seem to be any difference in outcome when restoring to a manual or auto backup...as far as I have experienced. The only difference that I can see between them is that manual backups are not automatically merged/consolidated.

 

OK...Thanks Baldrick btw you live in nice country..once upon a time over 400 years ago my ancestors sailed from there to America.

 

Hi Rainwalker

Thanks...it is lovely here...but then again there are lots of nice places on this fair earth.

 

I love Queenstown, NZ!

 

I am not sure, but maybe you need to have larger unused space on your D: drive? Although the available space is larger than the system partition, AX64 might need some temp space?

 

Well observed!

Best regards,

Mohamed