Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

Yes with TrueCrypt System Encryption and Favourites. Hot restore within Windows works fine (at least not any worse than without encryption). I didn't bother with integrating cold restore, and opted for a different rescue media as sector-by-sector imaging instead.

After a cold restore, you can catch-up using AX64 to the latest snapshot. Just takes more time and space than full integration, which I'd like to see as well.

 

By the way, someone has tried AX64 in Windows 8.1, preview or RTM ?
Thanks

 

No problem with Windows 8.1 preview.

 

Pete if you really want to put AX64 to an extreme test follow the guide on how to use it with multiple FD-ISR snapshots, delete one FD-ISR snapshot, defrag the drive, zero-out the free space and at the end perform a quick restore with AX64.

I run this test last week and AX64 passed with flying colors. (everything was restored perfectly as it was)

Panagiotis

 

okay so after some testing i like it.. have been finally able to spend some time testing it. my question has anyone used this together with ifw and if so have there been any issues. i know some image programs do not like to get along well and i do not want to remove ifw from this system as a just in case...

thanks

 

Build 1145 is up now at http://www.ax64.com/other/ , you might want to test this build...


Cheers
manolito

 

Hi zfactor

Here is a quick link from ax64 that states the following:
"No compatibility issues have been revealed or reported for "Image For Windows" and "AX64 TIme Machine".

http://feedback.ax64.com/knowledgebase/articles/202395-compatibility-with-image-for-windows

Hope that helps, and glad you like it so far

Jim

 

Download and installed build 1145 but the installed version shows 1131, and about shows, version 1.2.0.1131 - Driver 1.0.0.887. Tried twice.

 

same here ^^^

 

You too! Isso sent me this and I tried it. I get the same version issue. It is supposed to fix my XP Mount issue.

 

My humble suggestion is that until a build is formally released on the website or Isso contacts you to recommend or send you a build, that new builds are not installed.

It is also the case, from my experience, that at this stage of the product life cycle, the issues being reported and needing to be fixed may take longer to turnaround, etc., due to their nature.

We should be patient, and give Isso & the Team time to pick up the issues, investigate them and then come up with the right solution. After all, do we not all think that this is one of the, if not the best supported products around?

 

+30

Best regards,

Mohamed

 

MPSAN,

i just installed 1145, in the browser restore about ,states it is version 1145. The main screen shows 1131.

Does it sort your mounting issue.

regards

Legacy

 

Works and does not work.
If you use file containers with encryption, then it's just fine, but if one
would encrypt the whole partition bit by bit, sector by sector, then it does not work.
AX64 does not support sector by sector backing up, so the restored snapshot would be unencrypted, and in my case...
The whole system would not boot at all, after doing the restore.

 

This is for Isso (private messaging is currently unavailable).

Thanx, Isso, for the quick e-mail response regarding the error I was experiencing when attempting to make a backup with AX64. You were right on the money. My USB thumb drive was formatted in FAT32 (a no-no). When I used a drive formatted in NFTS I had no trouble backing up. Awesome program!!!

 

YES! I just tested it and it does mount an image in WIN XP SP3.

 

I checked the AX64.com/news, and version 1120 is the latest version listed. It being Labor Day here in the US, I would imagine Isso is observing it with me and the rest of the Yanks. I'm going to wait until V1145 is posted rather than jump the gun.

 

I am with you Bro!

 

Oh my God! A bunch of timid chickens here... We are at Wilders here, at the forefront of technolgy. We are supposed to take risks to make others safer! And the risk might even pay off...

But seriously, what do you have to lose? Installing a new version of AX64 (and going back if necessary) is a breeze, and if this new version is supposed to fix a bug then what keeps you from testing it (at least if you are affected by this bug)? And after all this new build lies on a public server, it is not like it is a secret version which has been leaked.


Cheers
manolito

 

AX64 looks very good, is highly recommended, and is tempting, but:
Having read their site I am unable to verify that it has comparable features (yet ??) to Farstone Driveclone 5, which is what has worked very well for me.

I'll try to explain and ask about what is important to me:

- Hardware independent restore, so if your PC kraps out as mine just did, your image will restore & boot on different h/w.

Being able to restore to a different HDD -and- be used with a different mainboard.

- A pre-OS environment that can restore an image or snapshot.

At boot time a new option is added for their own, separate environment - no USB stick or CD required.

- Images can be saved anyplace on or off the system HDD, snapshots are on the HDD and hidden.

Hiding the snapshots assures that they will not likely be infected, etc. in case of disaster.

Until I can be really sure that AX64 is able to adjust drivers to use an image on a new mainboard - I'll hold off trying it.
That's a really important ability - more than anything else.

Acronis, Paragon, Faststone and others have made this a great feature in their backup programs - so I hope AX64 does too.

Thanks.

PS:
In case anyone is confused by my mention of Driveclone v5 because the current version is 9+, this is the version I found to be smallest and fullest featured.
Tried v7, and it was just bloated with no new features that I needed at all.
The newer versions now totally lack the snapshot features, so since I have a great version that works 100% with XP, that's what I'm using right now.
Maybe AX64 will be a better choice if it does what I need...?

 

Don't confuse ax64 with the other types of programs you listed it is not intended to compete with them. It is a different type of software altogether. It is not imaging program, but rather at imaging hybrid. These types of programs allow you to revert your system to a time before there were problems. Yes, it does this by using snapshots (some people might call the images), but it is still not to be compared with the likes of the products you listed. It is not a troll imaging application. Rather, it would be better to compare it with the likes of 1-click system restore Pro or rollback RX. The technology uses applications is different, but at least you'll get an idea of what I'm saying if you use them as a frame of reference.

If you want a full-blown imaging application, which I recommend in conjunction with rollback application, look at my signature. They are you will find links to image for Windows as well as how to restore those images using hardware independent technology.

Again a X 64 should not be compared with the likes of image for Windows, or acronis, or any other type of pure imaging software because that is not its purpose. It is a hybrid and should be compared against other hybrids that can revert the system.

All that being said, some of the features you asked about are present in ax64, such as the pre-boot environment, or the ability to save images to any hard disk local or internal. Snapshots can also be saved to a partition that is hidden from Windows Explorer.

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