Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

LOL, No offense taken. As I recently turned 74 I actually considered your explanation.

Tom

 

Hi Isso

Congratulations on the new beta. Good to see the old firm back in production again.

I installed 1.3.0.7 over 1120. All my images are manual. I am using Win 8 and running off a SSD drive.

Made a new incremental - no problem.

Restored a previous incremental made under 1120 - no problem.

Restored the incremental made 1.3.0.7 - no problem.

So quite happy with this version.

 

Hi Isso,
I upgraded to 1.3.0.7 by creating a new baseline image over the top of V1120. The baseline took the expected 26 minutes, 42 seconds. I made another snapshot a few minutes later at 2 minutes, 9 seconds. A recovery CD was successful. The 1.3.0.7 beta does seem to be faster/snappier. I'm really getting stoked in anticipation of things to come. Thanks

 

Hi Isso / Hi Waj

Beta build appears to be working just about flawlessly here (Win7 64bit) and I even seem to be having less occurrences of the spontaneous reboot (when preparing the back up copy) that I had been having with prior versions.

A few more things to test but looking good.

Congrats and well done.

Regards, and respect


Baldrick

 

OK, thanks.

 

Any bootcd changing in beta 1.3.0.7 compare to 1120 ?

 

@chrome_sturmen

Greets and Felicitations

FD-Instant System Recovery was a first of sorts of it's kind and methods but in order to carry out what is/was required of it, demands an increased capacity for precious storage space and while not an authentic imaging app, full snapshots (not simply incrementals) alone demanded excessive time to complete. Subsequent "archive" updates or merged incrementals/updates as i like to call them are an exception and complete usually within mere moments.

AX64 to me is all about speed!!! flexibility!!! with reliability! !!!

It combines and makes the most of both techniques in rapid fashion from my experience, and that for me takes it to a whole other level. The basic operations are as they were meant to be at the start, simple and quick.

By design i feel that AX64 Time Machine at it's very core does something even more innovative then simply "carry the torch" forward as you suggested chrome, and beyond that takes into account not only basic imaging needs but impliments both ISR technology and Imaging into a single useful combination of both, very useful for my needs and confidence in a reliable fallback plan.

AX64 Time Machine appropriately referred to as a genuine "hybrid" exceeded all my expectations in the way it combines those 2 operations into a single faster one that also consumes much less disk storage space.

You might say the best of both worlds rolled into one. Add to that what's yet to come........



Regards EASTER

 

I'm gonna do a coupla brain cell dumps here that maybe should help anyone with DE's type of question.

The BOOT-CD created by AX64 TM contains (2) main ingredients... the operational parts of the particular AX64 TM release that you're using to make the CD, and the WinRE.wim provided by the current operating system that's loaded on the computer that's producing the CD.

So... if you're using a new version of AX64 TM to produce the CD, for sure those new version elements will be part of the CD. If you're creating the CD under a new Windows operating system, then for sure the WinRE.wim (the Windows operational part of the CD) will be new to the CD.

It's really that simple. Problems will occur if a new version of AX64 TM implements a different iimage format or possibly a new tracking format... but I'm sure the AX64 people (AKA "The Issos of our world") will not do that without informing users of those facts. This is why if neither of those things change in the AX64 implementation, even older BOOT-CDs will work just fine. If they change, "fer shur" you need to re-create your BOOT-CD.

The other reasons for possibly re-creating the BOOT-CD is newer versions of the WinRE.wim may contain more extensive hardware driver support (USB3, etc.)... which is always a good thing when new hardware thingies are always popping up on the scene.

My own practice is to create a new BOOT environment when I think my Windows system or my AX64 TM version has new functionality to offer, not just fixes. If that's difficult to determine, then I would make one each time I either upgraded my Windows system or my AX64 TM application... heck, I get blank CDs for about ten to fifteen cents each, not much lost there... and I can always use more coasters when Isso and the Boys show up for one of their "virtual" marketing meetings (DAMN, they drink a lot o' beer!).

 

Can I use Easy BCD on this newest build so I don't even need to use a Boot CD or USB?

 

Thank you Mohamed! In fact it's not the result of marriage yet The result will be the combined product which I hope you'll like too.

Isso

 

For Recovery Media issue - I'm looking into it and we'll release after it's resolved.

Isso

 

Kent,

Thank you! Indeed, this is apparently the issue. I don't know why Microsoft decided to remove those two files in 8.1, but this may be a big problem for us... I'll see what kind of workaround there may be.

Isso

 

Alex,

I'll just add to Froggie's excellent answer that this issue is specific to Win 8.1. This is not a new bug in AX64, but a change in Windwos 8.1 that we didn't account for. For older Windows versions there won't be such problem.

Isso

 

BG,

Verification in the background is a very good idea, thank you! I'll think about it.

Isso

 

I too don't see how the defragmentation can cause a problem. I agree it might be a coincidence.

Isso

 

Yes it will restore. In vast majority of the cases you can use recovery media created on any OS with any other machine.

Isso

 

Easter,

Thank you very much for sharing this info, and I'm glad to hear that the new version is working fine for you.

Indeed we messed the version of the browser. I'll fix it.

Isso

 

Hi Michael,

Thanks a lot, I appreciate this information. One question: is your OS a fresh install or an update from Win 8? Thank you

Isso

 

Thank you stapp!

Isso

 

Hi Werderforever,

Thank you for this information. Could you please try to temporarily disable Bitdefender next time you do the restore? Thank you

Isso

 

Peter,

Thank you very much for testing this version
In fact AX64 should be able to do even more impressive things - like install a Vista OS, take a backup, then update to Win 7, take another backup, update to 8, and then switch between those 3 OS using hot restores.

Isso

 

Thank you very much David, happy to hear it!

Isso

 

Hi twl845,

Thank you for sharing this, I appreciate it!

Isso

 

Hi Baldrick,

Thank you for the info. Please let me know if you experience spontaneous reboots again. Thank you

Isso