IFW 3.18 now has /hash as a backup default. To prevent creating hash files when using scripts use /hash:0
Hadron, See page 54 in the IFW manual. Create Sector Hash Files. Changes Only Backups are created in a third of the time if you use the hash option. It makes a big difference.
Thanks Brian. I only have IFW set up to do full backups. At the time, when I first set IFW up, I was having some difficulty with differential/incremental backups. I can't remember what it was now. I guess "Create Sector Hash Files" must have been set by default in one of the version updates. I use Full and Differential backups with Reflect.
Version 3.18 If you don't need to create Hash files remove the tick from "Create Sector Hash Files" on the Backup Options window and click "Save Defaults".
I just had to rebuild my PC and recovered my backup script from an old backup. When I run the script it calls IFW properly and the imagew.exe opens, but I get an error stating path not found. I backup to a NAS with a mapped network drive on my machine. I use a drive mapping script to map them so the drive letters are always the same. Ive confirmed the TBIBase is set correctly and can be reached using the value I have in that field, Ive confirmed the TBIPath is correct and reachable. I do not need to specify any credentials as they are stored in Windows Credentials manager and they are persistent disks. Any ideas?
Looks like I answered my own question: https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=377 IFW doesnt like network drive letters and using the UNC path resolved it. Weirdly enough the same script was used with a drive letter the day before the machine was rebuilt to take a backup just in case.
I've installed a Samsung 970 EVO 250 GB M.2 PCIe NVMe as my primary drive and backing up to a SanDisk SSD 240 GB. The first 4 partitions on the M.2 drive are my test Win10 OS (Recovery, ESP, MSR, Win10 partitions). On this drive I also have 4 other Windows OS partitions, 2 Linux OS and several WinPE. Using IFL to create a full backup image of the first 4 partitions took 27 seconds. The image size is 9.74 GB. Using IFL to restore that image took 28 seconds. (the 4 partitions were deleted just prior to the restore) I'm happy. Edit... The restore was repeated without deleting the 4 partitions. Same restore time.
The same 4 partitions were backed up (network) to a SSD on another computer. Using IFL the backup time was 90 seconds. (Network speed was 980 Mbps) Using IFL the restore time (network) was 99 seconds. (Network speed was 950 Mbps)
I'm helping a mate set up dual booting on his new computer. He has two Samsung 970 Pro NVMe PCIe SSDs. (OS on one and backups on the other) UEFI, so it is a 4 partition backup. An IFL backup of a fresh Win10 install took 5 seconds. Image size 7.15 GB. An IFL backup of his previous Win10 install took 22 seconds. Image size 32.4 GB. That is fast.
If you pour enough money into high speed, multi-channel, storage devices (and you will... what you describe above is $600 just for the 2-disks if they're of the 512gB variety), you'll easily be able to approach redirect-on-write speeds experienced by snapshot tools like Rollback RX. Personally I can find much better places to invest my computer dollar than pure speed... especially if my application doesn't really need it.
Impressive, but.... ...I agree with froggie. I would rather invest those extra money for coffee, pizza and beer that I'll enjoy while waiting for a restore to finish... Panagiotis
By the way has enyone figured out, why all this "need for speed" on the hard disks? Apart from video editing (and transcoding), copying files and databases I still do not see any benifits in real use on my systems. (The only pc that it seems to matter is one pentium 2 laptop that has only 4 GB of ram.)
Sorry this might be off topic but if one had a few million dollars to spare, it would then make perfect sense to invest in top notch SSDs. There are many rich people in this world.
He's not short of a quid. He only has one 512 GB Samsung Pro. The two SSD described above are 1 TB. Intended use is web browsing. No, seriously, he does intend to do video processing and Photoshop batch processing.
Recent version updates have stopped making them without me even changing any settings. Maybe because I have always only made full backups with IFW.
Hadron, Ver 3.18 was the exception. You got Hash files when you didn't request them. Since ver 3.19 you only get Hash files when you request them. This is the same default as ver 3.17 and below.
Hello, I want to add a file explorer/manager to my TBWinRE. I have located the Knowledge Base article that describes how to do it. My question is this: Has anyone done this, and if so, what file explorer/manager did you choose (since not all programs will run in the TBWinRE environment)? This would save me the time and trouble of testing different file explorers/managers to find one that will work. I would prefer a 64-bit version since my TBWinRE is 64-bit (and hopefully free)...