There is nothing worse than AV interfering with backups. I recall that I needed to restore but AV (Avast I think but not sure it's been a long time) blocked booting from USB. In this regard ESET gives me freedom.
Hasleo Backup Suite testing to date... Imaging: Full, Differential & Incremental available under 3-Backup modes (System, Partition & File). System mode automatically selects partitions needed to put Humpty (the System) back together again (for UEFI: EFI, MSR, Recovery & OS), on dual-BOOT Systems there are some anomalies with choosing these. Partition mode allows any selection of partitions. File mode not tested as of yet. Recovery: Any time point selection using 3-modes (System, Partition & File). System mode restores all partitions in selected save set. CAUTION: if saving to original disk, option "Restore to original location" must be set to keep process from deleting any partitions on the target disk not in the save set. If recovering to a different target disk, all non-saved partitions will be eliminated. Partition mode allows for the recovery of any SINGLE PARTITION to anywhere on the System and is non-destructive to any partition except the place it's being returned to. File mode not tested as of yet. Processor usage: uses all available cores/threads based on COMPRESSION settings (4-available - None/Low/Medium/High) allowing for the quickest possible imaging available on any given CPU/disk configuration. Scheduling: Basic scheduling is available but not mixed GFS (Grandfather, Father, Son). A task may be scheduled to automatically image as a Full, Differential or Incremental... of course doing a Full image if no previous Parental image is available, then following with the selected image type. Six scheduling types available (None, One Time, Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Event Trigger). Currently, there's a few very minor issues associated with Interval Mgmt when using "Daily" mode. General comments Recovery process restores the entire image required to reach selected time point... this is very different than both Terabyte & Macrium which both use a MetaFile difference restore process and allow for very quick image restores. Most other imaging solutions use the same restore process as Hasleo. As a result, Hasleo is not as attractive as a snapshotting tool as both Macrium & Terabyte are. Recovery process does not use multiple cores/threads, slowing down the process a bit compared to imaging (depending on storage configuration, of course). The Hasleo Task Scheduler is proprietary and does not use the Windows Scheduling System (based on what's been discovered with Macrium over the years, I think that's a good thing). Emergency UFD Disk, ISO and BOOT Menu creation are all available... as well as MANUAL disk image checking, importing/exporting of Task Definitions and Image consolidation. An interesting feature in this area is that if no BOOT entry is available and the user asks for a Recovery of a LIVE locked disk area, Hasleo will automatically create a WIM recovery image and make it available for an automatic 1-time BOOT recovery process via the Windows BOOT menu. When the Recovery process is complete, the System reBOOTs as though nothing had been created along the way... very effortless on the part of the user. My general impression of the application is that it's a very good offering for its basic features offered to date (and it's FREE... don't know how long it'll stay that way, though). This testing was done on an AMD-based (8-core/16-thread), UEFI, non-Secure BOOT System with all SSDs. I won't be testing its File Backup capability due to the fact that I don't use imaging for my file backup processes... anyone else, feel free to add to our current body of knowledge.
Sorry... forgot to mention some other features that are being mentioned in other threads about imaging applications. Hasleo does include image ENCRYPTION, CLONING and the ability to return individual FileSystem components (folders/files) anywhere on your System from any type of image (System, Partition & File).
An interesting feature available under the Event Trigger scheduling function (just finished testing it)... besides the more standard trigger functions (like System STARTUP/SHUTDOWN and LOGIN/LOGOUT, Hasleo offers a USB CONNECT/DISCONNECT trigger. If your SOURCE disk OR TARGET disk are USB devices, the defined operation won't occur until that device is seen through the event... and it may be limited to once daily if you wish. This allows you to set up a task to image your System on an external USB device and automatically do an update (Incremental or Differential... or even another Full) each time that USB device is plugged into your System with a once a day limit if you wish. A very convenient/useful way to backup your System to an external device just by inserting the USB device...
I notice on their website that following new changes or improvements they nicely & timely update those particular features with a brief preview followed by more in-depth definitions of what each feature's benefits are.
It appears as an exceptional fully featured backing/imaging app offering even more than other paid apps. I wonder how long it will stay free …
A lot of Hasleo's apps (formerly EasyUEFI) have been free since birth, others have been developed as PAID apps (most at a low low price). As you mentioned, this particular FREE imaging app is pretty impressive as it stands at v3, and their Devs have been very responsive to not only feature requests of this FREE software but also special versions when eliminating anomalies discovered by their users. I'm very impressed as well...
I don’t want to be negative but maybe they will move it to a subscription plan after the app is fully honed.
Agree wholeheartedly @TheRollbackFrog that Hasleo is exhibiting a very impressive presence with the Backup Suite. Prompt open support is key too!
FINALLY! Got around to installing Hasleo Backup Suite on a dedicated rig with a 500GB. Thanks goes out to @TheRollbackFrog. Completed the Emergency Disk UFD first thing. Went off without a hitch. In my case the backup feature selection was Disk/System backup. Picked "Medium" compression, selected path to external storage drive/folder and commenced with PROCEED. All partitions were adequately pre-selected as expected. This my first Hasleo Backup run was really smooth and fast! This is a very well thought out program and to my surprise lightweight or at least super efficient that didn't tax resources in the least. I engaged this backup with a video running, several Chrome website tabs open on a "LIVE" windows system, AND on a mechanical spindle HDD of 500GB. Windows 8.1- Like Froggie, i'm very impressed so far, and haven't even began to examine the other features just yet. Next task will be a restore to a blank disk on a dissimilar system. Upon completion which was pretty rapid actually for not being an SSD, waited a few hours and added additional files and movies and proceeded to create a Hasleo incremental backup to the first full one. I DID NOT select a Default backup image file location to the prompt after my "incremental" selection from the drop down context menu. I simply selected incremental as type of this next backup and Hasleo Backup Suite (without indicating a backup location) detected the external storage drive automatically selecting the previous first run folder/file on it's own. The incremental was astonishingly rapid! I plan to conduct my first Hasleo restore soon using the program's created UFD Emergency Disk PE. It's so far everything Froggie expressed confidence in with it in his own initial debut.
UFD created with Hasleo booted into the Suite and showed ready to restore. Smooth entry and is ready to restore when i decide to do that. Really hassle free backup program so far. Should the restore yield the same positive results then we'll look into other features it offers and give them a whirl as well. Kind of amazing but a welcome development for a backup suite they've fashioned out-of-the-box ready to perform.
Having a look at this Hasleo backup software, on a virtual machine, and it seems to be quite interesting so far. Only thing is, I cant seem to find any "explore/mount option to look at the saved image. Must be something I am missing. I am also a bit puzzled that the image size seems very small - 10Gb on a 25Gb VM at a low compression. Anyway, if someone could kindly point out where to find the "mount/explore" option, I would be grateful.
Just select restore on a backup/task and change from "system" to "file mode", then you can browse or restore selected folders/files.
As @800ster has mentioned, there is an easy capability to see the FileStructure in any image taken and select/restore at any level... it's just not your usual OS MOUNT and view/copy what you need. The "MOUNTing" is done inside the application and a CheckBox/copy restore function is available from there. The restore is done to a special reference folder from where you can access your files and place them anywhere...
Awesome. Was looking for that as well. Impressive backup program so far. I haven't a clue (yet) how it performs what it does so rapidly but not complaining. That's a welcome result when it comes to imaging/restores.
Can Hasleo image and restore a system dual booting Windows and Linux like Macrium can? Does it support ext4? As with Hasleo, Macrium only runs within Windows or its rescue media but I can image and restore my whole disk with it including the Linux partition.
Although it can do all the known Windows FileSystems (in "used sector" mode), it can only do other partition formats (EXT2/3/4, etc.) in sector-by-sector mode... which means all the sectors, used or unused. If non-Windows SSD partitions are managed properly by their OS (TRIMmed regularly), a sector-by-sector backup should be pretty efficient due to the fact that most, not all, TRIMmed SSDs format their unused DATA in either RZAT (Read Zero After TRIM) or DRAT (Deterministic Read After TRIM <same DATA pattern>) formatting, which are very compressible DATA patterns. This is not the case when using HDDs. That is on my "to do" list for testing in the future.
One very recent reference, after they changed names from "The EasyUEFI Development Team" to "Hasleo Software" finds them as a US-based corporation, another 2016 reference before the name change says... "Thank you for your interest in our products. We are not a formal company, we are just a software development team in china. All our products are free for home and non-commercial use, but in order to continue providing more excellent products, we charge for commercial and other for-profit use."
Many thanks for the help. Must say I am finding this way of accessing files in an image quite convoluted, compared to say Macrium or DS, where a double click on an image file brings up everything in full view. Could one of the more advanced users here perhaps explain why they have done it this way. I see no advantages at all.
It's possible to restore an image disk from the PC or I have to create an HAsleo support in an external device to launch the image ?
