I am using Hasleo as a second backup program and performing full system backup from time to time as additional backups. When I tried to open it today I got the following windows: "The service program did not start properly...".? Do I have to re-install it ? what about the backup-ed files? to delete them?
That was a problem existing in a former version, do you have it the latest? The backups worked fine then, and most certainly also now.
I have not the latest. Will uninstall the existing one, reinstall the latest and perform a "clean backup"
I’ve just installed the latest version of Hasleo V 5.4.2.2 and the time for a full backup was the same (maybe a few seconds faster) as Macrium X (6 minutes and 30 seconds for 302 GB). Normally Macrium has always been slightly faster, it looks like Hasleo is catching up in terms of speed. A few seconds within 6:30 minutes is obviously not important, but the difference before was a full minute. They are both very fast indeed, I do full backups most of the time, as the difference with incremental backups is often negligible.
Yeah, Hasleo recently implemented ZStandard compression, which is what Reflect X uses. And HBS is free!
@Osaban - I find that statement unusual. I don't know your frequency of FULL backups but I've never found an INCREMENTAL backup to be the same as a FULL backup. My FULLs are in the "minutes" and my INCs are in the seconds. In fact, for the INCs, most of the time is in pre-checking the FileSystem structure and the post-backup image check (quick check for Hasleo), not the actual imaging itself. What type of devices are your SOURCE and TARGET storage elements?
@TheRollbackFrog You are right about incrementals being much faster than full backups, there is no doubt about it. But in some situations and different modus operandi the difference is not outstanding or practical. Let me give you an example: My system is about 300 Gb, a full backup takes about 6:30 minutes (as I said Macrium and Hasleo have vertually the same time now). If I do an incremental every day it would take less than a minute, if the incremental is done after 3 days it could take as much as 3 minutes (it depends on the activity of the computer). I don't do incrementals everyday anymore, furthemore my SSDs are always unplugged (5 of them) for security and life expectancy of the drive. As a result for me to plug in an SSD when I deem it necessary for a backup, delete the old backup volume, the difference between a full backup and an incremental is about 3 minutes. I usually go for the full backup. Now if your SSD is always plugged in, and it is automated with a schedule it certainly makes sense to plan for incremental backups. To answer your question my system is all SSDs,3-4 years old technology, If I had to backup only the OS it would take just over 1 minute, and incremental backups would probably be seconds.
Osaban, Regarding life expectancy. My backup M.2 Samsung 970 Pro are rated for 1200 TB written. I've written 30 TB over 5.5 years so I have 215 years to go.
It’s good to know Brian thank you, I have 5 USB SSDs and 3 USB Hard drives, I have always thought for security they should always be unplugged, but I also thought it would extend their lives…
I don't know much significance to put on the following information. I've read data tends to "disappear" from SSDs unless they are continuously powered on.
I hope it’s not true, but redundancy I believe is a must. My most critical data are fine art photos TIFF files ranging from 100- 300 MB. Basically my array of USB SSD flash drives is meant to protect them. But I think it is not enough, and a year ago I started burning them to optical media (CDs and DVDs) just in case everything fails. Sometimes I had problems finding some photos, to be honest very few in a large collection, and I concluded that it was a mistake of mine when trying to archive them.
Oh absolutely! I have everything backed upped up in the four different places; a 25TB external I keep in a fireproof safe, locally on my computer, my external drive is also duplicated and stored at a friends' house, and in the cloud via mega w/2fa. You cannot be too careful with things that matter.
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Useful article and interesting. Sure offers some reassurance on this end where i use Hasleo Backup Suite Images onto a collection of Spindles and External Portable Drives in the even the main SSDs bite the dust for any reason.
