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.
A few hours ago, I attempted to do a backup of the 1TB Toshiba now known as Kioxia Internal SSD to an external USB Western Digital 5TB My Passport Portable HDD on my Dell XPS 15 9570 computer with a Intel i9-8950HK CPU after installing Hasleo Backup Suite v5.4.2.2 and did a full Disk Partition Backup and selected the main 1TB Internal SSD which checked all the boxes for the all the partitions on the drive which was what I wanted except it failed as follows: The entire disk was selected so all 5 partitions were also selected as the purpose of my backup is to restore the image after backing up to the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro external SSD which is currently in a USB 3.2 Gen 2 enclosure before swapping the original 1TB Toshiba now known as Konxia SSD with the 4TB SSD in my notebook computer: I have read this as well as other forums and it seems like I have only seen people using Hasleo Backup Suite with smaller GB sized partitions, at least not 1 TB SSD drives or partitions anywhere near 949.7GB in size. I noticed my MSR which was how the machine shipped from Dell is 128MB and not the 16MB maximum common size.
The size is not the issue... I do 1tB (6-part) and 2tB (3-part) drives all the time. I'm sure you'll get a timely response on this issue over on the HBS Forum which I see you have posted at... That 128mB MSR partition is just another non-standard DELL quirk that they use these days.
I had a bit of a nightmare with Hasleo (v5.4.2.2) yesterday. I'm looking for a possible longer-term replacement to Macrium (v8 ) so installed and tried a full disk backup which seemed to be going okay until 79% where it stopped, the estimated time remaining counting down to 0 and it still showed 79% and nothing further happened. I tried cancelling.. nothing. Eventually tried rebooting and got a blue screen 'missing device drivers' and PC wouldn't progress to Windows (10). Fortunately I had backed up with Macrium that morning so I was able to restore system. Retried Hasleo.. exactly the same thing happened..79%, remaining time 0, nothing completed, couldn't cancel, blue screen on reboot.
You are right, it's not the size that is the issue. I just tried backing up each individual partition except Local Disk(C:) in different backups and the ESP(0), MSR(1), Windows RE tools(R:) all past without issues. The one that has the failure is the DELLSUPPORT (BitLocker Encrypted)(4) which I am not even sure how to fix since when I look at my Microsoft Account page, it shows different Bitlocker Recovery keys but I don't know if that covers the hidden recovery partition like in this case and my C: is not Bitlocker encrypted. Yesterday, I assigned a drive letter (Z:) to that partition and I can see everything in that partition with Windows Explorer and even without the drive letter assignment, DIsk Genius can see the files and folders of that partition. Macrium Reflect X Server appears to show the partition as unlocked and successfully backed it up without issues:
Problem fixed with the excellent support provided by Hasleo developers! First, the current released version is unable to backup a unlocked bitlocker DELL Recovery partition as mentioned earlier. They provided a August 12, 2025 version except that one did not work because that one complained with an error. Hasleo Backup Suite uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology to implement Windows hot backup/cloning. The error had been analyzed, Windows returned the error code 0x8004231F (VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE, Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data.) when Hasleo Backup Suite tries to create snapshot (This is what caused the backup to fail.), which usually means that the storage space allocated for VSS is too small. This is on a 1TB SSD with 10GB of free space. A newer Hasleo_Backup_Suite_Free_250815.exe was provided which basically changed it to not use VSS when backing up partitions without drive letters and instead use Direct Disk IO so it does work at least as far as backups are concerned, unfortunately the restore will fail on the same unlocked Bitlocker Dell Recovery partition. Of course, one has to be curious why the VSS will fail on a 1.06GB unlocked Bitlocker partition when the VSS works without complaining failing and being out of space on a 949.67GB partition which 895,000% larger. they then provided a August 16, 2025 version which requires doing a new backup and this time it finally works for both the backup and restore but what I noticed was that my Power Plans are all there but it is using a different power plan on the restored 4TB drive after I swapped it. As in my case, it took 3 fixed versions before everything worked correctly and I can't be the only one who has a Dell machine or any machine for that matter that has a OEM Recovery partition that is hidden. They have good free support and will fix issues and provide a new version within hours of my reply and they will even followup and ask if you don't respond within a day or so. My only issue now is I am trying to figure out how to get my C: partition bigger so it can use the free unallocated space. Thanks @Mr.X for your tip! Is there a way to insert a image using a URL and having it show up as a image instead of just a link?
Almighty1, I assume your screenshot is from Minitool Partition Wizard. Can you try this? Boot from Minitool boot media. Move (slide) the Dell partition to the end of the Free space. Move the RE partition to the end of the Free space. Resize (extend) Local Disk(C to your desired size. Move the RE and Dell partitions back so all Free space is behind the Dell partition.
Yes it is, just copy the link from your image hosting service and then click on the "Image" button here in Wilders comment field and paste it.
