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@Chris

Any further input from Terabyte re RBack interaction conflict and image restore?

@Starfish

Any further news from you about your restore using IFW with RBack installed?

Regards

 

I've just bought a new hard disk (should come at the weekend) I'm going to have another go at imaging with TI and then Drive Snapshot and then a restore - When I have a full clone as a backup.

 

If you are using TI and Rollback-the trick is to boot from the Acronis media disc before Windows starts-you can then creaste an image or restore one,without conflicting with RB,as RB is inactive through Windows not having started.

The TI disc is Linux written and contains its own mini OS.


Mike

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Thanks but I image to a Netgear SC101 this requires a windows driver so - TI will not work with RX present

Drive Snapshot will image from windows and usually restores ok from a PE disk

I also have some where Ghost 9 might work?

 

I want to ask one question. I clicked properties of my HD( C)and there is an option "Compress Drive to save Disk Space" I found this option unchecked. I think it should be marked "checked" instead of being unchecked. Am I right? If I am right, is it something related to installation of RollbackRx as I don,t rememberr to make this option unchecked.

Another question that is not related but I want to aks when I marked this option checked and then click apply( including all subfolders etc), it started to apply and it showed it will take many hours( more than 4 or even more), so I cancelled the process. Is this time( required to aplly the option) normal?

I will be thankful for the help.

 

This option is not Rollback related but,is a standard Windows feature and enables compression of all your files to save a small amount of space.

This is generally considered a BAD idea,as it slows everything down ,in view of the fact that a lot of files have to be DE compressed before use.

In any case a lot of files are already compressed,music,photos etc.

Probably a carry over option from the Win 98 days,when hard discs were expensive.

Now just get another EL CHEAPO additional disc,so compressing would seem to be pointless in the extreme

The indexing service is enabled on my disc and the service should be enabled.

Mike

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Mike, while I fully agree with your comments re disk compression, I disagree with your parting comment re the (file) indexing service.

The indexing service only benefits Windows Search Tool, but at the cost of stealing CPU cycles and sometimes causing hdd thrashing while (needlessly) indexing. Imho, a much better alternative is to turn off the indexing service and instead of using Windows Search Tool, use the FREE AgentRansack...
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

~pv

 

i think it should not be marked as Rollback does not support NTFS drive compression, only file/folder compression: http://www.rollbacksoftware.com/kb/questions/150/Windows-File-Systems-supported..

 

~pv


Had another look at indexing services and you are quite correct-just shows what habit can do!

Mike

edit;Agent Ransack is FAST!

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Thanks for all the info.

 

Glad you like it.

 

Hello,

for an even faster one that's maybe better, look at http://locate32.webhop.org.:thumb:

Kind regards,

PeterVO

 

Its, fast but I found two things in very short test with OS built in search.

1- It requires exact file name( even Capital letters count) or U are going to miss the results.
2- It does miss some results.

It,s just a very minimal use experience.
Edit: Point no.2 may not be so correct as I saw windows serched files were ffom history and the files actually did not exis, but I am not forgetting there were soem real files too!! May eb some bosy using it regularly can guess better.

 

Yes that has quite AMAZING speed!!

 

The link is dead for me.

Says "Redirect Failed"

 

Take the dot away from the end of org and it`ll work.

 

Thanks

 

I did start the compression and after some time cancelled it. So what should I do now? Will it cause any problems?

 

Would think the files will automatically decompress,when required,without any problems,but turn off the option.

Personally,wouldnt worry!

A question for pvsurfer re the indexing service being turned off

I turned off the service for drive C AND for files and folders(which is a seperate sub option) and had problems with misc utilities corrupting,as a result of the files and folders being de-indexed(tested this several times in conjunction with RollBack)-also the used disc space increased(would have thought the reverse).

Would you have any idea whats happening?Sounds like caution must be applied!

Not a worry as I have repaired in conjunction with RollBack.

Mike

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Mike, can you be more specific about the corruption since turning off indexing service?

Also, do you have Agent Ransack installed, Locate32, or both of them?

 

AR is case insensitive in its default operation, although under the Options Tab you can specify it to 'Match Case'. So if it actually missed anything because of upper/lower case discrepancies, just make sure that Match Case is not checked. Once you learn to use it properly, I believe you will find its searches to be very fast and very accurate!

 

Well,specifically,an accounts page became missing in Quicken.

It was fully restored with Rollback,as was the Full indexing service.

As soon as I de-indexed,this Quicken header "My Finances page", again deleted itself.

I tried this cycle several times with identical results,so am fairly sure its to do with de-indexing.

The dangerous option is to apply changes to both drive C,PLUS subfolders and files.

At the moment I have only turned off indexing for drive c-but have not touched the sub folders and files option,and Quicken is working normally.

A few other minor quirks turned up,but I am unsure if indexing was the cause;

(1) Not being able to easily write a post for this forum,for example or typing in a search subject etc,as lines of unwanted letters, repeated themselves at computer speed to fill the page, unless stopped.

(2)Not being able to specify to which folder,except for my Documents,several programs(PDF Creator,Purrint) saved to.

At the time,I was testing one or both of the other searchers.

Currnetly, have none installed and the only problem remaining is (2).

I have been using the Indexing Service for many years,which probably doesnt help as regards decommissioning.

Thanks for your help pv

Mike

PS have succesfully used RollBack about 7 times this week-its working perfectly

Just to prove we are still on topic.But do you want to open up a new thread pv or just answer this post?

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Mike, this is really OT, so let me just say...

.....you have mail

 

Well I now have 3 hardisks to play with so I have taken a number of backups and completed a number of restores.

Drive Snaphot images from within Windows and restores from the BART PE recovery disk fine - RB has no snapshots and needs to be installed again.


True Image 9.1 Corporate will not image from within windows or the recovery disk but will Clone and restore fine.

But on my system undertaking the clone leaves the last snapshot on the original disk corrupt so I have to rollback the snapshot to an earlier version - not a pleasant moment. And I tried it again same problem x 2.

On the restored drive - RB has no snapshots and needs to be installed again. Also Kaspersky lost it license for some reason. ​

At the moment I thinking of adding a Fat partition and trying HDS clone out on that