Drive Snap: Drive Snapshot Frontend

120DPI is already done. It be on the next update.

 

Maintenance mode is already in called 'All Sectors'. Calling it All Sectors i thought that is more obvious to what it does.

 

Mark,

It would be great if you could automate the entry process for the max size of the image file to be created. Perhaps by asking if the target drive is an HDD (in which case you might automatically enter the size of the source volume), or Single Layer DVD vs Double Layer DVD (in which case you could automatically enter the max capacity of the target media).

Jo Ann

 

You can it automatically set for all including hard drive. Auto is for Hard Drive. It easy to change in the options under Image Size.

 

markymoo, it doesn't show in the Command line. Should it?

 

yes , it get's added when you choose a filename.

 

Doh! I hadn't chosen a filename.

 

Whatever you set in the options for the image size. it's all taken care of when you click Backup. Auto is 1 image size which is default unless you change.

 

In fact Brian. The image size is added on at the end so as the command line can be long it's not always possible to see the end of it. If you click Backup 'save cmd line' in Options after selecting a filename, it will be saved and you can open up the bat and see Image Size is being added.

 

Jo Ann

If you want to backup a drive, partition and fit the image on DVD you can. If the image would be 6GB for example, selecting in Options the Image Size 'DVD' before you click backup would split the backup into 2 chunks, file sizes of 4.3GB and 1.7Gb. You could then fit the image onto 2 DVD's. If you always keeping the images on HDD then use AUTO setting.

 

Out of pure curiosity from experiencing such simplicity w/ accuracy from DriveSnapshot, is it possible to use it to completely overwrite to an already existing .sna backup image thats been made before?

And back OT, DriveSnap is been a real treat. Thanks for taking the time to put this little jewell together and share with us like you have.

EASTER

 

Yes it is - actually I did this by accident with an older build that didn't warn me that I was about to overwrite the existing sna file.

That's for sure - still waiting for markymoo's latest & greatest.

 

Thanks for noticing this. If you create a image the same name as one that exists then it get's overwritten without notice. There really needs to be some warning. I was aware but i skipped it concentrating on the functionality at the time. This also applies to the few bugs i discovered along the way which happened to been the same few bugs mentioned in this thread which have been fixed. It good to see the same bugs i have noticed, other users have reported the same ones and no other issues happening.

Welcome, Cheers and Thanks . I will crack on.

 

Well bug or not, i actually was relieved to discover this. It's like a manual incremental maybe? But since theres no adverse affects other then renewing the old .sna with a new, and since it would be advisable for others to make sure they change names of the .sna to avoid this (if they need to), i can't complain personally.

Just wanted to be sure of no adverse problems if this occured.

EASTER

 

Drive Snap has expired this August due to not wanting lots of old BETA's floating about. Update been delayed due to building new forum site where support is also available. A new update is coming.

 

Good Idea!

Looking forward to it.

I know this sounds completely against the grain of commercial thinking but i gotten much more 100% RELIABLE use from DriveSnapshot then i ever have any imaging software including my old beloved PARAGON which not so oddly enough is now mothballed, and your DriveSnap addition is raised up the bar for those who just want to make a CD disk to automate imaging and backup without having to chance whether or not supposedly long standing imaging companie's CD will perform each and every time as expected or not.

And i am still batting 1000 with DriveSnapshot, the midget imager/restorer with HUGE dependable and trustworthy returns. Thats another reason i'm looking forward to yet another new release of DriveSnap again.

HIR?

 

Greetings EASTER, I had trouble free use from Drive Snapshot and like you hand on heart 100% reliable always, the reliability is fantastic and it just happens to be the fastest backup also. I don't see the need to install a bloated backup software package of 20-30MB when self contained Drive Snapshot does fine. Plus it doesn't have to rely on lots of dll or external files so less to go wrong. The price maybe more but it worth it due to the solid reliability and speed time after time. You can't put a price on backups. Even though it not cheap using the software regularly everyday and know you have reliable backups it soon pays for itself. I like the versatility of the program and like the IFW/IFD can be made to do alot and due to this more powerful than others. I like compact programs that don't need installing. small, deep and versatile. It is fair to say bigger programs need alot more maintenance between updates on a wider number of issues including the graphics and possible more likely to go wrong and new bugs can creep in.

Marketing and Hype sure has sold bucket loads of software for the big brand names in backup software but it hasn't been proven to equate to solid,reliable backups with each new version. Look at all the quality freeware around which some is better than some commercial releases. I don't see the logic in following a brand name just because everybody else is using it and it has fancy graphics. That's not the criteria for 100% backup reliability. Where's the stigma?

The HIR looks promising when i get time i check that out. I would like to insert a RAID driver into the image so i can restore to RAID as well and keep both images.

 

i like drivesnapshot as well.
its just a shame there isnt a recovery cd.
a simple recovery cd like the one image for dos one would do.
much eaiser than creating a bartpe or vistape cd.
will definatly be trying your new version of the front end for drivesnapshot.
i was annoyed about paragon adding file backup. the directory is now 100mb,old version 50mb was bad enough.
i may have a word with paragon about that..

 

I'm not just whistling Dixie either markymoo

Everything you mentioned is right-on-key IMHO and history seems to show evidence to those facts.

Lighter is always much better when it comes to these machine systems and it surely makes sense when you look at the big commercial players that are constantly at odds with issues in every version that never end it seems, plus all the tons of added files just to do what a tiny app like DS can do and much quicker in most cases.

Knock-on-wood, like i said, i have yet to experience either a small glitch or any type of failure with DS, and that more than makes up for the extra cost in comparison IMO.

EASTER

 

hello,
i slip streamed service pack 3 using nlite and now i can create bartpe cd's without issues. i have restored a image using snapshot from bartpe and it was a success.
really cant fault drive snapshot.
tiny file and no installation needed.
time to work on batchfiles

 

update coming with the following...

Optimised GUI for 120 DPI mode.
Overwrite warning if previous existing image.
Ez Backup - One click backup to spare partition.
Automatic System Restore improved - One Restore CD permanently works to automatically restore all/any images! backed up with Drive Snap.
Schedule backup fixes - Schedule now works for other countries with date format mm/dd/yyyy, previously only worked for countries with the format dd/mm/yyyy. Schedule also works correctly with image backup location folder names that have space.
plus several little bugs fixed and minor improvements.

 

Nice work, keep it going.

Makes using DriveSnapshot even better.

I hate to keep driving home the point of my satisfaction in DS like a broken record, but for it's size, this image app is still totally amazing to me and it is not failed me a single iota. That is a huge confidence booster!

And that's what users expect in an imaging program. No it might now carry the mighty features the big commercial imagers offer, but for me it was the best money ever spent since Paragon Drive BackUp. And that imager is no slouch in it's own right.

EASTER

 

After wading thru 11 pages of posts, I am feeling kinda lucky.

I am a relatively unsophisticated user, certainly by the standards of this board,
and I just started to try and use Drive Snapshot for backup imaging. I have
been using Ghost 2003 till very recently, and was looking for something new
and different that might be easily transitioned among different MS OSs and
file formats. However, the command line based restore functions found in Snapshot
are a bit over my head.

Now, I go looking for a CD Bootable version of the program, either already made
or a tutorial how to do it reliably myself. This led to finding this thread, and
giving me the hope there will soon be a front end that will make this seemingly
reliable and efficient back-up program usable by someone without DOS/Command
line experience and familiarity.

I will check back with some frequency in hopes that you will offer your latest
update soon; as best I can tell the prior download links are no longer valid.

I thank you, markymoo, for all of your efforts to date. Seems you may
become a legend if you can pull all of this off !!

 

Already is

 

Agree!

Like plenty of others i never could quite get used to running default system DOS commands like old Windows 98/Me used to require a lot, let alone synchronize a collection of commands to make the most use of the DOS side of DriveSnapshot. Always had to follow others layout and even then it was touch or go.

Thanks markymoo for all your efforts for this DS DOS frontend, an excellent help indeed.

EASTER