It seems to me that image backup applications have made great advancements in reliability in the past decade or more. The three I mentioned in my previous post are all super reliable. Yeah, I'll have to try Hasleo Backup Suite one day. Even if it's just to satisfy my curiosity.
Easter, thank you for your post because I have been considering switching from my #2 backup solution (Drive Snapshot) to HBS. You have answered my question. I do have an additional question, however. Can you add the boot menu from HBS along side of the boot menu for Macrium Reflect? Since MR is my primary backup solution, I use it's boot menu. Up until this point, I have not used HBS's boot menu.
@Alexhousek - The HBS BOOT menu item is added to the existing BOOT menu list, no issues whatsoever. And just so you know, even if you don't have a BOOT menu item for HBS, if you initiate an automatic restore from within Windows, it does exactly what you expect... it restarts your System into the HBS Recovery Environment and automatically restores your selected time point. No changes are made to your BOOT menu when doing that type of restore operation.
Hi @Alexhousek - As @TheRollbackFrog points out it's added along with the current one, in your case Reflect. HBS is proven reliable etc but it excels in rapidness (if that's a word). Their development team appears to have fashioned a very dependable product. Plus they continue to fit in fixes & features as it goes along.
When doing a backup one can activate the function to add comments to it, but how do one read it afterwards. I can not find how to reach thoose comments. Anyone knows how?
Yesterday I installed HBS and about half way through first full backup I noticed I could not make any online connections although my system (Win 11 22H2) informed me I was online. Also I tried at that point to set HBS to close PC when backup completed. I could not change anything from the default Do Nothing. Anyone seeing this?
When doing a RESTORE, at the next window, where it shows you the image version it's planning to restore, you'll see a l'il INFORMATION LOGO at the end of the selected image to be restored. If you place your mouse over that LOGO (no <click>), it shows you the comment associated with that image. That's all I've ever found...
If you have maximum compression selected for your imaging, since HBS uses multi-threading for its backup process, it'll have your CPU and all its COREs and THREADs most likely saturated if you're imaging from and to really fast disks (SSD). I don't know whether this is your issue but I do know this happens (on my 8-core, 16-thread processor this happens when imaging to a SATA3 SSD, much less to an 3gB/sec NvME device). I don't use their maximum compression for that reason.
Thanks Froggy, I did not select any compression rate, so it maybe HBS defaults to maximum compression. I sent image to external HD. I was suspecting this problem had something to do with my PC cores and threads were being overloaded, but again imaged to HD. I shall try again without max compression.
I don't think the DEFAULT is max compression, and if you're imaging to an ext HDD, the controlling factor would be the HDD unless your CPU was pretty limited (as in old). Fire up your task mgr before you start the imaging process... that should allow you to see if this is an issue for you.
I just got an answer from Hasleo saying: Hello, Thank you for your interest in our product. You can click "Change version" on the restore page to see the comments for each version. Thanks. So there is 2 ways
Hi Any one experienced a slowdown in backup speed? I posted the following May 17 when it took 22sec, now July 19 it is over 100% slower in doing backups for me. To be exact it takes 46sec. https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/hasleo-backup-suite.449122/page-18#post-3146653 The only change i have done is the Windows updates since then, but the Os has more or less the same size. The restore speed is the same though.
I can't offer a solution, BUT I do know recent M$ updates on Windows 11 have caused havoc with System speeds (and a lot of that is shared with W10) and recently Macrium REFLECT users have been experiencing slowdowns as well without any app changes, just W10 updates. No, I don't know what's really going on...
I read lots of posts across many forums where Microsoft Windows updates interfere and/or is the sole issue where it causes/introduces problems to users prized applications
From their easyuefi web site: "Please note that you may need to disable UEFI Secure Boot to boot from the bootable WinPE media created by Hasleo Backup Suite." Is this needed?
I have read about that to, may be the cause. Even probably.I have an ongoing communication with Hasleo so they may have some facts in the matter.
May need - is the key words. I did not have to, it works with it activated. But Mr Frog above may know under what circumstances it IS necessary.
Certainly @pb1, @TheRollbackFrog can share his own experiences on that. Microsoft anymore in my opinion just won't stop their constant patch away policy and i know for a fact, that it continues to plague not only users but developers have to also readjust their applications to place them back to correct working order again
I really cannot respond to this SECURE BOOT issue. On any Systems I'm responsible for that have a dual mode BiOS (UEFI/CSM), I run them as Legacy/MBR Systems. Those that have UEFI only options, I always have SECURE BOOT off. This option has caused so many issues with BOOTable media that I decided to dump it in normal use. ...and now that SECURE BOOT has developed major issues as far as security is concerned (and major moves by MicroSloth to mitigate these issues over the next year or so <it's going to be very painful>), I think I'll wait for the real prime time until it's finally settled down (it's been forced upon the industry since 2011 and still provides no real consistency from one computer to another).
bug report, So using Hasleo Backup Suite most recent version I have done several backups and restores without issue, with the emergency disk and the boot menu, so yesterday I did a restore with the boot menu while I had a usb pendrive Inserted in the pc where was nothing of importance on the usb some word files, Did the restore and no pendrive detected, found it in device manager as un formatted free space, I was thinking that this should not happen, so I got another pen drive and did several restores and got the same result after a few attempt's unformatted free space..
@warrior99 - you should report this in their Forum HERE... you'll get a much better response there. You're describing a very weird happening...
If that Pen Drive (UFD) had nothing of any significance on it and you was restoring from another drive OR External Drive then i might determine if it was me that the UFD was dismissed as unformatted until such restore you said went perfectly was concluded. Or it might be confusing the HBS Restore Process. Windows really throws a monkey wrench into good program developer's applications in ways that cause little nuisances here & there. Just speculating here as if i use a UFD with Emergency Disk nothing else is connected except my External Drive meaning (2) USB slots are in action at the same time. I would suggest discuss what your result was while inserted and follow @TheRollbackFrog recommended reporting to their FORUMS.
If it's injected properly in the WIM(s?), it will be setup automatically when the device is detected by the WIM. I just had this issue a week ago with a Windows installation disk that did not contain a driver for the network hardware on the System I was building... it hung during the build process looking for a network (none were available).
