I see. My post, #1576 above, do you know if there are a solution to what i mention in the first meaning?
Right!?! It's just fantasic. I did modify it, changing the filenames and added the functions to hide the hash files, as well as the parameters.
@pb1, maybe?? It depends on what you mean when you say "...is it possible to inactivate, remove, the frame that comes up when rebooting for restore from the main Gui, that one that gives 4 alternatives - abort, retry, cancel and reboot." Are you talking about the RE gui itself? I'm confused.
If one starts a restore from IFW main gui, after having gone through all the clicks, the last thing you see before the Pc restarts is that frame. It says Error in the upper left corner with a red sign and tells you that it can not lock the OS and gives one the 4 mentioned options.
Ok. But does it really matter? By then the restore process has started and you'll auto-reboot anyway. What difference does it make, since you don't have to interact with it anyway?
But i do have to interact! If i do not click on reboot, nothing happens and the reboot process do not start and everything is still at the desktop. When clicking that Start button the first time i where sure that the Pc would reboot and all would go along by itself, but no, instead that frame came up stating the obvious and only delaying things. Kind of silly and redundant info. That is why i wonder if it is possible to get away with it. But i guess no?
Would you like to create a script where you don't have to run through the IFW GUI whenever you want to do a restore?
To create the script... Open IFW and run through the restore choices On the Summary screen (don't click Start) click Show Command Put a tick in Save to file, click OK OK again Save it as restore.cmd. Don't save it in the C: drive as it will be wiped out by the restore. Save it in the D: drive or on a UFD. Exit from IFW Edit restore.cmd my backup is called 11_01.TBI and my line contains... "\TeraByte_TBI_Backups\11_01" change the name of your backup in this line to %backup% so I now have... "\TeraByte_TBI_Backups\%backup%" At the end of the script line put /boottbwr I now create a line above the current line and enter... set backup=11_01 Instead of 11_01 you would put your own backup filename. You have to paste this name whenever you have a new backup name. My latest backup is always 11_01 so I don't have to edit the name. Right click restore.cmd and click "Run as administrator" Here is my restore.cmd Code: set backup=11_01 start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite\imagew64.exe" /wait /r /d:{E90B41C7-402F-AF5A-CD98-C75B22480200} /f:{018EA340-6246-11EC-96FC-E0D55E8553D4}@0x2:"\TeraByte_TBI_Backups\%backup%" /sp:0x1,0x2,0x3,0x4 /wco /boottbwr
This would work, except what if you don't want to restore the latest backup? What is the one you want is older? I've said it before, but any restore script that requires you to edit anything isn't intuitive enough. I'd rather just have a restore context menu entry. Now, perhaps if your data doesn't change too much or you have a sure-fire, definitely the best restore image then this would work. But if your data changes often then this wouldn't be the best solution.
To me it's easy. Just copy/paste the desired backup image filename. I know you desire a different method. But this is so easy.
There are three image backup programs that I use regularly. Reflect, Image For Windows and Drive Snapshot. There is a good reason why I continue to use those three. They are extremely reliable. Reliability is obviously the most important trait of a backup application, and they all excel in that.
Thank you, i will try this! Anything that is speedily is nice. Have you ever clocked the diffrence between restoring the same backup/partitions with and without a script? I am surprised that the restores with IFW takes almost the same lenght of time whatever type of backup is used. With full backup or incremental there is hardly any difference.
My changes Only backups take about a third of the time of a full backup. Are you using "Speed up Changes Only Backup" for your Full backup and Incremental backups? Edit.. I misunderstood your post. Changes Only restores are marginally slower than Full backup restores. Seconds only.
It saves running through the GUI screens. The restore process runs at the same speed of a non script restore.
That is kind of odd, with random imaging program restores with an inc. or diff. is faster then a full. Any reason why this is? Why do Fast startup have to be disabled? Just want to know.
https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ucf/viewtopic.php?t=427 I've seen it corrupt files on an external HD. It's real.
You only need one restore.cmd. It covers restoring from full, differential and incremental backups. If your backup is named 12345678abcd.TBI simply copy/paste the filename into the script, overwriting the previous filename. Ígnore the TBI extension. So you would have... set backup=12345678abcd
I have. It is a conveniant way to do it and when it has become a routine one does not bother with the time of the creation of the script so this will be handy. Thanks! A peculiar thing is that the first couple of restores with IFW, without script, took about 3.03, now they all have stabilized on about 3.20.
Hi I have uninstalled IFW but still when i boot with Macrium usb boot media i see TB`s recovery environment showing up first before Macriums becomes visible. I never created anything else than the Wim file for recovery for IFW so i do not understand why this recovery screen shows up. Especially now when i have uninstalled IFW. How can i get rid of it?
Is the TB recovery environment usable? Can you boot IFW? Or is it just a transient screen? Did you make the Macrium UFD before IFW was installed? Or recently? The Macrium UFD should only be booting files on the flash drive.
Thanks for your attention. Not usable, it is the full TB background picture, so to speak, but without any options whatsoever showing up. Like a desktop screen but in the recovery mode. MR usb boot media has been redone after the install - and uninstall of IFW. So IFW has been on the pc but was not during the creation. So when i boot the pc with MR usb boot media the first thing i see is IFW`s mentioned screen (which makes me think that it is in some recovery environment in/on the pc instead of on the usb. Which it is.) then the MR small gui on top of that unpacking it`s recovery environment for some time before it is done and expands into the full environment that then covers IFW`s. I have tried to boot into the recovery environment without any boot media connected, to see if that environment will show up, but then there is nothing happening. The MR boot media, which only contains it`s data, whenever using it, the above is happening. And as i mentiioned, i did not do anything else regarding boot media for IFW than creating the wim file. The same file that gets automaticly created when restoring. So there is a, hmm, commersial add screen from IFW in the recovery environment showing up all the time, that is actually there in that mode. Permanent. Even if IFW itself is not present on the pc. Uninstalled. What i want is to understand why this is happening so i know the remedy for it, not necessarily removing that screen. But right now the pc is hi-jacked by this and the only way to get rid of it to restore to a former image with MR before the install of IFW.
This is new to me. When you created the TB wim, it was created in the RE partition. So I'm not surprised an IFW uninstall has not restored the old wim. You might have the original wim backed up in the TB folder. If that folder is still present. Can you try this? Restore the RE partition from your Macrium image taken prior to installing IFW. Does this fix the problem?
