Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

Hi, I was thinking about the impending version upgrade and thought about the fact that I've always been told to do a clean install rather than over the top. If I do a clean install, will my images on my external HD be recognized by the new version, or will I have to delete the images on my ext. HD and start with a fresh baseline image? It was said here that it would be OK to go over the top with AX64. If I went over the top, would there be remnants of problems in the old version left in place, or would the upgrade make a pure new version?
Thanks for any response in advance. I know that the new version will be ready when it's ready, but do we have an approximate idea of when it will be released yet?

 

Excellent Post!

Best regards,

 

TWL, currently, any vesion over BETA v800 may be installed right on top of unless specified differently by AX64. All the Ax64 TM elements are overwritten upon installation of a new version, and the new version will understand all snapshots taken from Build 800 and above. If you uninstall the current version prior to installation of the new version, a new baseline will be established as your 1st snapshot with the new version... otherwise it's just another snap in the existing chain.

 

OK Thanks for the heads up. It doesn't get easier than this.

 

Isso two more question:
Is it possible to add AX64 by using eg. EasyBCD to list of choice during booting OS?
For example it is possible with ShadowProtect - you have to add .wim file and restore environment loads much faster than from CD/USB drive.

Will be possible to add STOP button do AX64? I mean when you start doing backup there should be a option to cancel this.

Thanks.

 

Hi Creer,

The above is possible with AX64, using EasyBCD to add to a list of choices during booting OS. Just un-archive the AX64 WinPE ISO and add the .wim file as you suggested.

Best regards,

 

Thanks, didn't know! I will try.

 

Hi Crusher,

That's really strange. The only explanation that I have is defragmentation or lot of new data - if you did defragmentation, or added such amount of new data, the backup size will increase. Still the increase is too big. Two questions:
- What is the total size and used space on your drive?
- Are you running on Win 7?

Thank you
Isso

 

Froggie, Mohamed,

Thank you for your help and excellent answers!

Isso

 

Dearest Isso,

Thanks for the encouragement. So, when is the ETA for the next update.

Best regards,

Mohamed

 

I did not intentionally run a defrag but now that you mention it, I checked Windows defrag and it automatically ran earlier that day. My partition I imaged is 200Gb in size with 87Gb used. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

 

Whoops, sorry missed the question We are in the process of final tests - everything works fine so far. So the plan is to release it next week.

Isso

 

I guess defrag might run in the background. One thing looks strange to me - you mentioned

>>I restored to a backup that was 37.5Gb in size. The backup before it (older) is 93mb and the initial backup was only 10.9Gb

Are you sure that the initial backup is 10.9 GB? With 87GB used it doesn't seem feasible.

Isso

 

Guys, I've added a FAQ page. Please let me know if I missed something, any comments or suggestions are welcome. Thank you

Isso

 

This is on my desktop which is only two weeks old. My initial image was short into the life of this computer, so 10.9Gb seems fine. I installed seven games later, which is probably what made the backup jump to 37.5Gb.

 

Oh, ok then it makes perfect sense and I don't see any problems with your setup. The more files you add the bigger the backup will be.

Isso

 

So I got an idea that I don't know will work. So I have my 37.5Gb image right. If I make another image after that, resulting in a very small size, would it be faster to backup to the smaller one and it would be basically the same backup?

 

Hi Crusher! No, it wouldn't be faster. The reason... AX64 TM will only restore the difference between your last snapshot (37.5gB) and where you currently are, basically the same size as that small snapshot you will be making. The restore will be very quick unless you've added a ton of stuff and haven't snapshotted yet (like you did before you took that 37.5gB snap)..

 

The FAQ looks great (almost like I wrote it myself )... it should be made available from the product HOME page.

Wait a minute... what about that Intel RAID driver problem folks were having with the RECOVERY MEDIA creation? You state "we" support RAID... do "we?"

 

Crusher,

Sorry I didn't quite understand the question. Please explain what do you mean by "would it be faster to backup to the smaller one"? Thank you.

Isso

PS I can see that Froggie replied already, but looks like I'm too dumb to understand even after reading the answer

 

Say I have these images:
1. Initial image
2. A really large image, say 40Gb
3. A image that was taken immediately after 3, thus really small

If I wanted to restore to the time of 2, but choose 3 instead because it is basically the same time but much smaller, would it restore faster?

 

Thanks man! In fact it's partially based on your contribution.

For RAID: RAID drives are properly supported in current version 996. The problem was only Intel RST driver. But we already fixed that and the upcoming release should work fine with Intel RST too.

Isso

 

Oh ok I see your point now, thanks. Well, the restore to 2 and 3 should be fast, and take equal amount of time. The restore to 1 will be slow, because lot of data changes are involved.

Isso

 

Excellent News!

Best regards,

Mohamed

 

Hi Isso,

As the next build is scheduled to be released next week, the enhancements (and fixes) should be 'in the freezer', so how about a preview of the changes?

Cruise

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Ps. I'm really excited to read that you have fixed the elusive Intel RST driver issue!