Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

A pleasure...glad to be able to help.

 

No AX64 bug,but I ran into an issue,and thought it's worth mentioning:
If you have SoftPerfect Ramdisk 3.4.2 or prior installed,AX64 won't work and spits out some error codes,same applies when you try to create the recovery media.
It turns out that SoftPerfect Ramdisk has a bug that causes problems with MS VSS,making VSS not detecting backup storage partitions.
You can circumvent that,by mounting the ramdisk as "removable drive".
That way,you can get AX64 working on a system with SP Ramdisk installed.....

 

Does that only apply to creating recovery media, cause I never had any incompatibility with AX64 Time Machine and SoftPerfect RAM Disk? Never had to mount the ramdisk as removable, but the recovery media was made on a separate machine.

 

No,both,the creation of the recovery media AND the making of the backup.....I don't know if this counts for alll systems.

 

I have a machine setup (vista) that has multiple users on it. All accounts except mine are non-admin. I have ax64 installed on the admin account and it works fine when I am logged in. Is there a way to also have it running when one of the other users are logged in as well?

Thanks,

 

Until they implement data verify on the images, this program is a catastrophe come true for people whom only rely on this one with their important data..

I had this installed on my other, Dell laptop, and had taken 5 snapshots, prior and after several major Windows updates..
Then I decided to go between the snapshots...
First back to the 2nd newest... --> Windows won't boot, not even in safe mode.
Then the 3rd, and the 4th ... same thing ..
Okay, then back to the latest snapshot... again, Windows won't boot...
Finally, back to the base snapshot.. phewww, Windows boots but some major data is lost..
I did all of the restores in the cold mode, with the recovery media.
If you go back thru the earlier posts in this topic, you will notice I am not
the first one saying this happening.

Needless to say, I immediately uninstalled this on both of my laptops.

 

Agree, verify would be handy but still no guarantee your images will remain ok. Most user's use AX64 to protect their OS disk, important data should be backed up away from the disk containing the OS.

In your case looks like your 4th image was corrupt so any images taken after would not work, luckily your base image was ok. There as been a number of suggestion's on how to check the images in this thread.

 

Hi Stode,

Sorry to hear this. I agree that image verification might prevent this situation, and we are going to add it.
Still I'm not sure what's the reason for corrupted backups. Did you ever try to mount them?
Also did you by any chance access your drive from a Linux machine (or a Linux-based recovery CD)? If no - I guess the reason might be the problems with the backup drive.

Isso

PS: which AX64 version were you running? Thank you

 

So, I know this has been asked before, but I ONLY do manual backups. I now have 20 of them including the first one. Is that OK, or should I rename my AXTM folder to, perhaps, AXTMOLD and start over?

 

MPSAN,

You can keep the same chain if you prefer so. The only drawback is the slower restore speed for really long chains (like more than 30 backups). But if you don't restore often then it won't bother you.

Isso

 

Thank you Isso. I have only done a restore once, so perhaps I will keep my chain going a bit longer!

Thank you as always.

 

Working sweet as a nut for me on 8.1, installed latest beta, Created the first full backup.

Loaded partition wizard and fully killed and deleted the drive.

Then did a full restore with PE disc and bingo.

all back to normal.

Very happy

 

Thanks Pete, that makes an incredible amount of sense.

 

Hi Guys!

Some news! The next major release for Realcopy is coming out this Sunday (24 Nov), please see the news here!

All the information is in the news post above. For a preliminary look at Realcopy, you can check out the user guide here!

It's been a while coming, but we look forward to hearing your feedback. I want to make it clear this is not the 'integrated' product that our team is working very very hard to bring out. It is the version of Realcopy we've been working on equally hard to bring out since February.

Look forward to hearing all your thoughts and feedback!

Going forward...

With the release of the Realcopy beta, we will begin discussing a lot more the future AX64 and the integrated product. Earlier on, users were raising the idea of making a new thread dedicated to spinning off ideas for the product (like names, raising awareness for it etc). I wasn't sure if such a self promoting thread was allowed, but I've since received the grace of the mods, so I'll be opening up a new thread in this vein very soon.

Realcopy will also be given its own thread upon release of the Beta.

Thanks again for your support!

Waj

 

Using v1.3.0.7. Made manual "first backup" - added a few updates - clicked "Make Backup" - AXTM says "This is the first backup ..." - Why? Why does it not recognize that a "first backup" was just made and simply add the differences?
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Also - AXTM does not show or open any backup made to a NAS drive, only backups made to an attached USB drive.
This is a W7 PC.

 

Still confused as to how to reduce the number of images/snapshots! If I view the backup drive i.e. and I see 10 dates they do indeed match the the snapshots in the browser. I then start to delete these from the browser and it successfully removes them from the storage disk. That has been the way I've been doing it.
I'm confused about "renaming the folder." Does this mean I just go the the storage disk and rename the folder and all the snapshots but the last will be automatically deleted from both the browser and the storage drive or is it something I do from the browser? I'm kind of being lame about this so if you can break it down into a short "how to" would be great. Thank you!

 

As I see from the anouncement, Fast restore was removed from RealCopy due to some issues with SSD drives. Does hot restore in AX64 work fine on SSD drives?

 

Hi ratchet

Just go into Windows Explorer and rename the AXTM folder on your backup drive to something other than 'AXTM'...tip: I suffix the date & time of the baseline image in that folder.

If you then look, using the AXTM browser, at the location of the what was the AXTM (but is now named something different) you should be presented with a blank browser...because it is by default looking for the folder named 'AXTM'. If you want to access the renamed folder you need to use/click on the 'Open other backups' and then search for the folder with the AXTM backup folder(s) and you can then select the one you want and see the contents in the AXTM browser as per normal.

Renaming the 'AXTM' folder means that the next time you go into the AXTM browser or a snapshot is taken, after the renaming, AXTM will automatically create a new 'AXTM' folder and use that going forward.

HTH?

Regards, Balders

 

Thank you, I understand now.

 

AX64 TM works just fine with SSDs. I know not what the RealCopy issue is.

 

Hi DjeM,

AX64 is fully compatible with SSDs and it is fine to do hot restores. Realcopy simply does not support Trim commands like AX64 currently. The fast restore feature works 100% fine on normal disks, but it will cause issues and possible damage to SSDs.



Fixed the quote Peter2150

 

Entirely my pleasure ratchet...any time...if I am able

Cheers, Balders

 

I can triple confirm what Froggie and wajamus both stated above: AX64 works just fine with SSDs.

Acadia

 

Indeed it works fine with SSDs. I have it on two machines (Win7 and Win8.1) both with SSDs. Restored multiple times in the past. No problems.