TeraByte Product Release Thread

Let me look again and see what is in there that "may" not be OK to post. Not sure anything is "bad" however.

 

Just needs to be for those two runs -- no need for the whole log file. You can send it in a PM instead, if you want.

 

well i did it
with the w7 WINRE.WIM , booting i have no keyboard and mouse
i have to use w8.1 to create a bootable iso with keyboard and mouse support

thanks!

 

does someone compare the speed linux vs winpe4?

why is linux always faster?

thanks

 

hi , image for windows with its winpe4 does restore the image mbr always?
or is there an option to restore the original mbr(included in the image) ?

 

If you want it restored, Yes. Otherwise No. If there is no MBR on the drive, one will be created.

 

how can i do it?

 

It's on the Options screen. "Restore First Track". It's not necessary if you are restoring an image to the same partition that was imaged as the First Track is already present on the drive.

Use the option when restoring an OS image to a new empty HD.

 

Hi Brian do you know i did find this option

 

I'm having a problem restoring a backup to a a usb drive;

It's a 16 gb drive I'm trying to restore to, and my linux setup is this:

/ is 5.4G
/home is 2.5G

For some reason I4L says I need a 30gb usb drive.

 

apathy,

Did you create an Entire Drive image? Or partition images?

What size is the .TBI file?

What size is the source HD? Any other partitions on the HD?

In IFL, Backup, select the / partition, Information. What is the "MiB to Restore"?
In IFL, Backup, select the /home partition, Information. What is the "MiB to Restore"?

 

I just backed up two partitions for the linux os
The size of the tbi file is 3.1G
The drive is a 500 GB drive and I have a windows partition too.
I'll have to reboot to find that info.

 

Are the two Linux partitions adjacent to each other or are they separated by another partition? How far from the start of the HD is each partition? (How many GB?)

 

Ok...

/home 6560 used
290842 to restore
/ 6704 used
49166 to restore

Windows partition is sda2
/ is sda5
/home is sda6

/dev/sda1 * 269697022 970866945 350584962 5 Extended
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda2 411648 269694975 134641664 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 970867966 976773167 2952601 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 269699072 372099071 51200000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 372101120 970866687 299382784 83 Linux

 

Sorry for all the questions but I'm confused. Take the /home partition for example. You said it was 2.5 GB but in the above post, IFL information said it contained 6560 MiB of data. The MiB to Restore is 290842 which suggests the partition is larger than 300 GB and fdisk suggests it is around 300 GB.

 

Here's my filesystem:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 48G 5.4G 41G 12% /
dev 2.7G 0 2.7G 0% /dev
run 2.7G 804K 2.7G 1% /run
tmpfs 2.7G 80K 2.7G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2.7G 0 2.7G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 2.7G 124K 2.7G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda6 281G 1.6G 266G 1% /home

I might have a messed up partition setup.

 

OK. Is this correct?

/home is a 281 GB partition with 1.6 GB of data

/ is a 48 GB partition with 5.4 GB of data

You plan to restore these partitions to a 16 GB flash drive? I doubt this is possible with the current sector spread (MiB to Restore). Have you considered Compaction?

 

I'm not aware of it, what do I have to do?

 

I haven't tried it with a Linux partition but on the IFL screen where you clicked Information, click Compact.

Edit... Sorry. Just tried it with a Linux partition and it doesn't work.

 

You could use BIBM to Resize both partitions to 7 GB each. Then use IFL to Copy both partitions to the 16 GB USB drive.

 

I'll give it shot, thanks for the help

 

The first time I tried it failed saying I needed two more gigs but I saw a flag that said something like shrink to target and it booted up perfectly. No grub issues or anything. Thanks for the help! I've been using I4L/I4D for like 4 years now it's rock solid.

 

Excellent. Thanks for the feedback.

 

Brian:

I understand that this choice is desirable for SSDs. It is truly optimal for HDDs or is it more that it doesn't make any significant difference and it's easier to just have one boot disc?

BTW, thanks for all your input on imaging. It's truly appreciated!


**EDIT**

One more question...

Even if the 2048 Alignment is chosen when building the boot disc, is that all one needs to do to have it happen? Will it still be 2048 if the Automatic restore option is used? Or is the Normal restore option required and Align to Target also need to be checked?

 

HAN, that is correct.

Check the Settings button on your IFW/IFD/IFL boot media to confirm "Align Partitions on 2048 Sectors" is selected. All single partition restores (Normal or Automatic) will comply.

The above applies to restoring single partitions into unallocated free space. If you restore an image of a 2048 sector aligned partition into a legacy cylinder aligned partition, the partition remains legacy cylinder aligned.

The situation is slightly different with Entire Drive restores where you do get the Align to Target option. If you select this option the restored partitions will be 2048 sector aligned. If you don't select this option the restored partitions may or may not be 2048 sector aligned. It depends on the source drive alignment.