TeraByte Product Release Thread

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by TheKid7, Aug 19, 2011.

  1. Brian K

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    No, I created a primary partition on the 2nd SSD. I installed Win8.1 to that partition from my Win7 system using WinNTSetup which uses an w8.1 Install.wim for the installation. After that, I boot the 2nd SSD to complete the installation. Nothing complicated like the KB. This worked for me on my old laptop, but I had BootitNG installed there.

    Could it be that I forgot to select Change all MBR disk type drives to EMBR option to have BootIt BM convert all MBR type drives to EMBR?

    Upgrade or uninstall/install did not help. Not sure what to make of it.
     
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    Installing Win8 as you have done probably put the Win8 booting files in one of the HD0 partitions. I'd check Win8 for a Boot folder and for bootmgr. You could try disconnecting HD0 and see whether Win8 boots on its own. Also, disconnect HD1 and see if BIBM works.
     
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    Not sure how I would go about disconnecting the SSDs on the laptop. If I set the W8 partition inactive and boot, I get the boot menu and it stays across reboots as long as I do not boot W8 from the boot menu. Once I do, the W8 partition is flagged active - no more boot menu and only W8 gets booted.
     
  5. Brian K

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    Sorry for all the questions. When you boot BIBM from boot media, which is Drive0? The SSD containing the BIBM partition or the SSD containing the Win8 partition? If you are booting a USB flash drive the flash drive will be Drive0 so which is Drive1 and Drive2?

    If the Win8 SSD isn't an EMBR drive, convert it to an EMBR drive. Does BIBM work now?

    When booted into Win8 what is the drive letter of the Win8 partition? Is it a non C:drive?
     
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    As it turns out, simply changing the boot priority of the SSDs fixed the problem. It was a senior moment on my side. For some reason, after installing the 2nd SSD in the M.2 slot, it ended up always booting first after I installed W8 there. I have now set the original SSD that came with the L460 to boot before the M.2 SSD in the L460 BIOS
     
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    Hello,

    TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite - Image for Windows version 3.06 has been released.
    Webpage: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm
    Downloads: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-image-for-windows.htm
    Upgrade History: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/upgradehist-image-for-windows.htm
     
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    UseMetadata...

    When creating a full backup use
    /hash /usemd

    When creating a differential Changes only backups use
    /usemd

    When creating an incremental Changes only backups use
    /hash /usemd
     
  10. TheRollbackFrog

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    Brian, with the new use of metadata for INCs and DIFFs, is the operation much faster now?
     
  11. Brian K

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    TRF,

    The /hash and /usemd can be selected from the GUI. You don't need to use batch files. In my limited tests so far, diffs are created in about a third of the time. But this depends on the diff size. I've only used PHYLock so far, not VSS yet. After a PHYlock lock is attained, IFW "gathers information" for about 25 seconds and then the diff is created.

    I just created a full image and then a diff image. Diff creation took 3 seconds.
     
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    That's great news! It sounds like they've finally entered the main stream as far as difference imaging is concerned.
     
  13. Brian K

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    I hope RDR will follow but there is no news yet. RDR seem of little benefit to me with my 20 GB images but I can understand its popularity if you have large images.
     
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    You have an SSD rocket of a System... many users are still using HDDs and an RDR type of restore is extremely beneficial.

    But it sounds like TBU's next major step just may be an RDR type of restore.

    I can't wait!
     
  15. oliverjia

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    Thanks for sharing this great news with us, Brian!
    Sounds like a very neat and clean method to achieve differential/incremental backups! Sounds like IFW/IFL won't modify the NTFS file system. I like! I might start making differential images every once in a while, instead of full disk image only.
     
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    I'm not sure the new /usemd option is available with either IFL or through off-line imaging like you love to do.

    Maybe Brian will jump in here and clarify...
     
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    Interesting. I just used IFL and "Use Metadata Hash Files" is an option.

    Using it gave a 3 second "Gathering info" time and a 6 second differential image creation time. Total time of 9 seconds.

    Not using it gave a 63 second differential image creation time. Big difference!

    Oliverjia, please let us know your experience? When creating your full image select...

    Create Sector Hash File
    Use Metadata Hash Files



    When creating your differential image select...

    Use Metadata Hash Files
     
  18. Brian K

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    The metadata hash file has a .@0 file extension. If you are creating differential images you can delete the .@0 file created with the differential image. But it is needed if you are creating incremental images. The .@0 created with the full image is essential. If you delete it you can no longer create fast metadata Changes only backups.
     
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    Thanks @Brian K for this info and your time for running some tests.

    Me starting to play these days with metadata hash files for diff. backups. :)
     
  20. Peter2150

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    Can you use both sector and metadata hashes. If not which is best for Incrementals. Two additional questions. 1. Does it work with VSS? 2. Which is the best option (speed vs size)

    Thanks
     
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    Okay, I've dropped Sector hashes and also went back to phylock. I've taken 3 images and see abolutely no improvement.
     
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    Pete, what exactly are you testing at the moment... INC/DIFF speeds, image sizes?
     
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    Incremental Differental speeds. Just ran a diff and again saw no speed gain
     
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    Pete,

    Let's say your full image is XXX.TBI. Do you have these 4 files?

    XXX.#_#
    XXX.#0
    XXX.@0
    XXX.TBI

    Silly question but are you basing your diffs on XXX.TBI?
     
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    Hello @Brian K

    Do you know what's IFL x64 for?
    Or what's the difference between the others IFLs
     
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