TeraByte Unlimited products - standard and non-standard uses

The AUS can be anything. MX, MEX.
The -10 refers to my Time Zone with the + or - reversed.
I suspect you could be MEX+7

 

To abort the 3 second timeout, press Esc.

 

Yeah I figured it out intuitively.

It's MEX-6

 

You have to change the sign.
MEX+6

Don't ask me why the sign is reversed.

 

Boot Items...

 

Time Zone...

https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/kb-articles/how-to-set-a-time-zone-for-image-for-dos/

Page 58 in the BIU manual.

 

@Brian K just out of curiosity, why do you use the guid (/odid or OutputDiskID=1) in your IFW/IFL scripts? That is a difference between our scripts. Could that be causing my restore speed issues?

 

Nate,

I doubt it makes any difference to speed. I use Output Disk ID with MBR disks as well as GPT disks. It uses Disk Signatures with MBR disks and GUIDs with GPT disks. In most cases it's the same as using Drive letters but as Windows has a habit of changing drive letters (especially USB drives), using a GUID is more exacting.

Correction... It's Disk numbers not Drive letters that may change.

 

I figured. But the Disk ID didn't really have a difference on way or the other, so I might as well keep it.

For reference sake:

start /b /wait "" "C:\Program Files\IFW\imagew64.exe" /b /d:{8044E690-6D7A-E91D-A20C-39E013F02690}@0x1,0x2,0x3,0x4 /f:{280F41A4-0074-4025-8F29-032AB8EF8CE8}@0x1:"\Backups\System\System-$~MM$-$~DD$-$~YYYY$-$~HHMM$" /enc:3 /nt /geoa2k /comp:12 /nt /hash /usemd /log:0

 

Nate, maybe not at this time, but if you want TBWinRE booting from your SSD, you will need BIU installed.

 

Mr.X, you should be an experienced BIU user by now.

 

I already have my TBWinRE booting from my ssd via bootloader entry and EasyBCD. The boot.wim it uses is located in my IFW dir, which is on my SSD.

 

Clever.

 

Not even close. I wish.

 

I'm about to do this step for the first time, however I'm thinking of other way to do it, I haven't tried it, what do you think?

Create a TBWinRE iso file.
Create a 1100 MiB partition.
Open the iso file.
Copy all files to the new parittion.
Hide the paritition.
Reboot to BIU and create a Boot Item in BIU. The Boot File field will be \EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi. That is the EFI folder on the UFD, not in the EFI System partition. TBWinRE will boot from the BIU Boot Menu.

 

I think you have to copy the partition on the first occasion. But try with the ISO and let us know.

 

Wish TeraByte had made this option available for ifw.ini too

 

Have you had success with Exlist? The IFW manual isn't as detailed on Exlist as it was a few years ago.

How did you go with the TBWinRE partition?

 

I haven't tried yet.

I assume you know such details, thanks for helping me out.
Re exlist I'm studying it and never tried it before.
I want to use it to make a Full Disk backup:
ESP
MSR
Windows
WinRE
Data - exclude all files except several folders
Portables

I want to keep the following folders except al files and the rest of subfolders (they make 500GB, no need to backup as I use a File Backup strategy with Bvckup 2. I have 3 different drives to mirror the original folders).

Code:

[f]\Archivos de Autorrecuperación de Office\Excel\
[f]\Archivos de Autorrecuperación de Office\PowerPoint\
[f]\Archivos de Autorrecuperación de Office\Word\
[f]\Desktop\Folder1\
[f]\Desktop\Folder2\
[f]\Desktop\Folder3\
[f]\Desktop\Folder4\
[f]\Downloads\
[f]\NoxPlayer\
[f]\Temp\

 

Could you share your ifw.ini

Spoiler: My ifw.ini

[OPTIONS]
OutputDiskID=1
GlobalGeoAlign2K=1
PHYLockUseReg=0
Bold=0

[PHYLock_OPTIONS]
UseVSS=1

[BACKUP_DEFAULTS]
UseMetaData=1
CreateHash=1
PostValidate=0x3

[RESTORE_DEFAULTS]
PostValidate=0x2
PreValidate=0x1
RFT=1
WriteMBR=1
UseMetaData=1

You being an expert what's your opinion?

 

I've used it occasionally. I've only tried single partition backups with exlist. Let me know how multi partition backups work out.

I know this works as I just tried it.

My folder is E:\G drive backup
It contains these 3 files...

myexcludes.txt

Code:

[k]\Images\ >
[k]\TeraByte_TBI_Backups\ >

I prefer [k]

full.cmd is...

Code:

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite\imagew64.exe" /wait /b /d:{018EA340-6246-11EC-96FC-E0D55E8553D4}@0x3 /f:{80B9AE34-D0D6-98EF-83AB-EF657D73FFFF}@0x3:"\G drive backup\full" /hash /vb /exlist="E:\G drive backup\myexcludes.txt"

diff.cmd is...

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite\imagew64.exe" /wait /b /base:{80B9AE34-D0D6-98EF-83AB-EF657D73FFFF}@0x3:"\G drive backup\full" /f:{80B9AE34-D0D6-98EF-83AB-EF657D73FFFF}@0x3:"\G drive backup\Backup-w3-0x3-chg-$~YYYY$-$~MM$-$~DD$-$~HHMM$"

The backups are created in E:\G drive backup

 

ifw.ini

Code:

[Options]
OutputDiskID=1
SaveUEFIData=1
LogMaxSize=5242880
MDUseDirData=1
LogFile=D:\My_files\__Tera_scripts\IFW.LOG
GlobalGeoAlign2K=1
PHYLockUseReg=0x0
ISO8601=1
TimeZone=AUS-10
ShowTBWinPE=1



[PHYLock_Options]
UseVSS=1

[LICENSE]
ProductKey=xxxxxxxxxxx
User=xxxxxx
KeyVer=4

[BACKUP_DEFAULTS]

[RESTORE_DEFAULTS]
WriteChangedSecsOnly=1

[COPY_DEFAULTS]
WriteChangedSecsOnly=1

 

You don't use pre and post validation...
What do you think about mine?

 

Do you think this is a better approach?

Spoiler

[k]\Archivos de Autorrecuperación de Office\Excel\ >
[k]\Archivos de Autorrecuperación de Office\PowerPoint\ >
[k]\Archivos de Autorrecuperación de Office\Word\ >
[k]\Desktop\Folder1\ >
[k]\Desktop\Folder2\ >
[k]\Desktop\Folder3\ >
[k]\Desktop\Folder4\ >
[k]\Downloads\ >
[k]\NoxPlayer\ >
[k]\Temp\ >

 

I decide at the time of a manual backup. Or an individual command line.

Fine except I don't like
RFT=1
WriteMBR=1

GPT disks don't have a functional MBR.