Full Backup to USB Drive and Recovery...

[Kodebuster]

Purchased Drive Cloner-RX a while back and will get to use it shortly.

Question:

If I perform a full backup of my C:\Drive to a USB External Drive and need to recover from failure to boot (a dead system);

When I boot from a Recovery CD/DVD, will it recognize the USB External and mount it as a valid Drive (so I can restore from it).

Or, would I need to load a default Win Image, so the USB External can be recognized, then do a Full Restore from within the Windows OS...

Thanx...

[HDS-Stormy]

Originally Posted by Kodebuster

Purchased Drive Cloner-RX a while back and will get to use it shortly.

Question:

If I perform a full backup of my C:\Drive to a USB External Drive and need to recover from failure to boot (a dead system);

When I boot from a Recovery CD/DVD, will it recognize the USB External and mount it as a valid Drive (so I can restore from it).

Or, would I need to load a default Win Image, so the USB External can be recognized, then do a Full Restore from within the Windows OS...

Thanx...

Hi Kodebuster,

You can submit your question to support @ http://support.horizondatasys.com

I will also submit this and see if I can get it some attention.
Maxxy

[bmck]

Originally Posted by Kodebuster

Purchased Drive Cloner-RX a while back and will get to use it shortly.

Question:

If I perform a full backup of my C:\Drive to a USB External Drive...

Kodebuster (and others),

Here's a little heads-up to a potentially big problem...

I was performing daily full backups with the "Overwrite last backup" option not checked. This results in backup files named like <BackupName>0.ego, <BackupName>1.ego ... <BackupName>27.ego, etc.

I was then copying the latest backup file, say <BackupName>27.ego to an off-site location. I also deleted previous backups from the off-site location. That is, <BackupName>27.ego was the only backup stored at the off-site location.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that I could not restore from it! Apparently, all the backup files (in this case from 0-27) must co-exist to be able to restore from the last. This is despite the fact the backups are all Full backups, not incremental.

I mentioned this in a support ticket on 8th July.
I was told it was a known issue
After no solution was forthcoming, I followed up on 22nd July.
I was told to try a new version. I did so. No change.
On 26th July I was told "we're working on it".
No solution to date.

So, if you have a backup regime in place like mine described above, you should not be sleeping so soundly at nighttime until this issue is addressed.

Regards,

Brian

[Kodebuster]

I check with HD Support, here's the skinny:

If you boot from the Recovery CD/DVD, it should recognize any attached USB External Drives.

You can then restore your backed up Rx Image from the external.

No need to first get a Windows Image operational.

Good news...