Drive Cloner Rx - New Version Evaluation this Friday, November 12th

[Nick10]

We will be releasing a newer version of Drive Cloner Rx within the next 2 weeks. Our first version will be available to our forum users/visitors for evaluation on Friday, November 12th. This new version has been designed to compete closer to Ghost, Acronis and similar competing products.

A download link will be available this Friday (on this forum thread) and we appreciate our great forum contributors to download, evaluate and provide us with suggestions. We appreciate all feedback regarding the Drive Cloner Rx product and will offer free license to those that assist us in the preliminary consumer testing of the product. Our Development team will provide support to our foum users on this forum thread.

We will be provide FREE licenses to those users that contribute and evaluate the Drive Cloner Rx software.

Note: This version of Drive Cloner Rx will be fully compatible with our future RollBack Rx V10 - this includes the disk image of a PC with all RollBack Rx snapshots intact. This is the direction that we are heading.

Once again for your contibutions and support.

[carfal]

This is great news. Cant wait to give it a test over the weekend.

[nexstar]

Originally Posted by carfal

This is great news. Cant wait to give it a test over the weekend.

Agreed .

There's, presumably, going to be an all sector backup incorporated but, what I'm hoping for long-term with the launch of RB v10, is that it might also be possible to back up only those sectors required by RB. This should save a lot of time and disk space and would make Drive Cloner a unique imaging tool for RB users (well, for this user at least ). This obviously needs RB to work closely with DC but may be what Nick hinted at with "This new version of RollBack Rx will be designed to work tightly with Drive Cloner Rx.".

Either that or he's just being a tease .

Graham

[pvsurfer]

Originally Posted by Nick10

...This version of Drive Cloner Rx will be fully compatible with our future RollBack Rx V10 - this includes the disk image of a PC with all RollBack Rx snapshots intact. This is the direction that we are heading.

Outstanding!

Originally Posted by nexstar

....what I'm hoping for long-term with the launch of RB v10, is that it might also be possible to back up only those sectors required by RB. This should save a lot of time and disk space and would make Drive Cloner a unique imaging tool for RB users...

...and that capability would be even more outstanding!!!

[nexstar]

Originally Posted by pvsurfer

...and that capability would be even more outstanding!!!

It certainly would......but I'm not getting my hopes up!

Graham

[pvsurfer]

Originally Posted by nexstar

It certainly would......but I'm not getting my hopes up!

Well, I can see where it's not straight-forward. For one thing, if the backup-image just captures the RBRx sectors then Windows' entire RBRx installation within Windows' used sectors (including the MBR) would be missing in the backup-image. Therefore, a special RBRx recovery console would be required to restore everything! Complicated but doable and as you suggested, that may very well be integrated into future versions of DCRx and RBRx.

pv

[nexstar]

Originally Posted by pvsurfer

For one thing, if the backup-image just captures the RBRx sectors then Windows' entire RBRx installation within Windows' used sectors (including the MBR) would be missing in the backup-image.

Ah no, I was thinking more along the lines of DC saving everything (as in a normal all-sector backup) but using RB's knowledge of which sectors really were unused to reduce the need to back those sectors up.

It would be similar in a way to my wish-list request to have a empty sector wipe function so that all non-RB sectors could be zero'd making any all-sector backup faster and more efficient in its storage requirements.

Graham

[pvsurfer]

Originally Posted by nexstar

Ah no, I was thinking more along the lines of DC saving everything (as in a normal all-sector backup) but using RB's knowledge of which sectors really were unused to reduce the need to back those sectors up.

It would be similar in a way to my wish-list request to have a empty sector wipe function so that all non-RB sectors could be zero'd making any all-sector backup faster and more efficient in its storage requirements.

Graham

Oh, now i understand where you're coming from. But I believe my (erroneous) interpretation of what you meant would make imaging a heck of lot faster yet!

[MerleOne]

BTW, has the download link been published yet ? I am looking forward to evaluate this new version !

[Nick10]

Here is the download url for the first cut of Drive Cloner Rx:
http://www.horizondatasys.com/files/...0101112v5b.zip

Please provide all feedback on this build in this thread (or create a new one) Once again, thanks for your feedback.