Drive Cloner image with RollBack Rx

[spalmer]

Is Drive Cloner Rx wise the the way that snapshots are used. In otherwords will Drive Cloner Rx recognize the RollBack Rx snapshots and include them in the image/clone that is taken, and will it be able to save all your snapshots? The answer is unfortunately no. Drive Cloner will only do a back up of the state in which your machine is in at the snapshot that you are currently in.

So based on this answer, what then is the state of the PC with Rollback v9 after a Drive Cloner image is restored?

[Baldrick]

Originally Posted by spalmer

So based on this answer, what then is the state of the PC with Rollback v9 after a Drive Cloner image is restored?

I would have thought that was obvious...in the state it was in when the image was taken with the snapshot that was 'in use' when the image was taken...well, thatts my understanding!

[spalmer]

Originally Posted by Baldrick

I would have thought that was obvious...in the state it was in when the image was taken with the snapshot that was 'in use' when the image was taken...well, thatts my understanding!

Ok then perhaps I need to be more specific - if Rollback is installed on the restored image, will it work or will a reinstall be required?

[Nick10]

When performing a Disk Image using Drive Cloner Rx - the image will only have a single snapshot; the snapshot (or system configuration) that your PC was in when you've taken the Image... This image will NOT CONTAIN any of the other RollBack Rx snapshots or the RollBack Rx application.

Why is this?

As with all disk imaging applications; these utilities are designed to copy over Windows files and folders. So basically, whatever Windows can see will be able to be copied onto the image.

However, when RollBack Rx is installed there are two components that get installed:

1. The Subconsole, which is the mini OS that boots prior to Windows.
2. The GUI component - which is the Windows component that hooks into the Subconsole

The Subconsole is installed and written directly onto the sectors of the hard drive in its own encrpted form that is invisible to Windows. Since the subconsole can not be seen as a file or folder, it does not get copied over onto the image.

The GUI component is fully visible by Windows and will get copied over onto the image.

The net effect is that you will have an image/clone of a single snapshot. The image will not contain any other snaphots, or the RollBack Rx subconsole (therefore no RollBack Rx). The GUI component will be copied over and you will see a "greyed-out" RollBack Rx Icon on the task bar. This is because it Windows drivers can not communicate with it Subconsole (because it not longer exists in the new image).

You will get this same result with ANY disk imaging application such as Ghost, Acronis etc. even our Drive Cloner Rx.

[Baldrick]

Hence if you have to restore an image taken with any of the aforementioned imaging software, or any other for that matter, whilst you will have available the snapshopt that was current at the time the image was taken you will need to reinstall RB Rx...because the Subconsole will be missing?

But surely reinstalling RB Rx will result in the snapshot being lost...but does that matter as the image should be the same or nearly the same as the snapshot...especially if you snapshot just before you image?

Put me right as to where I am wrong!

Cheers


Baldrick

@ spalmer...I now see what your original question was aimed at! Apologies!