Acronis 2011 - and Rollback RX

[bgoodman4]

Originally Posted by pvsurfer

If you are speaking to creating a raw cold image, I don't see any potential risk whatsoever.

pv

Imaging with Rx installed is not recommended by Horizon at all. There is no doubt a reason for this. It is important to know that if you image from outside Windows (cold) and do not do a sector by sector image you will capture only the baseline state, which is the state of the PC at the time Rx was installed . If you restore that image you will lose all data on the drive that existed from any time after the installation of Rx.

I was first made aware of this by KOR! and Froggie has indicated that this is correct.

[pvsurfer]

Originally Posted by bgoodman4

Imaging with Rx installed is not recommended by Horizon at all. There is no doubt a reason for this. It is important to know that if you image from outside Windows (cold) and do not do a sector by sector image you will capture only the baseline state, which is the state of the PC at the time Rx was installed . If you restore that image you will lose all data on the drive that existed from any time after the installation of Rx.

I was first made aware of this by KOR! and Froggie has indicated that this is correct.

Hey bg, none of that is relevant to what I said (and which you quoted)...

I said: "If you are speaking to creating a raw cold image, I don't see any potential risk whatsoever" ....and I stand by that.

Furthermore, I never read where HDS recommends against (hot) imaging with RB installed - can you point to any official HDS commentary which supports your remarks to that effect?

pv

[bgoodman4]

Originally Posted by pvsurfer

Hey bg, none of that is relevant to what I said (and which you quoted)...

I said: "If you are speaking to creating a raw cold image, I don't see any potential risk whatsoever" ....and I stand by that.

Furthermore, I never read where HDS recommends against (hot) imaging with RB installed - can you point to any official HDS commentary which supports your remarks to that effect?

pv

Sorry, I guess by raw cold you mean a full sector by sector image. I have not used the term (if this is what raw cold means).

Also, I just took a look at the support documents for Rx and found that Horizon indicates

Knowledge Base



Restore Notes:

If you are restoring a Disk image onto the existing drive, you must first uninstall Rollback. Therefore, when you refresh a disk from an archive, neither the Rollback product nor any of the snapshots are restored. You must re-install Rollback and strike a new baseline.

This is true for all archiving programs. Archiving is done on a file by file basis, to permit a disk images to be mapped back onto an unlike disk (in case of hard disk failure). Rollback works at a sector level; its snapshots cannot be mapped under these circumstances.

I misunderstood this when I first began using Rx and included uninstalling Rx both when imaging and restoring. My apologies.