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Minitool Shadowmaker 1.0
While using Minitool Partition Wizard an ad came up advertising their
New Backup software so I did download and installed to see what it is like, Seeing Minitool Partition Wizard is such a Nice program I thought it may be OK, although I am quite happy wit Macrium Reflect. It looks very Simple and easy to use so I decided to inquire here if anyone has used it yet and what they think of it. Any and all comments welcome. Thanks to all. Rene |
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Minitool Shadowmaker 1.0
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
While using Minitool Partition Wizard an ad came up advertising their New Backup software so I did download and installed to see what it is like, Seeing Minitool Partition Wizard is such a Nice program I thought it may be OK, although I am quite happy wit Macrium Reflect. It looks very Simple and easy to use so I decided to inquire here if anyone has used it yet and what they think of it. Any and all comments welcome. Thanks to all. Rene I wonder why they would bring that to market. There are already at least 20 programs like it. https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-comme...ed-comparison/ What I could really use, is a program that proves the backup did an *exact* job. And that the source and restored partitions are the same (metadata and all). Without that, it's pretty hard to eyeball a few files on the partition, and conclude it did a good job. Of particular interest, would be reparse points (which many MS utilities simply step over, rather than deal with them). Paul |
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Minitool Shadowmaker 1.0
On 10/24/2017 12:11 PM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote: While using Minitool Partition Wizard an ad came up advertising their New Backup software so I did download and installed to see what it is like, Seeing Minitool Partition Wizard is such a Nice program I thought it may be OK, although I am quite happy wit Macrium Reflect. It looks very Simple and easy to use so I decided to inquire here if anyone has used it yet and what they think of it. Any and all comments welcome. Thanks to all.Â* Rene I wonder why they would bring that to market. There are already at least 20 programs like it. https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-comme...ed-comparison/ What I could really use, is a program that proves the backup did an *exact* job. And that the source and restored partitions are the same (metadata and all). Without that, it's pretty hard to eyeball a few files on the partition, and conclude it did a good job. Of particular interest, would be reparse points (which many MS utilities simply step over, rather than deal with them). Â*Â* Paul Checked it out, Will stay with Macrium Reflect. Rene |
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Minitool Shadowmaker 1.0
On 2017-10-24 13:11, Paul wrote:
I wonder why they would bring that to market. There are already at least 20 programs like it. Yeah, looks like a lucrative market... What I could really use, is a program that proves the backup did an *exact* job. And that the source and restored partitions are the same (metadata and all). Without that, it's pretty hard to eyeball a few files on the partition, and conclude it did a good job. Of particular interest, would be reparse points (which many MS utilities simply step over, rather than deal with them). If you want bit-for-bit compare at the end, try Image for [Windows/Linux/Dos] by Terabyte Unlimited. There are a few restrictions, but under most configurations you can do bit-for-bit compare (when you do a live backup with VSS is when bit-for-bit might not work, since you could be changing the disk as the backup runs). Latest versions also do meta-data restores, which means only changed sectors get written back when you restore, which is great for SSDs. I recommend this over Macrium. If you do offline backups then use the Linux version, it is much faster than the Windows PE one. Haven't had it ****-up a reparse point yet, but all I got on the system partition are "standard" reparse points, I don't have custom reparse points... Best Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Memberavid-Suzuki-Fdn/EFF/Red+Cross/SPCA/Planetary-Society oO-( )-Oo Soon to be a major motion picture! |
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