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

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

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

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,

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