New Update Hasleo Backup Suite launches with file backups and other improvements

[Pico]

I think I stick to CloneZilla Live for a while. Running Backup and Restore apps from within WinPE OS on bootable iso may touch (modify data on) Windows partitions and/or data partitions on SSD / HD which you want to backup.
CloneZilla Live runs from a Linux bootable iso as such it does not change / modify data on any SSD or HD you want to backup.
I was (but still am) looking for an alternative to CloneZilla Live which also boots into Linux to prevent data changes on SSD / HD.

 

[billmcct]

Does there exist a Hasleo V5.4.2.4 WinPE iso version which can be burned on CD/DVD or put on USB flash drive directly and boot straight away from it?
Or do I have to install Hasleo on Windows first (haven't done that yet) and create an WinPE iso with Hasleo myself?
I would like to have to not install Hasleo on the OS when it is possible to boot from iso directly.

Yes you have to install Hasleo first and then build the WPinE boot environment.

 

[billmcct]

I think I stick to CloneZilla Live for a while. Running Backup and Restore apps from within WinPE OS on bootable iso may touch (modify data on) Windows partitions and/or data partitions on SSD / HD which you want to backup.
CloneZilla Live runs from a Linux bootable iso as such it does not change / modify data on any SSD or HD you want to backup.
I was (but still am) looking for an alternative to CloneZilla Live which also boots into Linux to prevent data changes on SSD / HD.

I'm lost here, do you think running Hasleo Backup from your drive changes the partition data?

 

[Pico]

I'm lost here, do you think running Hasleo Backup from your drive changes the partition data?

I prefer to make a 1:1 (sector-by-sector) backup of whole drives or partitions after Windows / system shutdown and without having to run any Windows OS to avoid that Windows modifies (or may modify) the drives content while backup is in progress..
I know that you can run Backup on / from an active running Windows OS but I prefer not to do that, that's why I prefer to boot from Linux and run Backup/Restore from there.

 

[billmcct]

You can do the same booting to a Hasleo boot disk.

 

[Pico]

I have read that one can create a Hasleo emergency boot disk using WinPE but I don't see how to create a Linux based boot disk.
For example, Terabyte does have three boot disk create options, Windows, Linux (called Image for Linux) and DOS. All three boot disk create options can be used for Backup/Restore purpose of all supported filesystems (even the unsupported ones using sector-by-sector) on SDD / HD (all created images are compatible between the three).
Unfortunately Terabyte (Image for Linux) isn't freeware.

 

[SeriousHoax]

I have read that one can create a Hasleo emergency boot disk using WinPE but I don't see how to create a Linux based boot disk.
For example, Terabyte does have three boot disk create options, Windows, Linux (called Image for Linux) and DOS. All three boot disk create options can be used for Backup/Restore purpose of all supported filesystems (even the unsupported ones using sector-by-sector) on SDD / HD (all created images are compatible between the three).
Unfortunately Terabyte (Image for Linux) isn't freeware.

What would be the advantage of a linux based emergency disk in this case? The bootable Emergency Disk that is created by Hasleo doesn't rely on your installed Windows OS. So it's basically the same as any linux based emergency disk.

 

[Pico]

Linux wouldn't modify the disk content contrary to Windows which traverses all available (newly found) disks in the system and most likely put some (system hidden) data on them (like in the super hidden "System Volume Information" folder).
This writing also happens when you attach another Windows (being a system or data) disk via, for example, USB to a current running Windows OS, the attached drive is being written to but you won't notice that.
That's why I like to have such an emergency disk using Linux.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Linux wouldn't modify the disk content contrary to Windows which traverses all available (newly found) disks in the system and most likely put some (system hidden) data on them (like in the super hidden "System Volume Information" folder).
This writing also happens when you attach another Windows (being a system or data) disk via, for example, USB to a current running Windows OS, the attached drive is being written to but you won't notice that.
That's why I like to have such an emergency disk using Linux.

I see. Never had any issue due to this and besides, when the image is restored, any temporary writes are overwritten I assume. But I get your point.

 

[Pico]

The problem is that the writing to disk happens before you even have a chance to start the backup of a disk so when you restore it the writing is already on it and you cannot remove the changes easily.
When you run Backup/Restore from Linux you completely isolate the Windows disks from Windows itself preventing Windows from making any changes to those disks.

I like to create disk/partition Backups after complete system shutdown and put back / restore an exact image / copy of a disk or partition in case of an emergency.

 

[Sorrento]

At least in Windows you can restore a image already made using a boot USB, but as far as I know you can't create an image using a boot USB, but i can't think of a reason why I would want to??

 

[pxxb1]

At least in Windows you can restore a image already made using a boot USB, but as far as I know you can't create an image using a boot USB, but i can't think of a reason why I would want to??

You can start a backup as well as a restore from the HSB rescue usb. It is safer and therefore less prone to errors.

 

[Sorrento]

You can start a backup as well as a restore from the HSB rescue usb. It is safer and therefore less prone to errors.

I've never had a single error using the Windows program, why do you feel it is safer? Again I'm not sure why I would want to (though i have never tried) & also updating the boot USB must be more difficult than just using the main program? Plus booting from a USB is more complex than using the boot system which only takes three seconds off boot time? I have a USB (more than one) in case Windows in inaccessible this happens very rarely. Unless I'm missing something here??

 

[Pico]

One cannot create a full backup of a running (active, in use) Windows OS from within itself, you have to run backup from a boot media (such as from USB or CD/DVD) in order to fully backup the Windows partition or disk.

 

[pxxb1]

I've never had a single error using the Windows program, why do you feel it is safer? Again I'm not sure why I would want to (though i have never tried) & also updating the boot USB must be more difficult than just using the main program? Plus booting from a USB is more complex than using the boot system which only takes three seconds off boot time? I have a USB (more than one) in case Windows in inaccessible this happens very rarely. Unless I'm missing something here??

I do not feel it is safer, it is safer. But i do not use it, i do it live as most of us do.

 

[roger_m]

One cannot create a full backup of a running (active, in use) Windows OS from within itself,

You can. I only do backups with Windows running.

 

[n8chavez]

One cannot create a full backup of a running (active, in use) Windows OS from within itself, you have to run backup from a boot media (such as from USB or CD/DVD) in order to fully backup the Windows partition or disk.

That is categorically untrue. In fact, the entire point of VSS is for this very purpose; copying while "hot". If you are unable to do this then you need to repair your VSS. But every imaging application I know of is built on VSS as its foundation.

 

[EASTER]

You can. I only do backups with Windows running.

Same. Only 'LIVE' hot backups followed by daily incrementals. FLAWLESS
On occasion i will do a 'COLD' backup just to keep things confident. HBS has restored Win 11 the few times i really needed that because of a Dell BSOD issue. 'COLD' restore. Also Flawless.

 

[ForgottenSeer 94738]

I use Macrium Reflect to create system backups even while Windows is running. When I want to restore a backup, I restart my PC and select Macrium Reflect from the boot menu that appears. This has worked flawlessly countless times.

 

[EASTER]

I use Macrium Reflect to create system backups even while Windows is running. When I want to restore a backup, I restart my PC and select Macrium Reflect from the boot menu that appears. This has worked flawlessly countless times.

Same only with HBS in the BCEDIT to detour when necessary.