Difference between backing up within windows and via boot disk ?
Hi, just wondering if there is any differences between creating your backup from within Windows and via booting with the boot desk methods ? like is one way 'safer' less prone to errors' things like that. I would of thought that doing it outside of Windows may have been faster, I just tried it, and stopped it after an hour as there was no progress showing on the progress bar. I had to shut down via the power button. When I rebooted and looked at the location my backup was to be stored, there was only a 0kb (whatever) file, which may have been because I cancelled, or that the process was hung/not working.
I then tried from within windows, and the same job, and the whole process was to take under an hour, and did, from start to validation, all appeared to go well.
Another question, what could have been the reason that the attempt to do it outside of Windows, via boot media, appeared not to work ?
Thanks
Jeff
Was trying backing up to an external usb drive
Sometimesl, during creation of the backup, the ongoing file is written into the temp folder and is not written to its true destination until the inital temp file is completed.
As the TI REcovery CD is the prime means of recovery to the same or new disc, your CD needs to be able to accomplish all tasks
it is configured for. You should be able to validate a prior backup, perform new backups, restore old backups; and perform some cloning functions--provided the user manual cloning rules by Acornis are followed.
Some users perform all backups via the CD without having TrueImage installed at all.
Hi, thanks for the info, I have since been able to perform a clone disk operation via the bootable CD which worked fine. Just that when I tried to create a backup of the System drive there didn't seem to be any progress after an hour, the progress bar showed no sign of movement, so I stopped that. Then tried again from within Windows and it completed successfully in less than a hour. Will give it another try when time permits to see how it goes.
With a USB disk, you might have driver issues with USB 3.0 but you would notice this as you select your destination, while there is not such issue through Windows.
With a networked disk, you might have networking issues resulting in read/write failure during the backup, less so through Windows.
In general, problems with the recovery CD is about accessing the disks at all. When the CD can access the disk, the operations typically run fine.