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streetwolf:
Yes I like the changes, especially the one I requested. :smiley:
Speaking of W8 I agree with you. Does it want to be a phone or a desktop? I guess it's both. I installed 'Classic Start Menu' to get the desktop one back. I have it set so I boot to the desktop and not metro. I pretty much have figured out MS's convoluted thinking and can navigate around W8 nicely. I only go to Metro to run Metro apps like some games and also to get rid of all my shortcuts W8 places on the Metro screen.
What was MS thinking when they designed W8? Did they think it would be the best thing since sliced bread? I can't see the corporate world knocking down doors to use W8. Can't imaging what a Metro Office might look like.
streetwolf:
Shane:
Some observation on 1.4.
When my backup kicked off this morning the backup screen displayed the message 'waiting for volume Copy snapshot.....' for something like 15 seconds before I saw it was copying folders and completed. When I run RB manually the message is on screen for only around 5 seconds before I see it copying files and it ends.
My disk imaging software (O&O DiskImage 6 Pro) also kicks off when I start up Windows. I'm wondering if there is a conflict between the two that is delaying RB as they both use VSS? RB did it's backup but I'm wondering if it's OK due to a possible conflict with DI6 . DI6 has an option to run a program or command after it has completed. Can I just take RB's Task Scheduler start up parameters and plug them into DI6 so when it completes RB will kick off? I would then disable the RB start up in TS.
I have retention for backups set to 7 days yet I have more than that in my Registry Backup folder. Are scheduled backups the only type that use retention? I only have two backups that were created via a schedule the rest were manually created. And if I am able to use DI6 to kick off RB does this mean that I wouldn't have any retention processing?
When I was using ERUNT I used a shortcut to make make backups whenever especially before I made changes to my system. I had these backups go to a different folder so as not to be mixed in with my scheduled backups. Can I make a shortcut for RB to do this? One problem I immediately notice is that settings.ini has the location of the backup folder. Does RB allow the destination folder to be placed on the command line for a shortcut or perhaps point to an alternate settings.ini? I guess what I'm asking for is a command line driven RB comparable to ERUNT
Finally, how can I tell for sure which method RB used to do it's backup, VSS or the fallback method?
Shane:
The schedule just runs the backup program with a command line, nothing more. SO you have total freedom with it. You can run it from the other program fine :wink:
The log also shows when and if the VSS fails and if it is using the fall back method.
Shane
streetwolf:
Shane:
You didn't answer all my questions.
1. There is no command line parameter to tell RB where to store the backup AFAICT That only seems to be set in settings.ini unless you have undocumented command line params. How can I make a shortcut to backup my Registry telling RB I want to create it in a different folder than what's in settings.ini? What if I created the shortcut with a 'Start in' parameter that points to a folder with a different settings.ini that points to the new backup folder?
2. What about the fact that RB takes 3 times as long to do it's processing when I start Windows than it does when I run it manually? I mentioned my disk imaging software, which also uses VSS, also runs when Windows starts and is this causing a lockout condition for these 15 seconds?
3. Please re-read my question on retention days. What is the answer?
Shane:
--- Quote ---1. There is no command line parameter to tell RB where to store the backup AFAICT That only seems to be set in settings.ini unless you have undocumented command line params. How can I make a shortcut to backup my Registry telling RB I want to create it in a different folder than what's in settings.ini? What if I created the shortcut with a 'Start in' parameter that points to a folder with a different settings.ini that points to the new backup folder?
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It is only stored in the settings.ini file. So you set the path in the ini file and the auto run reads all the settings.
--- Quote ---2. What about the fact that RB takes 3 times as long to do it's processing when I start Windows than it does when I run it manually? I mentioned my disk imaging software, which also uses VSS, also runs when Windows starts and is this causing a lockout condition for these 15 seconds?
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It does sound like something else is using the VSS and my program is waiting for its turn :wink:
The program calls the vss exe in the files folder and waits for it to complete.
--- Quote ---I have retention for backups set to 7 days yet I have more than that in my Registry Backup folder. Are scheduled backups the only type that use retention? I only have two backups that were created via a schedule the rest were manually created. And if I am able to use DI6 to kick off RB does this mean that I wouldn't have any retention processing?
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Every time you do a backup either through the command line (Like the schedule, or manually) the program looks at the folder names which are the dates and times and removes any that are past the retention days.
Like I have mine set to 30 days. If I do more than one backup a day they all stay there until the 31st day at which point they get removed.
If you renamed any of the folders from the default it wont remove them. Again it looks at the folder names which is date and time. This is how it knows which ones to get rid of.
Shane
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