Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

I've been using Bourne shell scripts (under cygwin) to help out with certain tasks. Does R-Drive Image pass any sort of command line arguments to the supplied programs or batch files (e.g., filename of the backup set) to help them along? Or do I need to hardcode that information into the script?

I'm not entirely sure how backup images vs backup sets work, and their relation to the task scheduler. Here is what I would like to do, which I think is pretty simple:

create a new full backup of the boot drive every Monday morning at 6:00 am
create a new incremental backup of the boot drive ...

As I mentioned in one of my above posts, I am using build 4402 now. That seems to have fixed the problem with WER trying to report the job as a problem, but I still have to switch over to use local Administrator rather than the default "System" account that RDI suggests. It's not a big deal, now ...

Fiddling a bit more here... it looks like I need to set the job to run as the local Administrator account. The RDI default of using "NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM" does not seem to work. Maybe that's an XP thing? Anyway, it would be great if RDI had better error/activity reporting available, to make ...

I updated Drive Image to build 4402. I no longer get the WER stuff happening, but now when the scheduled task runs (whether at the appointed time or I manually invoke it), I see the r-driveimagecl.exe process appear for about 5 or 6 seconds, then it disappears again. According to the Windows event ...

I'm trying to schedule an automated backup for the first time, to see how it works. I am using an existing full backup of my Vista boot drive as a test, which is named "q6600-20081127.arc". I have successfully created new differential backups (obviously named "q6600-200811272.arc" and "q6600 ...

I'm wondering if it is possible to make a script or something that I can run (from Windows) that automates the system disk restoration process (so that I do not need to have physical access to the machine to complete my system restoration task)?
But where/how would that script run? If you need to ...

So, nobody else does this? Am I the only person who uses Drive Image to backup just the boot partition, rather than the entire boot drive? Or am I the only person who expects that a backup of their boot drive is actually bootable?

I don't think the OP's issue is with XP itself. It sounds like a boot loader problem if he's not even getting to the XP splash screen. I have the same problems when I do an initial clone of a Vista boot drive. I have to boot up with the Vista install DVD and "repair" the MBR to match the physical ...

Hi all,

I've been a very satisfied user of R-Drive Image for over a year now. I recently upgraded to 4.4, and had also recently switched from a WD Raptor 74GB boot drive to a WD 640GB boot drive (using just the outer 80 GB or so). So far so good.

What I've done in the past was clone my boot ...