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1. Image for DOS User Manual Page 24 of 186 Navigating the Image for DOS Interface To select menu items in Image for DOS use the arrow keys to select the desired option and then press Enter to display the next screen Some screens such as the Backup Options screen contain several sections of options some of which can be toggled on or off On these screens use the Tab key to move from section to section For options that you can toggle on and off highlight the option using the arrow keys and then use the space bar to toggle the option on or off as desired Image for DOS also makes wide use of accelerator keys An accelerator key is an individual letter that you can press or press in combination with the Alt key to select an option or a menu item In Image for DOS accelerator keys appear in yellow or are underlined How you use an accelerator key depends on the current location of the cursor if it is in the same section of the screen as the desired accelerator key simply press the applicable accelerator letter If the cursor is in any other section press and hold the Alt key and then press the applicable accelerator letter For example when the Backup Options screen first appears in the console version of Image for DOS the cursor is in the Options section If you want to enter a description press and hold the Alt key and then press the d key Pressing just the d key would not work in this case because of the initial position
2. Press F8 or click Change Disk to change the drive type This allows you to change the partitioning scheme used on the drive MBR EMBR and GPT drive types are supported 10 On the Restore Options screen that appears select the options you want to use while restoring For an explanation of each option see Understanding Restore Options for an Entire Drive on Page 62 and Understanding Restore Options for an Individual Partition on Page 66 11 Select Next to display the Summary screen which summarizes the parameters of the restore process you re about to initiate Image for DOS GUI 2 67 Summary Operation Restore Entire Drive From Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 To Drive 0 61030 MiB Number of Items 2 Unlimited 12 When you select Start the restore process begins and a progress bar appears on screen When Image for DOS finishes restoring a message appears After you press Enter the main menu for Image for DOS reappears At this point if you are finished using Image for DOS select Exit remove the Image for DOS boot media and press Enter to reboot your computer Note Until you reboot the operating system reflects the contents of the drive partition and file system in the state they were before you restored Not rebooting can cause data corruption You can override the reboot prompt by Image for DOS User Manual Page 60 of 186 restoring using the command line rb 0 switch but do
3. The maximum reading speed that is actually used is determined by whichever is lower The cdrs n value that you specify or the speed deemed appropriate by the drive s firmware according to the disc media in use For example if you are using media that is rated at 32X for reading the maximum reading speed will be no more than 32X regardless of the setting you choose here Similarly if you supply a value that is invalid for or beyond the drive s design limits the drive will automatically use the next highest speed supported by both the drive and the media in use DVD speeds are approximately 1 8 CD speeds so if you are using DVD discs multiply the desired speed by 8 to determine the value to use here For example to obtain a maximum reading speed of 4X with a DVD use cdrs 32 since 8 x 4X 32 Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the Optimal speed setting iobs n IOBS n Include this option to try to improve I O performance in cases where network or USB device performance is poor Provide n as the letter A to automatically try to determine the best value otherwise try a value such as 1 2 or 3 Default if omitted Image for DOS does not use this option err AllowErrors 1 Use this option to tell Image for DOS to ignore read write errors caused by bad sectors on the source drive during the backup operation Image for DOS will also ignore errors during the validation phase This parameter does not apply to
4. d is target hard drive number p is target partition ID hex or decimal notation NT Disk Signature Follows GUID GPT Disk GUID mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Device modifiers may be used as needed Image for DOS User Manual Page 118 of 186 When used they must be placed after the f and before the target hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI o Optical drive when you combine this option with any of the options mentioned above this option must come last v Virtual drive Whether using drive letter or device partition you may specify any path desired Paths and or file names with imbedded spaces require the use of quotes o can be used with a u f and s The above options are required when you perform a backup using Image for DOS from the command line In Table 3 you find a list of the optional backup parameters you can use when you run Image for DOS from the command line The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the options are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Backup_Defaults section unless as noted otherwise
5. msg my message Message my message Use this option to specify the text Image for DOS displays on the top of the screen while backing up restoring validating or copying The maximum length of the message text depends on the command line length limit of the operating system If your message text contains spaces place the message text in quotation marks msg my message Use n to force a new line otherwise text wraps to screen width only msg first line nsecond line Use desc to use the image description as the message msg desc Note Image for DOS GUI will ignore this parameter Default if omitted No message text is displayed uggs 0 UseGlobalGeoSettings 0 Place under the HDx section Use this parameter to disable the use of the global geometry settings for this individual drive This applies to interactive use of global geometry settings Default if omitted Global geometry settings apply to the drive npt NoPartTable 0x10000 Place under the HDx section Image for DOS User Manual Page 108 of 186 Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to treat the selected drive as a drive that doesn t use a partition table If you use this option on the command line you must place it before the d option It stays in effect until you disable it using npt 0 You may want to disable this option if you use additional options to select a device partition such as the f 0 0x1 filename option Note that
6. 2 Double click MAKEDISK EXE The MakeDisk welcome screen appears SW MakeDisk Image for DOS V2 Sax Welcome to Image for DOS bootable media setup This wizard will guide you through the steps required to create bootable media for Image for DOS Click Next to begin Cancel Copyright 2004 2012 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Image for DOS User Manual Page 13 of 186 3 Click Next on the MakeDisk welcome screen The Select the product to build screen appears Image for DOS can operate in simple or traditional mode Select the operating mode you wish to use the mode can be changed at any time in program settings and click Next Selecting Simple will enable Simple Operations mode This allows Image for DOS to automatically handle most options for you Backup Restore Validate and Copy operations are available in this mode Refer to Using Simple Operations Mode on page 86 for details SW MakeDisk Image for DOS V2 Sa m Select the product to build Simple Allow program to control most options Traditional You have control over options lt lt Previous ws Cancel Copyright 2004 2015 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Image for DOS User Manual Page 14 of 186 4 The License Agreement screen appears Read the Image for DOS license agreement and if you accept it select the I accept the agreement button and click Next i Ma
7. Assume Original HD If you select this option which mainly applies to Linux partitions Image for DOS will keep references to the source hard drive number Image for DOS User Manual Page 64 of 186 intact within the partitions that have been restored to the target If you do not select this option and the target drive number differs from that of the source drive applicable drive references residing within the restored partitions will be updated to reflect the new hard drive number This option has no effect if you are restoring to a target drive whose number matches that of the source drive If you are restoring to a target drive whose number differs from that of the source drive but you plan to subsequently move the target drive so that its number matches the source drive again enabling this option can be beneficial Scale to Target If you use this option when restoring an image Image for DOS restores the image proportionally to the target drive For example suppose that you backed up a 250 GB hard drive and restored the image to a 500 GB hard drive If you use this option you allow Image for DOS to double the size of the restored image This option only works for FAT FAT32 NTFS and EXT2 3 4 file systems and has no effect on images restored to hard drives using other file systems You cannot use this option in conjunction with the Scale to Fit option If you inadvertently enable both options Scale to Fit will take precedence
8. technet2 microsoft com Windows Vista en library 2957d7c4 02c7 4205 afb5 f03434d8f37d1033 mspx mfr true See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows 2003 Server Image for DOS User Manual Page 95 of 186 What is Sysprep http technet2 microsoft com windowsserver en library c03a5469 ef71 4545 b970 ce2add5e715c1033 mspx mfr true Download for the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Sysprep Tool http www microsoft com downloads details aspx familyid 93F20BB1 97AA 4356 8B43 9584B7E72556 amp displaylang en See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows 2000 Download for the Microsoft Windows 2000 Sysprep Tool http www microsoft com downloads details aspx familyid 0C4BFB06 2824 4D2B ABC1 0E2223133AFB amp displaylang en Using Sysprep to Duplicate Disks http www microsoft com technet prodtechnol windows2000serv reskit deploy doch ins izyl mspx mfr true See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows NT Windows NT Workstation Deployment http www microsoft com technet archive ntwrkstn deploy depopt default mspx mfr true Image for DOS User Manual Page 96 of 186 Image for DOS Advanced Configuration Options Image for DOS offers a number of advanced configuration options You can set these options in a user created IFD INI file or using environment variables that you include on the command line or
9. 2011 12 20 tbi 10 452 992 12 20 2011 10 00 am TeraByte Unlimited AC Information 7 On the Restore To Select Drive Interface screen that appears select the access method you wish to use for the source hard drive The choices on this screen are the same as the choices described under Step 4 for the File Direct option 8 Onthe Restore To Select Target Drive screen that appears select the hard drive onto which you want to restore the image you selected in Step 6 9 Select a partition on the drive you selected in Step 8 where you want to restore the image Image for DOS displays a warning that explains that the partition you select will be deleted before Image for DOS restores the image From the screen where you select a partition you can do the following Select a free space partition and press the Insert Ins key or click Create Extended to create an extended partition You can then restore the backup to that partition Select a partition and press the Delete Del key or click Delete to delete the partition You will be asked to confirm the deletion Select a partition and press the F1 key or click Information to view the number of MiB used free and needed to restore Image for DOS User Manual Page 59 of 186 You can select a drive and press the F6 key or click Geometry to set the geometry for the target drive More information on this function appears in the Geometry Settings section below
10. 4 Select the backup image file you want to restore 5 Select the target location that you want Image for DOS to overwrite with the information contained in the backup image file 6 Set restore options For details on available restore options when you are restoring an entire drive see the section Understanding Restore Options for an Entire Drive on Page 62 For details on available restore options when you are restoring an individual partition see the section Understanding Restore Options for an Individual Partition on Page 66 You can validate a backup as you create it or if you don t have time to validate it when you create it you validate it later Follow these steps Note For detailed steps to validate a backup see the section Validating Backups with Image for DOS on Page 71 1 Boot your computer using the Image for DOS boot media 2 Onthe Image for DOS main menu select Validate 3 Select the source location that contains the backup image file that you want to validate 4 Select the backup image file you want to validate 5 Set validation options For details on available validation options see the section Understanding Validation Options on Page 75 Image for DOS User Manual Page 9 of 186 Obtaining Image for DOS You can download either the unregistered trial version or the registered version of Image for DOS If you have not purchased Image for DOS click
11. Default if omitted Image for DOS does not use this option err AllowErrors 1 Use this option to tell Image for DOS to ignore read write errors caused by bad sectors on the target drive during the restore operation This parameter does not apply to bad sectors on the source drive Default if omitted Image for DOS will notify you concerning the error and give you the option to continue or abort ubi UpdateBootlIni 1 This option only applies if a copy of boot ini exists in the root directory of the restored partition If you enable this option Image for DOS updates all partition n references in the restored partition s boot ini file to accommodate a partition layout that differs from that of the original drive Image for DOS will set all partition based entries in the applicable boot ini to point to the restored partition but will not change file based entries This option has no effect when doing a full drive restore Default if omitted Image for DOS does not try to update the boot ini file ubp UpdateBootPart 1 This option updates any references to the restored partition in the active boot partition on the target drive This is useful for situations where the boot partition differs from the system partition However you typically wouldn t want to use this option if you re creating a copy of an existing partition you want to keep unless the target drive will be independent of the original drive For this to be useful
12. E Backups sch E Backups Archive image b v hash base b1 0x2 Images WinXP Drive Inc Di b1 0x2 Images WinXP Drive Inc E sch b1 0x2 Images sch b1 0x2 Images Full Default if omitted Image for DOS searches only the folder of the specified image for base images in the backup chain te TermEmulation 1 Instructs Image for DOS to terminate floppy emulation mode after booting from a CD or DVD This can help rectify certain compatibility issues caused by floppy emulation but if you use te the virtual floppy diskette drive will be unavailable while Image for DOS is running Default if omitted Image for DOS doesn t terminate BIOS EL Torito floppy emulation mode ro n N A Instructs Image for DOS to reboot the computer after completing the backup operation The value n can be 1 to reboot with all prompts 2 to reboot with completion message but without reboot message error does not cancel reboot 4 to reboot without completion message or reboot message error cancels reboot 8 to shutdown Default if omitted Image for DOS attempts to determine if the computer needs to be rebooted after completing the backup and if so prompts you to reboot bc BackwardsCompatible 1 Current versions of Image for DOS may use a TBI format that is not compatible with prior versions Enable this option to have Image for DOS create the TBI file using a format
13. PREPARING FOR THE MOWE nassaensnnnsnnnnnennnenrnenrnnrirntrrnttrntri rttr ntra r orri Erana rrn arraren reenn 169 EXAMPLES EE EEN 174 GLOSSARY oo cccccccceecceccceccecceeccecceecceeceecaeceeecseccecseecaeeaeesseeaesseecseeaeeceeseeeseeseees 177 WHAT IS SHAREWARE 2 0 0 0 cccccccceccceccecccecceceeececceeeauccuecaeeceecuecaueceeceeeaeeceeens 179 TERABYTE UNLIMITED TRIAL USE LICENSE AGREEMENT 06 180 TERABYTE UNLIMITED FULL USE LICENSE AGREEMENT o aaaa000000000000 183 Image for DOS User Manual Page 4 of 186 System Requirements IBM compatible personal computer Pentium or newer 32 MB RAM Recommended External hard drive Note You can use a writable CD DVD or BD drive but the external hard drive is the preferred method Warning to Windows 8 x and Windows 10 Users You must disable the Windows Fast startup option or you risk corruption of your partitions and data when the partitions are used outside of Windows e g you boot into Image for Linux after shutdown and save an image to a data drive To disable using Windows Open the Control Panel and select Power Options Click the Choose what the Power buttons do from the links on the left Click the Change settings that are currently unavailable link and then remove the checkmark from the Turn on fast startup recommended option under Shutdown settings To disable using Boolt BM Boot into Bootlt BM click Partition Work on the
14. Table 3 Image for DOS Optional Backup Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable pw mypassword or pw my passwora N A Use this option to set a password for Image for DOS to use in conjunction with simple password protection or AES encryption If your password contains spaces surround it with quotation marks Your password cannot exceed 128 characters and may contain upper lowercase letters numbers special characters spaces and non ASCII characters You must use this option if you also specify enc 1 or enc 3 described later in this table This option can be specified multiple times as required by the backup image chain base differential incrementals The first password specified will be used for the newly created image Image for DOS User Manual Page 119 of 186 Default if omitted Image for DOS does not assign a password and the backup will be neither password protected nor encrypted Iech path N A Use this parameter to specify the search paths Image for DOS uses when looking for base images in the backup chain path can use the d p path format to specify the drive and partition id This option can be used multiple times to specify multiple search paths e g when the images in the backup chain are not all stored in the same folder Examples commands should be on one line image b Zu hash base E Backups Win8System Inc C E Backups Win8System Inc D sch
15. Use MBR Geometry Use drive geometry based on the MBR entry of the first partition in the backup file This is useful when restoring to a drive on a machine separate from where the drive will ultimately be booted Image for DOS User Manual Page 61 of 186 Validate MBR Geometry This option is used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR is aligned to known standards before accepting it for use It only applies when Use MBR Geometry is enabled Use Original Geometry Use the drive geometry saved in the backup file that represents the geometry from the environment used to create the backup file Align on End Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to align restored partitions at the end of a cylinder or when the Align on 1MiB Boundaries option is enabled at the end of a 1MiB boundary Align End by Resizing Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to align both the beginning and end of a partition by resizing This only affects partitions that Image for DOS can resize Align on 1MiB Boundaries Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to align restored partitions on 1MiB boundaries drives with 512 byte sectors will be aligned on 2048 sectors drives with 4096 byte sectors will be aligned on 256 sectors Align MBR Ending HS Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to force a restored partition s ending head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry Align MBR HS when Truncated Use this
16. When this option is enabled Image for DOS will prevent problems with unaligned partitions being restored to systems with BIOS Auto Mode enabled Many newer systems use auto mode by default and some even don t have an option to turn it off This is equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Align MBR Ending HS and Align MBR HS when Truncated This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores To disable use geoah 0 Default if omitted This option is enabled geoa2k GlobalGeoAlign2K 1 This option provides a convenient way to enable 1MiB partition alignment for all drives drives with 512 byte sectors will be aligned on 2048 sectors drives with 4096 byte sectors will be aligned on 256 sectors This is popular with users of SSD type drives It Image for DOS User Manual Page 109 of 186 is the equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Align on 1MiB Boundaries Align MBR Ending HS Align MBR HS when Truncated and disabling Align on End This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted This option is disabled geoav n GlobalGeoAlignVal n This option allows you to specify a custom partition alignment value for all drives For example to align partitions on 2MiB boundaries use geoav 2M or GlobalGeoAlignVal 2M Invalid sizes will be ignored This option overrides the other interactive alignment options This opt
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18. included to automatically start the backup or restore across a network With a Hidden Recovery Partition You can find information on setting up a hidden recovery partition here http www terabyteunlimited com kb article php id 277 Image for DOS User Manual Page 7 of 186 Image for DOS Quick Start In this section you ll find a general overview of the major processes Image for DOS can perform backing up restoring and validating an existing backup image Each of these processes is described in detail including pictures later in this manual Warning to Windows 8 Users You must disable the Windows 8 Fast startup option or you risk corruption of your partitions and data For instructions see System Requirements on page 5 To make a full backup of a drive or partition using Image for DOS follow these steps Note For detailed steps on creating a full backup see the section Creating Backups with Image for DOS on Page 26 zech Create the boot media that contains Image for DOS using either the MakeDisk utility that comes with Image for DOS or using an alternative method To read about creating the Image for DOS boot media using the MakeDisk utility see the section Installing Image for DOS on Page 12 To read about other ways to create the Image for DOS boot media see the section Installing Image for DOS Manually on Page 90 2 Boot the computer that you want to back up using
19. the active boot partition should already be on the target drive or part of the same copy or restore operation Default if omitted Image for DOS does not update the active boot partition igpt OSlgnoresGPT 1 Use this option when restoring to a GPT drive to indicate that the operating system being restored will not see the destination drive as GPT when booted For example an iMac Image for DOS User Manual Page 136 of 186 using BootCamp or cases where the OxEE placeholder partition is missing from the MBR This option prevents Image for DOS from using GPT specific fix up information on the drive after the restore Default if omitted Image for DOS will use GPT specific fix up information on GPT drives wipe Wipe 1 This option will wipe zero out unused sectors in the restored partition s or drive depending on the type of restore performed When restoring single partitions or when restoring multiple partitions to a drive with existing partitions sectors located outside of the restored partition s are not wiped If a partition is resized during the restore the wiped area for that partition is the final size of the restored partition not the size of the source partition When restoring a full drive or when restoring multiple partitions to a drive with no existing partitions the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and restor
20. this option is also ignored if the Backwards Compatible option is enabled The hash file will be limited to the max file size and have the same file name as the backup with an extension starting at 0 followed by 1 2 etc as needed The actual speed increase realized when creating an image will vary depending on the system If the hash file is deleted the back up will proceed as normal without it To create a hash for an existing full image use the hash operation command line parameter Backwards Compatible Current versions of Image for DOS may use a TBI format that is not compatible with prior versions Select this option to have Image for DOS create the TBI file using a format that is compatible with version 2 50 If desired use the BackwardsCompatibleLevel INI file option to specify a more current file version Note that this option will not be available if the backup requires a newer version to support it Validate Disk If you store your backup on disc media CD DVD BD you can also choose to validate each disc to ensure that no media errors occur while Image for DOS stores the backup on each disc If Image for DOS detects an error it prompts you to replace the failed disc at the time the error is detected If you don t enable this option Image for DOS notifies you of errors only after the backup process is complete Limit Disk Usage This option only applies when saving images to disc media CD DVD BD If enabled thi
21. 250 GB hard drive to a 500 GB hard drive If you use this option you allow Image for DOS to double the size of the copy This option only works for FAT FAT32 NTFS and EXT 2 3 4 file systems and has no effect on copies made to hard drives using other file systems You cannot use this option in conjunction with the Scale to Fit option If you inadvertently enable both options Scale to Fit will take precedence Ignore IO Errors Under ordinary circumstances if Image for DOS encounters a bad sector on the target drive while copying Image for DOS will notify you concerning the write error and give you the option to continue or abort If you select the Ignore IO Errors option Image for DOS will ignore the error and continue Generally you should select this option only if you need to copy to a target drive Image for DOS User Manual Page 84 of 186 that contains known bad sectors On some systems if you select this setting and Image for DOS encounters bad sectors there will be a significant delay as the internal retry recovery routine of the drive attempts to handle the bad sector s Reboot When Completed Selecting this option tells Image for DOS to reboot the computer after completing the Copy operation Shutdown When Completed Selecting this option tells Image for DOS to shut down the computer after completing the Copy operation Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for DOS log the details of the copy operati
22. BIOS Locates and accesses drives using the system BIOS Please note that any problems or limitations inherent to the system BIOS will apply BIOS Direct Attempts to locate the hard drive using the system BIOS but then attempts to access it directly bypassing the BIOS This can Image for DOS User Manual Page 71 of 186 sometimes be helpful in cases where performance with the BIOS option is very poor Use BIOS direct when you are going to be accessing SATA hard drives and CD DVD BD drives or using the BIOS direct option anywhere USB Examines the attached USB controller if any for available high speed hard drives 1EEE1394 Examines the attached IEEE 1394 controller if any for available hard drives Virtual Drive Select this option if you want to validate a backup stored on a virtual drive Select your virtual drive from the list or if your virtual drive doesn t appear in the list press F2 or click Add Virtual Drive to add a virtual drive to the list If you chose File CD DVD in Step 2 you can choose one of the following options ATAPI Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is an ATAPI device and none of the other selections apply This is the most common option ASPI Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive will be accessed using an ASPI layer You must supply the ASPI driver for this option to work USB2 Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is at
23. Default if omitted Image for DOS determines the number of tracks needed to restore stt Scale 1 For NTFS FAT FAT32 EXT 2 3 4 partitions use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to resize each restored partition proportionally so that each partition takes up the same relative amount of space on the target drive as it did on the source drive Unpartitioned free space that existed on the source drive at the time of the backup will still exist at the end of the target drive after Image for DOS completes the restore operation This option only applies when you restore an entire hard drive Default if omitted Image for DOS does not scale each restored partition x Expand 1 For NTFS FAT FAT32 EXT 2 3 4 partitions when restoring to a target that is larger than the source partition use this parameter to have Image for DOS expand the partition after completing the restore operation This option is equivalent to the Scale to Fit option for fully restoring drives Default if omitted Image for DOS will not expand the partition and free space will remain after Image for DOS completes the restore operation kf n KeepFree n Use this parameter if you also use either x or stt to specify the amount of space in MiB Image for DOS should leave free Default if omitted Image for DOS will fill the entire available area m FirstFit 1 Image for DOS User Manual Page 133 of 186 When restoring a parti
24. IMAGE EXE program directory To be able to save IFD LOG Image for DOS must be running from a writable medium such as a non write protected floppy Zei Image for DOS User Manual Page 69 of 186 diskette or UFD You can use the logfile or LogFile options to specify an alternate location for IFD LOG Change Volume SN Select this option to change the file system volume serial number of copied FAT FAT32 NTFS HPFS partitions and the UUID of Ext2 3 4 partitions First Track Sectors This text box allows you to specify how many sectors of the first track of the hard drive should be restored If you enter AUTO in this box the tracks needed for the EMBR will be restored If you aren t sure type AUTO in this box Resize Partition Currently available only for FAT FAT32 NTFS and EXT 2 3 4 partitions you can use this text box to specify a new size for the restored partition bound by the Minimum and Maximum values specified by Image for DOS The units used here are mebibytes abbreviated MiB Please refer to the section titled Data Storage Size Unit Conventions at the beginning of this manual for more information New Name Enter the new volume name label for the restored partition If left blank the name will not be changed from its restored value Save Defaults IFD GUI or F4 IFD Click press to save the settings you establish In the future Image for DOS will display these settings automat
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26. MB floppy diskette image on the UFD Any additional space on the UFD beyond the floppy image size is not available for use Think of this option as if MakeDisk were formatting the UFD to be a 1 44 MB floppy If you were to view the UFD in Windows the drive would appear to be 1 44 MB even though it might have originally been a 4 GB drive and formatted as FAT No Partition FAT FAT32 Volume The entire UFD is configured as one big unpartitioned device If you were to view a 4 GB UFD created using this option in Windows voud see free space beyond the amount used by MakeDisk up to the size of the drive This free space is available to be used normally If the UFD is 4GB or smaller it s formatted as FAT Otherwise it s formatted as FAT32 Partition MBR FAT FAT32 Partition The entire UFD is used as a single bootable partition The computer s BIOS will usually detect this type of UFD as a hard drive Any unused space on the UFD is available to be used normally If the UFD is 4GB or smaller it s formatted as FAT Otherwise it s formatted as FAT32 Partition MBR FAT FAT32 Partition Int13h Extensions This is the same as the Partition MBR FAT FAT32 Partition mode except that the INT 13 Extension is used this is required for some computers to boot a UFD The Geometry Calculation Method options control how the drive geometry is calculated for the USB SD device It is recommended to try Image for DOS User Manual Page 23 of 1
27. Place under the HDx section This option allows you to specify a custom partition alignment value for copied partition s For example to specify that partitions should be aligned on 2MiB boundaries use av 2M or AlignVal 2M Invalid sizes will be ignored This option overrides the other device alignment options Default if omitted This option is not set a custom alignment value will not be used ahs AlignEndHS 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to force a copied partition s ending head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry Default if omitted The actual ending head and sector values are used ahst AlignHSOnTrunc 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to set a copied partition s head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry when it is located outside the range of the current geometry Default if omitted The actual ending head and sector values are used mg UseMBRGeo 1 Place under the HDx section Set this parameter to tell Image for DOS to use the geometry based on the MBR entry of the first partition on the source drive Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the geometry of the target drive or the UseOrgGeo option og UseOrgGeo 1 Place under the HDx section Set this parameter to tell Image for DOS to use the original geometry of the source drive based on the environmen
28. Select to have Image for DOS scale small partitions when restoring a full drive image By default small partitions will not be scaled and will be restored at their original sizes Disable Automatic Boot Partition Updates Select to prevent Image for DOS from automatically updating the boot partition when restoring a full drive image Disable Automatic Restore Drive Search Select to prevent Image for DOS from searching for the destination drive using the disk signature or Image for DOS User Manual Page 20 of 186 GUID when performing an automatic restore USB 1394 and virtual drives will not be searched If a match isn t found or if this option is enabled the drive number of the backed up drive will be used Retain Failed Backups If you enable this option and a backup operation fails Image for DOS won t delete the files from the failed backup Completion Alarm Select to enable an audible alarm upon completion of an operation errors or when user interaction is required insert media etc Disable Resize with Caching Select to prevent Image for DOS from using a cache to reduce the time required to resize a partition By default the Resize with Caching option is enabled Note The above options are also available in Image for DOS by clicking the Settings button IFD GUI or selecting Global Settings IFD CUI 9 Click Next and the Additional IFD INI Options screen appears Most of the options yo
29. Size Creates a plain raw file as the virtual drive Its size is fixed and allocated with zeros on creation VHD Dynamic Expanding Creates a VirtualPC Dynamic Expanding virtual hard drive VHD Fixed Size Creates a VirtualPC Fixed Size virtual hard drive VHDX Dynamic Expanding Creates a Hyper V Dynamic Expanding virtual hard drive 17 VHDX Fixed Size Creates a Hyper V Fixed Size virtual hard drive VHDX Dynamic 4KiB Sector Size Creates a Hyper V Dynamic Expanding virtual hard drive with a sector size of 4KiB 4096 bytes VHDxX Fixed Size 4KiB Sector Size Creates a Hyper V Fixed Size virtual hard drive with a sector size of 4KiB 4096 bytes VMDK Monolithic Sparse IDE Creates a VMWare Sparse IDE virtual hard drive VMDK Monolithic Sparse SCSI Creates a VMWare Sparse SCSI virtual hard drive S Dynamic expanding virtual drives append data to the file as you add data to the virtual drive The file size starts small and grows as needed Fixed size virtual drives allocate data for the file when it s created and the file size does not change The file size will be the same as the virtual drive size e g a 40GiB virtual drive will use 40GiB of space 3 For Windows caching reasons it is highly recommended to create partitions within a VHDX file that are aligned on at least a 1MiB boundary That is either Image for DOS User Manual Page 36 of 1
30. a primary partition and an extended partition now exists at that location Image for DOS will restore the image as a volume If an existing partition or volume occupies the same starting location as the partition you want to restore Image for DOS will display a warning message before overwriting the partition or volume You can suppress this warning message as described in Table 5 GE dis the target hard drive number pe p is the target partition or volume ID hex d ud p or decimal notation depending on d fd p whether you are referring to a partition or d sd p a volume Use this parameter only if you Image for DOS User Manual Page 127 of 186 d od p d ntsig d GUID are restoring an individual partition NT Disk Signature Follows or omit signature to match on original signature GUID GPT Disk GUID or omit GUID to match on original GUID You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the d and before the target hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI v Virtual device f MA Use this option to specify the target drive letter path and file name for a backup file f x Milename f x mypath filename f x my path file name Or f d p ilename f d p mypath filename f d p my path filename f
31. as you create it Insert your Image for DOS boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer On the Image for DOS Main Menu select Backup Then follow these steps Image for DOS User Manual Page 48 of 186 1 On the Backup screen that appears select Changes Only Select the type of backup Backup Full Backup Changes Only TeraByte Unlimited 2 Onthe Backup Select screen that appears select an option to determine how Image for DOS detects changes and performs the differential incremental backup If you choose Single Pass Image for DOS identifies the changes you have made to the source partition since you created the existing backup and then backs up those changes all in one pass You cannot use this option if the associated existing backup spans multiple CD DVD BD discs If you choose Multi Pass Image for DOS compares the source partition against the existing backup in one pass and then makes the differential incremental backup in a second pass You must use this option if the associated existing backup spans multiple CD DVD BD discs Image for DOS User Manual Page 49 of 186 Image for DOS GUI 2 67 Select Backup Single Pass Multi Pass TeraByte Unlimited 3 Onthe Select Existing Backup File To Use Select File Access Method screen that appears choose File OS File Direct or File CD DVD to identify the location of the existing backup rel
32. backup Using Image for Linux from the IFL Boot Media Image for DOS User Manual Page 171 of 186 1 Boot to the IFL CD If necessary mount the partition or network share that contains the backup image file Use the Mount Network Shares menu option or exit to the Command Prompt and use dpmount 2 Select the Exit To Command Prompt menu option By default the current path is the one which contains imagel tbu 3 Run the command imagel 1 all f mntl backups my backup gt output txt This will obtain all the partition information from the mnt1 backups my backup tbi image and save it to a file named output txt in the same folder as imagel Note The output txt file may contain escape code sequences as well as the partition data and may look strange in a text editor Output can also be viewed onscreen by not redirecting it imagel all f mntl backups my backup Use Shift PgUp and Shift PgDn to scroll through the output If the console buffer is too small to let you view all the information you will most likely need to redirect it to a file Examine the output and find the details of the partition you re going to restore The Last Used Sector value determines the minimum space required to restore the partition For additional information on using this method please see the corresponding TeraByte KB article To Check by Attempting to Restore the Partition Image Note This method is included for completeness on
33. backup will likely require 20 discs or more based on an expected compression ratio of 40 60 Better options in this case would be J Back up directly to a set of DVD BD discs Backup to an alternate hard drive partition and perhaps use the free add on utility BINGBURN later to burn the backup to a set of DVD BD discs Image for DOS User Manual Page 26 of 186 KL Backup to an external hard drive recommended Plan your backup with a restore strategy in mind You can Save the backup directly to a set of bootable CD DVD or BD discs as explained in this manual To restore simply boot with the restore disc and use Image for DOS to perform the restore Save the backup to an alternate hard drive partition To restore run Image for DOS from a bootable USB flash drive CD DVD disc or a floppy disk Save the backup to an external hard drive recommended To restore run Image for DOS from a bootable USB flash drive CD DVD disc or a floppy disk Strike your own balance between convenience and resiliency Consider these simple ideas Save your backups directly to an alternate hard drive partition and use the free utility BINGBURN to burn a second copy of the backup to a set of CD DVD BD discs Then if you need to restore you can quickly and conveniently use the backup stored on the hard drive But if things really go wrong and the primary copy of the backup is not available you can fall back on the copy of the ba
34. backups The description you enter will be visible in the file list that appears when you are preparing to restore or validate a backup You view the description by selecting the backup and pressing F1 Save Defaults IFD GUI or F4 IFD Click press to save the settings you establish In the future Image for DOS will display these settings automatically Note that the settings will not be saved if IFD is unable to write to the IFD INI or BOOTITBM INT file Show Command IFD GUI or F6 IFD Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a backup with the options you selected in Image for DOS When using IFD GUI you can save the command line to a batch file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for DOS by clicking the Save Image for DOS User Manual Page 47 of 186 to File checkbox and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Save Command IFD F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a batch file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFD GUI use the Show Command option above Creating a Differential or Incremental Backup When you create a differential backup Image for DOS compares the condition of the source partition or hard drive to a full backup you identify to determine what changes have occurred on the source partition or hard drive since you create
35. drives or using the BIOS direct option anywhere USB Examines the attached USB controller if any for available high speed hard drives 1EEE1394 Examines the attached IEEE 1394 controller if any for available hard drives Image for DOS User Manual Page 35 of 186 Virtual Drive Enables you to select a single file virtual drive on which to store a backup If the virtual drive containing the image doesn t appear in the Select File Drive list you can press F2 console version or click the Add Virtual Drive button GUI version and navigate to it to add it to the list If you haven t yet created a virtual drive using VirtualPC VMWare or Hyper V you can type a name in the open window that appears and press Enter or use the drive letters listed to browse for virtual drives on which to store your backup If you type a name of a virtual drive that doesn t exist Image for DOS prompts you to create it When you create a virtual drive you can specify its size and type You can specify the size in bytes by including no letters Or you can specify the size in Mebibytes by supplying an M or in Gibibytes by supplying a G Note that a new virtual drive must be partitioned and formatted before you can use it However you can restore an image or copy a partition into a new virtual drive without needing to partition or format it first You can create any of the following types of virtual drives RAW Fixed
36. files are purged filetpl filename FileTemplate filename Sets the default file name offered during interactive use of the program during backup operations Default if omitted The program uses a name that includes the date hash CreateHash 1 Use this option to have Image for DOS create a hash file to speed up creating a Changes Only differential or incremental backup This option is only available when creating an image that is not being saved to disc media CD DVD BD By default this option is also ignored if the bc BackwardsCompatible option is enabled The hash file will be limited to the max file size and have the same file name as the backup with an extension starting at 40 followed by 1 A7 etc as needed The actual speed increase realized when creating an image will vary depending on the system If the hash file is deleted the backup will proceed as normal without it This option can also be used to create a hash file for an existing image For example nash e backups win7full tbi Default if omitted Image for DOS does not create the hash file during a backup operation exlist filename N A IMPORTANT NOTE This option is used at your own risk Please make sure to create standard backups of important data This option allows you to specify a file which contains a list of paths and or files to exclude from the backup image The file must be ANSI text and located on the local file Im
37. for DOS User Manual Page 114 of 186 bc BackwardsCompatible option Valid values are 0 version 2 50 and 278 285 versions 2 78 through 2 85 Any value lower than 278 is considered 0 Default if omitted When bc BackwardsCompatible is used Image for DOS will create the backup using the 2 50 TBI file version iocf 0 lIOCacheFlags 0 Use this option to configure when to use small cache UO for accessing the main image files The values are bit based and can be one of the following values or a combination of the following values added together 0 Disabled 1 Read File 2 Write File For example to use a small cache for reading and writing the main image files use the value 3 iocf 3 This option can be useful in cases where Image for DOS is slower than previous versions or there are I O errors due to too large an I O request e g buggy hardware Actual speed differences may be negligible and depend on the system being used Users accessing RAID 0 or RAID 5 drives may see a benefit from not using the small cache iocf 0 Default if omitted Image for DOS will use 1 a small cache will be used for reading the main image files csigut ChangeSigUseTarget 1 Use this option to retain the existing signature of the target disk when restoring or copying a drive and csig is used For example this is useful when scheduling a drive copy where csig is used and you need to specify the target disk by its s
38. for the same Computer System s on which you are licensed to use the Software itself those Images may not be distributed to or used in any manner with any other computers except for direct replacements for such systems as provided in subsection 1 a iii above nor may you create or retain images for additional Computer Systems unless the previously created images are destroyed or you purchased additional licenses to cover such Computer Systems You may create and keep an unlimited number of Images for each licensed Computer System For example if you purchased a license for five 5 copies of the Software then you may create and keep an unlimited number of Images for up to five Computer Systems with which you properly use those 5 Software copies as described in 1 a i and 1 a ii above but you may not distribute those Images to or use them with any other Computer System ii IMAGE DEPLOYMENT LICENSE f in addition to the standard Software license you purchased an Image Deployment license as indicated on your sales receipt from TeraByte then A you may make an unlimited number of Images on any Computer System on which you may use the Software under this license Image for DOS User Manual Page 184 of 186 and B you may deploy each Image to other Computer Systems referred to as deployment computers each such deployment computer having been provided an Image Deployment license Image Deployment licenses remain allo
39. free space between partitions Partitions will be copied adjacent to each other GPT Hidden From OS Use this option when copying to a GPT drive to indicate that the operating system being copied will not see the destination drive as GPT when booted For example an iMac using BootCamp or cases where the OxEE placeholder partition is missing from the MBR Using this option prevents Image for DOS from using GPT specific fix up information on the drive after the copy completes Assume Original HD If you select this option which mainly applies to Linux partitions Image for DOS will keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partitions that have been copied to the target location If you do not select this option and the target drive number differs from that of the source drive applicable drive references residing within the restored partitions will be updated to reflect the new hard drive number This option has no effect if you are copying to a target drive whose number matches that of the source drive If you are copying to a target drive whose number differs from that of the source drive but you plan to subsequently move the target drive so that its number matches the source drive again enabling this option can be beneficial Scale to Target If you use this option when copying a disk or partition Image for DOS copies the image proportionally to the target drive For example suppose that you want to copy a
40. hour and minute format the backup started If you opt to back up a partition instead of an entire drive the partition ID follows the drive number If you use the BIOS Direct method refer to Step 4 Image for DOS replaces d with b You do not have to supply a file extension just the path and file name itself Image for DOS will add the extension automatically If you are using the File OS option you must follow DOS naming conventions and use a file name that does not exceed eight characters Image for DOS GUI 2 67 Enter a filename for the backup Size Date Time RECYCLE BIN lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm System Volume Information lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450tbi DD 12 20 2011 9 56 am Win SRP 2011 12 20 tbi 10 452 992 12 20 2011 10 00 am Unlimited Image for DOS User Manual Page 53 of 186 11 On the Backup Options screen that appears select the options you want to use See the section Understanding Backup Options on Page 44 for an explanation of each option 12 Select Next to display the Summary screen which summarizes the parameters of your backup 13 When you select Start the backup process begins and a progress bar appears on screen When Image for DOS finishes a message appears to let you know that the backup was successful You can interrupt the backup and validation operations at any time by pressing the F12 key or clicking Exit Image for DOS wi
41. if omitted Image for DOS assumes the answer to all Abort Retry Ignore prompts is either Yes or No depending on whether you set uy or un um N A During an unattended backup using CD DVD discs use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to ignore the first request for media This option helps you start the backup if you have already inserted a disc and a prompt appears asking for the disc This option works only for the first prompt you need to respond to other prompts for media unless you specify uy or un If you combine uy or un with um then any additional disc requests will cause the program to end with an error instead of prompting for the media For media other than CD DVD discs or during a restore validation using this option allows the program to end with an error instead of prompting for the media Place this option just after the action parameter b r v to ensure this parameter is in effect for prompts that may occur in other command line options Default if omitted Media change requests will disable the uy or un options and you will be required to respond to the request Jup N A Use this parameter when performing an unattended backup to tell Image for DOS to not prompt for a password if one is needed and not provided or is provided and is incorrect Instead the program will just exit with an error code Default if omitted Image for DOS will prompt for a password if one is needed asr 0 AutoScale
42. in a batch file The way you run Image for DOS affects the way Image for DOS processes advanced options If you run Image for DOS using the menu interface as described earlier in this manual Image for DOS sets all options using IFD INI and you can customize FD INT If you also want to set environment variables store them in a batch file that you run prior to running Image for DOS If you run Image for DOS from the command line as described in the section Running Image for DOS from the Command Line Image for DOS processes the command line switches and uses IFD INI to process global default options but ignores all other options in IFD INI and finally processes any environment variables you set So environment variables take precedence over IFD INI Image for DOS INI File To apply settings to Image for DOS using the INI file you create a text file named IFD INI using a text editor such as Notepad Image for DOS will look for FD MT in the current directory only Settings you specify in IFD INI need to be placed under a section name For details on the settings available refer to Tables 1 to 10 in the section Running Image for DOS from the Command Line A typical backup IFD INT file might look like this Options SeqvolID 1 Time Zone PST8PDT License ProductKey nnnn nnnn
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44. is the mapped drive Image for DOS User Manual Page 39 of 186 11 On the Backup Options screen that appears select the options you want to use See the section Understanding Backup Options on Page 44 for an explanation of each option Image for DOS GUI 2 78 Validate O Validate Byte for Byte J Encrypt Data Omit Page File Data Omit Hibernation Data h d G E O Ignore D Errors for HOS O Disable Auto Eject C Reboot when Completed O Shutdown when Completed Log Results to File Image for DOS User Manual Page 40 of 186 12 Select Next to display the Summary screen which summarizes the parameters of your backup Image for DOS GUI 267 Summary i Operation Backup Entire Drive To Backup b0 2011 12 21 0936 From Drive D 61030 MiB Number of Items 2 TeraByte Unlimited 13 When you select Start the backup process begins and a progress bar appears on screen You can interrupt the backup and validation operations at any time by pressing the F12 key or clicking Exit Image for DOS will ask you to confirm that you want to cancel before it interrupts the current operation When Image for DOS finishes this message appears amp The backup has completed successfully Note If a message appears stating that the discs created will not be bootable because the CDBOOT INS file was not found or it contained invalid references please refer to the section Customizing
45. less than the available space on the destination drive even if the source partition is actually much larger Using the example configuration SOURCE TBI can be restored normally to the 256GB SSD since it requires only 220GB It would not be possible to do a normal restore to the 128GB SSD due to insufficient available space When restoring an OS partition or disk image entire drive any standard options necessary to ensure proper booting would also apply here Set Active Update BOOT INI Update Boot Partition Restore First Track etc Additionally when restoring a disk image and the source drive was larger than the destination the Scale to Target or Scale to Fit option must be selected Otherwise the program will report that there s not enough space on the destination drive even if there is Example 2 Compact Resize Image and Restore Using the example configuration restoring an image of the 465GB partition to the 128GB SSD could be performed as follows Using Compact 1 Move 100GB of data files to a USB drive to bring the total used space down to around 70GB Boot to Image for DOS and select to create a backup Select the 465GB Windows partition Make sure the 465GB Windows partition is highlighted and use the Compact option press F3 5 Specify a size of 100GB 6 After the compaction completes continue with creating the image of the partition Restore this image to the 128GB SSD specifying to resize it to us
46. may be moving from a 500GB Windows drive to a 128GB SSD You plan to delete many gigabytes of files you won t need and uninstall several large programs However you would also like to preserve the data on the 500GB drive One way to do this is to create a backup image of the drive and then make the desired changes A new backup image can then be created and restored to the SSD or the drive could be copied Once the SSD is ready for use the original drive image can be restored to the 500GB source drive returning it to its original state Understanding Partition Data Organization When you set up a hard drive you can create logical partitions A logical partition is simply a conceptual division on the hard drive You can use different file systems in different partitions and many users partition hard drives so that they can store different operating systems or segregate data on the same hard drive Formatting is the process that prepares a partition on the hard drive to accept data by creating an empty file system that is organized into clusters A cluster a logical grouping of contiguous sectors is the smallest logical unit of storage that you can allocate to hold ailes data Table A depicts the layout of files within clusters on a hypothetical partition 44 clusters contain data with the last cluster in use the cluster closest to the end of the partition being located 75 into the partition Image for DOS User Manual Page 169 of 18
47. no affect when used with all or f Default if omitted The amount of free space is not listed all N A Specify to produce a more detailed report In addition to the basic information it includes e Hard drive BIOS Device number number of Sectors Sector Size and CHS values e Partition Start LBA End LBA FS ID PE Flag Free Sectors Used Sectors Last Used Sector MBR Entry number MBR End CHS and MBR Flag e When used with f additional Data Info is listed the base image filename is listed for differential incremental images and the file exclusion list if any is Image for DOS User Manual Page 156 of 186 listed Default if omitted Only the basic information is listed f N A List backup image drive and partition information from the specified backup image file Use with all to obtain more details It is not necessary to include the TBI extension with the file name The image file description is listed if one exists When all is not specified no drive information is displayed and the partition information is limited to the name size file system and ID Example image l all f e backups my backup stdout output txt In this example detailed drive and partition information from the backup image file e backups my backup tbi will be saved in output txt Default if omitted Physical drives and partitions are listed Image for DOS Combine Options Table 11 list
48. not be prompted for IFD options settings If using Image for DOS CUI skip to Step 6 The following options apply only to Image for DOS GUI Image for DOS User Manual Page 15 of 186 The Mouse Support screen is displayed Select to enable or disable mouse support and then click Next Note that the BIOS must support the mouse This may require enabling the USB Legacy Support in the BIOS Mouse Support Ce Enabled C Disabled The Video Method screen is displayed Select the desired video method and then click Next Video Method Ze VESA Video Chipset Video VESA Video Uses the VESA Video standard for the display instead of a specific chipset implementation Support is provided by the video card s BIOS This is the recommended video method Will fall back to Chipset Video if VESA is not supported Chipset Video Attempts to access the video chipset directly for supported chipsets It is not recommended to select this option unless you know for certain it is required e g VESA doesn t work or you re instructed to use it by TeraByte support Will fall back to VESA Video if chipset detected is not supported Note While each video method should fall back to the other one if it fails this may not always happen In this case try the other video method The Video Mode screen will be displayed Select the desired video mode and then click Next For the best viewing experience it is recommended
49. of the cursor However when you press Alt d the cursor jumps to and selects the text box in the Description section You can use the Esc key or click Back to move back to the previous menu If you use Esc Back in this manner Image for DOS remembers the selections you have already made throughout the Image for DOS session in the event that you return to the same screen When using the GUI version of Image for DOS you can also use the mouse to select controls toggle options click buttons etc Image for DOS User Manual Page 25 of 186 Creating Backups with Image for DOS Create the Image for DOS boot media using any of the techniques described in the section Installing Image for DOS or Installing Image for DOS Manually Insert the boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer To boot from a CD DVD or UFD you may need to change the order in which your computer selects boot devices As your computer begins to boot you should see a message before you ever get to Windows that tells you what key to press to enter Setup typically the Delete key F2 or F12 Once in the BIOS you need to follow the instructions provided in your BIOS to reorder the boot sequence to permit your CD DVD drive or UFD to be examined before your hard drive If your system starts by offering you the option to select a boot menu you can use the boot menu to identify the device you want to use to boot When you create a ba
50. omitted The volume s L LBA will be used in the volume s BPB usnrf 0 USNRollBackFix 0 Disables any attempt at notifying Windows Active Directory that the system has been restored Default if omitted Attempts to notify Windows Active Directory that the system has been restored Image for DOS Backup Options In Table 2 you find the command line options that you must set to use Image for DOS to make a backup image The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Backup Defaults section Table 2 Image for DOS Required Backup Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable b N A Use this option to indicate that you want to perform a backup Also required Either d option to specify a full backup or base option for differential or incremental backup and the f option to specify target image file destination id N A Use when performing a full backup to identify the source hard drive and partition For most users the partition ID will be a number from 1 through 4 For partition IDs of 9 or below you can use a single digit in place of hexadecimal notation e g 1 is equivalent to 0x1 and 5 is equivalent to 0x5 The volume ID will be a number formatted as Ox
51. option might help in cases where you experience lockups with certain USB 2 0 devices This option can degrade USB IO performance Default if omitted This option is disabled usbco n USBCO n Using this option might help in cases where you experience lockups with certain USB 2 0 devices The possible values for n are 0 1 2 3 and 4 To help prevent lockups with a USB device use the value 4 For example usbco 4 Default if omitted The option is enabled as USBCO 1 usbcot n USBCOT n When using usbco 4 this option sets the additional wait time used by that option The value is given in microseconds Default if omitted The option is set as USBCOT 25 usbeasd n USBEASD n When using usbco 1 this option sets the internal delay loop used in microseconds Default if omitted The option is set as USBEASD 1 usbign n USBlgnoreMask n Use this option to hide certain USB host controllers For example if you have a USB keyboard Image for DOS might disable the keyboard when it takes control of the USB2 host controller Using this option you can hide the host controller of that USB keyboard and attach the USB keyboard to a different controller It usually takes some experimentation to determine which controller to hide but the two USB ports next to each other are usually controlled by the same host controller To hide the first USB controller use usbign 1 and to hide the second USB controller use
52. spaces Do not specify a drive letter To also exclude files from subdirectories apply recursion include the gt greater than character after the path Examples te jpg exclude all jpg files in the root folder files will be truncated K exclude all iso files in the root folder Backups tbi exclude all tbi files in the Backups folder k Games gt exclude the Games folder and all sub folders keep the Games folder use trailing backslash to indicate folder Work Archive exclude the Work Archive folder sub folders not excluded use trailing backslash to indicate folder jpg gt exclude all jpg files in the root folder and all sub folders Movies mpg gt exclude all mpg files in the Movies folder and all sub folders folders will not be deleted ISO Files Old iso gt exclude all iso files in ISO Files Old folder and all sub folders Default if omitted Image for DOS includes all files when copying the partition the page file and hibernation file will be included or excluded per their respective options WCO WriteChangedSecsOnly 1 Use this option when copying to write only the changed sectors to the target drive target will be read to compare Useful in cases where a large portion of the data is the same and it s desirable to reduce wear on the target drive e g copying partition to SSD drive Default if omitted Image for DOS will write all copied se
53. system you may want to run chkdsk f on it before imaging or copying it In general it s a good idea to run MEMTEST86 before running chkdsk bad memory may cause chkdsk to corrupt the partition To do this open a Command Prompt an Administrator Command Prompt is required in versions of Windows with UAC is enabled and run the following command making sure to use the correct drive letter for the partition to be checked chkdsk c f Note that checking some partitions such as the Windows partition may require Windows to restart In the case of multiple partitions needing to be checked it may be advantageous to check them from WinPE e g TBWinPE since Windows isn t running and no partitions are locked restarts will not be required Compact or Resize the Partition s Compacting or resizing a partition requires that it be available to be modified If the only source of the desired partition is an image backup you must first restore the image to a Image for DOS User Manual Page 173 of 186 drive large enough to contain it so it can be compacted or resized and then reimaged or copied Also note that you can t compact a partition that s in use for example you can t compact the booted Windows partition You would need to boot to Image for DOS Image for Linux or Image for Windows in WinPE To compact a partition Start the TeraByte imaging program of your choice Select to create a backup On the partition se
54. t automatically add a file extension If you Image for DOS User Manual Page 102 of 186 use paths and or filenames with imbedded spaces enclose them in quotation marks The folder you specify for the log file must exist prior to performing an applicable operation in Image for DOS If the path does not exist Image for DOS will not create the specified log file Default if omitted H logging has not been disabled with log 0 a log named IFD LOG is created in the current directory of the operating environment logmax n LogMaxSize n Ensures the log file doesn t grow beyond the size ngiven Once nis reached the data from the top of the file is purged Because of this you typically don t want a large n value n can be bytes KiB or MiB Decimal values e g 2 5MiB are supported For example logmax 32768 or logmax 32KiB Note If you specify a size smaller than the current log file size the new size will not take effect until the log is written to or Image for DOS is closed Default if omitted There is a 1MiB size limit on the log file logl n LogLevel n Causes less or more information to be output to the log file Use level 1 for errors only 2 for warnings 3 for status 4 for information 9 for debugging 10 for debugging with flush For example use log1 3 to specify status level logging Default if omitted Informational level logging is performed eu CreateTagFiles 1 Use this option
55. that is compatible with version 2 50 If desired also use bc1 BackwardsCompatibleLevel to specify a more current file version Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the current TBI format md MakeDir 1 Image for DOS User Manual Page 120 of 186 This option causes Image for DOS to always create the target path if doesn t exist Default if omitted Image for DOS doesn t attempt to create the target path mp MultiPass 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to use Multi Pass mode when creating a differential or incremental backup In Multi Pass mode Image for DOS compares the source partition against the full backup in one pass and performs the backup in a second pass This setting is not applicable when performing a full backup This option must be used if the applicable full backup resides on removable media Default if omitted Image for DOS uses Single Pass mode identifying changes and backing up in one pass cdws n CDWriteSpeed n Use this setting to specify the maximum disc writing speed that Image for DOS will use when burning to disc media CD DVD BD and force a lower writing speed than that automatically used by the optical drive s firmware Slower writing soeeds may increase reliability nshould be a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc The maximum writing speed that Image for DOS actually uses is determined by whichever is ower The cdws n value you specify or the speed deemed a
56. the Image for DOS boot media 3 Using the Image for DOS menus select a drive or partition to back up For details on using the Image for DOS menus see the section Navigating the Image for DOS Interface on Page 25 A Select the target location where you want to store the backup image file s 5 Provide a name for the backup image file 6 Set backup options For details on available backup options see the section Understanding Backup Options on Page 44 You can make a differential or incremental backup using the same steps you simply select the Changes Only option on the Image for DOS menu instead of the Full Backup option For details on backup strategies that is deciding whether to make full backups or use a combination of full backups and differential or incremental backups see Appendix B Backup Strategies on Page 162 For details on creating a differential or incremental backup see the section Creating a Differential or Incremental Backup on Page 48 You can restore an Image for DOS backup using these steps Image for DOS User Manual Page 8 of 186 Note For detailed steps to restore a backup see the section Using Image for DOS to Restore a Backup on Page 55 1 Boot your computer using the Image for DOS boot media 2 On the Image for DOS main menu select Restore 3 Select the source location that contains the backup image file that you want to restore
57. to cause a file named T BTAG in the root of any copied or restored partition with information about what program was used and when it was restored or copied Note that if this option was enabled during a restore or copy then later backed up and restored with tagging disabled the old tag file remains on the partition In other words with this option off it doesn t delete tag files on restored or copied partitions Default if omitted No tag file is created of 8 OFlags 8 Setting this bit oriented option to 8 will cause single partition and multiple partition backups created to have the restore first track and write standard mbr code options restricted upon restoring with version 2 62 or later This is not an option for normal use Default if omitted No restrictions are set exo ExtOpen 1 Tells Image for DOS to try using the Extended DOS Open function The Extended DOS Open function allows DOS to work with files up to 4GiB instead of 2GiB however it is not supported correctly in all the DOS versions nor when accessing network drives Default if omitted Image for DOS will not use the Extended DOS Open function Image for DOS User Manual Page 103 of 186 lowmem LowMem 1 Tells Image for DOS to use smaller buffers This allows use of Image for DOS ina system with as low as 4MiB of RAM provided the File OS option is used for accessing the image file Otherwise 16MiB is still required Default if o
58. to select 800x600 or higher with 64K colors Video Mode C 640x480 64K Colors 800x600 64K Colors Ze 1024768 64K Colors 640x480 256 Colors 800x600 256 Colors C 1024x768 256 Colors Standard YGA 16 Colors Image for DOS User Manual Page 16 of 186 6 If you selected Simple in Step 3 skip to Step 10 Otherwise the Device and Checkbox Options screen is displayed i MakeDisk Image for DOS V2 Sa m Device and Checkbox Options optional ATAPI DMA PATA Disable SATA Disable SATA Bias USB 1 1 UHCI l Corect USB Hang 1 Corect USB Hang 2 Disable Checkbox Selection lt lt Previous Cancel Copyright 2004 2012 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Check boxes to enable the options ATAPI DMA PATA If your PATA CD DVD drive supports ATAPI DMA enabling this option dramatically speeds up the process of reading from and writing to the CD DVD drive This option will not work with some drives therefore if you enable this option and have problems using your CD DVD drive with Image for DOS recreate the boot media and leave the option disabled Disable SATA Image for DOS includes low level support for SATA when the SATA controller is configured in AHCI mode If the BIOS doesn t provide enough information to allow Image for DOS to identify the SATA drives when Image for DOS takes control of the SATA drives Image for DOS may default to
59. usbign 2 To hide the third USB controller use usbign 4 To hide both the first and second USB controllers use usbign 3 Note Use a basic Bit Mask numbering scheme Default if omitted Image for DOS takes control of all detected USB2 host controllers cbs 0 ClearBootStatus 0 Image for DOS User Manual Page 107 of 186 Use this option to prevent Image for DOS from forcing Windows to assume a clean shutdown on Windows 2008 R2 Vista 7 This applies to copy and restore only Default if omitted Windows 2008 R2 Vista 7 boot status is cleared phe n PageHiberClear n This option is used to control how the default page file pbagefile sys swap file swapfile sys and hibernation file hiberfil sys are treated after being restored or copied when they have been omitted from the backup copy The values are bit based and can be one of the following values or a combination of the following values added together 1 Clear first 4096 bytes of the page file 2 Truncate page file to zero 4 Clear 8192 bytes of hibernation file 8 Truncate hibernation file to zero 16 Clear the first 4096 bytes of the swap file 32 Truncate swapfile sys to zero For example to truncate the page file and clear the first 8192 bytes of the hibernation file use 6 Default if omitted The first 4096 bytes of the page file and swap file are cleared and the first 8192 bytes of the hibernation file is cleared
60. want to place the copy Image for DOS displays a warning that indicates that all data in the target partition or on the target drive will be overwritten and lost Select Yes 7 Image for DOS displays options you can select See the Understanding Copy Options section on page 82 for an explanation of each option 8 Select Next On the Summary screen that appears click Start when you are ready to begin the Copy process A progress bar appears on screen You can interrupt the operation at any time by clicking Exit or pressing the F12 key Image for DOS will ask you to confirm that you want to cancel before it interrupts the operation When Image for DOS finishes a message appears to inform you that the copy was successfully created Understanding Copy Options During the copy process you can set a variety of options These options will vary depending on whether you are copying an entire disk or a partition Options available when copying an entire disk are shown in the figure below Image for DOS GUI 297e Options C write Ch dS Oni First Track Sectors rite angeg ectors Unly Sr O Scale to Fit TT Align to Target O Change Disk ID and GUIDs O Validate Byte for Byte O write Standard MBR Code CO Copy Unused Sectors C wipe Target Unused Sectors Omit Page File Data Omit Hibernation Data C Remove Gaps on Copy C GPT Hidden From OS C Assume Original HD O Scale to Target J Ignore D Errors C Reboot whe
61. 20 2011 1 41 pm i h d A G F System Volume Information lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm for DOS Win SRP 2011 12 20 tbi 10 452 992 12 20 2011 10 00 am Information lt lt Back J Next gt gt 6 Onthe Validate Select Item to Process screen choose to validate the drive or a partition Image for DOS User Manual Page 74 of 186 7 On the Validate Options screen that appears select the options you want to use See the section Understanding Validation Options on Page 75 for an explanation of each option Image for DOS GUI 267 Unlimited Save Defaults Show Command 8 Select Next to display the Summary screen which summarizes the parameters of the restore process you re about to initiate 9 When you select Start the validation process begins and a progress bar appears on screen When Image for DOS finishes validating the selected backup a message appears You can interrupt the validation operation at any time by pressing the F12 key or clicking Exit Image for DOS will ask you to confirm that you want to cancel before it interrupts the operation After you press Enter to dismiss the message that appears when Image for DOS finishes validating the main menu for Image for DOS reappears At this point if you are finished using Image for DOS select Exit remove the Image for DOS boot media and press Enter to reboot your computer Understanding Validation Options There are several options availa
62. 5 7 GiB D Drive 2 931 5 GiB E Click the Compact button press F3 with console version to compact FAT FAT32 and NTFS partitions on the drive This option allows you to reduce the size required for a restore You will be prompted to confirm the compaction and then asked for the compaction value size in MiB For example if you have a 480GB drive that contains 50GB of data and requires 150GB of space to restore and you need to restore it to a 128GB drive you can compact the drive to under 128GB before imaging it and then restore it to the 128GB drive 3 Select the drive you want to copy to and click Next 4 If the selected destination drive is not large enough but the source data can be compacted to fit a warning will appear Click Yes to continue and compact the source data or No to select a different drive 5 If the selected destination drive has existing partitions a warning will appear showing the drive and the partitions that will be deleted Click Yes to continue if everything looks correct Image for DOS User Manual Page 89 of 186 6 The summary screen is shown Click Start to copy the drive Installing Image for DOS Manually If you use an operating system platform other than Windows or if you wish to control the contents of the bootable media that you create you can follow these steps to create a bootable media that contains Image for DOS 1 Extract the contents of the Image for DOS ZIP archive file to a folder of y
63. 6 SSTT EECH E KEE PEE T ETT ee et ey Table A Table B The location of the last cluster at the time that you create an image determines the minimum amount of free space that must be available on the hard drive to which you intend to restore In this example assuming the partition size was 100GB you would not be able to restore it to a space smaller than 75GB Table B is a representation of the partition after being compacted It contains the same number of used clusters with no unused clusters interspersed As a result an image of this partition can be restored to a much smaller destination Compacting and resizing are both operations that allow you to relocate the data in the partition while maintaining its integrity Compacting leaves the partition size unchanged and moves the data so it fits the smaller specified size Resizing a partition smaller is similar to compacting but also reduces the size of the partition More information on this subject can be found in Appendix C Introduction to Hard Drive Storage Determining the Space Required When determining the minimum space required to restore a partition it s important to understand that the TeraByte imaging programs restore the partition image as an actual image As explained in the previous section this requires the same space for the data as the source partition since the restored data is not relocated within the destination partition while being written Any resizing o
64. 68 of 186 partition table as it had on the source drive Image for DOS will also move the existing partition table entry to another location rather than overwrite it You may want to enable this option if you use an environment that tracks master partition table entries such as Linux GPT Hidden From OS Use this option when restoring to a GPT drive to indicate that the operating system being restored will not see the destination drive as GPT when booted For example an iMac using BootCamp or cases where the OxEE placeholder partition is missing from the MBR Using this option prevents Image for DOS from using GPT specific fix up information on the drive after the restore Assume Original HD If you select this option which mainly applies to Linux partitions Image for DOS will keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partitions that have been restored to the target If you do not select this option and the target drive number differs from that of the source drive applicable drive references residing within the restored partitions will be updated to reflect the new hard drive number This option has no effect if you are restoring to a target drive whose number matches that of the source drive If you are restoring to a target drive whose number differs from that of the source drive but you plan to subsequently move the target drive so that its number matches the source drive again enabling this option can be ben
65. 7 of 186 Instructs Image for DOS to display the following message immediately upon running Press the lt space bar gt for the menu interface or wait for the restore to start If you press the space bar while this message appears Image for DOS will switch to interactive mode and wait for you to initiate the restore operation via the menu interface Default if omitted The Press the lt space bar gt message is not displayed and the restore operation proceeds using the command line att AlignToTarget 1 When restoring a full drive image use this option to instruct Image for DOS to force alignment to the target drive regardless of the alignment used on the source drive For example if the a2k option is also specified the restored drive will be aligned on 1MiB boundaries When restoring a single partition specifying this option will instruct Image for DOS to not adjust the alignment 1 MiB partition alignment will be used if the target has it already or not if it doesn t and a partition already exists Default if omitted The alignment used on the target drive will be determined automatically based on the source drive n2ka N A Normally Image for DOS will automatically use 1MiB partition alignment on command line restores when the backup contains 1MiB aligned partitions Use this option to instruct Image for DOS not to automatically override normal cylinder based alignment If this option is disabled and Image fo
66. 8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a batch file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFD GUI use the Show Command option above Understanding Restore Options for an Individual Partition When you restore an individual partition Image for DOS offers these options that you can set Image for DOS User Manual Page 66 of 186 Image for DOS GUI 297e Options Set Acti First Track Sectors et Acuve Im AUTO J write Changed Sectors Only Resize Partition C Update Boot Partition Min New Max O write Standard MBR Code 12546 MiB ri Lei 60929 MiB C Restore Disk Signature C Restore First Track z New Name O Validate Before Restore C Change GUID O Validate Byte for Byte O wipe Unused Sectors Unlimited C Move to Original MBR Entry C GPT Hidden From OS C Assume Original HD CO Ignore I0 Errors L1 Disable Auto Eject LC Save Defaults Show Command Set Active If you select this option Image for DOS will make the restored partition the active partition after completing the restore operation Otherwise Image for DOS will make the restored partition active only if no other partition is active and the target drive is HDO Update BOOT INI When you select this option Image for DOS updates all partition w entries in the boot ini file found in the restored location to point to itself This can be useful wh
67. 86 2048 sectors for 512 byte sized sectors or 256 sectors for 4096 byte sized sectors If you chose File CD DVD in Step 7 you can choose one of the following options ATAPI Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is an ATAPI device and none of the other selections apply This is the most common option ASPI Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive will be accessed using an ASPI layer You must supply the ASPI driver for this option to work USB2 Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is attached to a USB 2 controller 1EEE1394 Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is attached to an IEEE 1394 controller If your USB device does not appear at first please try pressing the Esc key waiting a few seconds and selecting the USB or USB2 option again Image for DOS User Manual Page 37 of 186 9 Either the Backup To Select File Drive shown in the figure below or the Backup To Select Target Drive screen appears depending on whether you are saving the backup to CD DVD BD discs or to a hard drive Select the target CD DVD drive or hard drive If you select a hard drive the Backup To Select File Location on HD screen appears You can select a partition on the hard drive if it contains partitions otherwise press Enter Select File Drive Hard Drive 0 Hard Drive 1 gt Hard Drive 2 Image for DOS User Manual Page 38 of 186 10 On the screen that appears
68. 86 the Default option first If the device fails to boot properly e g black screen boot failure device not found etc the other options can be tried Make note of which option works properly for future use Note More information on using UFD boot media can be found in this TeraByte KB article 12 Click Finish and respond to subsequent prompts as necessary MakeDisk will then create the boot media or ISO image When it is done the Success screen appears as shown below S MakeDisk Image for DOS V2 S SUCCESS The Process Completed Successfully If you created bootable media then it s now ready for use If you created an 50 file then you ll need to burn it to a disc using your CD DYD authoring software Visit www terabpteunlimited com for the latest help and information Completed D a a D BR T S D D il K EEG H Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 13 Click Close on the MakeDisk Success screen If you selected the 312 Floppy CD DVD or USB SD option in Step 11 you can now use that media to boot and run Image for DOS If you selected the ISO File option in Step 11 you will have to use other CD DVD authoring software to create a bootable disc from the ISO file TeraByte s BurnCDCC utility can be used for this Tip Be sure to test your boot media to make sure that it works and you can see backup images you made previously
69. CDBOOT F35 for information on setting up CDBOOT INS After you press Enter the main menu for Image for DOS reappears Select Exit and when prompted remove the Image for DOS boot media and press Enter to reboot your computer Image for DOS User Manual Page 41 of 186 Setting Image for DOS Program Options Program options can be configured by clicking the Settings button IFD GUI or selecting Global Settings IFD CUI Most of these options are also available when creating the boot media using the MakeDisk utility Additionally these settings are really one time settings review them and make changes only if necessary Once you establish a set of options that works for you you don t need to make changes each time you run Image for DOS Global Settings Geometry Disabled Align MBR for BIOS Auto Mode Align Partitions on 1MiB Boundaries Assume Same Target System Use Source Host Geometry Validate Geometry Before Use Misc Settings Simple Operations Use New Windows MBR Automatic Scaling Restrictions Automatic Boot Partition Update Automatic Restore Drive Search Retain Failed Backups Completion Alarm Output Disk ID to Command Line Resize with Caching Prefer Target Disk ID on Change Cancel 1747710744447 Geometry Settings Disable Check this box to disable the global geometry settings and revert to using program defaults or drive specific overrides equivalent to versions prior to 2 52 Al
70. Default if omitted The completion message will be displayed on success un N A Use this parameter to perform an unattended backup and tell Image for DOS to assume the answer to all Yes No prompts is No and the answer to all OK Cancel messages is Cancel Image for DOS then aborts the backup process when the first Yes No prompt appears Place this option just after the action parameter b r v to ensure this parameter is in effect for prompts that may occur in other command line options This option is disabled when additional media is needed file not found and um is not specified Default if omitted Image for DOS does not run an unattended backup uy N A Use this parameter to perform an unattended backup and tell Image for DOS to assume the answer to all Yes No prompts is Yes and the answer to all OK Cancel messages is OK Place this option just after the action parameter b r v to ensure this parameter is in effect for prompts that may occur in other command line options This option is disabled when additional media is needed file not found and um is not specified Default if omitted Image for DOS does not run an unattended backup ui N A Use this parameter when performing an unattended backup to tell Image for DOS to Image for DOS User Manual Page 111 of 186 assume the answer to all Abort Retry Ignore prompts is Ignore Use this parameter in conjunction with uy or un Default
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72. IFD LOG Image for DOS must be runnin from a writable medium such as a non write protected floppy diskette You can use the logfile or LogFile options to specify an alternate location for IFD LOG Backup Unused Sectors By default if the file system s you are backing up are one of the recognized types i e FAT FAT32 NTFS Ext2 3 4 ReiserFS XFS or HSF Image for DOS will back up only used sectors If you select this option Image for DOS will include all used and unused sectors in the backup This option has no effect on partitions that do not contain a recognized file system such partitions will always be backed up in full regardless of this setting NOTE This option causes Image for DOS to ignore the Omit Page File Data and Omit Hibernation Data options Image for DOS User Manual Page 45 of 186 For entire drive backups this option causes a raw sector by sector backup and later restore of the entire drive without regard to any partitions or adjustments This option is not available when creating a differential or incremental backup Instead the new backup will use the setting as specified when the base image was created Speed up Changes Only Backup Select this option to have Image for DOS create a hash file to speed up creating a Changes Only differential or incremental backup This option is only available when creating an image that is not being saved to disc media CD DVD BD By default
73. INCREMENTAL BACKUR 48 USING IMAGE FOR DOS TO RESTORE A BACKUP ccccecceecceceeeeceeeeeees 55 RESTORING FROM A BACKUP WITH IMAGE FOR DOS 55 GEOMETRY SETTINGS Aa ee Se ed ae ae EE 61 UNDERSTANDING RESTORE OPTIONS FOR AN ENTIRE DRIVE 0ecceeeceeeceeeceeeceeeeeeees 62 UNDERSTANDING RESTORE OPTIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL PARTITION nossen 66 VALIDATING BACKUPS WITH IMAGE FOR DOG 71 VALIDATING A BACKUp kiren ean a A EAT EERE EE EE AEAEE E ARENA EEEE 71 UNDERSTANDING VALIDATION OPTIONS 75 COPYING PARTITIONS OR DRIVES WITH IMAGE FOR DOG 76 COPYING A PARTITION OR DRIVE norennoriiionnent a ei airida 76 UNDERSTANDING COPY OPTIONS 82 USING GIMPLEORDERATIONGMODE 86 CREATING A BACKUP wise cleo eect oleic A A at et 87 RESTORING A BACKUP ink oi ed Re AER A a RE E 88 VALIDATING Ai BACKUP aset fe isan d ege ee cs Wea i disinclined a etnies 89 GOPY A HARD DRIVE iaie a de neseidekeciganbeledeseakedeidecad ies neee dacs ded 89 INSTALLING IMAGE FOR DOS MANUALE 90 CREATING A DOS BOoT DISKETTE FROM WINDOWS 95 98 ME 2 cecccecceececeeeeeeeeees 91 CREATING A DOS BooT DISKETTE FROM WINDOWS SDV 91 STARTING IMAGE FOR DOS AUTOMATICALLY UPON Boot 91 Image for DOS User Manual Page 3 of 186 AUTOMATICALLY RUNNING IMAGE FOR DOS FROM WINDOWS OO 91 CREATING A NETWORK BOOT DISKETTE nnnsnneennneenenrentreerrrerrrorrrrrrirerrrerirerinrrrrrrrene 92 CUSTOMIZING CDBOOTEab ceccccececeeccceececeeeeeceececaueeccuececaeesaueeaececaueeeaueeesauee
74. Ignore IO Errors Under ordinary circumstances if Image for DOS encounters a bad sector on the target partition while restoring Image for DOS will notify you concerning the write error and give you the option to continue or abort If you select the Ignore IO Errors option Image for DOS will ignore the error and continue Generally you should select this option only if you need to restore to a target drive that contains known bad sectors On some systems if you select this setting and Image for DOS encounters bad sectors there will be a significant delay as the internal retry recovery routine of the drive attempts to handle the bad sector s In addition some systems may hang if the BIOS option is used to access the source drive In such cases try using the BIOS Direct option instead Disable Auto Eject This option prevents Image for DOS from automatically opening the optical drive tray If you don t select this option Image for DOS will open the drive tray whenever a disc is needed and at the completion of the restore operation Reboot When Completed Use this option to automatically reboot your computer after the restore finishes Shutdown When Completed Use this option to automatically shut down your computer after the restore finishes Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for DOS log the date and time it completes the restore operation Image for DOS saves the log as IFD LOG in the IMAGE EXE prog
75. Image for Windows on Windows 7 8 or later You must run TBWinRE to create your boot media e Image for Linux IFL v2 81 or later supports booting via CD or USB flash drive on UEFI systems Secure Boot is supported e Image for DOS IFD will not boot on UEFI systems configured in UEFI mode To boot on these systems Secure Boot must be disabled and you must enable or use Legacy mode Creating the Image for DOS Boot Media If you use Windows you can create a bootable Image for DOS CD USB flash drive or diskette using the MakeDisk utility which is included with Image for DOS Image for DOS User Manual Page 12 of 186 If you use an operating system platform that doesn t support MakeDisk or if you wish to control the contents of the bootable media that you create see the section Installing Image for DOS Manually on Page 90 to create the bootable media that contains Image for DOS Follow these steps to use the MakeDisk utility to create the bootable Image for DOS media the MakeDisk utility is included in the ZIP archive file along with Image for DOS 1 Extract the contents of the Image for DOS ZIP archive file to a folder of your choice Note If you are using a version of Windows that has a built in compressed folders feature e g Windows Me XP or later you can double click the ZIP file and then open the File menu and choose Extract All in Windows Explorer to extract the contents
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77. Note that restoring first track overrides this option This is mainly used with the clr option to ensure the full size of the drive that is greater than 2TiB is accessible You can also provide an option nomsr if the GPT to be created should not have a Microsoft Reserved Partition created on it While Image for DOS supports a GPT it does not currently officially support an EFI based system Default if omitted Image for DOS does not create a GPT on the drive rft RFT 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS copy the first track when it copies the partition Copying the first track may also change the disk type MBR EMBR GPT of the destination drive if it doesn t match that of the source drive the copy will abort if the change is required and cannot be applied Default if omitted Image for DOS does not copy the first track fts n RFTS n Use this option to specify how many sectors of the first track of the hard drive Image for DOS should copy Use 0 to indicate the entire track Default if omitted Image for DOS determines the number of tracks needed to copy stt Scale 1 For NTFS FAT FAT32 EXT 2 3 4 partitions use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to resize each copied partition proportionally so that each partition takes up the same relative amount of space on the target drive as it did on the source drive Unpartitioned free space that existed on the source drive at the time of the backup will still ex
78. PVV where P is the extended partition and VV is the volume number in hexadecimal from 01 to FF Image for DOS User Manual Page 116 of 186 If you are not sure what the partition or volume ID is run Image for DOS using the interface choose the Backup option and click Next The screen that lists the partitions and volumes also will display the ID in parentheses as a hexadecimal number You should prefix that number with a 0x on the command line d d p d is the source hard drive number ee p is the source partition or volume ID hex GC or decimal notation depending on IIe P whether you are referring to a partition or id sd p a volume d od p NT Disk Signature Follows acai GUID GPT Disk GUID You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the d and before the source hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI v Virtual drive The d option cannot be used with the base option base N A Use when performing a differential or incremental backup to identify the backup on which Image for DOS should base this backup base x bkup base x mypath bkup pase x my path bkup Or base d p bkup base d p mypath bkup pase d p my path bkup pase ntsig p mypath bkup pase GUID p mypath bkup Image for DOS User Manual X is source dri
79. Restrict 0 Use this option to prevent small partitions from being automatically scaled when restoring or copying a full drive All partitions will be scaled normally per scaling option selected to fit the destination drive unless a minimum size is specified using the nos option Default if omitted Partitions with a size of 15GiB or 1 8 the drive size whichever is less or smaller will not be scaled when restoring a full drive image or copying a full drive This provides an automatic method to avoid scaling system reserved recovery and utility partitions to larger sizes when upgrading to a larger drive aubp 0 AutoUpdateBootPart 0 Use this option to prevent Image for DOS from automatically updating the boot partition when a full drive image is restored or a drive is copied Default if omitted The boot partition including an EFI system partition will automatically be updated when a full drive image is restored or a drive is copied sar 0 SearchOnAutoRestore 0 When performing an automatic restore limits Image for DOS to using the drive number Image for DOS User Manual Page 112 of 186 of the backed up drive to determine the destination drive Default if omitted Image for DOS will search for the destination drive when performing an automatic restore virtual drives will not be searched The search includes checking the disk signature or GUID drive size and empty drives If a match isn t found the drive n
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81. TeraB ute PROVEN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS Image for DOS User Manual TeraByte Unlimited Las Vegas Nevada USA http www terabyteunlimited com Revision 2015 10 31 Copyright 1996 2015 by TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Trademarks Bootlt BING TBOS PHYLock TBScript TBIMount and TBIView are trademarks of TeraByte Inc Microsoft MS MS DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation IBM PC DOS and OS 2 are registered trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners Notices Image for DOS was compiled using Open Watcom which can be found at www openwatcom org Technical Support Policy Technical support is provided online Software and documentation updates are available at www terabyteunlimited com The Image for DOS home page with software and documentation update information and support resources can be found at www terabyteunlimited com image for dos htm A support knowledge base for all TeraByte Unlimited products including Image for DOS can be found at www terabyteunlimited com kb Registered users can email their questions to support terabyteunlimited com if you can t find a suitable resolution via the aforementioned support resources If we cannot resolve the issue via email we may provide telephone support Unregistered users will be provide
82. Tip Remember that you set the default values of many restore options when creating the boot media Enter the INI file options on the appropriate page of the MakeDisk wizard For example if you wish the Automatic Restore to expand your partitions Scale to Fit you would include the Image for DOS User Manual Page 55 of 186 Expand 1 option in the Restore_Defaults section See Creating the Image for DOS Boot Media Note Performing an automatic partial restore will not change the disk type MBR EMBR GPT of the destination drive if it doesn t match the type of the source drive If you choose Normal Image for DOS will ask you to select the target drive and options Note If you created a backup in Image for Linux or Image for Windows and restore using Image for DOS Image for DOS might not be able to use the Automatic option because Image for DOS might not be able to match the disk signature in the backup with the target disk on the machine to which you want to restore In this case Image for DOS uses the Normal option where you select the target drive and options 3 From the Restore From Select File Access Method screen that appears select between the following options which refer to the location where Image for DOS should look for the backup file you want to restore File OS This option appears only if you boot using a DOS boot disk that you created using any method other than the MakeDisk utility Choo
83. UID You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the base and before the source hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI v Virtual device o Optical drive when you combine this option with any of the options mentioned above this option must come last Whether using drive letter or device partition you may specify any path desired Paths and or file names with imbedded spaces require the use of quotes clr N A Use this option to have Image for DOS clear the MBR and EMBR prior to restoring an image file Default if omitted Image for DOS does not clear the MBR and EMBR ro n N A Use this option to have Image for DOS reboot the system after restoring an image The value n can be 1 to reboot with all prompts 2 to reboot with completion message but without reboot message error does not cancel reboot 4 to reboot without completion message or reboot message error cancels reboot 8 to shutdown Default if omitted Image for DOS attempts to determine if the computer needs to be rebooted after restoring and if so prompts you to reboot Image for DOS User Manual Page 130 of 186 sp p N A Use this option to specify an individual partition ID to restore from a full backup p is the source partition ID in hex or decim
84. VD RW media Image for DOS can format it but the process takes 1 hour per disc so you may prefer to use fully formatted fully blanked or brand new discs To fully blank the DVD RW media use your burning software s full erase function The quick erase function will not work for this purpose Image for DOS User Manual Page 34 of 186 Image for DOS GUI 2 67 Select File Access Method Backup To CG File Direct File CD DVD Unlimited 8 Onthe Backup To Select Drive Interface screen that appears select one of the following options These options refer to how Image for DOS should attempt to access the hard drive or CD DVD BD drive where your image will be saved If you chose File Direct in Step 7 you can choose one of the following options BIOS Locates and accesses drives using the system BIOS Please note that any problems or limitations inherent to the system BIOS will apply BIOS Direct Attempts to locate the hard drive using the system BIOS but then attempts to access it directly bypassing the BIOS This can sometimes be helpful in cases where performance with the BIOS option is very poor To get the most out of this option when creating an image you should select File Direct rather than File OS when selecting the File Access Method of the target for saving the image Use BIOS direct when you are going to be accessing SATA hard drives and CD DVD BD
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86. a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI v Virtual device o Optical drive when you combine this option with any of the options mentioned above this option must come last Whether using drive letter or device partition you may specify any path desired Paths and or file names with imbedded spaces require the use of quotes sch path Image for DOS User Manual N A Page 144 of 186 Use this parameter to specify the search paths Image for DOS uses when looking for base images in the backup chain path can use the d p path format to specify the drive and partition id This option can be used multiple times to specify multiple search paths e g when the images in the backup chain are not all stored in the same folder Examples commands should be on one line image v f E Backups Win8System Inc D sch E Backups sch E Backups Archive image v f b1 0x2 Images WinXP Drive Inc E sch b1 0x2 Images sch b1 0x2 Images Full Default if omitted Image for DOS searches only the folder of the specified image for base images in the backup chain pw mypassword or pw my password N A Use this parameter to supply the password needed to decrypt a backup that you encrypted and or password protected when you created it If your password contains embedded spaces place quota
87. a of free space left over unless you use the Resize Partition option or perform the restore via command line using the x parameter as explained later in this manual Also please remember the following If your computer contains more than one CD DVD BD drive and you are restoring using Image for DOS from disc media please make sure that you insert your Image for DOS bootable disc in one optical drive and no other optical drive contains a bootable disc Since the hard drive order during the boot process may be different than it is while Windows is running you may need to press a key when prompted to access the Image for DOS menu that will allow you to select the appropriate drive from which to restore Restoring From a Backup with Image for DOS Insert your Image for DOS boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer Then follow these steps 1 Onthe Image for DOS Main Menu select Restore 2 Onthe Restore Select screen that appears select an option to determine how Image for DOS handles the selection of the target drive and options If you choose Automatic Image for DOS attempts to choose the target drive and options automatically using information stored in the backup files If Image for DOS cannot identify the target drive and options or you don t accept the suggested target drive Image for DOS will use the Normal option and ask you to select the target drive and options
88. a single image regardless of how many individual partitions you are backing up The first file created for the image set will be named lt name gt TBI where lt name gt is a character string you supply If Image for DOS creates additional files Image for DOS will name them lt name gt 1 lt name gt 2 lt name gt 3 and so on The number of files Image for DOS will create depends on the overall size of the backup and the File Size setting you choose when you set the options for the backup in a later step Multiple File Set Select this option to create a backup that is comprised of one image for every individual partition that Image for DOS backs up Image for DOS names the first file created for the first image set lt name gt _0 TBI where lt name gt is a character string you supply Image for DOS adds _0 to identify the image file set If Image for DOS creates additional files for the same image set they will be named lt name gt _0 1 lt name gt _0 2 lt name gt _0 3 and so on Image for DOS names the files of the second image set i e the second partition included in the backup lt name gt _1 TBI lt name gt _1 1 lt name gt _1 2 lt name gt _1 3 and so on Image for DOS will name subsequent image sets accordingly with _2 _3 and so on appended to the file name If you choose this option each file Image for DOS creates represents only a single partition and you won t be able to completely r
89. a store it s normally not necessary to specify the store when later backups are run since the existing store will be located automatically Note Specifying unsupported parameters or values will cause Image for DOS to ignore the Simple Operations mode request Normal mode will be used Examples image b simple d b0 f b1 0x1 image b vb simple mi 3 d dl f d2 0x2 Default if omitted Image for DOS will function in Normal mode mi n MaxIncrementals n Use this option to specify the maximum number of incremental backups in each chain when using Simple Operations mode simple When the specified number is reached a new chain will be started Default if omitted Image for DOS limits each chain to six incremental backups ds DisableSettings 1 Use this option to disable access to global settings within the program The Settings button will be removed or the Settings key will be disabled depending on the interface used Default if omitted Image for DOS will allow normal access to global settings within the program iso8601 ISO8601 1 Use this option to have Image for DOS display the date and time using the ISO8601 format YYYY MM DD hh mm 24 hour time is used Default if omitted Image for DOS will display the date and time using the default format bcl n BackwardsCompatibleLevel n Use this option to specify the TBI file version to use when creating a backup using the Image
90. ad and sector values are used mg UseMBRGeo 1 Place under the HDx section Set this parameter to tell Image for DOS to use the geometry based on the MBR entry of the first partition in the backup image This is used when restoring a backup Default if omitted The geometry of the target drive or UseOrgGeo option is used mgv UseValidMBRGeoOnly 1 Place under the HDx section This option is used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR on the original system is aligned to known standards before accepting it for use It only applies when mg UseMBRGeo is used Default if omitted This option is disabled Image for DOS User Manual Page 139 of 186 og UseOrgGeo 1 Place under the HDx section Set this parameter to tell Image for DOS to use the original geometry of the source drive based on the environment used when the backup was created Default if omitted The geometry of the target drive is used c n c n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with h and s to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you restore a backup image This parameter specifies the last cylinder and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the BlIOS reported values of the drive h n h n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with c and s to manually specify the cylinder head and sector val
91. age for DOS User Manual Page 125 of 186 system FAT FAT32 and NTFS file systems are supported the option will be ignored for other file systems The data of the excluded files is essentially compressed to zero When restored the files will either be deleted or truncated depending on the options selected Note that even though excluded the data will still affect the minimum restore size just as if it wasn t excluded Additionally the excluded files and folders will still show up in TBIView and TBIMount Excluded files extracted from the image using TBIView or TBIMount will be full of zeros An exception to this are very small files on NTFS the contents of those files will be intact When creating a differential or incremental backup using a base full image created with the exlist option the list from the base image will be used a new list specified for the backup will be ignored Otherwise the specified exclusion list will be used for the backup Each line in the exclusion file should be in the following format options path gt Valid options are Exclude files only Do not delete folders If not specified folders will be deleted t Truncate files instead of deleting them Folders will not be deleted Files are restored with a size of zero bytes k Keep the base folder instead of deleting it when recursion is used and the entire contents are excluded The path can be complete to exclude a specif
92. al notation Default if omitted If you supply a backup of an entire hard drive as the source for restoring Image for DOS will restore all partitions contained in the backup sig ReplaceNT Sig 1 This option applies when you restore a partition that had been assigned a drive letter within Windows prior to being backed up If you select this option Image for DOS will restore the disk signature associated with the source partition If you are restoring a partition that had been assigned a drive letter in Windows and you wish to keep that drive letter assignment select this option Note The source Windows drive letter assignment will only be kept if it was previously assigned on the Windows system where the restored partition is used and the drive letter is not currently in use by another partition Note The disk GUID of a target GPT drive will not be changed Default if omitted Image for DOS will use the disk signature already present in the MBR of the target drive if none exists Image for DOS will create one if necessary csig ChangeDiskSigGUIDs 1 When performing full drive restores this option allows you to change the NT Signature restored to the target drive For target GPT drives the MBR NT Signature the GPT Disk GUID and the partition GUIDs will all be changed This can be useful if you plan on having both the original and restored hard drive in the same computer at the same time while running Windows otherwise W
93. an entire drive image Due to the way this option functions and scaling is performed placing the recovery partition at the start of the drive is recommended This allows easy scaling to different size drives when restoring Example A Windows drive contains the following four partitions ID 0x1 Recovery Partition ID 0x2 System Reserved ID 0x3 Windows ID 0x4 Data The Recovery partition contains a backup image of partitions 0x2 0x3 and 0x4 A restore of those partitions that would scale to a different size drive would be performed by running the following command image r d w0 w0 0x1 Recovery tbi sp 0x2 0x3 0x4 x rft rp 0x1 ubp Default if omitted Image for DOS will not support scaling a multi partition restore Iv PreValidate 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS perform a standard validation on the image file s before restoring them Default if omitted Image for DOS does not validate the image files before restoring them Image for DOS User Manual Page 134 of 186 vb PostValidate 2 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS check that each byte from the source image file was restored to the drive properly Default if omitted Image for DOS does not validate the restored data Iech path N A Use this parameter to specify the search paths Image for DOS uses when looking for base images in the backup chain path can use the d p path format to specify the drive and part
94. as ATA ombrm 0 BIOSMBRM 0 Image for DOS User Manual Page 105 of 186 Use this option to disable the special matching routine Image for DOS will use if the system BIOS doesn t provide a method for Image for DOS to match SATA drives to BIOS drives This option is only useful if SATA support is enabled Default if omitted A special matching routine is used when needed atapidma n AtapiDMA n Use this option to have Image for DOS use a higher performance method of accessing ATAPI devices Examples of ATAPI type devices include CD and DVD drives The assigned value n determines the controller to which this setting applies 1 PATA 2 SATA 3 Both PATA and SATA Default if omitted Image for DOS uses an older yet more compatible method of accessing ATAPI devices pataq n PATAIRQ n Use this option to control drive IRQ options It may be useful if you find that the BIOS option of accessing PATA hard drives hangs after using BIOS direct or CD DVD drives The value of n is a bitmask which has the following meanings 0 No change 1 Disable device IRQ Generation when IFD starts command 2 Enable device IRQ Generation when IFD starts command 4 Disable device IRQ Generation when IFD completes command 8 Enable device IRQ Generation when IFD completes command Valid combinations 0 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 10 Useful combinations 6 or 9 Default if omitted No change
95. ated to this differential incremental backup Note The File OS option appears only if you boot using a DOS boot disk that you created using any method other than the MakeDisk utility Choose this option to use the operating system file services to save the image files You must use this option when saving images to a mapped network drive 4 On the Select Existing Backup File To Use Select Drive Interface screen that appears select one of the following options These options refer to how Image for DOS should attempt to access the hard drive or CD DVD BD drive where the existing backup is stored If you chose File Direct in Step 3 you can choose one of the following options BIOS Locates and accesses drives using the system BIOS Please note that any problems or limitations inherent to the system BIOS will apply BIOS Direct Attempts to locate the hard drive using the system BIOS but then attempts to access it directly bypassing the BIOS This can sometimes be helpful in cases where performance with the BIOS option is very poor To get the most out of this option when creating an image you Image for DOS User Manual Page 50 of 186 should select File direct rather than File OS as the File Access Method of target for saving the image Use BIOS direct when you are going to be accessing SATA hard drives and CD DVD BD drives or using the BIOS direct option anywhere USB Examines the attache
96. ates When enabled Image for DOS will automatically update the boot partition when restoring a full drive image Automatic Restore Drive Search Select to enable Image for DOS to search for the destination drive using the disk signature or GUID when performing an automatic restore USB 1394 and virtual drives will not be searched If a match isn t found or if this option is not enabled the drive number of the backed up drive will be used Retain Failed Backups If you enable this option and a backup operation fails Image for DOS won t delete the files from the failed backup Image for DOS User Manual Page 43 of 186 Completion Alarm Select to enable an audible alarm upon completion of an operation errors or when user interaction is required insert media etc Output Disk ID to Command Line Select to enable command line output and relevant log entries to use the Disk ID NT Signature or GUID instead of drive numbers where the drive has an ID and the ID is unique Specifying the Disk ID instead of the drive number may be more stable especially for setup of scheduling backups in situations where the drives may be reordered at boot Resize with Caching Enable this option to reduce the time required to resize a partition by using a cache Prefer Target Disk ID on Change When enabled the Change Disk ID and GUIDs option will attempt to use the existing target drive ID GUID instead of generating a random ID T
97. atest full backup followed by the latest differential backup unless the backup program being used supports a complete restore in one restore procedure Unlike incremental backups which rely on every other incremental backup in the chain a differential backup relies only on the full backup For example suppose that you are relying on file based backups and you perform a full backup that includes FILE1 FILE2 and FILE3 Then you change FILE2 and you perform a differential backup This differential backup will include only the data of FILE2 since the other files in the most recent full backup have not changed If Image for DOS User Manual Page 163 of 186 you then change FILE3 and perform another differential backup this differential backup will include data from both FILE2 and FILES A differential sector based backup includes any sector that has changed or been allocated since you created the last full backup Differential backups are easy to manage during disaster recovery because you need to restore only the last full backup followed by the last differential backup some programs will restore both the full and differential backup in one restore procedure You don t run as much risk of discovering that a backup is damaged or missing and since you only need to restore two backups at most you are not as likely to restore them in the wrong order By its nature the size of a differential backup grows over time If you wait long
98. ax specify maximum file size Jop logging hash create hash file to speed up differential incremental backups sch search path s for base or incremental images pw specify password s For more information on the syntax of a specific option please refer to the mage for DOS Backup Options section on page 116 Troubleshooting If you should encounter any problems while running Image for DOS please visit our on line support page at http www terabyteunlimited com support image for dos htm Image for DOS User Manual Page 160 of 186 Appendix A Understanding the Types of Backups Many software packages create file based backups while Image for DOS creates a sector based backup This section describes both types of backups and their differences File Based Backup When you create a file based backup you copy files from one storage location to another using a third party software package the built in Microsoft backup utility or by dragging and dropping files and or folders using Windows Explorer Creating a file based backup is simple and you can backup or restore only certain files or folders But a file based backup it has drawbacks For example files that are in use may not be backed up And restoring a file based backup can be tricky Files in use cannot be restored If the required operating system environment and software is not installed and accessible you will first need to install it before you can re
99. backup restore it or open it in TBIView or TBIMount If you lose and or forget the password you won t be able to open or restore from the backup TeraByte Unlimited has no way of recovering data from an encrypted backup with an unknown password If you do not enable the Encrypt Data setting Image for DOS will use the Password text boxes to password protect the image file without any encryption The maximum password length is 128 characters Passwords are case sensitive and may contain upper case letters lower case letters numbers special characters spaces and non ASCII characters Image for DOS User Manual Page 44 of 186 Omit Page File Data If you select this option the page files pagefile sys swapfile sys that reside in the root directory of the source partition will not be backed up If the page files reside anywhere else on the source partition other than the root directory Image for DOS will back them up regardless of this setting Omit Hibernation Data If you select option and the hiberfil sys file resides in the root directory of the source partition Image for DOS will not back up hiberfil sys If hiberfil sys resides anywhere else on the source partition other than the root directory Image for DOS will back it up regardless of this setting Ignore IO Errors This option only affects how Image for DOS handles bad sectors on the source drive and it applies to both the back up phase and the vali
100. bad sectors on the target drive Default if omitted Image for DOS will notify you concerning the error and give you the option to continue or abort mf N A Instructs Image for DOS to use Multiple File Set mode Select this option to create a Image for DOS User Manual Page 124 of 186 backup that is comprised of one image for every individual partition that you back up Default if omitted Image for DOS uses Single File Set mode and creates a single image regardless of the number of individual partitions you back up desc mydescription i N A Use this option to specify the descriptive text you want Image for DOS to associate with the backup up to 511 characters note that command line length limits may not allow a maximum length description If your descriptive text includes spaces surround it with quotation marks desc my description Default if omitted Image for DOS doesn t add any descriptive text purge n Purge n Use this option to delete image files that are n days old or older You can think of it as the number of days to retain images It s only used during a command line backup and only processes the target folder of the current file specified using the f option Care should be taken as the purge occurs prior to the backup As an option you can have the purge take place only after a successful backup by providing n as a negative number E g purge 15 Default if omitted No image
101. being saved Save Command IFD F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a batch file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFD GUI use the Show Command option above Copying Partitions or Drives with Image for DOS You can use the Copy operation to place an copy of the contents of one partition or drive on another partition or drive Suppose for example that you have a hard drive all set up and configured just the way you want it and you want to clone that setup so that you can place it in another computer You can use the Copy operation Copying a Partition or Drive Using the Copy operation Image for DOS makes a sector by sector copy of the used areas of the partition or drive you select and places that copy on the partition or drive you designate overwriting any information stored on the target location If the partition or drive you copy is a bootable partition or drive the copy will also be bootable Note Unless you copy an entire drive Image for DOS does not automatically set the copy as the active boot partition unless you select the Set Active option To create a copy of a partition or drive follow these steps Image for DOS User Manual Page 76 of 186 1 Onthe Main Menu Select Operation screen of Image for DOS select Copy and press Enter Image for DOS GUI 267 a Welcome to Image for DOS Please choose which op
102. biosata BIOSATA 1 If you don t supply any modifier for the hard drive via the command line this option tells Image for DOS to use the BIOS Direct access method In this mode Image for DOS detects the source and target drives using the system BIOS but then Image for DOS bypasses the BIOS and accesses them directly Using this option might improve performance on some systems Default if omitted If you don t supply any modifier for the hard drive Image for DOS uses the BIOS access mode which permits the system bios to both detect and access the source and target drives tz AAAnBBB TimeZone AAAnBBB This option sets the time zone that Image for DOS uses When you save images to NTFS partitions or CD DVD discs using the correct time zone will ensure that the date time stamps of the image files will be correct when they are viewed within Windows AAA and BBB are three letters you supply to represent the time zone The characters Image for DOS User Manual Page 106 of 186 don t mean anything to Image for DOS and are for your use nis a number that indicates the offset from UTC Coordinated Universal Time and may be either positive or negative For example you might use a time zone setting such as PST8PDT or EST5EDT Please refer to http www terabyteunlimited com kb article php id 260 for more information Default if omitted Image for DOS does not establish a time zone usblio USBLIO 1 Using this
103. ble when you validate an image Disable Auto Eject This option prevents Image for DOS from automatically opening the optical drive tray If you don t select this option Image for DOS will open the drive tray whenever a disc is needed and at the completion of the restore operation Image for DOS User Manual Page 75 of 186 Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for DOS log the details of the validation operation Image for DOS saves the log as IFD LOG in the IMAGE EXE program directory To be able to save IFD LOG Image for DOS must be running from a writable medium such as a non write protected floppy diskette or UFD You can use the logfile or LogFile options to specify an alternate location for IFD LOG as Save Defaults IFD GUI or F4 IFD Click press to save the settings you establish In the future Image for DOS will display these settings automatically Note that the settings will not be saved if IFD is unable to write to the IFD INI or BOOTITBM INT file Show Command IFD GUI or F6 IFD Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a validation with the options you selected in Image for DOS When using IFD GUI you can save the command line to a batch file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for DOS by clicking the Save to File checkbox and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before
104. boot with completion message but without reboot message error does not cancel reboot 4 to reboot without completion message or reboot message error cancels reboot 8 to shutdown Default if omitted Image for DOS attempts to determine if the computer needs to be rebooted after copying and if so prompts you to reboot sig ReplaceNT Sig 1 Use this option if you are copying a partition that Windows had assigned a drive letter before you copied the drive If you use this option Image for DOS will copy the disk signature associated with the source partition Note The disk GUID of a target GPT drive will not be changed Default if omitted Image for DOS will use the disk signature already present in the MBR of the target drive or if none exists Image for DOS will create one csig ChangeNTSig 1 When copying a full drive this option allows you to change the NT Signature copied to the target drive For target GPT drives the MBR NT Signature the GPT Disk GUID and the partition GUIDs will all be changed This can be useful if you plan on having both the original and copied hard drive in the same computer at the same time while running Windows otherwise Windows may detect the duplicate signature and modify it which may depending on the OS prevent the copied hard drive from booting properly When copying single or multiple partitions to a GPT drive this option will change the GUID of each partition copied To retain t
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106. byte validation only as part of a backup operation See the section Understanding Backup Options on Page 44 for details on a byte for byte validation Validating a Backup Insert your Image for DOS boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer Then follow these steps 1 Onthe Image for DOS Main Menu Select Operation screen select Validate 2 On the Validate Select File Access Method screen that appears choose one of the following options which refer to the location where Image for DOS should look for the backup to validate File OS This option appears only if you boot using a DOS boot disk that you created using any method other than the MakeDisk utility Choose this option to use the operating system file services to save the image files You must use this option when saving images to a mapped network drive File Direct Select this option if the image file s you want to validate are stored on a hard drive that does not have a drive letter assigned to it by DOS File CD DVD Select this option if the image file s you want to validate are stored on CD DVD or BD discs 3 On the Validate Select Drive Interface screen that appears select one of the following options these options refer to how Image for DOS should attempt to access the hard drive that contains the image you want to validate If you chose File Direct in Step 2 you can choose one of the following options
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108. ce necessary cannot be determined until the state of all options are known Note Mounting an image will not allow you to obtain the minimum size required for a restore Removing Unwanted Programs and Files Once you have determined the space that will required to restore or copy to the new smaller drive or partition you ll Know how much data will need to be removed to allow it to fit In many cases this will require deleting large data files archives ISO downloads installers videos music etc You may also need to uninstall certain programs planning to reinstall them to a different partition when needed It should be noted that deleting files from a partition may not lower the minimum required size to restore the partition since data may still exist at previous furthest in use location on the partition Check the space required after deleting files to determine the current size If moving to an extremely small drive like a small SSD you will likely need to remove almost everything that isn t part of the standard Windows installation In these cases you may want to consider the option of installing Windows to the new drive and starting over fresh Make Sure the File System is Clean Whether restoring to a smaller drive or to a smaller partition file system errors on any of the source partitions can cause numerous errors including failure to resize or compact the partition If you are unsure of the condition of the file
109. ckup you can create either a full backup a differential backup or an incremental backup A full backup is exactly what it sounds like Image for DOS backs up your entire hard disk Differential and incremental backups works in conjunction with a full backup you create a full backup the first time and then create differential or incremental backups which contain only changes for subsequent backups A differential backup will initially be smaller than a full backup but as you make changes on your hard drive the size of the differential backup will grow over time And because Image for DOS is a sector based backup the smaller file size may not be as small as you expect An incremental backup will contain only the changes since the last full or incremental backup Before you make the decision concerning the type of backup you want to create read Appendix B Backup Strategies for a detailed explanation of full differential and incremental backups Things to Consider Before Backing Up There are very few rules to follow when formulating a backup plan Please consider the following ideas to help you create a backup that will help you easily recover from a disaster For more information on backup strategies see Appendix B Backup Strategies on Page 162 Consider the destination for your backup For example if you will be backing up around 30 GB of data you probably will not want to store the backup on a set of CD R RW discs since the
110. ckup that you saved on CD DVD BD discs Don t get rid of an existing set of backup discs when you create a new set Instead keep two or more sets of backup discs That way you can fall back to an older backup if something should go wrong with the newest backup If you are using multiple sets of backup CD DVD BD discs keep the newest set offsite to guard against physical damage Use multiple external hard drives and rotate between them Keep at least one drive offsite Creating a Full Backup You proceed through a series of menus to create a full backup Insert your Image for DOS boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer Then follow these steps Image for DOS User Manual Page 27 of 186 1 On the Image for DOS Main Menu Select Operation screen select Backup Image for DOS GUI 2 67 Ff welcome to Image for DOS Please choose which operation you would like to perform at this time Select Operation Backup Restore Validate Copy Settings TeraByte Unlimited Image for DOS GUI Main Menu Select Operation 1 ackup Restore alidate opy Global Settings Exit Copyright c 1996 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 12 Cancel Image for DOS Image for DOS User Manual Page 28 of 186 2 On the Backup Select screen that appears select Full Backup Image for DOS GUI 2 67 Select the type of backup Backup iy Full Backup C
111. correctly ensuring 100 accuracy This option generally increases the processing time of the overall backup operation but is advisable to use where maximum reliability is required Write Standard MBR Code If you select this option Image for DOS will install standard master boot code to the Master Boot Record MBR after completing the restore operation The other portions of the MBR i e the partition table disk signature etc will not be affected Otherwise Image for DOS will only install the standard master boot code when it appears that there is no existing boot code Wipe Unused Sectors This option will wipe zero out unused sectors on the restored drive When restoring a full drive the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and restore in a single operation Such as when deploying images to used systems Remove Gaps on Restore Select this option to remove any gaps free space between partitions Partitions will be restored adjacent to each other GPT Hidden From OS Use this option when restoring to a GPT drive to indicate that the operating system being restored will not see the destination drive as GPT when booted For example an iMac using BootCamp or cases where the OxEE placeholder partition is missing from the MBR Using this option prevents Image for DOS from using GPT specific fix up information on the drive after the restore
112. cs a hard drive partition or an external hard drive where you want to store a backup When restoring target refers to the location on a hard drive where you want to restore a backup you previously created A restore target can either be an area of free space or a partition In the latter case the partition and any information it contains will be deleted immediately prior to the restore Image for DOS User Manual Page 178 of 186 What is Shareware Shareware distribution provides users with the opportunity to try software before buying it If you try a Shareware program and continue using it you are expected to register it Individual programs differ on details some request registration others require it and some specify a maximum trial period When you register the software you may receive anything from the right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual Shareware is a distribution method not a type of software Because you can try shareware before you buy you can easily determine if a particular piece of software will fill your needs Also because the overhead is low prices are low Shareware has the ultimate money back guarantee if you don t use the product you don t pay for it Image for DOS User Manual Page 179 of 186 TeraByte Unlimited Trial Use License Agreement If you are using the software for evaluation or trial purposes then this license applies to you PLEASE READ THIS
113. ctors normally log 0 SaveLog 0 Disables logging Default if omitted Image for DOS logs during a copy operation Image for DOS User Manual Page 155 of 186 Image for DOS List Options Table 10 lists the List parameters you can use when you run Image for DOS from the command line There are no INI file variable equivalents for these parameters they are only valid on the command line Table 10 Image for DOS List Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable L N A Use this option to indicate that you want to list the drives and partitions on the system or those contained in a backup image file Output can be redirected to a file or viewed onscreen Example 1 image 1 d 0 stdout output txt In this example d 0 identifies hard drive 0 as the drive for which you want to list partitions and stdout output txt indicates Image for DOS will save the output to the file output txt Example 2 image 1 all In this example a detailed report of all drives and partitions will be shown onscreen d n N A Specifies the drive for which you want to list the partitions where n the drive number Default if omitted All drives and partitions are listed opt N A List optical drives Includes drive number and name Hard drives will not be listed Default if omitted Optical drives are not listed Je N A Include free space available for each partition in listing This option has
114. d Windows 7 systems If you are using Image for DOS for deployment purposes and want to change the SID for Windows you should use the MS sysprep utility or you can download a free utility named NewSID You may want to set up the base machine so that the last partition ends at one track less than the actual end of the hard drive around 8 MB less to leave room for different brands or models of the same size hard drive You might also want to read the following information stored on the Terabyte website http www terabyteunlimited com kb article php id 033 See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows XP How to Use the Sysprep Tool to Automate Successful Deployment of Windows XP http support microsoft com kb 302577 Windows XP How to and Technical Article Resources http technet microsoft com en us library bb878149 aspx Download for the Microsoft Windows XP SP1 Deployment Tools http www microsoft com downloads details aspx familyid 7A83123D 507B 4095 9D9D 0A195F7B5F69 amp displaylang en Download for the Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Deployment Tools http www microsoft com downloads info aspx na 47 amp p 1 amp SrcDisplayLang en amp SrcCategoryld amp SrcFamilyld 0c4bfb06 2824 4d2b abc1 0e22231 33afb amp u details aspx 3ffamilyid 3d3E90DC91 AC56 4665 949B BEDA3080E0F6 26displaylang 3den See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows Vista http
115. d USB controller if any for available high speed hard drives 1EEE1394 Examines the attached IEEE 1394 controller if any for available hard drives Virtual Drive Use this option to select a virtual drive containing a backup image If the virtual drive containing the image doesn t appear in the Select File Drive list you can press F2 and navigate to it to add it to the list If you chose File CD DVD in Step 3 you can choose one of the following options ATAPI Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is an ATAPI device and none of the other selections apply This is the most commonly selected option ASPI Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive will be accessed using an ASPI layer You must supply the ASPI driver for this option to work USB2 Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is attached to a USB 2 controller 1EEE1394 Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is attached to an IEEE 1394 controller If your USB device does not appear at first please try pressing the Esc key waiting a few seconds and selecting the USB or USB2 option again 5 On the Select Existing Backup File To Use Select File Drive screen that appears select the drive that contains the existing backup If the existing backup resides on CD DVD BD discs insert the first disc in the set and then select the corresponding optical drive from the list If the existing backup reside
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117. d the full backup When you create an incremental backup Image for DOS compares the condition of the source partition or hard drive to the incremental backup or full backup if no incrementals you identify to determine what changes have occurred on the source partition or hard drive since you created the specified incremental backup Note When creating incremental backups remember to limit the chain length to a reasonable number Each backup in the chain requires additional memory to process and adds another potential point of failure Both differential and incremental backups contain only the changed sectors For details on differential and incremental backups see Appendix B Backup Strategies on Page 162 The process for creating a differential or incremental backup is very similar to the process for creating a full backup and you set many of the same options during both processes When you analyze the steps you take you ll notice the following differences When you create a full backup you identify the source drive you want to back up When you create a differential backup you identify the full backup Image for DOS should reference when creating the differential backup When you create an incremental backup you identify the incremental backup or full backup if no incrementals Image for DOS should reference when creating the new incremental backup Tip It s always a good idea to validate your backup
118. dation phase of the backup operation Normally if Image for DOS encounters a bad sector on a source partition during a backup operation it will notify you concerning the read error and give you the option to continue or abort If you select this option Image for DOS will ignore the error and continue Generally you should select this option only if you need to back up a source partition on a drive you know contains bad sectors On some systems if you select this setting and Image for DOS encounters bad sectors there will be a significant delay as the internal retry recovery routine of the drive attempts to handle the bad sector s In addition some systems may hang if the BIOS option is used to access the source drive In such cases try using the BIOS Direct option instead Disable Auto Eject This option prevents Image for DOS from automatically opening the optical drive tray If you don t select this option Image for DOS will open the drive tray whenever a disc is needed and at the completion of the backup operation Reboot When Completed Use this option to automatically reboot your computer after the backup finishes Shutdown When Completed Use this option to automatically shut down your computer after the backup finishes Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for DOS log the details of the backup operation Image for DOS saves the log as IFD LOG in the IMAGE EXE program directory To be able to save
119. desktop then select the Windows 8 x 10 partition and click Properties Click the Disable Fast Start button Data Storage Size Unit Conventions Since Image for DOS and this document refer to data storage size units this section provides clarification on the definitions we use Storage device manufacturers typically define gigabytes GB in base decimal where 1 GB 1 000 MB 10 bytes 1 000 000 000 bytes Microsoft Windows on the other hand defines GB in base binary where 1 GB 1 024 MB 2 bytes 1 073 741 824 bytes Because of the confusion that can result when these different data storage size unit conventions are each referred to as gigabytes the gibibyte along with the kibibyte mebibyte etc was established in 1998 by the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC A gibibyte abbreviated GiB is a base binary unit so 1 GiB 2 bytes 1 073 741 824 bytes The IEC retained the term gigabyte to refer to base decimal where 1 GB 10 bytes 1 000 000 000 bytes Image for DOS and this document will follow IEC recommendations and will thus use the terms megabyte MB gigabyte GB etc to refer to base decimal and mebibytes MiB gibibytes GiB etc to refer to base binary So when you read about the data storage size convention used by Windows the units will appear as mebibytes MiB or gibibytes GiB even though Windows itself refers to the units as megabytes MB or gigabytes GB I
120. e AlignOnEnd aoe 0 option Default if omitted Alignment is automatically determined when restoring from the command line When a single partition is being restored and a2k is not used Image for DOS will use 1MiB partition alignment if the destination drive contains a 1MiB aligned partition or cylinder alignment if the drive contains a partition which is not 1MiB aligned Otherwise the alignment used is obtained from the image being restored av n AlignVal n Place under the HDx section This option allows you to specify a custom partition alignment value for restored partition s For example to specify that partitions should be aligned on 2MiB boundaries use av 2M or AlignVal 2M Invalid sizes will be ignored This option overrides the other device alignment options Default if omitted This option is not set a custom alignment value will not be used ahs AlignEndHS 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to force a restored partition s ending head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry Default if omitted The actual ending head and sector values are used ahst AlignHSOnTrunc 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to set a restored partition s head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry when it is located outside the range of the current geometry Default if omitted The actual ending he
121. e all available free space When restoring an OS partition any standard options necessary to ensure proper booting would also apply here Set Active Update BOOT INI Update Boot Partition etc just as with a normal restore Using Resize 1 Move 100GB of data files to a USB drive to bring the total used space down to around 70GB 2 Use a partitioning program such as Bootlt BM and resize the 465GB partition to 100GB Boot to Image for DOS and select to create a backup 4 Select the 100GB Windows partition and create an image of it Restore this image to the 128GB SSD specifying to resize it to use all available free space When restoring an OS partition any standard options necessary to ensure proper booting would also apply here Set Active Update BOOT INI Update Boot Partition etc just as with a normal restore Image for DOS User Manual Page 175 of 186 Either method will accomplish the same results You may end up compacting some partitions and resizing others depending on the particular need at the time Once a partition has been compacted or resized an alternative method would be to copy it directly instead of imaging and restoring Image for DOS User Manual Page 176 of 186 Glossary Hard Drive HD HDD A high capacity non volatile data storage device Hard drives are typically installed inside a computer In addition they are used in many external devices connected via USB eSATA etc Partiti
122. e command line and the source contains 1MiB aligned partitions Use this option to instruct Image for DOS not to automatically override normal cylinder based alignment If you don t enable this option and Image for DOS determines that 1MiB alignment is needed then Image for DOS enables both the Align2048 and the AlignEndHS options for the restore Note This option has been deprecated but will remain supported for backwards compatibility The att option should be used instead Default if omitted Alignment is automatically determined when copying from the command line aoe n AlignOnEnd n Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to align copied partitions at the end of a cylinder or when the Align2048 option is enabled end of a 1MiB boundary 0 Disable align on end 2 Align on end by resizing Image for DOS User Manual Page 152 of 186 Default if omitted Normal alignment aoe 1 is used a2k Align2048 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to align copied partitions based on 1MiB boundaries drives with 512 byte sectors will be aligned on 2048 sectors drives with 4096 byte sectors will be aligned on 256 sectors If this option is enabled then you will normally want to enable the AlignEndHS ahs option and disable the AlignOnEnd aoe 0 option Default if omitted The alignment is based on cylinders av n AlignVal n
123. e in a single operation such as when deploying images to used systems Default if omitted Image for DOS will not perform any wiping of unused sectors mp MultiPass 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to use Multi Pass mode when restoring a differential or incremental backup In Multi Pass mode Image for DOS restores the full backup in one pass and then restores the differential backup in a second pass or incrementals in multiple passes This setting is not applicable when restoring a full backup You must use this option if the applicable full backup resides on removable media Default if omitted Image for DOS uses Single Pass mode restoring the full backup and the differential backup or incremental backups in one pass cds N A Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to query all available CD DVD BD drives when trying to locate the appropriate source backup Default if omitted You must explicitly specify the CD DVD BD drive that contains the source backup te TermEmulation 1 Instructs Image for DOS to terminate floppy emulation mode after booting from a CD or DVD This can help rectify certain compatibility issues caused by floppy emulation but if you use te the physical floppy diskette drive will be unavailable while Image for DOS is running Default if omitted Image for DOS uses floppy emulation mode until you exit from Image for DOS mo i N A Image for DOS User Manual Page 13
124. earlier will result in a message to use the newer version or an error message that the image is corrupt depending on the older version being used Default if omitted Image for DOS uses Enhanced Speed A compression enc 1 or enc 3 Encryption 1 or Encryption 3 Specifies whether simple password protection without encryption ence 1 or 256 bit AES encryption enc 3 is to be used If either enc 1 or enc 3 are specified pw is also required Default if omitted No encryption or password protection is used Image for DOS User Manual Page 123 of 186 noej NoEject 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS never to automatically open the optical drive tray Default if omitted Image for DOS will automatically open the optical drive tray whenever a new disc is needed and at the completion of the backup operation cdrs n CDReadSpeed n Use this setting to specify the maximum disc reading speed that Image for DOS will use when reading disc media CD DVD BD during the validation phase of a backup operation with n being a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting may be used to force a lower reading speed than that automatically used by the optical drive s firmware Slower reading speeds may increase reliability nshould be a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting is only applicable when you are backing up to disc media and you have also included either the v or vb option
125. ears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Copy Defaults section Table 9 Image for DOS Optional Copy Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable raw RawMode 1 Set this parameter to force Image for DOS to use raw mode which copies all sectors rather than just used sectors even for recognized file systems Default if omitted Image for DOS copies only used sectors backed up for recognized file systems and uses raw mode automatically for unrecognized file systems skp 0 SkipPageFile 0 Set this parameter to instruct Image for DOS to include the page files pagefile sys swapfile sys in the copy Default if omitted Image for DOS skips page file data Image for DOS User Manual Page 147 of 186 skh 0 SkipHiberFile 0 Set this parameter to instruct Image for DOS to include the hibernation file hiberfil sys in the copy Default if omitted Image for DOS skips the hibernation file data Jo N A Use this option to tell Image for DOS to overwrite the target without first prompting for confirmation Default if omitted Image for DOS prompts before overwriting the target clr N A Use this option to have Image for DOS clear the MBR and EMBR prior to copying Default if omitted Image for DOS does not clear the MBR and EMBR ro n N A Use this option to have Image for DOS reboot the system after copying The value n can be 1 to reboot with all prompts 2 to re
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127. eded which drive you want to save to 1 Select Backup this computer to an alternate drive on the main window and click Next 2 Select the drive you wish to back up and then click Next The drive letters shown are as assigned by the first Windows installation found on the system Select Drive to Backup geeerersesesesseseseveeseseseeseg Kssecssasscoscselsssesoscscesoeed Drive D 59 6 GiB C gt Drive 1 465 7 GiB D Drive 2 931 5 GiB E Click the Compact button press F3 with console version to compact FAT FAT32 and NTFS partitions on the drive This option allows you to reduce the size required for a restore You will be prompted to confirm the compaction and then asked for the compaction value size in MiB For example if you have a 480GB drive that contains 50GB of data and requires 150GB of space to Image for DOS User Manual Page 87 of 186 restore and you need to restore it to a 128GB drive you can compact the drive to under 128GB before imaging it and then restore it to the 128GB drive 3 Select where you want to save the backup and then click Next i 2 Drive D 59 6 GiB C Note If a store already exists for the drive being backed up you will not be prompted to select one the existing store will be used 4 Select the partition on the target drive to use for the backup store and then click Next Select File Location on HD2 8380C63E MBR 5 The summary screen is shown Click Start to create t
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129. eficial Ignore IO Errors Under ordinary circumstances if Image for DOS encounters a bad sector on the target drive while restoring an image Image for DOS will notify you concerning the write error and give you the option to continue or abort If you select the Ignore IO Errors option Image for DOS will ignore the error and continue Generally you should select this option only if you need to restore to a target drive that contains known bad sectors On some systems if you select this setting and Image for DOS encounters bad sectors there will be a significant delay as the internal retry recovery routine of the drive attempts to handle the bad sector s In addition some systems may hang if the BIOS option is used to access the source drive In such cases try using the BIOS Direct option instead Disable Auto Eject This option prevents Image for DOS from automatically opening the optical drive tray If you don t select this option Image for DOS will open the drive tray whenever a disc is needed and at the completion of the restore operation Reboot When Completed Use this option to automatically reboot your computer after the restore finishes Shutdown When Completed Use this option to automatically shut down your computer after the restore finishes Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for DOS log the date and time it completes the restore operation Image for DOS saves the log as rn LOG in the
130. elves in situations requiring them to move to a smaller drive The difficulty level of this process depends on a number of factors including the method used and the details of the particular configuration This appendix presents several methods to accomplish this task and hopefully provide a trouble free transition Typical reasons to move to a smaller drive or partition include Moving the OS partition to a faster drive e g going from a 1TB hard drive to a 256GB SSD drive Segregating the OS from data e g splitting a single 950GB partition into a 100GB OS partition and a 850GB data partition Splitting a RAID 0 setup into single drives Migrating to a new physical system or to or from a virtual system Emergency recovery using parts on hand Testing recovery scenarios Procedure Summary The basic steps are as follows 1 Determine the minimum space required to restore the partition s If the source partition contains more data than can fit on the new smaller partition it will be necessary to delete files or move files to a different drive When moving an entire drive to a smaller drive you will need to check space requirements for each partition on the source drive Check the file system for errors Run chkdsk JC onthe source partition s to check for file system errors Errors can cause compacting and resizing to fail Note You may want to run MEMTEST86 before chkdsk if RAM integrity is unknown Compact or resize the
131. en restoring Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating systems to a new drive or location Write Changed Sectors Only Enable this option when restoring to write only the changed sectors to the target drive target will be read to compare Useful in cases where a large portion of the data is the same and it s desirable to reduce wear on the target drive e g restoring to SSD drive This option is unavailable if not supported by the drive Update Boot Partition This option updates any references to the restored partition in the active boot partition on the target drive This is useful for situations where the boot partition differs from the system partition However you typically wouldn t want to use this option if you re creating a copy of an existing partition you want to keep unless the target drive will be independent of the original drive For this to be useful the active boot partition should already be on the target drive or part of the same copy or restore operation Write Standard MBR Code If you select this option Image for DOS will install standard master boot code to the Master Boot Record MBR after completing the Image for DOS User Manual Page 67 of 186 restore operation The other portions of the MBR i e the partition table disk signature s etc will not be affected Otherwise Image for DOS will install the standard master boot code only when it appears that there is no existing boot c
132. enough between full backups your differential backup could become almost as large as a full backup and take almost as much time to create Image for DOS User Manual Page 164 of 186 Appendix C Introduction to Hard Drive Storage All modern circa 2007 personal computers make use of at least one partitioned hard drive Knowing at least the basics of how hard drive partitioning and file systems work can help you understand how to work with TeraByte Unlimited imaging products The information about physical hard drives that follows is intended to be a broad overview to provide you with a general understanding of the hard drive The Physical Hard Drive Hard drives contain several round thin rigid disks called platters The rigidity of these platters serves as the basis for the terms hard disk and hard drive In the center of each platter is a hole by which the platter is mounted to a spindle The platters rotate around this spindle at high speed typically 5 400 to 10 000 rotations per minute or RPM Internal view of a hard drive in operation The arm appears blurred due to its rapid movement Photo courtesy of Michael Blessenohl The Logical Hard Drive Hard Drive Data Organization Data is organized on the platters of hard drives in the form of tracks and sectors which are established during manufacturing The tracks which exist on each side of each platter are concentric circles Sectors are defined by radial lin
133. ental sector based backup looks for and includes newly allocated sectors and changes to the contents of any sector since the last backup Suppose that you move a file without changing its contents In a sector based backup the sector reallocation caused by moving the file is a change that will be included in the next incremental backup even though you didn t change the file itself Note Although defragmenting the file system does not change file content it can lead to many sector level changes because defragmenting files moves them from one disk location to another Incremental backups are hard to properly manage and tend to be troublesome during disaster recovery While trying to recover from a disaster it is not uncommon to discover that an incremental backup is either lost or damaged making all subsequent incremental backups worthless In addition if you accidentally restore incremental backups in the wrong order the problems you experience may not manifest themselves until some future date at which point recovery can become almost impossible Differential Backups Differential backups include only data that has changed since the most recent full backup was performed To use this method you make a full backup at an interval of your choice In between full backups you perform differential backups which include all data that has changed since the last full backup If you need to restore your entire system you need to restore the l
134. eometry This option is the global equivalent to the individual Use Original Geometry override Validate Geometry Before Use This option is enabled by default and used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR on the original system is aligned to known standards before accepting it for use It only applies when Assume Same Target System is enabled Misc Settings Simple Operations Enable this option to have Image for DOS automatically handle most options for you You simply choose which physical drive you want to back up and if needed which drive you want to save to the target storage area is automatically maintained and files are deleted as needed when it runs out of free space Backup Restore Validate and Copy are available in Simple Operations mode Use New Windows MBR Windows Vista and later tied the kernel loader to the MBR code such that using previous MBR code may not allow Windows Vista or later to boot on certain machines Leave this option enabled the default to have Image for DOS use the code base compatible with Windows Vista or later The new MBR code will continue to boot older OSes with the exception of some rare configurations using Win9x on FAT32 Automatic Scaling Restrictions When enabled default small partitions will not be scaled and will be restored at their original sizes Unselect to have Image for DOS scale small partitions when restoring a full drive image Automatic Boot Partition Upd
135. eration you would like to perform at this time Select Operation Backup Restore Validate for DOS GEN TeraByte Unlimited 2 Onthe Copy From Select Drive Interface screen select one of the following options these options refer to how Image for DOS should attempt to access the drive that contains the partition you want to copy BIOS Locates and accesses drives using the system BIOS Please note that any problems or limitations inherent to the system BIOS will apply BIOS Direct Attempts to locate the hard drive using the system BIOS but then attempts to access it directly bypassing the BIOS This can sometimes be helpful in cases where performance with the BIOS option is very poor Use BIOS direct when you are going to be accessing SATA hard drives and CD DVD BD drives or using the BIOS direct option anywhere USB Examines the attached USB controller if any for available high speed hard drives EEE1394 Examines the attached IEEE 1394 controller if any for available hard drives Image for DOS User Manual Page 77 of 186 Virtual Drive Enables you to select a virtual drive to copy If the virtual drive doesn t appear in the Select File Drive list you can press F2 or click Add Virtual Drive and navigate to it to add it to the list i Select Drive Interface Copy From BIOS C BIOS Direct USB C EEE1394 IMAGE Virtual Drive f
136. es that go from the center point of the platter to the outer edge When you set up a hard drive you can create logical partitions A logical partition is simply a conceptual division on the hard disk You can use different file systems in different partitions and many users partition hard disks so that they can store different operating systems or segregate data on the same hard drive If you set up different partitions so that you can use different operating and file systems you can Image for DOS User Manual Page 165 of 186 use Terabyte s BootIT Bare Metal to select the operating system in which you want to work each time you boot your computer Formatting is the process that prepares a partition on the hard disk to accept data by creating an empty file system that is organized into clusters A cluster a logical grouping of contiguous sectors is the smallest logical unit of storage that you can allocate to hold a file s data Figures 1 through 3 depict the layout of files within clusters on a hypothetical partition In each figure shown 44 clusters contain data In Figure 1 the ast cluster in use that is the one closest to the bottom right is at the very end of the partition Figure 1 The location of this last cluster at the time that you create an image determines the minimum amount of free space that must be available on the hard drive to which you intend to restore called the target drive Note If you a
137. estore a drive with one menu option but will have to restore each partition separately The number of files Image for DOS will create for each image set depends on the size of the corresponding partition and the File Size setting you choose in a later step Image for DOS User Manual Page 33 of 186 Image for DOS GUI 2 67 Select Backup Single File Set Multiple File Set TeraByte Unlimited 7 On the Backup To Select File Access Method screen that appears select one of the following options which refer to the location where Image for DOS should save the backup File OS This option appears only if you boot using a DOS boot disk that you created using any method other than the MakeDisk utility and does not appear in the figure below Choose this option to use the operating system file services to save the image files You must use this option when saving images to a mapped network drive File Direct This option allows you to save the image file s to a folder on a hard drive that does not have a drive letter assigned to it by DOS Note Do not save your image to the same partition you are backing up File CD DVD This option allows you to save the backup file s to a CD DVD or BD disc The first disc created will automatically be made bootable by Image for DOS Note Image for DOS can automatically overwrite CD RW DVD RW and BD RE media If you wish to use D
138. ether using drive letter or device partition you may specify any path desired Paths and or file names with imbedded spaces require the use of quotes o can be used with a u f and s In Table 7 you find the command line parameters that you might want to use with Image for DOS when validating an image The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an Image for DOS User Manual Page 142 of 186 INI file place these parameters in the Validate_Defaults section unless as noted otherwise Table 7 Image for DOS Optional Validation Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable noej NoEject 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS never to automatically open the optical drive tray Default if omitted Image for DOS will automatically open the optical drive tray whenever a new disc is needed and at the completion of the validate operation cdrs n CDReadSpeed n Use this setting to specify the maximum disc reading speed that Image for DOS will use when reading disc media CD DVD BD during validation with n being a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting may be used to force a lower reading speed than that automatically used by the optical drive s firmware Slower reading speeds may increase reliabilit
139. f the restored partition takes place after the restore has completed This may differ from non TeraByte imaging programs which may create the smaller destination partition first and then restore the files in the image backup to it The minimum space required to restore a partition can be determined from the source partition from the image file or by attempting to restore the partition image To Check the Source Partition 1 Start the TeraByte imaging program of your choice and select to create a backup 2 Proceed though the steps until you get to the screen where you select which partitions to include Image for DOS User Manual Page 170 of 186 3 4 Highlight the partition and click the Information button in mage for Windows Image for DOS GUI and Image for Linux GUI or press F1 in Image for Windows Console Image for DOS and Image for Linux Along with other details the number of MiB to Restore is displayed This is the minimum space required to restore this partition Please note that this value represents the data only operating systems may require an additional minimal amount of free space in order to function correctly To Check an Existing Image File from the Program Interface Note 1 Version 2 74 or later is required to use this method Start the TeraByte imaging program of your choice and select to restore a backup Proceed though the steps until you get to the screen where you select which pa
140. from that of the source drive Image for DOS will update applicable drive references residing within the restored partition to reflect the new hard drive number a SetActive 1 Use this parameter to make the partition you restore active Default if omitted Image for DOS does not make the restored partition active unless no other partitions are active and the restored partition is HDO it WriteMBR 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS install standard MBR code after completing the restore operation Standard MBR code is the code that boots the active partition Default if omitted Image for DOS does not write standard MBR code unless the MBR is empty Je UseSameMBREntry 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS move the partition table entry of the restored partition to the same location in the master partition table as it appeared on the source drive Image for DOS will move the existing partition table entry to another location rather than overwriting it Default if omitted Image for DOS does not move the partition table of the restored partition ms n N A Use this parameter to have Image for DOS move the partition table entry of the restored partition to a given slot in the MBR The value n is 0 to 3 This option is only applicable when restoring a single partition Default if omitted Image for DOS does not move the partition table of the restored partition embrid n N A This parameter is
141. gle partition and doesn t support resizing Default if omitted Image for DOS will copy the partition normally toward the start of the drive or free space area vb PostValidate 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS check that each byte from the source drive was copied to the target drive properly Default if omitted Image for DOS does not validate the copied data err AllowErrors 1 Use this option to tell Image for DOS to ignore read write errors caused by bad sectors on the source or target drive during the copy operation Default if omitted Image for DOS will notify you concerning the error and give you the option to continue or abort ubi UpdateBootIni 1 This option only applies if a copy of boot ini exists in the root directory of the copied partition If enabled this option instructs Image for DOS to update all partition n references in the restored partition s boot ini file to accommodate a partition layout that differs from that of the original drive Image for DOS will set all partition based entries in the applicable boot ini to point to the copied partition but will not change file based entries This option has no effect when doing a full drive copy Default if omitted Image for DOS does not try to update the boot ini file Image for DOS User Manual Page 151 of 186 wipe Wipe 1 This option will wipe zero out unused sectors in the copied partition s or drive depending
142. hanced Speed A B options require version 2 72 or later they are not backwards compatible File Size If you are saving the image to a hard disk you may select this option to choose the maximum size of the image files created by Image for DOS The available options are Max Automatically creates the largest file s allowed by the file system in use on the target medium For example the largest files that may reside on FAT FAT32 and NTFS partitions are 2 GiB 4 GiB and just under 16 TiB respectively 7 95 GiB Useful if the image file s will later be burned to standard dual layer DVD disc s 4 37 GiB Useful if the image file s will later be burned to standard single layer DVD disc s 4 GiB Useful for FAT32 compatibility 2 GiB Useful for FAT compatibility 698 MiB Useful if the image file s will later be burned to 700 MiB CD disc s 648 MiB Useful if the image file s will later be burned to 650 MiB CD disc s You can also type in the desired value in bytes Kibibytes KiB Mebibytes MiB or Gibibytes GiB Decimal values are supported e g 2 5GiB Write Speed This option appears in place of the File Size option if you chose to save your image to disc media CD DVD BD We recommend that you use the default setting for this option which is Optimal unless you encounter problems Description You can use this text box to assign descriptive text to individual
143. hanges Only Unlimited 3 Onthe Backup From Select Drive Interface screen that appears select one of the following options these options refer to how Image for DOS should attempt to access the drive that contains the partition you want to back up BIOS Locates and accesses drives using the system BIOS Please note that any problems or limitations inherent to the system BIOS will apply BIOS Direct Attempts to locate the hard drive using the system BIOS but then attempts to access it directly bypassing the BIOS This can sometimes be helpful in cases where performance with the BIOS option is very poor To get the most out of this option when creating an image you should select File Direct rather than File OS when selecting the File Access Method of the target for saving the image This advice applies to step 7 below Use BIOS direct when you are going to be accessing SATA hard drives and CD DVD BD drives or using the BIOS direct option anywhere USB Examines the attached USB controller if any for available high speed hard drives 1EEE1394 Examines the attached IEEE 1394 controller if any for available hard drives Image for DOS User Manual Page 29 of 186 Virtual Drive Enables you to select a virtual drive to back up If the virtual drive you want to back up doesn t appear in the Select File Drive list you can press F2 console version or click the Add Virtual Drive butto
144. he Align Partitions on 1MiB Boundaries global option is enabled the restored drive will be aligned on 1MiB boundaries If this option is not selected the alignment used on the target drive will be determined automatically based on the source drive Change Disk ID and GUIDs This option only applies to full drive restores It allows you to change the NT Signature restored to the target drive For target GPT drives the MBR NT Signature the GPT Disk GUID and the partition GUIDs will all be changed This can be useful if you plan on having both the original and restored hard drive in the same computer at the same time otherwise Windows may detect the duplicate signature and modify it which may depending on the OS prevent the restored hard drive from booting properly Validate Before Restore If you select this option Image for DOS will validate the image file s prior to restoring them will perform internal consistency checks on the backup file s If Image for DOS encounters an error during validation Image for DOS will abort the restore operation without overwriting the partition If you select this option the overall processing time Image for DOS takes to restore the image will increase but you can restore the image with greater certainty that the restored image will be reliable Validate Byte for Byte If you select this option Image for DOS will verify that every byte in the source backup image file was written back to the drive
145. he backup Restoring a Backup 1 Select Restore a backup to this computer on the main window and click Next 2 Select the backup you wish to restore and then click Next Restore SEENEN d Select Backup To Restore Backups from this computer Drive 1 465 7 GiB D 10 01 2015 8 55 pm Drive 1 465 7 GiB D 10 01 2015 854 pm J Select Target Drive Manually Check the Select Target Drive Manually option if you wish to select the drive yourself instead of having the original drive automatically selected You will be prompted to make your selection in the next step 3 If existing partitions will be replaced by the restore a warning will appear showing the drive and partitions affected Click Yes to continue if everything looks correct 4 The summary screen is shown Click Start to run the restore Image for DOS User Manual Page 88 of 186 Validating a Backup 1 Select Validate a previous backup to check its integrity on the main window and click Next 2 Select the backup you wish to validate and then click Next Validate Backups from this computer Drive 1 465 7 GiB D 10 01 2015 8 55 pm Drive 1 465 7 GiB D 10 01 2015 8 54 pm The summary screen is shown Click Start to run the validation Copy a Hard Drive 1 Select Copy a hard drive to another hard drive on the main window and click Next 2 Select the hard drive to copy and then click Next Select the hard drive to copy Drive 1 46
146. he existing signature used by the target drive also specify the csigut option Default if omitted Image for DOS will not change the copied disk signature drive GUIDs or partition GUIDs Image for DOS User Manual Page 148 of 186 chgvsn ChgVoISN 1 Use this option to change the file system volume D serial number of copied FAT FAT32 NTFS HPFS partitions and the UUID of Ext2 3 4 partitions Default if omitted The file system volume ID serial number or UUID is not changed nvn name NewVolumeName name Use this option to specify the new volume name label for the copied partition If multiple partitions are being copied they will all be set to the specified name For example image copy sd b0 0x3 td b3 0x4 nvn Win8 Copy Default if omitted The volume name will not be changed from its copied value ohd UseOrgHDNum 1 Use this option to tell Image for DOS to keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partition after Image for DOS has copied the partition to the target drive This option is primarily used for Linux partitions Default if omitted H the target drive number differs from that of the source drive Image for DOS will update applicable drive references residing within the copied partition to reflect the new hard drive number a SetActive 1 Use this parameter to make the partition you copy active Default if omitted Image for DOS does not make the copied partitio
147. he target drive or part of the same copy or restore operation Note This option is not displayed if the Automatic Boot Partition Update global option is enabled the default TeraByte Unlimited Write Changed Sectors Only Enable this option when restoring to write only the changed sectors to the target drive target will be read to compare Useful in cases where a large portion of the data is the same and it s desirable to reduce wear on the target drive e g restoring to SSD drive This option is unavailable if not supported by the drive Scale to Fit On FAT FAT32 NTFS or EXT 2 3 4 file systems selecting this option will make Image for DOS assume that the size of the original hard drive is based on the location of the end of the last partition Image for DOS then applies the same scaling to the target hard drive If any unpartitioned space existed at the end of the source drive that unpartitioned space won t exist on the target drive after you restore your image This option has no effect on images restored to hard drives using other file systems You cannot use this option in conjunction with the Scale to Target option If you inadvertently enable both options Scale to Fit will take precedence Image for DOS User Manual Page 63 of 186 Align to Target If you select this option Image for DOS will force alignment to the target drive regardless of the alignment used on the source drive For example if t
148. here to download the unregistered trial version http www terabyteunlimited com image for dos htm If you have purchased Image for DOS click here to display a product download form for obtaining the registered version You will need to provide your name email address and Image for DOS order number https terabyteunlimited com product download php The file you download is a compressed file that contains at least these files CDBOOT F35 is the file required to create a bootable CD DVD Based on information stored in CDBOOT INS Image for DOS will look in the current directory for CDBOOT F35 during the creation of a CD DVD and use it to create a bootable disc About CDBOOT F35 You use CDBOOT F35 to create a bootable CD or DVD CDBOOT F35 is an image of a bootable 3 5 inch floppy diskette Image for DOS is contained within CDBOOT F35 allowing you to both back up and restore as needed If you use the trial version of Image for DOS to create a bootable CD or DVD you will be able to restore that image for 30 days After that time you will only be able to restore that image using a registered version of Image for DOS Registered copies of Image for DOS include a full use version of CDBOOT F35 that allows you to both boot with any CD or DVD you create with the software and restore any images you create free of any time restriction Based on information stored in CDBOOT INS Image for DOS expects CDBOOT F35 to ap
149. his is useful when scheduling drive copy operations that use the csig option and use the disk ID to identify the drive instead of the drive number Understanding Backup Options You can set the same options when backing up in Image for DOS whether you are backing up a partition or an entire drive Validate If you select this option Image for DOS will perform internal consistency checks on the backup file s after creating them Enabling this option increases the overall processing time but can help ensure that the backup is reliable Validate Byte for Byte If you select this option Image for DOS will verify that every byte in the source data was backed up correctly ensuring 100 accuracy This option generally doubles the processing time of the overall backup operation but is advisable to use where maximum reliability is required You can but do not need to select the Validate option if you select the Validate Byte for Byte option Encrypt Data If you select this option Image for DOS will encrypt the backup file s with 256 bit AES encryption prior to saving them to the target medium If you select the Encrypt Data option you must also supply a password in the Password text boxes Enter the password in the first Password text box and retype it in the second Password text box for verification Note If you create a backup with the Encrypt Data option you will need to supply the password whenever you wish to validate the
150. hoose File OS File Direct or File CD DVD to identify the location where you want to save the differential incremental backup files Note You do not need to store files from a differential or incremental backup in the same location where you store full backup files When you restore a differential or incremental backup Image for DOS will prompt you for the locations of the full differential and incremental backup files Image for DOS User Manual Page 52 of 186 8 The appearance of the screen that Image for DOS displays next depends on the choice you selected in Step 7 See Step 4 for a description of your choices 9 Onthe Backup To Select File Drive screen or the Backup To Select Target Drive screen that appears select the target drive where you want to store the differential incremental backup If appropriate select the partition on which to store the backup 10 On the Backup To File Name screen that appears supply a name for the differential incremental backup file s Image for DOS suggests a filename that includes identifying information For example in the default name shown in the screen below d stands for the Direct method refer to Step 4 0 represents the drive being backed up chg indicates that this backup will store changes made since the full backup and YYYY MM DD HHMM represent the date in 4 digit year 2 digit month and 2 digit day format and time in 2 digit
151. ic folder e g Games or you can use wildcards to specify matching files When excluding a folder use a trailing backslash to indicate a folder is specified otherwise a search will be made for matching files Do not surround the path with quotes even if it includes spaces Do not specify a drive letter To also exclude files from subdirectories apply recursion include the gt greater than character after the path Examples t jpg exclude all jpg files in the root folder files will be truncated iso exclude all iso files in the root folder Backups tbi exclude all tbi files in the Backups folder k Games gt exclude the Games folder and all sub folders keep the Games folder use trailing backslash to indicate folder Work Archive exclude the Work Archive folder sub folders not excluded use trailing backslash to indicate folder jpg gt exclude all jpg files in the root folder and all sub folders Movies mpg gt exclude all mpg files in the Movies folder and all sub folders folders will not be deleted ISO Files Old iso gt exclude all iso files in ISO Files Old folder and all sub folders Default if omitted Image for DOS includes all files on the partition in the backup the Image for DOS User Manual Page 126 of 186 page file and hibernation file will be included or excluded per their respective options log 0 SaveLog 0 Disable
152. ically Note that the settings will not be saved if IFD is unable to write to the IFD INI or BOOTITBM INT file Show Command IFD GUI or F6 IFD Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a restore with the options you selected in Image for DOS When using IFD GUI you can save the command line to a batch file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for DOS by clicking the Save to File checkbox and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Save Command IFD F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a batch file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFD GUI use the Show Command option above Image for DOS User Manual Page 70 of 186 Validating Backups with Image for DOS You can use Image for DOS to validate backups at the time you create them and also before you restore a backup You also can validate a backup at any time using the instructions provided below When you validate a backup Image for DOS performs internal consistency checks on the backup file s helping to ensure that the backup will be reliable if you need to restore from it When you use the steps that follow to validate a backup Image for DOS performs a standard validation not a byte for byte validation which provides a more intense scrutiny of a backup file You can perform a byte for
153. ign MBR for BIOS Auto Mode This option is enabled by default to prevent problems with unaligned partitions on systems with their BIOS using Auto Mode Many newer systems use auto mode by default and some even don t have an option to turn it off This is equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Align MBR Ending HS and Align MBR HS when Truncated Align Partitions on 1MiB Boundaries This option provides a convenient way to enable 1MiB partition alignment for all drives drives with 512 byte sectors will be aligned on 2048 sectors drives with 4096 byte sectors will be aligned on 256 sectors This is popular with users of SSD type drives It is the equivalent to Image for DOS User Manual Page 42 of 186 enabling the individual overrides Align on 1MiB Boundaries Align MBR Ending HS Align MBR HS when Truncated and disabling Align on End Assume Same Target System Enable this option to prevent problems where users restore an image from another system to a drive that will be put back in the other system For example the hard drive from PC A is backed up PC B is used to restore to a new hard that new drive is placed back in PC A Without this option enabled Image for DOS would setup the partition to properly boot on the hard drive for PC B which can sometimes not always be a problem when the hard drive is going back to PC A This option solves that and is equivalent to the individual Use MBR Geometry override Use Source Host G
154. ignature drive number not used since it could change Default if omitted When csig is used the target disk signature will not be retained stdout filename N A Use this option to redirect program output that would normally be displayed in the console to the specified file For example image l d 0 stdout output txt The output from the 1 operation will be saved to the file output txt Default if omitted Program output is displayed normally in the console alm AutoLoadMedia 1 Use this option to allow Image for DOS to continue automatically after a removable media change CD DVD UFD etc When a media change is required a prompt will be displayed until the new media is detected at which time the operation will continue user input is not required If necessary the operation can be canceled when the prompt is displayed by using the Cancel button Default if omitted Image for DOS will require user input to continue when it prompts for a Image for DOS User Manual Page 115 of 186 media change cdf CDCloseOptions 1 You can use this option when saving images to disc media CD DVD BD Forces media to be finalized when closed No further writing to disc is allowed Default if omitted Image for DOS will not finalize the disc when closed vblba VolBPBLBA 1 Specify this option to use the actual LBA in a volume s BPB instead of the L LBA LBA offset from the EBR of the volume Default if
155. indows may detect the duplicate signature and modify it which may depending on the OS prevent the restored hard drive from booting properly When restoring single or multiple partitions to a GPT drive this option will change the GUID of each partition restored To retain the existing signature used by the target drive also specify the csigut option Default if omitted Image for DOS will not change the restored disk signature drive GUIDs or partition GUIDs chgvsn ChgVoISN 1 Use this option to change the file system volume D serial number of restored FAT FAT32 NTFS HPFS partitions and the UUID of Ext2 3 4 partitions Default if omitted The file system volume ID serial number or UUID is not changed nvn name NewVolumeName name Use this option to specify the new volume name label for the restored partition If multiple partitions are being restored they will all be set to the specified name For example image r d b3 0x4 f H mybackup sp 0x4 nvn Win8 Copy Image for DOS User Manual Page 131 of 186 Default if omitted The volume name will not be changed from its restored value ohd UseOrgdDNum 1 Use this option to tell Image for DOS to keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partition after Image for DOS has restored the partition to the target drive This option is primarily used for Linux partitions Default if omitted If the target drive number differs
156. ing the free TBlView and TBIMount add ons You can obtain these from www terabyteunlimited com if you purchased a disk based version of Image for Image for DOS User Manual Page 6 of 186 DOS you ll find TBIView on your installation media TBIView and TBIMount only run under Windows The images you create using Image for DOS are fully compatible with the other TeraByte Unlimited Version 2 imaging programs such as Image for Windows and Image for Linux For example you can create an image using Image for DOS and restore it using Image for Windows The reverse is also true Images created by other TeraByte Unlimited imaging programs are compatible with Image for DOS Ways to Use Image for DOS You can use Image for DOS in a variety of ways Local Usage You can boot with your Image for DOS media i e CD DVD USB flash drive or floppy diskette and backup the operating system partition on your hard disk Store your image backups on a secondary hard drive partition on an external hard drive or on CD DVD BD discs Then when you need to restore boot from your Image for DOS media again and use Image for DOS to restore using an Image for DOS image Across a Network You can create a network capable DOS diskette not included and then use Image for DOS to create an image file to a mapped network drive You also can restore an image file from a mapped network drive You can use preboot execution environment PXE push technology not
157. ion only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted This option is not set a custom alignment value will not be used geombr GlobalGeoMBRGeo 1 This option is used to prevent problems where users restore an image from another system to a drive that will be put back in the other system For example the hard drive from PC A is backed up PC B is used to restore to a new hard that new drive is placed back in PC A Without this option enabled Image for DOS would setup the partition to properly boot on the hard drive for PC B which can sometimes not always be a problem when the hard drive is going back to PC A This option solves that and is equivalent to the individual Use MBR Geometry override This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted This option is disabled geombrv GlobalGeoMBRGeoValidate 1 This option is used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR on the original system is aligned to known standards before accepting it for use It only applies when gemombr GlobalGeoMBRGeo is enabled This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores To disable use geombrv 0 Default if omitted This option is enabled geoorg GlobalGeoOrgGeo 1 This option is the global equivalent to the individual Use Original Geometry override This option only applies to interact
158. ist at the end of the target drive after Image for DOS completes the copy operation This option only applies when you copy an entire hard drive Default if omitted Image for DOS does not scale each copied partition Ix Expand 1 For NTFS FAT FAT32 EXT 2 3 4 partitions when copying to a target that is larger than the source partition use this parameter to have Image for DOS expand the partition after Image for DOS User Manual Page 150 of 186 completing the copy operation This option is equivalent to the Scale to Fit option for fully copying drives Default if omitted Image for DOS will not expand the partition and free space will remain after Image for DOS completes the copy operation kf n KeepFree n Use this parameter if you also use either x or stt to specify the amount of space in mebibytes MiB that Image for DOS should leave free Default if omitted Image for DOS will fill the entire available area m FirstFit 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to choose the target area automatically based on the first area of available free space large enough to accommodate the partition you want to copy Default if omitted You must explicitly specify the target area last LastFit 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS place the copied partition at the top of the last free block large enough e g restore to the end of the drive This option is valid only when copying a sin
159. ithout resizing exlist filename N A IMPORTANT NOTE This option is used at your own risk Be aware that you re not getting a complete image copy This option allows you to specify a file which contains a list of paths and or files to exclude when copying The file must be ANSI text and located on the local file system FAT FAT32 and NTFS file systems are supported the option will be ignored for other file systems The data of the excluded files is not copied the files will either be deleted or truncated depending on the options selected Note that even though excluded the data will still affect the minimum space required to copy just as if it wasn t excluded Each line in the exclusion file should be in the following format options path gt Valid options are Image for DOS User Manual Page 154 of 186 Exclude files only Do not delete folders If not specified folders will be deleted t Truncate files instead of deleting them Folders will not be deleted Files will have a size of zero bytes k Keep the base folder If not specified the base folder will be deleted The path can be complete to exclude a specific folder e g Games or you can use wildcards to specify matching files When excluding a folder use a trailing backslash to indicate a folder is specified otherwise a search will be made for matching files Do not surround the path with quotes even if it includes
160. ition id This option can be used multiple times to specify multiple search paths e g when the images in the backup chain are not all stored in the same folder Examples commands should be on one line image r f E Backups Win8System Inc D sch E Backups sch E Backups Archive image r f b1 0x2 Images WinXP Drive Inc E sch b1 0x2 Images sch b1 0x2 Images Full Default if omitted Image for DOS searches only the folder of the specified image for base images in the backup chain pw mypassword or pw my password N A Use this parameter to supply the password needed to decrypt a backup that you encrypted and or password protected when you created it If your password contains embedded spaces place quotation marks around it This option can be specified multiple times as required by the backup image chain base differential incrementals Default if omitted Image for DOS does not supply a password noej NoEject 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to never automatically open the optical drive tray Default if omitted Image for DOS will automatically open the optical drive tray whenever a new disc is needed and when Image for DOS finishes restoring cdrs n CDReadSpeed n Use this setting to specify the maximum disc reading speed that Image for DOS will use when reading disc media CD DVD BD while restoring a backu
161. itions In Table 1 you find the global parameters you can set for Image for DOS regardless of the action you set backup restore validate or copy Important Note It s highly recommended that all global and device options be set before any other options This is because certain command line options use whatever global device option is set at the time the parameter is handled Example using the ue global option and a2k device option when restoring image ue a2k r d w0 f mybackup The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Options section except as otherwise noted Table 1 Image for DOS Global Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable uvl 0 VolumeLabels 0 Instructs Image for DOS to display the string found in the partition table of the EMBR if possible rather than volume labels Default if omitted Image for DOS will display volume labels even if identifiers for applicable partitions exist in the EMBR seq SeqVollD 1 Instructs Image for DOS to assign ID numbers to volumes in sequential order rather than random order Image for DOS User Manual Page 100 of 186 Default if omitted Image for DOS will assign ID numbers to the volu
162. ive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted This option is disabled nos size NoScale size This option offers a way to prevent scaling of small partitions when scaling to a larger drive Partitions that are size in bytes or smaller will not be scaled For example 200m would not scale partitions that are 200MiB or smaller Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted All partitions are scaled when scaling is used Image for DOS User Manual Page 110 of 186 uhci 1 UHCI 1 Enables supports for most built in USB 1 1 controllers typically found on older computers Default if omitted Image for DOS does not recognize UHCI USB1 1 controllers ue N A This option instructs Image for DOS to pull both global and operation options from the IFD environment variable You must specify this option before the operation parameter on the command line For example if creating a backup image ue b Default if omitted Image for DOS will only pull global options from the IFD environment variable u N A Use this option to cause Image for DOS to not display the completion message on success of the operation A message will still be displayed if success with bad sectors or an error occurred This allows the rest of the user interactive prompts to continue to work normally whereas with uy or un they would be auto answered
163. izes but contain whatever data is already on the drive files are not wiped or zero filled 1 Excluded files are deleted Folders will not be deleted 2 Excluded files are truncated files will exist but all have a size of zero bytes 3 Excluded files and folders are deleted This option does not delete base folders specified to keep in the exclusion list Default if omitted Image for DOS truncates or deletes the excluded files as specified in the exclusion list WCO WriteChangedSecsOnly 1 Use this option when restoring to write only the changed sectors to the target drive target will be read to compare Useful in cases where a large portion of the data is the same and it s desirable to reduce wear on the target drive e g restoring image to SSD drive Default if omitted Image for DOS will write all restored sectors normally log 0 SaveLog 0 Disables logging Default if omitted Image for DOS logs during a restore operation Image for DOS Validate Options In Table 6 you find the command line options that you must set to use Image for DOS to validate an image The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Validate_Defaults section unless as noted othe
164. keDisk Image for DOS V2 Sa m License Agreement Full Use License TeraByte Unlimited End User License Agreement Revised April 1 2011 PLEASE READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE UPGRADING COPYING INSTALLING OR USING THE ACCOMPANYING SOFTWARE PROGRAM the Software THIS AGREEMENT SETS FORTH THE STANDARD FULL accept the agreement donot accept the agreement lt lt Previous f Cancel Copyright 2004 2012 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 5 If you are creating the Image for DOS GUI boot media or you ve placed a customized IFD INI file in the directory with the MakeDisk files the Select the optional components screen will be displayed Otherwise the Device and Checkbox Options screen will be shown skip to Step 6 Select the optional components CD Boot Image Files M IFD INI file from local directory Check boxes to enable the options and then click Next CD Boot Image Files Depending on the boot media type being created e g floppy disk you may need to exclude the CD Boot Image files to save space These files are needed to make any direct burned discs bootable e g when you save a backup image directly to a DVD IEDIN file from the local directory The IFD INI file was found in the MakeDisk directory If you select this option it will be included in the build This allows you to use an already customized version of the file you will
165. l Page 19 of 186 8 Click Next and the Miscellaneous Global Options screen appears tat MakeDisk Image for DOS V2 S m Miscellaneous Global Options optional Simple Operations Use Windows 9x MBR Disable Automatic Scaling Restrictions M Disable Automatic Boot Partition Updates Disable Automatic Restore Drive Search 7 Retain Failed Backups Completion Alarm Disable Resize with Caching Cancel lt lt Previous Copyright 2004 2015 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Check boxes to enable the options Simple Operations Enable this option to have Image for DOS automatically handle most options for you You simply choose which physical drive you want to back up and if needed which drive you want to save to the target storage area is automatically maintained and files are deleted as needed when it runs out of free space Backup Restore Validate and Copy are available in Simple Operations mode Use Windows 9x MBR Windows Vista and later tied the kernel loader to the MBR code such that using previous MBR code may not allow Windows Vista or later to boot on certain machines Leave this option unselected the default to have Image for DOS use the code base compatible with Windows Vista or later The new MBR code will continue to boot older OSes with the exception of some rare configurations using Win9x on FAT32 Disable Automatic Scaling Restrictions
166. le size supported by the target file system Image for DOS User Manual Page 121 of 186 raw RawMode 1 Set this parameter to force Image for DOS to use raw mode which backs up all sectors rather than just used sectors even for recognized file systems For entire drive backups this option causes a raw sector by sector backup and later restore of the entire drive without regard to any partitions or adjustments Note This option is not applicable when creating a differential or incremental backup Instead the new backup will use the setting as specified when the base image was created Default if omitted Image for DOS backs up only used sectors backed up for recognized file systems and uses raw mode automatically for unrecognized file systems skp 0 SkipPageFile 0 Set this parameter to instruct Image for DOS to include the page files pagefile sys swapfile sys in the backup Default if omitted Image for DOS skips the page files skh 0 SkipHiberFile 0 Set this parameter to instruct Image for DOS to include the hibernation file hiberfil sys in the backup Default if omitted Image for DOS skips the hibernation file N PostValidate 1 Set this parameter to instruct Image for DOS to perform a standard validation of the image file s as part of the backup operation To set the INI value use PostValidate 1 Default if omitted Image for DOS does not validate the backup image after creating i
167. lect the target CD DVD BD drive or hard drive Note If you select a hard drive the Restore From Select File Location on HD screen appears You can select a partition on the hard drive if it contains partitions otherwise press Enter Image for DOS User Manual Page 57 of 186 Image for DOS GUI 267 q Select File Drive Hard Drive 0 Hard Drive 1 TeraByte Unlimited 6 Onthe Restore From File Name screen navigate to and select the backup file you want to restore Next select either the entire drive or partitions to restore The options you can set in Step 10 change depending on your choice here You can click the Information button to get details on the selected drive or partition e g number of MiB used free and needed to restore Note If you select a differential or incremental backup to restore and Image for DOS is unable to locate all of the base images you will be prompted to locate the required backup file s You will also have the option to restore in a single pass or in multiple passes If you stored your backup on CD DVD BD discs select the Multi Pass option Image for DOS User Manual Page 58 of 186 Image for DOS GUI 267 E Select the backup file to restore Name Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi Name Size Date Time RECYCLE BIN lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm System Yolume Information lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm Win SRP
168. lecting this option will change the GUID of each partition restored Validate Byte for Byte If you select this option Image for DOS will verify that every byte in the source data was restored correctly ensuring 100 accuracy This option generally doubles the processing time of the overall operation but is advisable to use where maximum reliability is required You can but do not need to select the Validate Before Restore option if you select the Validate Byte for Byte option Wipe Unused Sectors This option will wipe zero out unused sectors in the restored partition s or drive depending on the type of restore performed When restoring single partitions or when restoring multiple partitions to a drive with existing partitions sectors located outside of the restored partition s are not wiped If a partition is resized during the restore the wiped area for that partition is the final size of the restored partition not the size of the source partition When restoring multiple partitions to a drive with no existing partitions the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and restore in a single operation such as when deploying images to used systems Move to Original MBR Entry If you select this option Image for DOS will move the partition table entry of the restored partition to the same location in the master Image for DOS User Manual Page
169. lection screen highlight the partition that needs compacted Click the Compact button graphical versions or press F3 console versions Enter the new size IRN To resize a partition Boot into Bootlt Bare Metal Enter Partition Work Select the partition than needs resized Click the Resize button Enter the new size IRN The time required to compact or resize a partition depends on the amount of data that must be moved and the speed of the system Examples Several examples of restoring to a smaller drive or partition are shown below e Example 1 Normal Restore e Example 2 Compact Resize Image and Restore For more details and an additional method using robocopy please see the corresponding TeraByte KB article Unless otherwise stated the examples below are using the following base system configuration e The source drive is 500GB with a single 465GB partition containing Windows and 150GB of programs and data e The source drive s required space for restore is 220GB e A backup image of the source drive has been created SOURCE TB e The destination drive is either a 128GB or 256GB SSD drive Example 1 Normal Restore For the purpose of this text a normal restore is one which requires no compacting resizing or special steps to accomplish prior to restoring This type of restore can be Image for DOS User Manual Page 174 of 186 used any time the required space for the restore is
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172. ll ask you to confirm that you want to cancel before it interrupts the current operation Note If a message appears stating that the discs created will not be bootable because the CDBOOT INS file was not found or it contained invalid references appears please refer to the section Customizing CDBOOT F35 for information on setting up CDBOOT INS After you press Enter to dismiss the message the main menu for Image for DOS reappears Select Exit and when prompted remove the Image for DOS boot media and press Enter to reboot your computer Image for DOS User Manual Page 54 of 186 Using Image for DOS to Restore a Backup It is important to remember that you cannot restore an image over the partition that contains the image file you are using to restore The size of the target location where you restore an image is important The target must be large enough to accommodate the data from the source partition The minimum amount of space required in the target location is determined by the amount of space encompassed from the beginning of the source partition to the last used area of the source partition For example if the source partition had 2 GB of data and the last part of that data ended 15 GB from the beginning of the source partition the target area needs to be at least 15 GB in size regardless of the overall size of the source partition If the target is larger than the source partition there will be an are
173. llers directly ssata ShareSATA n This option determines how Image for DOS uses the SATA AHCI controller The valid values for n are 0 Image for DOS takes control of the controller 1 Image for DOS employs a minimally evasive method of accessing the controller 2 Command Line Only Use method one but do not force BIOS direct Default if omitted Image for DOS takes control of the controller sataign n SATAlgnoreMask n Use this option to prevent access to certain SATA AHCI host controllers To ignore the first SATA controller use sataign 1 and to hide the second SATA controller use sataign 2 To hide the third SATA controller use sataign 4 To hide both the first and second SATA controllers use sataign 3 Note Use a basic Bit Mask numbering scheme Default if omitted Image for DOS takes control of all SATA AHCI host controllers cata 0 CheckATA 0 Instructs Image for DOS to honor the BIOS interface and not check the ATA interface even if the BIOS reports a drive as being a SATA device instead of ATA Default if omitted Image for DOS checks the ATA interface even when the BIOS reports the drive as SATA csata 0 CheckSATA 0 Instructs Image for DOS to honor the BIOS interface and not check the SATA interface even if the BIOS reports a drive as being an ATA device instead of SATA Default if omitted Image for DOS checks the SATA interface even when the BIOS reports the drive
174. ly 1 Start the TeraByte imaging program of your choice and select to do a normal restore of the partition Select the destination partition or free space area and click Next 3 A notice with the number of MiBs required will be displayed if the destination is too small If you must know the minimum size and the notice is not displayed you can select a very small partition or one you know is too small as the target Important Note When restoring or copying a partition any unallocated space located adjacent to the destination partition will be included in the available size For example if the drive contains a 10GB partition and has 25GB of free space adjacent to it you could successfully restore a partition image that requires 30GB to the 10GB partition The restored partition will begin at whichever location is located towards the beginning of the drive For example if the free space is located before the partition the restored partition begins where the unallocated space begins Disk images are treated differently than partition images When restoring a disk image you will not be notified if the image won t fit after selecting the destination Image for DOS User Manual Page 172 of 186 drive Instead you must proceed to the options screen and click Next The reason for this is that alignment options or one of the scaling options Scale to Fit or Scale to Target may be used which could change the requirements The actual spa
175. mage for DOS User Manual Page 5 of 186 How Image for DOS Works Image for DOS IFD is a backup and restore program that is designed to function in the DOS operating environment but can back up a hard disk containing any type of operating system Image for DOS protects your system by creating a compressed or uncompressed snapshot of all used areas of your FAT FAT32 NTFS Ext2 3 4 ReiserFS or HSF partition or volume For other file systems it saves and restores a compressed or uncompressed snapshot of all sectors in the partition or volume both used and unused areas The snapshot backup created by Image for DOS is referred to as an image You can write the image backup to a set of files that you store in a different partition of the hard drive you are backing up on an external hard drive on a network drive or directly to most USB 2 IEEE 1394 ATAPI CD R RW or DVD RW drives Image for DOS can also work with drives that make use of ASPI drivers if you provide the appropriate DOS based driver When you create the image the file system and files are backed up exactly as they are stored on the sectors of your hard drive at the time you make the backup effectively taking a snapshot of your hard drive at the time you create the image Image for DOS does not examine the files on your hard drive to make decisions about whether they should be backed up Note See Appendix A Understanding the Types of Backups on Page 161 fora desc
176. maging icon on the desktop Boot Media and UEFI Systems Computer systems that come from the manufacturer with Windows 8 installed include a new BIOS interface known as the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI This new BIOS interface boots media differently than a traditional BIOS Microsoft also requires these systems to use a feature of UEFI called Secure Boot When Secure Boot is enabled the system will only boot items that have a digital signature that is included in the system firmware The manufacturers include a digital certificate provided by Microsoft to boot Windows on their systems Secure boot can be disabled on non ARM systems to allow you to boot other operating systems and environments Boot media must be specifically created for UEFI to allow UEFI to boot from it However most systems also include the ability to boot traditional boot media though a method or mode typically called Legacy or BIOS Using TeraByte Boot Media on UEFI Systems When creating the boot media for a UEFI system it s important to understand which media will boot properly on the UEFI system System settings may require changing to boot Image for Linux or Image for DOS depending on the implementation of UEFI on the system e TBWinRE the Image for Windows boot media supports booting via CD or USB flash drive on UEFI systems Secure Boot is supported and the BIOS can be in either UEFI mode or Legacy mode TBWinRE is automatically installed with
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178. media in a safe secure location We strongly recommend that you store your backup media in a different physical location than your computer and that you place your backup media in a fire proof safe designed for media By storing your backup media offsite you don t run the risk of losing both your computer and your backups in the event of fire or theft By storing your backups in a fire proof safe designed for media your backups will be protected if a fire occurs at the location where you store your backups Note Be sure to use a fire proof safe designed for media because while paper doesn t burn until 451 degrees Fahrenheit media will melt Computer media may be damaged at temperatures above 125 degrees Fahrenheit and 80 humidity Full Backups A full backup as the name implies involves backing up all specified data How Often Should Back Up We hear this question a lot and there is no right answer Instead there is the answer that works best for you To figure out how often to back up ask yourself How much data am I willing to re enter because once you restore your latest backup you will need to re enter all information since you made that backup Many people do not want to re enter any information so they back up daily Others feel their computer usage is such that they are willing to back up once each week and re enter up to seven days worth of data Decide how much data you are willing to re enter a
179. mes in random order cb n CheckBoxes n Determines if check boxes are used for partition selection 0 No 1 Yes Default if omitted Image for DOS uses checkboxes con i N A Instructs Image for DOS to run in console text only mode rather than the CGUI character graphical user interface mode Default if omitted Image for DOS runs in CGUI mode nocan NoCancel 1 Tells Image for DOS not to permit use of the F12 key to cancel the backup restore validate or copy operation once it has begun Default if omitted You can use the F12 key to cancel the current operation w7mbr 0 Win7MBR 0 Windows Vista and later tied the kernel loader to the MBR code such that using previous MBR code may not allow Windows Vista or later to boot on certain machines By default Image for DOS uses the code base compatible with Windows Vista or later The new MBR code will continue to boot older OSes with the exception of some rare configurations using Win9x on FAT32 Specify this option to have Image for DOS use Windows 9x compatible MBR code Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted MBR code compatible with Vista Windows 7 or later is used vn filename cr type sizeinmb Vn filename cr type sizeinmb Makes a virtual drive available for use by Image for DOS nis a number between 0 and 9 you use to represent any of 10 virtual drives If you reuse a n
180. mitted Image for DOS will require 16MiB or more of memory relax n RelaxedMatching n Use this option when performing a differential or incremental backup to instruct Image for DOS to relax some of the criteria it uses to determine the drive you used as the source during the corresponding full backup This option has no effect during full backup operations Use one of the following values in place of n 1 Enable relaxed criteria Disk signature must match 2 Enable relaxed criteria and also ignore the disk signature Note Specifying relax is equivalent to relax 1 Default if omitted Image for DOS does not relax the criteria it uses to detect the full backup source drive quit N A Use this option to cancel any operation before it occurs Anything prior to the operation beginning still occurs This is useful for processing a global command line option without bringing up the user interface Image for DOS will return 1 if no error Otherwise an error code for the failure will be returned Default if omitted The operation is not canceled po n PerfOpt n This option is used to manually control various file IO options of Image for DOS The settings can have an impact on the overall performance The values for n can be as follows and combined using addition 32 Use smallest alignment applies to 2 59 or later Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the values as it sees fit Jop BGP
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182. n GUI version and navigate to it to add it to the list i Select Drive Interface Backup From BOS BIOS Direct USB FEE1394 MAG E C Virtual Drive for DOS TeraByte Unlimited Image for DOS User Manual Page 30 of 186 4 On the Backup From Select Source Drive screen that appears select the hard drive that you want to back up or the hard drive that contains the partition you want to backup Image for DOS GUI 2 67 Hard Drive 1 Hard Drive 2 IMAGE for DOS Image for DOS User Manual Page 31 of 186 5 From the Backup From Select Item to Backup from HD screen that appears select the drive or partition s you wish to back up If you choose to back up a single partition skip to Step 7 Image for DOS GUI 2 67 a Select Item to Backup from HDO FD2C4742 MBR SYUPOEENDRTIAR System Reserved Partition 01 100 MiB HPFS NTFS Partition 02 60927 MiB HPFS NTFS TeraByte Unlimited ES Selecting a Drive or a Partition To back up an entire drive check the box beside Drive Remember you can back up only one drive at a time If you want to back up a partition check the box beside that partition When restoring an image of a partition you might need to use the Update BOOT INI Set Active and Write Standard MBR Code or Restore First Track options described in the section Image for DOS Restore Options If you individually select all partitions o
183. n Completed lanl Save Defaults Show Command Write Changed Sectors Only Enable this option when copying to write only the changed sectors to the target drive target will be read to compare Useful in cases where a large portion of the data is the same and it s desirable to reduce wear on Unlimited Image for DOS User Manual Page 82 of 186 the target drive e g copying partition to SSD drive This option is unavailable if not supported by the drive Scale to Fit On FAT FAT32 NTFS or EXT 2 3 4 file systems selecting this option will make Image for DOS assume that the size of the original hard drive is based on the location of the end of the last partition Image for DOS then applies the same scaling to the target hard drive If any unpartitioned space exists at the end of the source drive that unpartitioned space won t exist on the target drive after you restore your image This option has no effect on copies made to hard drives using other file systems You cannot use this option in conjunction with the Scale to Target option If you inadvertently enable both options Scale to Fit will take precedence Align to Target If you select this option Image for DOS will force alignment to the target drive regardless of the alignment used on the source drive For example if the Align Partitions on 1MiB Boundaries global option is enabled the restored drive will be aligned on 1MiB boundaries If this option i
184. n a drive Image for DOS handles the backup as individual partition backups not as a full drive backup You can restore an entire drive in one restore operation using individual partitions but you can t set sizing or rescaling options or restore to a different location sector LBA Image for DOS User Manual Page 32 of 186 When a partition is highlighted the following options are available Delete Press the Del key or click Delete to delete the selected partition You will be prompted to confirm the deletion Details Information Press F1 or click Information to view the details of the partition used space free space size needed to restore etc Compact Press F3 or click Compact to compact the partition s file system FAT FAT382 and NTFS file systems are supported This option allows you to reduce the size required for a restore You will be prompted to confirm the compaction and then asked for the compaction value size in MiB For example if you have a 250GB partition that contains 50GB of data and requires 150GB of space to restore and you need to restore it to a 100GB partition you can compact the file system to under 100GB before imaging it and then restore it to the 100GB partition 6 Onthe Backup Select screen that appears if you chose to back up a drive or multiple partitions in Step 5 choose one of the following options Single File Set Select this option to create a backup that is comprised of
185. n active unless no other partitions are active and the target partition is on HDO t WriteMBR 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS install standard MBR code after completing the copy operation Standard MBR code is the code that boots the active partition Default if omitted Image for DOS does not write standard MBR code unless the MBR is empty e UseSameMBREntry 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS move the partition table entry of the copied partition to the same location in the master partition table as it appeared on the source drive Default if omitted Image for DOS does not move the partition table of the copied partition ms n N A Use this parameter to have Image for DOS move the partition table entry of the restored partition to a given slot in the MBR The value n is 0 to 3 This option is only applicable Image for DOS User Manual Page 149 of 186 when restoring a single partition Default if omitted Image for DOS does not move the partition table of the restored partition embrid n i N A This parameter is used to set a specific ID value to the copied partition if an EMBR exists The ID is only used if not already in use by another partition To assume the same ID as a partition being overwritten use the value zero for n Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the copied partitions original id gpt WA Instruct Image for DOS to create a GPT on the target drive
186. nd set your backup schedule accordingly Incremental Backups Incremental backups include only data that has changed since the most recent backup was performed whether the most recent backup was a full backup or a previous incremental backup To use this backup method you perform a full backup at an interval of your choice say every two weeks In between full backups you Image for DOS User Manual Page 162 of 186 perform incremental backups If you need to restore your entire system you need to restore the latest full backup followed by each of the incremental backups you performed since that full backup unless the backup program being used supports a complete restore in one restore procedure For example suppose that you are relying on file based backups and you perform a full backup that includes FILE1 FILE2 and FILE3 Then you change FILE2 and you perform an incremental backup This incremental backup will include only the data of FILE2 since you did not change the other files in the most recent full backup Then if you change FILE3 and add FILE4 and make another incremental backup the latest incremental backup will include only data from FILE3 and FILE4 If you are relying on sector based backups you perform a full backup at an interval of your choice and in between you perform incremental backups But an incremental sector based backup is not based on files that have been added or changed Instead an increm
187. ned on 2048 sectors drives with 4096 byte sectors will be aligned on 256 sectors This is popular with users of SSD type drives It is the equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Align on 1MiB Boundaries Align MBR Ending HS Align MBR HS when Truncated and disabling Align on End Assume Same Target System Enable this option to prevent problems where users restore an image from another system to a drive that will be put back in the other system For example the hard drive from PC A is backed up PC B is used to restore to a new hard that new drive is placed back in PC A Without this option enabled Image for DOS would setup the partition to properly boot on the hard drive for PC B which can sometimes not always be a problem when the hard drive is going back to PC A This option solves that and is equivalent to the individual Use MBR Geometry override Use Source Host Geometry This option is the global equivalent to the individual Use Original Geometry override Disable Validate Geometry Before Use This option is enabled by default and used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR on the original system is aligned to known standards before accepting it for use It only applies when Assume Same Target System is enabled Check this box to disable this option Note The above options are also available in Image for DOS by clicking the Settings button IFD GUI or selecting Global Settings IFD CUI Image for DOS User Manua
188. ned on at least a 1MiB boundary That is either 2048 sectors for 512 byte sized sectors or 256 sectors for 4096 byte sized sectors You can use a special form of the command line parameter v0 to remove all references to any defined virtual drives This special format is useful when you want to override any Vn references that may exist in an INI file Default if omitted No virtual drives are defined kfb KeepFailedBackups 1 Prevents Image for DOS from deleting the backup created when the backup operation fails Default if omitted The backup created is deleted if the backup failed recover Attempts to access image files that are reported as incomplete and suppresses the data loss message clearing of boot sector data on a failed validation during restore If you obtain an image stream corrupt message using this option the restored file system should not be trusted You should attempt to obtain the files you need which may not be valid then reformat the partition or restore a good image Default if omitted An incomplete image is reported when opened and boot sector data is not updated or cleared on a restore that fails logfile x path to logfile txt LogFile x path to logfile txt Use this parameter to specify the path and filename of the log file x is a drive letter path is the desired path logfile or log file is the name of the log file and txt is the file extension of the log file Image for DOS doesn
189. nnnn BACKUP_DEFAULTS PostValidate 2 HDO UseOrgGeo 1 Image for DOS Environment Variables You use the SET command to establish Image for DOS environment variables The format for Image for DOS environment variables is SET IFD option1 value option2 value option3 value Image for DOS User Manual Page 97 of 186 All of the environment variables you can use with Image for DOS are set by using the same options as you would use from the command line not the INI options The command line options appear in the left column of Tables 1 to 10 You can display a list of currently set environment variables from the command line by typing the set command with no parameters To remove an environment variable type the set command the variable name and an equal sign followed by no value Image for DOS File Path Variables You use a Set of special variables in the image file name path to embed date and time information into the image file name The variables are inserted in the file name path by using a special format of variablename The available variable names are YYYY four digit year YY two digit year MM two digit month DD two digit day of month DOY three digit day of year DOW three character day of week HHMM four digit hours and minutes HHMMSS six digit hours minutes and seconds and VER for the program version For example the following variables would embed the 4 digit year 2 digit m
190. ntal files will not be deleted and a hash file will not be created for the new backup file The command should be on one line image combine f E Backups Win7 Current base E Backups Win7 Inc 5 Restoring Win7 Current would be the same as restoring Win7 Inc 5 Running the following command will combine only the first three incremental backups and the base full into a new backup image named Win7 Base3 Additionally the original combined files will be deleted and a hash file will be created for the new backup file The command should be on one line image combine f E Backups Win7 Base3 base Inc 3 del hash E Backups Win7 Restoring Win7 Base3 would be the same as if you restored Win7 Inc 3 Since the files Win7 Full through Win7 Inc 3 were deleted the remaining incremental files Win7 Inc 4 amp Win7 Inc 5 are now unusable f N A Use this option to specify the target drive letter path and file name for the combined backup file f x filename x is target drive letter f x mypath filename mypath or my path is path to filename f x my path file name filename is target file name for image Or Or f d p filename Specify target device partition path and f d p mypath filename EE f d p my path filename d is target hard drive number p is target partition ID hex or decimal notation NT Disk Signature Follows GUID GPT Di
191. ntsig p mypath filename f GUID p mypath filename Image for DOS User Manual x is target drive letter mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Or Specify target device partition path and file name d is target hard drive number p is target partition ID hex or decimal notation NT Disk Signature Follows GUID GPT Disk GUID mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Device modifiers may be used as needed When used they must be placed after the f and before the target hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method Page 128 of 186 a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI v Virtual device o Optical drive when you combine this option with any of the options mentioned above this option must come last Whether using drive letter or device partition you may specify any path desired Paths and or file names with imbedded spaces require the use of quotes o can be used with a u f and s The above options are required when you restore a backup using Image for DOS from the command line In Table 5 you find a list of the optional restore parameters you can use when you run Image for DOS from the command line The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the opti
192. o select partitions and makes partition selection function the same as previous versions Click Next and the Global Geometry Options screen appears S MakeDisk Image for DOS V2 Sa m Global Geometry Options optional Disable Global Geometry Disable Align MBR for BIOS Auto Mode Align Partitions on 1MiB Boundaries Assume Same Target System Use Source Host Geometry Disable Validate Geometry Before Use lt lt Previous Cancel Copyright 2004 2013 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Check boxes to enable the options Disable Global Geometry Check this box to disable the global geometry settings and revert to using program defaults or drive specific overrides equivalent to versions prior to 2 52 Disable Align MBR for BIOS Auto Mode This option is enabled by default to prevent problems with unaligned partitions on systems with their BIOS using Auto Mode Many newer systems use auto mode by default Image for DOS User Manual Page 18 of 186 and some even don t have an option to turn it off Check the box if you want to disable this option This is equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Align MBR Ending HS and Align MBR HS when Truncated However you can disable this option by checking the box Align Partitions on 1MiB Boundaries This option provides a convenient way to enable 1MiB partition alignment for all drives drives with 512 byte sectors will be alig
193. o state 6 HIGH RISK ACTIVITIES The Software is not fault tolerant and is not designed manufactured or intended for use on equipment or software running in hazardous environments requiring fail safe performance including but not limited to the operation of nuclear facilities aircraft navigation or communication systems air traffic control direct life support machines or weapons systems in which the failure of the Software could contribute to death personal injury or severe physical or environmental damage High Risk Activities TERABYTE AND ITS SUPPLIERS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS OF THE SOFTWARE FOR HIGH RISK ACTIVITIES TERABYTE DOES NOT AUTHORIZE USE OF THE SOFTWARE FOR ANY HIGH RISK ACTIVITY YOU AGREE TO DEFEND AND INDEMNIFY TERABYTE AND HOLD TERABYTE HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ACTIONS LOSSES COSTS JUDGMENTS AND DAMAGES OF ANY KIND IN CONNECTION WITH USE IN RELATION TO ANY HIGH RISK ACTIVITY OF ANY COPY OF THE SOFTWARE RELATING TO THIS LICENSE 7 RESTRICTED RIGHTS COMMERCIAL COMPUTER SOFTWARE The parties acknowledge and agree that a any and all products covered by this Agreement are and shall be deemed commercial computer software for all purposes in relation to U S government acquisition laws rules and regulations and b all use duplication and disclosure by for or on behalf of the U S Government is subject to all conditions limitations and restrictions app
194. ocess USB Examines the attached USB controller if any for available high speed hard drives IEEE1394 Examines the attached IEEE 1394 controller if any for available hard drives Virtual Drive Use this option to locate and access virtual drives containing images If the virtual drive containing the image you want to restore doesn t appear in the Select File Drive list you can press F2 or click Add Virtual Drive and navigate to it to add it to the list If you chose File CD DVD in Step 3 you can choose one of the following options ATAPI Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is an ATAPI device and none of the other selections apply This is the most common option ASPI Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive will be accessed using an ASPI layer You must supply the ASPI driver for this option to work USB2 Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is attached to a USB 2 controller EEE1394 Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is attached to an IEEE 1394 controller If your USB device does not appear at first please try pressing the Esc key waiting a few seconds and selecting the USB or USB2 option again 5 Either the Restore From Select File Drive screen shown in the following figure or the Restore From Select Target Drive screen appears depending on whether you are restoring from a hard drive or from CD DVD BD discs Se
195. ode Restore Disk Signature This option applies when you restore a partition that had been assigned a drive letter within Windows prior to being backed up If you select this option Image for DOS will restore the disk signature associated with the source partition If you don t select this option Image for DOS will use the disk signature already present in the MBR of the target drive if none exists Image for DOS will create one If you are restoring a partition that had been assigned a drive letter in Windows and you wish to keep that drive letter assignment select this option For GPT drives the disk GUID will not be changed Restore First Track Whenever you back up any partition Image for DOS also backs up the first track of the source hard drive If you select this option Image for DOS will restore the first track which includes the master boot code and the disk signature enabling you to restore the MBR EMBR Restoring the first track may also change the disk type MBR EMBR GPT of the destination drive if it doesn t match that of the source drive the restore will abort if the change is required and cannot be applied Validate Before Restore If you select this option Image for DOS will validate the image file s prior to restoring them If Image for DOS encounters an error during validation Image for DOS will abort the restore operation without overwriting the target Change GUID When restoring to a GPT drive se
196. of the original drive For this to be useful the active boot partition should already be on the target drive or part of the same copy operation Note This option is not displayed when copying a full drive if the Automatic Boot Partition Update global option is enabled the default Copy Disk Signature This option applies when you copy a partition that had been assigned a drive letter within Windows If you select this option Image for DOS will copy the disk signature associated with the source partition If you don t select this option Image for DOS will use the disk signature already present in the MBR of the target drive if none exists Image for DOS will create one If you are copying a partition that had been assigned a drive letter in Windows and you wish to keep that drive letter assignment select this option For GPT drives the disk GUID will not be changed Copy First Track If you select this option Image for DOS will copy the first track of the source hard drive which includes the master boot code and the disk signature This enables you to restore the MBR EMBR Copying the first track may Image for DOS User Manual Page 85 of 186 also change the disk type MBR EMBR GPT of the destination drive if it doesn t match that of the source drive the copy will abort if the change is required and cannot be applied Change GUID When copying to a GPT drive selecting this option will change the GUID of each partition c
197. on A unique area of a hard drive that is allocated for use by a file system A hard drive can contain many partitions File System An organized structure that allows data to be stored and accessed by a filename You can basically think of it as the filing system used by the operating system to store and retrieve your data On a hard drive the file system almost always resides in a partition Volume Generally a volume is considered to be any file system or device that is used to hold data but when using Image for DOS it also represents a specific partition that resides in an extended partition Extended Partition A special type of partition that is divided in to one or more partitions called volumes Drive Letter A single letter that represents a file system in Microsoft operating systems Since a file system on a hard drive is almost always in a partition or volume it also represents a partition or volume Logical Drive A term used in Microsoft operating systems to describe the specific drive letters that point to volumes In practical terms it is the same thing as a drive letter Image for DOS User Manual Page 177 of 186 Source When backing up source refers to the hard drive that you want to back up When restoring source refers to the location on a storage medium that contains a backup you want to restore Target When backing up target refers to the location on a storage medium usually CD DVD dis
198. on Image for DOS saves the log as IFD LOG in the IMAGE EXE program directory To be able to save IFD LOG Image for DOS must be running from a writable medium such as a non write protected floppy diskette or UFD You can use the logfile or LogFile options to specify an alternate location for IFD LOG Change Volume SN Select this option to change the file system volume serial number of copied FAT FAT32 NTFS HPFS partitions and the UUID of Ext2 3 4 partitions Set Active If you select this option Image for DOS will make the copied partition the active partition after completing the copy operation Otherwise Image for DOS will make the copied partition active only if no other partition is active and the target drive is HDO Update BOOT INI When you select this option Image for DOS will update all partition w entries in the boot ini file found in the target location to point to itself This can be useful when copying Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating systems to a new drive or location Update Boot Partition This option updates any references to the copied partition in the active boot partition on the target drive This is useful for situations where the boot partition differs from the system partition However you typically wouldn t want to use this option if you re creating a copy of an existing partition you want to keep unless the target drive will be independent
199. on the type of copy performed When copying single partitions or when copying multiple partitions to a drive with existing partitions sectors located outside of the copied partition s are not wiped If a partition is resized during the copy the wiped area for that partition is the final size of the copied partition not the size of the source partition When copying a full drive or when copying multiple partitions to a drive with no existing partitions the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and copy to it in a single operation Default if omitted Image for DOS will not perform any wiping of unused sectors att AlignToTarget 1 When copying an entire drive use this option to instruct Image for DOS to force alignment to the target drive regardless of the alignment used on the source drive For example if the a2k option is also specified the restored drive will be aligned on 1MiB boundaries When copying a single partition specifying this option will instruct Image for DOS to not adjust the alignment 1MiB partition alignment will be used if the target has it already or not if it doesn t and a partition already exists Default if omitted The alignment used on the target drive will be determined automatically based on the source drive n2ka N A By default Image for DOS automatically uses 1MiB partition alignment when you copy from th
200. ons are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Restore_Defaults section unless as noted otherwise Table 5 Image for DOS Optional Restore Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable gg a a SSE Jo NA Use this option to tell Image for DOS to overwrite the target without first prompting for confirmation Default if omitted Image for DOS prompts before overwriting the target base N A Note Beginning with Image for DOS 2 78 this parameter is optional when restoring a differential or incremental backup and should normally be omitted Instead use the sch option if it s necessary to specify the location of any of the base images When restoring from a differential or incremental backup use this parameter to identify the base backup Image for DOS should use base x bkup x is source drive letter base x mypath bkup mypath or my path is path to bkup base x my path bkup bkup is name of the base backup omit the file extension Image for DOS User Manual Page 129 of 186 Or Or base d p bkup Specify source device partition path and pase d p mypath bkup Manama base d p my path bkup base ntsig p mypath bkup base GUID p mypath bkup d is source hard drive number p is source partition ID hex or decimal notation NT Disk Signature Follows GUID GPT Disk G
201. onth and 2 digit day in the image file name Backup on YYYY MM DD Image for DOS User Manual Page 98 of 186 Running Image for DOS from the Command Line You can run Image for DOS IMAGE EXE from the command line Be sure to separate the command line options with spaces or colons You can view all available command line options by typing the following command at the command prompt image When running Image for DOS from the command line you might need to include references to hard drive numbers and or partition IDs To determine the correct hard drive number or partition ID complete Steps 1 through 4 in the section Creating a Full Backup making sure that you select the hard drive whose number and or partition IDs you need to obtain The hard drive number will then appear in the format HDn e g HDO or HD1 The partition ID appears in parenthesis in the middle of each partition description and consists of either two or four characters Note Under certain configurations hard drive numbers may be different in DOS than they are in Windows or other environments The basic format for running Image for DOS from the command line is image action options Valid values for action are B Backup R Restore Copy Copy V Validate L List partitions optical drives or file contents Combine Combine incrementals with the base image REBOOT Reboot Sy
202. ootable diskette with the appropriate ASPI drivers and AUTOEXEC BAT file to restore the image Used primarily by OEM vendors IT shops and advanced users CDBOOT INS and CDBOOT F35 are files you can use to customize the content and configuration of bootable CD DVD discs created by Image for DOS By customizing CDBOOT INS you can create a bootable CD DVD disc that runs MS DOS FreeDOS or your own batch file s For example you can create a batch file that runs Image for DOS and automatically restores an image stored on the bootable disc Image for DOS User Manual Page 92 of 186 The default copy of CDBOOT INS included with Image for DOS is configured to use CD CD BOOT E35 BOOT INS is a plain text file You separate parameters using commas and the required parameters are Source File Relative path to the source boot file Target File Relative path and file name to be assigned to the boot file once it is copied to disc by Image for DOS If this parameter is omitted the boot file will be placed in the root of the disc and will retain the source file name Cache Code If set to C the boot file contents will be cached in memory If omitted or set to anything other than C it will be read from the disc Emulation Code Type of emulation to be used for the boot file according to El Torito standard 0 No emulation 1 1 2 MB Floppy diskette emula
203. opied Move to Original MBR Entry If you select this option Image for DOS will move the partition table entry of the copied partition to the same location in the master partition table as it had on the source drive Image for DOS will also move the existing partition table entry to another location rather than overwrite it You may want to enable this option if you use an environment that tracks master partition table entries such as Linux Resize Partition Currently available only for FAT FAT32 NTFS and EXT 2 3 4 partitions you can use this text box to specify a new size for the copied partition bound by the Minimum and Maximum values specified by Image for DOS The units used here are mebibytes abbreviated MiB Please refer to the section titled Data Storage Size Unit Conventions at the beginning of this manual for more information New Name Enter the new volume name label for the copied partition If left blank the name will not be changed from its copied value Save Defaults IFD GUI or F4 IFD Click press to save the settings you establish In the future Image for DOS will display these settings automatically Note that the settings will not be saved if IFD is unable to write to the IFD INI or BOOTITBM INT file Show Command IFD GUI or F6 IFD Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a copy with the options you selected in Image fo
204. option to instruct Image for DOS to set a restored partition s head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry when it is located outside the range of the current geometry Use Global Settings Enable to allow global geometry settings to control the drive Understanding Restore Options for an Entire Drive When you restore an entire drive Image for DOS offers these options that you can set Image for DOS User Manual Page 62 of 186 Image for DOS GUI 297e i Options CI wite Changed Sectors On First Track Sectors nte g s ectors Oniy AUTO CO Scale to Fit C Align to Target C Change Disk ID and GUIDs O Validate Before Restore O Validate Byte for Byte O write Standard MBA Code O wipe Unused Sectors C Remove Gaps on Restore C GPT Hidden From OS C Assume Original HD C Scale to Target CO Ignore I0 Errors C Disable Auto Eject C Reboot when Completed I Shutdown when Completed LC Save Defaults Show Command Update Boot Partition This option updates any references to the restored partition in the active boot partition on the target drive This is useful for situations where the boot partition differs from the system partition However you typically wouldn t want to use this option if you re creating a copy of an existing partition you want to keep unless the target drive will be independent of the original drive For this to be useful the active boot partition should already be on t
205. or DOS TeraByte Unlimited Image for DOS User Manual Page 78 of 186 3 Onthe Copy From Select Source Drive screen select the hard drive that you want to copy or the hard drive that contains the partition you want to copy Image for DOS GUI 267 Hard Drive 1 Hard Drive 2 IMAGE for DOS Image for DOS User Manual Page 79 of 186 4 On the Copy From Select Copy Location on HDn screen that appears select the drive or partition you wish to copy Image for DOS GUI 2 67 System Reserved Partition 01 100 MiB HPFS NTFS Win Partition 02 60927 MiB HPFS NTFS IMAGE for DOS Image for DOS User Manual Page 80 of 186 When a partition is highlighted the following options are available Delete Press the Del key or click Delete to delete the selected partition You will be prompted to confirm the deletion Details Information Press F1 or click Information to view the details of the partition used space free space size needed to restore etc Compact Press F3 or click Compact to compact the partition s file system FAT FAT32 and NTFS file systems are supported This option allows you to reduce the size required for a restore You will be prompted to confirm the compaction and then asked for the compaction value size in MiB For example if you have a 250GB partition that contains 50GB of data and requires 150GB of space to restore and you need to copy it to a 100GB parti
206. or otherwise non functional the requirement for such uninstall and removal shall be waived unless and until such Old System becomes functional Such transfer shall be permitted a when the New System is a replacement for the Old System or b with written approval from TeraByte Unless otherwise authorized by TeraByte in writing each licensed copy of the Software shall be licensed for one and only one Computer System Such shall be the case whether or not the Software is installed on a disk drive permanently attached to the Computer System for which the Software may be licensed Specifically installation upon portable media including without limitation flash drives and CDs shall not circumvent the requirement of maintaining a license for the Software on each Computer System on which the Software may be used although it is permissible for Software installed upon a portable drive or other drive accessible from multiple Computer Systems to be executed upon more than one such system provided that licenses are maintained for each Computer System on which such Software may be executed iv Backup Copy make a copy of each licensed copy of the Software solely for purposes of backup v Images create and keep per computer Images as described in paragraph 1 e i below if the Software product as licensed provides imaging functionality and vi Image Deployment if you paid for additional Image Deployment license rights create and distri
207. ou are not sure of the partition or volume ID number run Image for DOS using the interface choose the Backup option and click Next The screen that lists the partitions and volumes also will display the ID in parentheses as a hexadecimal number You should prefix that number with a 0x on the command line sd d p d is the source hard drive number EC p is the source partition or volume ID hex SECH or decimal notation depending on Isd fd H whether you are referring to a partition or param a volume Use this parameter only if you sd od p are copying an individual partition sd vd p NT Disk Signature Follows a ER GUID GPT Disk GUID sd GUID p You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the sd and before the source hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI v Virtual device td N A Use this option to identify the target hard drive and partition For most users the partition ID will be a number from 1 through 4 For partition IDs of 9 or below you can use a single digit in place of hexadecimal notation e g 1 is equivalent to 0x1 and 5 is equivalent to 0x5 The volume ID will be a number formatted as OxPVV where P is the extended partition and VV is the volume number in hexadecimal from 01 to FF If you are not sure of the partition o
208. our choice Note If you are using a version of Windows that has a built in compressed folders feature e g Windows Me XP or later you can double click the ZIP file and then use the Extract all files link shown in the left pane of Windows Explorer or in the File menu to extract the contents 2 Create one of the following A bootable DOS floppy diskette using the instructions provided in the next section or using the distribution available from the FreeDOS site A bootable CD DVD compilation using the CD DVD authoring software of your choice 3 Copy the files IMAGE EXE and CDBOOT F35 from the folder of Step 1 to the bootable DOS floppy diskette or the bootable CD DVD compilation Note If you are using the GUI version of Image for DOS you also need to copy the bootitbm dat or ifd dat file To copy any custom settings or license information also copy the bootitbm ini orifd ini file The bootable floppy diskette or CD DVD disc can now be used to boot from and run Image for DOS If you are creating a bootable CD DVD proceed with the creation of the bootable disc at this point Image for DOS User Manual Page 90 of 186 Creating a DOS Boot Diskette from Windows 95 98 Me 1 Insert a floppy diskette to format 2 Click Start then Settings then Control Panel 3 Double click Add Remove Programs 4 Click on the Startup Disk tab 5 Click the Create Disk b
209. p image with n being a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting may be used to force a lower reading speed than that automatically used by the optical drive s firmware Slower reading speeds may increase reliability nshould be a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting is only applicable when you are restoring from disc media and you have also included the v option Image for DOS User Manual Page 135 of 186 The maximum reading speed that is actually used is determined by whichever is lower The cdrs n value that you specify or the soeed deemed appropriate by the drive s firmware according to the disc media in use For example if you are using media that is rated at 32X for reading the maximum reading speed will be no more than 32X regardless of the setting you choose here Similarly if you supply a value that is invalid for or beyond the drive s design limits the drive will automatically use the next highest speed supported by both the drive and the media in use DVD speeds are approximately 1 8 CD speeds so if you are using DVD discs multiply the desired speed by 8 to determine the value to use here For example to obtain a maximum reading speed of 4X with a DVD use cdrs 32 since 8 x 4X 32 Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the Optimal speed setting liobs IOBS 1 Include this option to try to improve I O performance in cases where network or USB device performance is poor
210. p in a second pass or incrementals in multiple passes This setting is not applicable when validating a full backup This option must be used if the applicable full backup resides on removable media Default if omitted Image for DOS uses Single Pass mode validating in one pass Image for DOS User Manual Page 143 of 186 base N A Note Beginning with Image for DOS 2 78 this parameter is optional when validating a differential or incremental backup and should normally be omitted Instead use the sch option if it s necessary to specify the location of any of the base images Use when validating a differential or incremental backup to identify the base backup Image for DOS should use to validate the backup base x bkup base x mypath bkup pase x my path bkup Or base d p bkup base d p mypath bkup base d p my path bkup base ntsig p mypath bkup base GUID p mypath bkup X is source drive letter mypath or my path is path to bkup bkup is name of existing base backup omit file extension Or Specify source device partition path and file name d is source hard drive number p is source partition ID hex or decimal notation NT Disk Signature Follows GUID GPT Disk GUID You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the base and before the source hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method
211. partition s Use the compact feature in the imaging programs to reduce the minimum required size or use Bootlt BM to resize the source partition smaller In either case use a size less than that of the new smaller partition When moving an entire drive to a smaller drive you may need to compact or resize multiple source partitions Image for DOS User Manual Page 168 of 186 4 Create a backup image of the drive or partition Once the source partition or drive is ready files moved partitions compacted file systems checked etc create a backup image 5 Restore the image to the new location When restoring specify the desired new smaller size Or if restoring a drive image use one of the scale options e g Scale to Fit If you are planning on copying the source partition s to the smaller drive you can skip Step 4 and perform the copy instead of Step 5 For more specific details on restoring to a smaller drive or partition as well as several example scenarios please continue reading Preparing for the Move Depending upon the specifics of the move and which method will be used it s possible extensive changes will be made to the existing data file systems resized or compacted data deleted programs uninstalled file systems repaired and so on It is recommended to create a backup image of the drive before proceeding if data safety or the ability to return to the present state is important to you As an example you
212. pear in the current directory of the DOS environment This may be of importance to you if you plan to create and use your own custom batch file with Image for DOS For information on customizing CDBOOT F35 see the section Installing Image for DOS Manually on Page 90 CDBOOT INS is used to control the content and configuration of bootable CD DVD discs created by Image for DOS and used to store images IMAGE EXE is the Image for DOS program IFD_EN_MANUAL PDF is a copy of this manual Image for DOS User Manual Page 10 of 186 LICENSE TXT is a copy of the Image for DOS license agreement MAKEDISK CFG is the MakeDisk configuration file for Image for DOS MAKEDISK EXE is the MakeDisk utility which allows you to easily create bootable media to run Image for DOS ORDER TXT is an order form for Image for DOS included in the trial version only Image for DOS User Manual Page 11 of 186 Installing Image for DOS Image for DOS is not installed in the usual sense of the word Instead you run Image for DOS by creating a bootable floppy diskette or CD DVD disc that contains the Image for DOS program Then you simply boot with that disc or diskette to run Image for DOS Note Image for DOS GUI can be installed as part of TeraByte s Bootlt Bare Metal program In this case it can be run by booting into Bootlt BM and selecting the Disk I
213. ppropriate by the drive s firmware according to the disc media in use For example if you are using media that is rated at 8X for burning the maximum writing speed will be no more than 8X regardless of the setting you choose here Similarly if you supply a value that is beyond or invalid for the drive s design limits the drive will automatically use the next highest speed supported by both the drive and the media in use DVD speeds are approximately 1 8 CD speeds so if you are using DVD discs multiply the desired speed by 8 to determine the value to use For example to obtain a maximum burning speed of 2X with a DVD use cdws 16 since 8 x 2X 16 Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the Optimal speed setting max nMiB or max nGiB MaxFileSize nMiB or MaxFileSize nGiB Use this setting to specify the maximum file size of the image files that Image for DOS creates nshould be a positive integer e g 648 698 877 1003 etc Image for DOS can use either mebibytes or gibibytes so you must specify either MiB or GiB respectively Do not place any spaces between the number and the unit designation Decimal values are supported e g 2 5GiB The maximum file size is ultimately dictated by the file system used on the target drive Also some network redirectors limit file size to 2 GiB which can be a limiting factor for backup files stored on a network drive Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the maximum fi
214. r DOS When using IFD GUI you can save the command line to a batch file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for DOS by clicking the Save to File checkbox and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Save Command IFD F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a batch file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFD GUI use the Show Command option above Using Simple Operations Mode Simple Operations mode allows Image for DOS to automatically handle most options for you Backup Restore Validate and Copy operations are available in this mode To use Simple Operations mode enable the Simple Operations option in Settings Backups are saved to a store on the destination drive e g TeraByte_TBI_ Backups The storage area is automatically maintained and files are deleted as needed when it runs out of free space Image for DOS User Manual Page 86 of 186 Image for DOS GUI 2 96 Welcome to Image for DOS Please choose which operation you would like to perform at this time Select Operation Backup this computer to an alternate drive Restore a backup to this computer Validate a previous backup to check its integrity Copy a hard drive to another hard drive TeraByte Unlimited Creating a Backup To create a backup of a drive you simply choose which physical drive you want to back up and if ne
215. r DOS determines that 1MiB partition alignment is needed then both Align2048 and AlignEndHS options are enabled for the restore Note This option has been deprecated but will remain supported for backwards compatibility The att option should be used instead Default if omitted Alignment is automatically determined when restoring from the command line When a single partition is being restored and a2k is not used Image for DOS will use 1MiB partition alignment if the destination drive contains a 1MiB aligned partition or cylinder alignment if the drive contains a partition which is not 1MiB aligned Otherwise the alignment used is obtained from the image being restored aoe n AlignOnEnd n Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to align restored partitions at the end of a cylinder or when the Align2048 option is enabled end of a 1MiB boundary 2 Align on end by resizing 0 Disable align on end Default if omitted Normal alignment aoe 1 is used a2k Align2048 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for DOS to align restored partitions based on 1MiB Image for DOS User Manual Page 138 of 186 boundaries drives with 512 byte sectors will be aligned on 2048 sectors drives with 4096 byte sectors will be aligned on 256 sectors If this option is enabled then you will normally want to enable the AlignEndHS ahs option and disable th
216. r volume ID number run Image for DOS using the interface choose the Backup option and click Next The screen that lists the partitions and volumes also will display the ID in parentheses as a hexadecimal number You should prefix that number with a 0x on the command line td d p d is the target hard drive number td bd p Image for DOS User Manual Page 146 of 186 td ad p p is the target partition or volume ID hex td ud p or decimal notation depending on td fd p whether you are referring to a partition or td sd p a volume Use this parameter only if you td od p are copying an individual partition eos NT Disk Signature Follows td GUID p GUID GPT Disk GUID You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the td and before the target hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI v Virtual device The above options are required when you perform a copy using Image for DOS from the command line In Table 9 you find a list of the optional copy parameters you can use when you run Image for DOS from the command line The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the options are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A app
217. ram directory To be able to save IFD LOG Image for DOS must be running from a writable medium such as a non write protected floppy diskette or UFD You can use the logfile or LogFile options to specify an alternate location for IFD LOG Zei Image for DOS User Manual Page 65 of 186 Change Volume SN Select this option to change the file system volume serial number of copied FAT FAT32 NTFS HPFS partitions and the UUID of Ext2 3 4 partitions First Track Sectors This text box allows you to specify how many sectors of the first track of the hard drive should be restored If you enter AUTO in this box the tracks needed for the EMBR will be restored If you aren t sure type AUTO in this box Save Defaults IFD GUI or F4 IFD Click press to save the settings you establish In the future Image for DOS will display these settings automatically Note that the settings will not be saved if IFD is unable to write to the IFD INI or BOOTITBM INT file Show Command IFD GUI or F6 IFD Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a restore with the options you selected in Image for DOS When using IFD GUI you can save the command line to a batch file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for DOS by clicking the Save to File checkbox and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Save Command IFD F
218. re 0 through 15 The equivalent n values for the GUI compression options are as follows 0 None 1 Standard 2 Enhanced Size A Enhanced Normal prior to version 2 72 7 Enhanced Size B Enhanced Slower prior to version 2 72 10 Enhanced Size C Enhanced Slowest prior to version 2 72 11 Enhanced Size D 12 Enhanced Size E 13 Enhanced Size F 14 Enhanced Speed A 15 Enhanced Speed B The Enhanced Size D E F options are faster than Enhanced Size A B C but provide less compression Backup files will normally be compressed more than the Standard option Enhanced Size values 2 10 offer increased compression as the value increases at the expense of speed Enhanced Size values 11 13 D E F offer slightly less compression at a faster speed than their 2 7 10 A B C counterparts The Enhanced Speed A B options offer decent compression with the emphasis on back up speed over backup file size Backup files will normally be compressed less than the Standard option Value 15 offers higher compression than 14 at the expense of speed Actual compression levels and speeds obtained will vary depending on the data being backed up and the system being used Note The Enhanced Size D E F options and the Enhanced Speed A B options are not backwards compatible and require version 2 72 or later Attempting to open a backup file created using a compression value higher than 10 with version 2 71 or
219. re restoring a partition with an image created using raw mode or if the partition uses an unrecognized file system the target drive needs to be equal to the full size of the source partition regardless of cluster allocation Figure 2 shows the same number of clusters in use but the ast cluster in use is located in the fifth row rather than at the very end of the partition Figure 2 Image for DOS User Manual Page 166 of 186 Although Figure 1 and Figure 2 depict the exact same number of used clusters the location of the last used cluster in Figure 2 allows you to restore an image of that partition to a much smaller target because when an image is restored each cluster is placed in a location on the target that is identical relatively speaking to its original location on the drive you imaged called the source drive Note You can use the Compact feature of the Terabyte Unlimited imaging programs to reduce the size required when restoring or copying Figure 3 shows the same number of clusters in use but the clusters are arranged optimally with no unused clusters interspersed Figure 3 Although the used cluster arrangement of Figure 3 might be most ideal you generally can t easily arrange clusters in this way Image for DOS User Manual Page 167 of 186 Appendix D Restoring to a Smaller Drive or Partition Despite ever increasing hard drive sizes many users find thems
220. ription of file based backups vs sector based backups Appendix B Backup Strategies on Page 162 describes the types of backup strategies you can use and the strategy you choose plays an important role when you need to restore a backup When you create a backup using Image for DOS you back up not only your data files but also the operating system in its entirety To understand the full impact of having an image backup suppose that you install a program to test it and discover it is not what you expected You attempt to uninstall it and it misbehaves Before you know it the fully functional well behaved computer you fondly remember from 30 minutes ago is gone and in its place you now have a devil child that won t even boot If you restore an image backup taken before you installed the errant program you effectively remove all traces of the program your computer returns to the state it was in before you installed the errant program and life goes on as if the errant program never existed on your hard drive To understand the technical details of how Image for DOS creates a sector based image see Appendix C Introduction to Hard Drive Storage on Page 165 After backing up with Image for DOS your computer is protected from crashes data loss hardware problems and malicious software i e viruses since you can restore the snapshot image whenever necessary You can view individual files or folders from an image backup by us
221. rogress 1 Use this option to enable updating the progress and elapsed time in the background When you enable background updating Image for DOS can update the elapsed time even if the program is waiting for a device to respond Default if omitted Image for DOS updates the progress and elapsed time directly rather than in the background This is the default behavior because some systems lock up when background updating is enabled npata NoPATA 1 Use this option to prevent Image for DOS from directly accessing PATA controllers Image for DOS User Manual Page 104 of 186 Default if omitted Image for DOS can access PATA controllers nsata NoSATA 1 Use this option to prevent Image for DOS from directly accessing SATA controllers Use this option if you are experiencing system hangs or drive access problems when using Image for DOS These issues arise when Image for DOS cannot match a SATA drive to a BIOS drive and defaults to using the BIOS drive When Image for DOS accesses the BIOS drive the BIOS will hang the system until it times out if ever While the ShareSATA 1 option as explained below would allow a BIOS to share the devices you might still find it necessary to use this option to disable low level SATA support altogether Disabling this option only affects access of SATA CD DVD drives the hard drives would continue to be accessible via the BIOS Default if omitted Image for DOS can access SATA contro
222. rtition s to restore Highlight the partition to check and click the Information button in mage for Windows Image for DOS GUI and Image for Linux GUI or press F1 in Image for Windows Console Image for DOS and Image for Linux Along with other details the number of MiB to Restore is displayed This is the minimum space required to restore this partition Please note that this value represents the data only operating systems may require an additional minimal amount of free space in order to function correctly To Check an Existing Image File from the Command line Run the TeraByte imaging program of your choice from the Command Prompt and specify the L ALL and F options Program output can be redirected to a file for easy reference Note Version 2 66 or later is required to use this method Using Image for Windows Image for Windows Console or Image for DOS 1 If running in Windows start an Administrator Command Prompt 2 Change to the folder containing imagew exe imagewc exe or image exe 3 Run the command Image for Windows is used below imagew 1 all f e backups my backup gt output txt This will obtain all the partition information from the e backups my backup tbi image and save it to a file named output txt in the same folder as imagew exe If using Image for Windows Console or Image for DOS you can view the output onscreen by not redirecting it For example imagewc 1 all f e backups my
223. rwise Table 6 Image for DOS Required Validate Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable JM N A Use this option to indicate that you want to validate an image file Also required CDn or a path name as described below to identify the location of the backup image you want to validate f N A Use this option to specify the target drive letter path and file name for a backup file Image for DOS User Manual Page 141 of 186 f x Milename f x mypath filename f x my path file name Or f d p ilename f d p mypath filename f d p my path filename f ntsig p mypath bkup x is target drive letter mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Or Specify target device partition path and file name d is target hard drive number p is target partition ID hex or decimal notation NT Disk Signature Follows GUID GPT Disk GUID mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Device modifiers may be used as needed When used they must be placed after the f and before the target hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI v Virtual device o Optical drive when you combine this option with any of the options mentioned above this option must come last Wh
224. s Desktop You can now double click the shortcut to run Image for DOS Creating a Network Boot Diskette If you are using Windows NT 4 Server use the Network Client Administrator under Administrative Tools to create a network boot diskette If you don t have Windows NT 4 Server you can download DSK3 1 EXE and DSK3 2 EXE from the Microsoft ftp site to obtain the Microsoft Network Client for MS DOS ftp ftp microsoft com bussys clients MSCLIENT to create your own network boot diskettes You may have to search for a DOS driver for your network card You may want to also consider using Bart s Network Boot Disk located at http www nu2 nu bootdisk network or a boot disk found at http www netbootdisk com This disk is easy to set up and you ll find quite a few DOS drivers available here If you experience very slow network speeds try using the IOBS A environment variable as explained later in this document Customizing CDBOOT F35 As long aS CDBOOT INS points to CDBOOT F35 and CDBOOT F35 is in the current directory Image for DOS will create a bootable CD DVD BD when creating a backup image and storing it on CD DVD BD discs However the bootable disc Image for DOS creates will restore only from an ATAPI CD DVD BD drive on one of the IDE controllers or SATA controllers in ATA mode or combination PATA SATA mode If you would like to restore from another device you will need to create your own b
225. s installation found e00 EjectOpticalOnly 1 Use this option to have Image for DOS only eject optical media Other types of removable media will not be ejected when another media is required This option applies only when the noej NoEject 1 option is not used Default if omitted Image for DOS will eject both optical and other removable media as required simple Simple 1 Use this option to enable the Simple Operations mode Image for DOS will automatically Image for DOS User Manual Page 113 of 186 handle most options for you For example to back up a drive you simply choose which physical drive you want to back up and if needed which drive you want to save to Backups are saved to a store on the destination drive e g TeraByte_TBI_Backups The storage area is maintained automatically with backups being deleted as needed when space runs out Only Backup Restore and Validate operations are available in this mode When using the command line only backing up is supported To use Simple Operations mode when backing up from the command line use the d parameter to specify the drive to back up and optionally use the f parameter to specify the storage drive path must be root path and use direct access not a drive letter Do not specify a base image or any filenames To specify the maximum number of incremental backups you want in each chain use the mi parameter Once a backup of a drive has been saved to
226. s logging Default if omitted Image for DOS logs during a backup operation Image for DOS Restore Options In Table 4 you find the command line options that you must set to use Image for DOS to restore a backup image Table 5 shows you optional parameters you can set The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Restore_Defaults section unless as noted otherwise Table 4 Image for DOS Required Restore Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable Jr WA Use this option to indicate that you want to restore an image file Also required The f option to specify image file Image for DOS should use when restoring d N A Use when restoring a backup to identify the target hard drive and partition Image for DOS will restore the image to the same hard drive number and physical location on the drive that you backed up unless you override this setting If the target partition was a volume and no extended partition now exists at the original location Image for DOS will attempt to create the original extended partition If Image for DOS cannot create the extended partition Image for DOS will restore the image as a primary partition If the target partition was originally
227. s not selected the alignment used on the target drive will be determined automatically based on the source drive Change Disk ID and GUIDs This option only applies to full drive copies It allows you to change the NT Signature restored to the target drive For target GPT drives the MBR NT Signature the GPT Disk GUID and the partition GUIDs will all be changed This can be useful if you plan on having both the original and restored hard drive in the same computer at the same time otherwise Windows may detect the duplicate signature and modify it which may depending on the OS prevent the restored hard drive from booting properly Validate Byte for Byte If you select this option Image for DOS will verify that every byte in the source location was written to the target location correctly ensuring 100 accuracy This option generally increases the processing time of the overall operation but we advise you use this option where maximum reliability is required Write Standard MBR Code If you select this option Image for DOS will install standard master boot code to the Master Boot Record MBR after completing the copy operation The other portions of the MBR i e the partition table disk signature etc will not be affected Otherwise Image for DOS will install the standard master boot code only when it appears that there is no existing boot code Copy Unused Sectors By default Image for DOS copies only sectors in use If
228. s on a hard drive or a virtual drive select the applicable drive from the list shown and then select the correct partition Image for DOS User Manual Page 51 of 186 6 On the Select Existing Backup File To Use File Selection screen that appears select the TBI file that corresponds to the desired existing backup You can type the name of the TBI file you don t need to type the TBI file extension or you can press Tab and then use the arrow keys to highlight the file and press Enter to select it If the TBI file resides inside a folder highlight the folder and press Enter to display the contents of the folder Image for DOS GUI 2 78 D Select the existing backup file to use Name Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi Name Size Date Time RECYCLE BIN lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm System Volume Information Win SRP 2011 12 20 tbi 10 452 992 12 20 2011 10 00 am Unlimited d If you open a folder and want to navigate back to the parent folder select the list item and press Enter If you select a file that you created using the encryption or the password protect option supply the correct password to continue Image for DOS will prompt for the locations of any backups in the selected chain if it s unable to locate them in the folder of the existing backup 7 On the Backup To Select File Access Method screen that appears c
229. s option instructs Image for DOS to leave the last 10 of each disc unused to help prevent data errors that are more common near the edges of discs Compression Select Standard or one of the Enhanced options to compress the backup files that Image for DOS creates With compression Image for DOS typically produces smaller image files but takes longer to back up If you select None Image for DOS creates your backup more quickly but produces larger image file s The attainable compression ratio depends on a number of factors including the number size and content of the files on the source partition and the level of file fragmentation on the source partition Typically Image for DOS compresses backup files 40 60 However if the source partition primarily contains files that do not compress well such as media files like MP3 JPG and AVI or archive files like 7Z RAR and ZIP the compression ratio will be much lower The Enhanced Size A B C options correspond to the Enhanced Normal Slower Slowest options used by version 2 71 and earlier These options provide greater compression but the backups may take considerably longer The Image for DOS User Manual Page 46 of 186 Enhanced Size D E F options are faster than their A B C counterparts but offer slightly less compression The Enhanced Speed A B options offer decent compression with the emphasis on back up speed over backup file size Note The Enhanced Size D E F and En
230. s the Combine parameters you can use when you run Image for DOS from the command line Table 11 Image for DOS Combine Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable combine N A Use this command to combine a differential or incremental images of a backup chain into a single image file The newly created image is a full image and can be used as the base image for future differential or incremental backups The f parameter is used to specify the file name of the new image file Use the base parameter to specify the starting file to combine all files from the this file back to the original base file will be combined Optionally you can specify the hash option to automatically create the hash file for the new image file To remove the combined files specify the del option to delete the original image files combined after the process has finished deleting the files will render any remaining incrementals in the chain unusable In the following examples a full backup has been created followed by five incremental backups E Backups Win7 Full tbi E Backups Win7 Inc 1 tbi Backups Win7 Inc 2 tbi E Backups Win7 Inc 3 tbi E Backups Win7 Inc 4 tbi E Backups Win7 Inc 5 tbi ed G Running the following command will combine all five incremental backups and the base Image for DOS User Manual Page 157 of 186 full into a new backup image named Win7 Current The existing increme
231. sanees 92 DEPLOYING YOUR IMAGE 95 IMAGE FOR DOS ADVANCED CONFIGURATION OP IONS aaaananaanaananaanaa 97 IMAGE FOR DOS INL EE ege d se ege SE AR REENEN EE Ee 97 IMAGE FOR DOS ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ainenenneneennereenereerirrerrrrierrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrre ne 97 IMAGE FOR DOS FILE PATH VApIABLES 98 RUNNING IMAGE FOR DOS FROM THE COMMAND UNE 99 IMAGE FOR DOS BACKUP OPTIONS s ssseeneenenerenrrrnrrinrrrrrrrrerirerrretrrnrrnrrrnrrrnrrrnerne 116 IMAGE FOR DOS RESTORE OpPTIONS 127 IMAGE FOR DOS VALIDATE OPTIONS cccccecececececececececececenececeececeneeeneeneeeneeeneeenees 141 IMAGE FOR DOS COPY OPTIONS cccececececcececececececenecececeneceneeeneeenueneeeneeeneeeneeenees 145 IMAGE FOR DOS UsSrOpPTmONS trin tre trrnrrrn erene rrr errena 156 IMAGE FOR DOS COMBINE ODPTIONS 157 TROWBLESHOOTING wace ee ee 160 APPENDIX A UNDERSTANDING THE TYPES OF BACKUPS aiaaaanaanananan 161 FILE BASED BAGKUP eege ene even a te REENEN 161 SECTOR BASED Backup 161 APPENDIX B BACKUP STRATEGIES ccccccccecceeccecceeececceccaeececceeeaeeceeens 162 FWLEIBAGKUPS corrua r a a 28a be EE 162 INCREMENTAL BAGKUPS et ege e EE hah eae ane 162 DIFFERENTIAL BACKUPS ga i osc ee Ee ee ed 163 APPENDIX C INTRODUCTION TO HARD DRIVE GSTORAGE 165 THE PHYSICAL HARD DpiwE trin kontr trior rrn aranaren nenna 165 THE LOGICAL HARD DRIVE HARD DRIVE DATA ORGANISATION 165 APPENDIX D RESTORING TO A SMALLER DRIVE OR PARTITION 168
232. se this option to use the operating system file services to restore the image files You must use this option when restoring images to a mapped network drive File Direct This option allows you to look for image file s in a folder ona hard drive that does not have a drive letter assigned to it by DOS File CD DVD This option allows you to look for image file s on a CD DVD BD disc 4 Onthe Restore From Select Drive Interface screen that appears select one of the following options These options refer to how Image for DOS should attempt to access the hard drive or CD DVD BD drive where your image is stored If you chose File Direct in Step 3 you can choose one of the following options BIOS Locates and accesses drives using the system BIOS Please note that any problems or limitations inherent to the system BIOS will apply BIOS Direct Attempts to locate the hard drive using the system BIOS but then attempts to access it directly bypassing the BIOS This can sometimes be helpful in cases where performance with the BIOS option is very poor In order to get the most out of this option when creating an image you should select a File Direct rather than File OS for the File Access Method of as the target for restoring the image Image for DOS User Manual Page 56 of 186 Use BIOS direct when you are going to be accessing SATA hard drives and CD DVD BD drives at any time during the Restore pr
233. sk Image for DOS V2 Select Target ISO File B Floppy il A 3 Floppy B CD DVD S es CD Speed Optimal e lt lt Previous Sei Cancel Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Image for DOS User Manual Page 22 of 186 You can create a bootable USB flash drive with MakeDisk as long as the USB flash drive is not larger than 64 GB If you choose the ISO File option also supply an ISO file name in the box provided If you choose the 3 1 2 Floppy option be sure to insert a floppy diskette before proceeding The entire contents of this floppy diskette will be overwritten If you choose the CD DVD option be sure to insert a writable CD or DVD disc before proceeding The entire contents of this disc will be overwritten MakeDisk can automatically overwrite CD RW and DVD RW media However if you wish to use DVD RW media it must be either brand new or fully blanked before being processed by MakeDisk To fully blank the DVD RW media use your burning software s full erase function The quick erase function will not work for this purpose Ifyou select a USB flash drive UFD you also must select the USB Mode to use Normal No Partition Partition or Partition Ex whichever works on your computer your computer s BIOS determines which option works Normal Raw Boot Image Creates a 1 44
234. sk GUID mypath or my path is path to filename f ntsig p mypath filename f GUID p mypath filename filename is target file name for image Device modifiers may be used as needed When used they must be placed after the f and before the target hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device Image for DOS User Manual Page 158 of 186 f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI o Optical drive when you combine this option with any of the options mentioned above this option must come last v Virtual drive Whether using drive letter or device partition you may specify any path desired Paths and or file names with imbedded spaces require the use of quotes o can be used with a u f and s base N A This parameter specifies the starting image file to combine All image files in the chain from this file back to the original base file will be combined base x bkup base x mypath bkup base x my path bkup Or base d p bkup base d p mypath bkup base d p my path bkup base ntsig p mypath bkup base GUID p mypath bkup X is source drive letter mypath or my path is path to bkup bkup is name of existing backup omit file extension Or Specify source device partition path and file name d is source hard drive number p is source partition ID hex or decimal notation NT Di
235. sk Signature Follows GUID GPT Disk GUID You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the base and before the source hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI o Optical drive when you combine this option with any of the options mentioned Image for DOS User Manual Page 159 of 186 above this option must come last v Virtual drive Whether using drive letter or device partition you may specify any path desired Paths and or file names with imbedded spaces require the use of quotes del n N A Use this option to remove the combined files After the combine process has finished the original image files will be deleted Deleting the files will render any remaining incrementals in the chain unusable Use del 1 or del to delete all the original image files Use del 2 to delete all except the base full image file Default if omitted The original image files will not be deleted N A The following backup parameters can optionally be used when combining images comp select compression enc encryption and or password protection noej don t auto open optical drive tray Jobs adjust I O performance desc_ specify image description bc backwards compatible md auto create target path Iv validate image m
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238. stem When you specify command line options you precede each option by typing the slash character For example you might type the following at the command prompt to create a backup using Image for DOS The command specifies the source drive and partition the target drive and partition and the backup filename MAGE b d 0 0x01 1 0x01 mypath filename The first parameter b identifies that you want to perform a backup Image for DOS User Manual Page 99 of 186 The second parameter d 0 identifies the drive to back up This example backs up Hard Drive 0 The next part of that parameter 0x01 identifies the partition to back up on the selected hard drive this example backs up the first partition If you want to back up the entire drive simply omit the part of the parameter that identifies the partition The third parameter identifies that you are about to specify where to store the backup file 1 identifies the target drive and 0x01 again identifies the partition in this example Image for DOS will store the backup file on Hard Drive 1 in the partition with ID 0x01 The information after 0x01 represents the path and file name where you want to store the backup file In this example Image for DOS stores the backup file in mypath filename To list partitions on a hard drive you would type image 1 d 0 In this example d 0 identifies hard drive 0 as the drive for which you want to list part
239. store any data Sector Based Backup A sector based backup also called imaging differs from file based backup because imaging operates on the entire partition including all files and the operating system itself This is the method of backup employed by Image for DOS When you create a sector based image as your backup you back up not only your data files but also the operating system in its entirety If you restore a sector based backup your computer returns to the state it was in when you created the image Image for DOS places all information on the target drive in the exact location where it appeared when you created the image In addition you can Restore a sector based backup even if the operating system isn t accessible effectively performing a bare metal restoration Restore individual files if you want using the free TBIView or TBIMount add ons Image for DOS User Manual Page 161 of 186 Appendix B Backup Strategies Whether you create file based backups or sector based backups you can choose between three different backup methods Full Backups Incremental Backups Differential Backups In this section you will find information that explains each of these backup methods The backup method you choose actually affects you most when you need to restore the backup some backups are easier to restore than others In addition to understanding backup methods it s also important to store your backup
240. t vb PostValidate 2 Set this parameter to instruct Image for DOS to perform a byte for byte validation of the image file s as part of the backup operation This also performs a standard validation To set the INI value use PostValidate 2 Default if omitted Image for DOS does not validate the backup image after creating it vpd ValidateDisk 1 You can use this option when saving images to a CD or DVD drive This option ensures that the discs containing image files are readable and verifies that the data on the discs appears to be the same as the data that Image for DOS used to create the discs Per disc validation can detect media errors that may have occurred during the disc writing process If Image for DOS detects an error Image for DOS will prompt you to recreate the failed disc Default if omitted H you do not enable this option Image for DOS will notify you of errors only after the backup process completes and you will need to recreate all discs in the Image for DOS User Manual Page 122 of 186 backup Idu LimitDiscUsage 1 You can use this option when saving images to a CD or DVD drive This option leaves the last 10 of the disc unused which tends to encounter more data errors Default if omitted lf you do not enable this option Image for DOS will use the entire disc comp n Compression n Specifies how Image for DOS should compress backup files as they are created Valid values for n a
241. t being used to copy Image for DOS User Manual Page 153 of 186 Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the geometry of the target drive c n c n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with h and s to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you copy This parameter specifies the last cylinder and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the BIOS reported values of the drive h n h n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with c and s to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you copy This parameter specifies the last head and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the BIOS reported values of the drive s n s n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with c and h to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you copy This parameter specifies the last sector and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the BIOS reported values of the drive Iren N A Use this parameter to resize a partition after copy nis the size in MiB s that you want to establish for the copied partition If you try to use this parameter in conjunction with x the Expand option x overrides rs Default if omitted Image for DOS copies the partition w
242. tached to a USB 2 controller EEE1394 Select this option if your CD DVD BD drive is attached to an IEEE 1394 controller Image for DOS User Manual Page 72 of 186 4 Either the Validate Select File Drive shown in the figure or the Validate Select Target Drive screen appears depending on whether you are validating an image stored on a hard drive or on CD DVD BD discs For images stored on CD DVD BD discs insert the first disc in the set and then select the corresponding optical drive from the list If you select a hard drive the Validate Select File Location on HD screen appears After you select the hard drive you can select a partition on the hard drive if it contains partitions Select File Drive Hard Drive 0 Hard Drive 1 gt Hard Drive 2 IMAGE for DOS TeraByte Unlimited Image for DOS User Manual Page 73 of 186 5 On the screen that appears type the name of the image file you want to validate You do not have to supply a file extension just the path and file name itself If you prefer use the Tab key and the arrow keys to navigate to the image file you want to validate If you select a differential or incremental backup to validate and Image for DOS is unable to locate all of the base images you will be prompted to locate the required backup file s Image for DOS GUI 267 Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi Name KA Size Date Time RECYCLE BIN lt DIR gt 12
243. the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted Image for DOS treats the selected drive as a drive that uses a partition table anpt AssumeNoPartTable 0x40000 Place under the HDx section Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to treat the selected drive as a drive that doesn t use a partition table only if the first sector on the drive is all zeros If you use this option on the command line you must place it before the device is specified Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted Image for DOS treats the selected drive as a drive that uses a partition table nptrm NPTOptRemMedOnly 0x80000 Goes under the HDx section Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to apply the npt or anpt options on removable media only If you use this option on the command line you must place it before the device is specified Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted Image for DOS applies the npt or anpt option to all drives geodis GlobalGeoDisable 1 Use this to disable the global geometry settings and revert to using program defaults or drive specific overrides equivalent to versions prior to 2 52 This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted Global geometry options are not disabled geoah GlobalGeoAlignHS 1
244. this only if you are an advanced user and understand the potential ramifications of not rebooting Geometry Settings If you restore an individual partition you can use this window to override geometry settings stored in the backup file Settings Geometry Override Drive 1 cfo S pfo Giel ei J Use MBR Geometry E Validate MBR Geometry IT Use Original Geometry Alignment H Align on End IT Align End by Resizing T Align on 1MiB Boundaries T Align MBR Ending HS IT Align MBR HS when Truncated T Use Global Settings V Save Cancel The Geometry Override settings allow you to set alignment options as well as specific Cylinder C Head H or Sector S to use for a particular drive In addition to manually entering the values you can enable the Use MBR Geometry to have Image for DOS set the geometry based on the MBR entry of the first partition in the backup Or you can enable Use Original Geometry to have Image for DOS use the geometry from the backup image that represents the geometry from the environment used to create the backup This CHS option is helpful when you need to specify geometry values that differ from those assigned by the operating environment and you use this option when you attach a hard drive from another machine to the USB port of another machine to restore the first machine s image C Last Cylinder 0 to 1023 H Last Head 0 to 254 S Sectors per Track 1 to 63
245. tion 2 1 44 MB Floppy diskette emulation 3 2 88 MB Floppy diskette emulation 4 Hard drive emulation Load Sectors Number of virtual emulated sectors to load at boot File System Type Partition file system ID Load Segment Segment to load boot System type for boot catalog 0x00 Normal OxEF UEFI Each boot file specification must go on its own line and at least one line with a non zero Load Sectors value is required If you supply more than one boot file specification with a non zero Load Sectors value only the first one will be used and any others will simply be copied to the disc The default content of CDBOOT INS is CD BOOT F35 C 2 1 Using this default configuration Image for DOS will Look for CDBOOT F35 in the current directory Image for DOS User Manual Page 93 of 186 Place the boot file in the root directory of the disc with the name CDBOOT F35 Cache the boot file in memory Use 1 44 MB floppy emulation Load one emulated sector Use the default file system type Use the default load segment Use the normal non UEFI system type for boot catalog Image for DOS User Manual Page 94 of 186 Deploying Your Image When you deploy an image you restore it to a number of computers in an organization Therefore the information in this section does not apply to most home users Image for DOS does not change the SID of Windows NT 2000 XP 2003 Vista an
246. tion use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to choose the target area automatically based on the first area of available free space large enough to accommodate the partition you want to restore When restoring or copying a full drive this parameter will remove any gaps free space between partitions restoring them adjacent to each other Default if omitted You must explicitly specify the target area when restoring a partition Gaps may exist between restored partitions when restoring or copying a full drive last LastFit 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS place the restored partition at the top of the last free block large enough e g restore to the end of the drive This option is valid only when restoring a single partition and doesn t support resizing Default if omitted Image for DOS will restore the partition normally toward the start of the drive or free space area rp n N A This option is intended for use when restoring multiple partitions from a backup image located on a recovery partition to the drive containing the recovery partition All partitions on the drive except the partition indicated by the ID value n will be deleted prior to the restore Typically this option would be used with x rft or x m rft Scaling of the restored partitions will operate as if a full drive image were being restored This option is only supported when restoring multiple partitions and cannot be used when restoring
247. tion you can compact the file system to under 100GB before copying it to the 100GB partition 5 On the Copy To Select Drive Interface screen that appears select one of the following options These options refer to how Image for DOS should attempt to access the target hard drive BIOS Locates and accesses drives using the system BIOS Please note that any problems or limitations inherent to the system BIOS will apply BIOS Direct Attempts to locate the hard drive using the system BIOS but then attempts to access it directly bypassing the BIOS This can sometimes be helpful in cases where performance with the BIOS option is very poor Use BIOS direct when you are going to be accessing SATA hard drives and CD DVD BD drives or using the BIOS direct option anywhere USB Examines the attached USB controller if any for available high speed hard drives If your USB device does not appear at first please try pressing the Esc key waiting a few seconds and selecting the USB or USB2 option again EEE1394 Examines the attached IEEE 1394 controller if any for available hard drives Virtual Drive Enables you to select a single file virtual drive on which to store a copy Note that a new virtual drive must be partitioned and formatted before you can use it Image for DOS User Manual Page 81 of 186 6 On the Copy To Select Target Drive screen that appears select the drive on which you
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249. tion marks around it This option can be specified multiple times as required by the backup image chain base differential incrementals Default if omitted Image for DOS does not supply a password log 0 SaveLog 0 Disables logging Default if omitted Image for DOS logs during a validate operation Image for DOS Copy Options In Table 8 you find the command line options that you can set to use Image for DOS to make a copy of a partition or drive The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Copy_Defaults section Table 8 Image for DOS Required Copy Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable copy N A Use this option to indicate that you want to perform a copy sd N A Use this option to identify the source hard drive and partition For most users the Image for DOS User Manual Page 145 of 186 partition ID will be a number from 1 through 4 For partition IDs of 9 or below you can use a Single digit in place of hexadecimal notation e g 1 is equivalent to 0x1 and 5 is equivalent to 0x5 The volume ID will be a number formatted as OxPVV where Pis the extended partition and VV is the volume number in hexadecimal from 01 to FF If y
250. ty controls you those organizations employees and in house contractors and those organization s in house Computer Systems owned or controlled by those organizations ii Personal or Home Users f you are a real person and if all Software under this license is used exclusively for personal non commercial use only then each licensed copy may be installed on two additional Computer Systems owned or controlled by you or a member of your immediate family Control For purposes of this Agreement a person or entity controls a Computer System when he she or it has actual control over the day to day use of that Computer System d RESERVATION OF RIGHTS All rights and licenses not expressly granted by TeraByte in this Agreement are entirely and exclusively reserved to TeraByte e IMAGE LICENSES lf the Software s functionality as licensed includes the ability to create one or more disk partition images or otherwise copy one or more partitions Images then the use of each Image is subject to all of the conditions and restrictions of this Agreement Your rights to create and distribute Images are based on the Software licensed and the type of license you purchased as may be indicated on your sales receipt or comparable sales documentation received by you from TeraByte i PER COMPUTER IMAGE LICENSE Each licensed copy of the Software includes without extra charge a per computer license to create and keep Images
251. type a name for the image file you want to create Image for DOS suggests a filename that includes identifying information For example in the default name shown in the screen below d stands for the Direct method refer to Step 3 O represents the drive being backed up and YYYY MM DD HHMM represent the date in 4 digit year 2 digit month and 2 digit day format and time in 2 digit hour and minute format the backup started If you opt to back up a partition instead of an entire drive the partition ID follows the drive number If you use the BIOS Direct method refer to Step 3 Image for DOS replaces d with b You do not have to supply a file extension just the path and file name itself Image for DOS will automatically add the TBI extension If you selected File OS you must follow DOS naming conventions and use a file name that does not exceed eight characters Image for DOS GUI 2 67 H Enter a filename for the backup Name Size Date Time RECYCLE BIN lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm System Volume Information lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 1 41 pm Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi 566 12 20 2011 9 56 am Win SRP 2011 12 20 tbi 10 452 992 12 20 2011 10 00 am d Information Note To access drives using UNC paths first map the drive using the net use x server share command Then simply specify the path as usual e g x folder file where x
252. u should set to use Image for DOS are set for you by default but you can use this screen to set additional options For example you might want to use the TimeZone variable to identify your time zone for Image for DOS Or you might want the Scale to Fit option enabled by default to expand partitions when restoring Note that for non global options those not in the Options section you will need to specify the section e g Restore Defaults See image below for examples For a complete list of available environment variables see the section Image for DOS Environment Variables on Page 97 tat MakeDisk Image for DOS V2 S m Additional IFD INI Options optional Separate multiple options with semicolons TimeZone ESTSEDT More Ip estore_Defaults Expand 1 More Kees lt lt Previous i Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Image for DOS User Manual Page 21 of 186 10 Click Next and the License Product Key screen appears If you own a licensed copy of Image for DOS supply your product key GC MakeDisk Image for DOS V2 License Image for DOS Product Key 0000 1 111 2222 lt lt Previous f Next gt gt Cancel Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 11 Click Next and the Select Target screen appears Choose the target that MakeDisk should use to create the bootable Image for DOS media SW MakeDi
253. ues for the target drive when you restore a backup image This parameter specifies the last head and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the BIOS reported values of the drive s n s n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with c and h to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you restore a backup image This parameter specifies the last sector and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the BlIOS reported values of the drive gc GeoCalc n Place under the HDx section Determine how a devices geometry is obtained or calculated 0 Default 1 LBA 2 Large 3 Normal 4 Bit Shift 5 Device Bit Shift Default if omitted Default method is used rsin N A Use this parameter to resize a partition after restoring nis the size in MiB s that you want to establish for the restored partition If you try to use this parameter in conjunction with x the Expand option x overrides rs Default if omitted Image for DOS restores the partition without resizing exlist n ExcludeList n This option will override the method used when excluded files folders are restored the backup image being restored must have been created with an exclusion list Image for DOS User Manual Page 140 of 186 The following values for n are supported 0 Excluded files are restored with their actual s
254. umber Image for DOS will replace the prior definition for that virtual drive You must define the virtual device before using it with other command line parameters using one of two formats a Just include the filename of an existing virtual drive Example vO D VHD Files myvirtualdisk vhd b Provide additional parameters after the filename using commas as shown in the sample above and the following example v2 myvirtualdisk vmdk r vmdks 2048 For the cr parameter use the letter C or the letter R Image for DOS User Manual Page 101 of 186 C Tells Image for DOS to create a new virtual drive if one doesn t exist R Tells Image for DOS to recreate the virtual drive even if one already exists Note that Image for DOS gives no warning before recreating a virtual drive For the type parameter the following values are supported raw A plain raw file that is allocated as the virtual drive vhdd VirtualPC Dynamic Expanding file vhdf VirtualPC Fixed file vhdxd Hyper V Virtual Hard Disk Dynamic Expanding file vhdxf Hyper V Virtual Hard Disk Fixed file vhdxd4 Hyper V Virtual Hard Disk Dynamic Expanding file with a sector size of 4KiB 4096 bytes vhdxf4 Hyper V Virtual Hard Disk Fixed file with a sector size of 4KiB 4096 bytes vmdk VMWare Monolithic Sparse IDE file vmdks VMWare Monolithic Sparse SCSI file For Windows caching reasons it is highly recommended to create partitions within a VHDxX file that are alig
255. umber of the backed up drive will be used odid OutputDiskID 1 Use this option to enable command line output and relevant log entries to use the Disk ID NT Signature or GUID instead of drive numbers where the drive has an ID and the ID is unique Specifying the Disk ID instead of the drive number may be more stable especially for setup of scheduling backups on systems where the drive order may change Note Disk ID based items are only supported on the default bus bus device modifiers are not supported Examples image b d 0xFD2C4742 0x1 E mybackup image b d 88AA61DC 7D91 4369 97FF 770EAE169F25 0x4 Default if omitted Drive numbers will be used in command line output ca CompletionAlarm 1 Use this option to enable an audible alarm upon completion of an operation errors or when user interaction is required insert media etc Default if omitted The alarm will not be used cr 0 CacheResize 0 Use this option to disable using a cache to reduce the time required to resize a partition Default if omitted Image for DOS will use a cache to speed up resizing a partition dwdl 0 DisableWinDL 0 Use this option to disable searching for Windows drive letters when using the Simple Operations mode of Image for DOS Drive letters will not be displayed when selecting a drive Default if omitted Image for DOS will search for the drive letter mapping of the first Window
256. used to set a specific ID value to the restored partition if an EMBR exists The ID is only used if not already in use by another partition To assume the same ID as a partition being overwritten use the value zero for n Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the restored partition s original id gpt N A Image for DOS User Manual Page 132 of 186 Instruct Image for DOS to create a GPT on the target drive Note that restoring first track overrides this option This is mainly used with the clr option to ensure the full size of the drive that is greater than 2TiB is accessible You can also provide an option nomsr if the GPT to be created should not have a Microsoft Reserved Partition created on it While Image for DOS supports a GPT it does not currently officially support an EFI based system Default if omitted Image for DOS does not create a GPT on the drive rft RFT 1 Use this parameter to have Image for DOS restore the first track when it restores the partition Restoring the first track may also change the disk type MBR EMBR GPT of the destination drive if it doesn t match that of the source drive the restore will abort if the change is required and cannot be applied Default if omitted Image for DOS does not restore the first track fts n RFTS n Use this option to specify how many sectors of the first track of the hard drive Image for DOS should restore Use 0 to indicate the entire track
257. using the BIOS drive in this case the system will hang until the BIOS returns control if ever If you experience hangs and or the inability to access a hard drive without an error message recreate the boot media with the Disable SATA checkbox checked Disable SATA Bias Because some systems have no support whatsoever to match BIOS and SATA drives see paragraph above Image for DOS employs a special matching routine to try to identify the BIOS drives that relate to each SATA drive In some cases Image for DOS might inadvertently match a BIOS drive to a SATA drive incorrectly If you experience such an issue recreate the boot media with the Disable SATA Bias checkbox checked Image for DOS User Manual Page 17 of 186 7 USB 1 1 UHCI If you need USB 1 1 UHCI support for older systems that don t support USB 2 0 enable this option In addition some new systems require this option or the USB port will hang and Image for DOS won t detect any USB devices USB 2 0 support is always enabled regardless of this option Correct USB Hang 1 If you experience problems with USB devices hanging you can enable this option to attempt to correct it This option can degrade USB IO performance Correct USB Hang 2 If you experience problems with USB devices hanging you can enable this option to attempt to correct it This option can degrade USB IO performance Disable Checkbox Selection Disables the use of check boxes t
258. utton Creating a DOS Boot Diskette from Windows XP Vista 1 Insert a floppy diskette to format 2 Click Start and select My Computer 3 Right click the A drive and select Format 4 Check the box next to Create an MS DOS startup disk 5 Click Start Starting Image for DOS Automatically Upon Boot To have Image for DOS run automatically when booting from diskette use a text editor such as Notepad to create a file with only one line in it as follows IMAGE EXE Save this file using the name AUTOEXEC BAT and place it on your floppy disk Note If your diskette already has an AUTOEXEC BAT file on it use Notepad to open the AUTOEXEC BAT file start a new blank line at the end of the file and add the line above Automatically Running Image for DOS from Windows 95 98 You can run Image for DOS automatically from Windows 95 98 After you download the Image for DOS ZIP archive and extract its contents as described previously you can create a shortcut on your Windows Desktop Right click IMAGE EXE and click Send To On the menu that appears click Desktop Create Shortcut On your Windows Desktop right click the shortcut and follow these steps Image for DOS User Manual Page 91 of 186 1 Click Properties to display the Properties dialog box 2 Click the Program tab 3 Click the Advanced button 4 Check MS DOS Mode check box 5 Click OK until you return to the Window
259. ve letter mypath or my path is path to bkup bkup is name of existing backup omit file extension Or Specify source device partition path and file name dis source hard drive number p is source partition ID hex or decimal notation NT Disk Signature Follows Page 117 of 186 GUID GPT Disk GUID You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the base and before the source hard drive number b BIOS access method d BIOS Direct access method a ATA ATAPI access method u USB device f IEEE 1394 device s Use ASPI o Optical drive when you combine this option with any of the options mentioned above this option must come last v Virtual drive Whether using drive letter or device partition you may specify any path desired Paths and or file names with imbedded spaces require the use of quotes The base option cannot be used with the d option f N A Use this option to specify the target drive letter path and file name for a backup file f x Milename f x mypath filename f x my path file name Or f d p ilename f d p mypath filename f d p my path filename f ntsig p mypath filename f GUID p mypath filename x is target drive letter mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Or Specify target device partition path and file name
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261. y nshould be a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting is only applicable when you are validating an image stored on disc media The maximum reading speed that is actually used is determined by whichever is lower The cdrs n value that you specify or the speed deemed appropriate by the drive s firmware according to the disc media in use For example if you are using media that is rated at 32X for reading the maximum reading speed will be no more than 32X regardless of the setting you choose here Similarly if you supply a value that is invalid for or beyond the drive s design limits the drive will automatically use the next highest speed supported by both the drive and the media in use DVD speeds are approximately 1 8 CD speeds so if you are using DVD discs multiply the desired speed by 8 to determine the value to use here For example to obtain a maximum reading speed of 4X with a DVD use cdrs 32 since 8 x 4X 32 Default if omitted Image for DOS uses the Optimal speed setting iobs IOBS 1 Include this option to try to improve I O performance in cases where network or USB device performance is poor Default if omitted Image for DOS does not use this option mp MultiPass 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for DOS to use Multi Pass mode when validating a differential or incremental backup In Multi Pass mode Image for DOS validates the full backup in one pass and the differential backu
262. you select this option Image for DOS will copy all sectors on a partition or drive regardless of whether they contain data For entire drive copies this option causes a raw sector by sector backup and later restore of the entire drive without regard to any partitions or adjustments NOTE This option causes Image for DOS to ignore the Omit Page File Data and Omit Hibernation Data options Wipe Target Unused Sectors This option will wipe zero out unused sectors in the copied partition s or drive depending on the type of copy performed When copying single partitions or when copying multiple partitions to a drive with existing partitions sectors located outside of the copied partition s are not wiped If Image for DOS User Manual Page 83 of 186 a partition is resized during the copy the wiped area for that partition is the final size of the copied partition not the size of the source partition When copying a full drive or when copying multiple partitions to a drive with no existing partitions the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and copy to it ina single operation Omit Page File Data Selected by default this option eliminates page file data from the copy process Omit Hibernation Data Selected by default this option eliminates hibernation data from the copy process Remove Gaps on Copy Select this option to remove any gaps

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