ODIN (Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell) -> Partitionsbackup

ODIN (Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell) -> Partitionsbackup
ODIN 0.31 (Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell) (Anbieter: Kaltduscher65/JensH - GERMANY) DD: Mai 2009 - ca. 300 KB - Englisch - USB Portable Standalone (.zip) - GNU Open Source OS: Windows XP 2003 Vista HP: http://sourceforge.net/projects/odin-win DL: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=208679 SS: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=208679 INFO: http://www.heise.de/software/download/odin_open_disk_imager_in_a_nutshell/58788 Das portable Tool ODIN macht Backups beliebiger lokaler Festplattenpartitionen bzw. erstellt Images von Datenträgern.die sich per Auswahlliste wiederherstellen lassen. Sichert auf Wunsch auch nur die genutzten Cluster einer Platte, wodurch die Images kleiner werden. Seit Version 0.2 sind mit "Save only used Blocks & take a Snapshot" auch Sicherungen der Windows-Partition im laufenden Betrieb möglich (durch den Windows VSS/Volumeschattenkopie Dienst). An image can only be restored to a partition of exactly the same size as the original partition. ODIN will allow you to restore to a bigger partition but this may result in a corrupt file system. Sometimes you may be able to repair this using tools like chkdsk, sometimes it may be unusable. Backup a partition: Select a volume in the list box and click the Backup radio button on the top. Select a destination path in the lower box and check that the target volume has enough space left to store the complete contents of the source drive. You may enter a comment in the text box below that allows you later to identify for which purpose the image was created. Restore a partition: Select a volume in the list box and click the Restore radio button on the top. Select a path in the lower box. The volume in the upper box will be the target volume that the image will be copied to. After changing the keyboard focus the text box below the image file will display the comment that was created for this image. The target volume should have the same size as the original volume and must not be smaller. Verify Select a file in the lower list box and click the Verify button on the side. The verify process will read the complete contents of the image file and check that it contains the same contents as at the time the image was created. If parts of the image file have been manipulated or got modified you will receive an error message. After a backup of a volume you can ensure in this way that the file was written accurately. You can perform a verify at any time after the image was written. Disk and Volume Backups If an image of a single volume or a disk with all blocks is created only a single file is created with the extension .img. If a disk with only used blocks option is created ODIN will produce a file with an .mbr extension plus a .img file for every partition of the disk with the -PartionX.img extension to the provided file name. This set of created files must always be kept together, the .mbr file is not sufficient. The .mbr file contains the master boot record plus the partition information of the disk. You can restore an indvidual partition by selecting a target partition and restore the corresponding .img file from the file set. To restore the complete disk select the .mbr file from the file system and the appopriate disk in the list of available partitions (indicated by label: Entire Disk). Restrictions: During a backup operation no file activity must be performed on the volume. If write operations occur during the backup operation use the Snapshot option for backup. Backing up or restoring large images may take several hours of operation. You must have admin privileges to run ODIN. In Windows Vista the user account control screen will appear after start. Aborting a process By pressing the Exit button you can abort any running operation. When aborting a restore operation the target drive will be in an unusable state so that you will need to reformat it before you can use it again. Options When creating a backup image there exist various settings how an image will be created. Disk Options You can copy all blocks of a disk volume or only the blocks that are currently in use by the file system. Used blocks only can only be backuped if the file system is known, if the volume is mounted and the file system is not corrupted. Normally you should only backup used blocks if the option is available. Save all blocks for example if you want to make a backup of a damaged file system before trying repair attempts. Snapshot Function http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=201296 A snapshot of a volume or disk is a functionality to freeze the current state of a medium and make the backup from the snaphshot while the operating system or running applications can still read and write files during the backup. This allows for example to backup the Windows system partition while Windows is running. Another example might be a database. This functionality requires the VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) being running. For more details refer to the Microsoft documentation of the VSS service. If the VSS is not available this option is greyed out. The VSS is also not available if a 32-Bit application runs under 64-Bit operating system. Using snapshots can significantly lower the performance of the backup operation. Compression Options The blocks that are backuped can be compressed. Compression can save disk space. The amount of saved space highly depends on the data that are stored on the file system. If it contains programs (.exe, .dll files) or text and office files the compression will be efficient. If the volume contains files that are already compressed like multimedia files (videos, MP3, JPEGs) you will not benefit from a compression of the backup image. You can choose between the gzip and the bzip2 compression algorithm. gzip is faster and bzip2 typically achieves a slightly better compression ratio. File Size You can specify a maximum file size for a backup image. If the backup image exceeds the given file size the image file will be split and the file names are appended with a sequence number. This is useful for example if you later want to save the files to CDs or DVDs.

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