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Copy Files to a Folder


R-Drive Image can copy individual files to a specified folder. Such copy is differential, that is, R-Drive Image compares files in the source and target folders and copies only those files that are new or have been altered.

To create an image:

1 Click Create image from files on the Action Selection panel

R-Drive Image will start analyzing the computer disk configuration.

2 Select files you want to include into the Differential copy on the Select files for new image panel and click the Next button
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Select files for new image panel

You may search for individual files , use filters , or the Batch mode if you want to include all files of several patterns. Such patterns may include multiple file names, masks, and paths.

3 Select a folder to copy files to on the Select destination of new image panel, switch image file format to Differential copy to folder, and click the Next button
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Select the destination for the new image panel

You may select any place including connected network drives, supported CD and DVD Recorders , or any other devices with removable storage. Several cloud services are also supported.

Copied files can be replicated , that is, their copies may be saved to one or other different locations.

Click the Options button to specify additional options and parameters, if necessary.
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Copy options panel

• Copy options

Backup paths

Full : The entire file path starting from the device root will be saved.

Relative : The file path will be saved from the topmost selected folder.

Copy attributes

Specifies how file attributes will be copied: All , Remove hidden/system attributes , Do not copy file attributes .

File copy options

Remove files in the destination that have no matching files in the source

If this checkbox is selected, R-Drive Image will delete those files in the destination folder which have been removed/deleted in the source folder(s). Copy filters are also applied. For example, if only jpg files (the *.jpg filter) are to be copied, only jpg files will be deleted.

Also remove excluded from copy files in the destination

If this checkbox is selected, R-Drive Image will delete all files in the destination folder which have been removed/deleted in the source folder(s), regardless on all copy filters.

Compare file contents even for matching files

R-Drive Image compares matching files by their size and modification time stamp, and overwrites mismatching files. If this checkbox is selected, R-Drive Image will compare  by their content, which severe slows down this operation.

Shutdown computer when completed

If this checkbox is selected, R-Drive Image will shut your computer down when completed the task.

 

• Notifications Options panel

Click to expand/collapse Notifications options

Execute on

You may specify the applications of the *.com , *.exe , and *.pif types, and their parameters delimited by a space.

Mail Notification

If a personal firewall is installed on your computer, you should allow the r-driveimagecl.exe application to get access to the e-mail server.

Test mail account

Click this button to test whether you entered the correct mail settings.

 

• Backup Options panel

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Snapshot provider

A snapshot provider is a service R-Drive Image uses to read the disk content while creating its image. R-Drive Image uses the snapshot providers in the order specified on the tab. If it fails to use the first one selected, it tries to use the second one, and so on.

Windows Volume Snapshot Service

If this check box is selected, R-Drive Image will try to use the Windows native snapshot provider. This snapshot provider is able to notify system applications that a snapshot is being taken.

If this option is selected, pagefile.sys and hibernate.sys files are excluded from the image of the system disk .

R-TT Volume Snapshot Service

If this check box is selected, R-Drive Image will try to use R-TT snapshot provider. This snapshot provider is not able to notify system applications that a snapshot is being taken.

Notify system applications

If this check box is selected, the snapshot provider, if it supports this feature, notifies system applications that a snapshot is being taken.

Limit I/O rate

Specifies the rate limits for reading/writing data from/to disks

Limit read

The rate limit for reading from the source disk

Limit write

The rate limit for writing to the destination disk

Process priority

These options specify how much computer resources R-Drive Image will consume during a backup process.

Backup Process Priority

Specifies the priority of the backup process. Similar to that specified in Windows Task Manager.

Use CPU cores

Specifies how many processor cores R-Drive Image will use for the backup process.

Ignore disk read errors (bad sectors)

If this check box is selected, R-Drive Image will ignore possible read errors when it tries to read data from bad sectors.

R-Drive Image works with disks with bad sectors in the following way:

It reads a certain part of disk (predefined by Windows) and

• If read errors are ignored, the entire part with bad sectors will be filled with zeros.

• If read errors are not ignored, R-Drive Image reads that part sector by sector and shows a warning message for every bad sector with two options: skip the sector or try to read it again. In this case only the bad sectors will be filled with zeros, but all that requires manual actions and extremely slows the imaging process.

Please note that R-Drive Image is developed for the work with normally functioning disks. If you need to image a malfunctioning disk, use R-Studio , a data recovery utility. It has more controls for imaging, and can create R-Drive Image -compatible images even in its demo mode, that is, without registering.

Backup AUX applications

R-Drive Image is able to make applications run before and after all backup operations. Please note that those application should return a 0 exit code. Leave these fields blank if in doubt.

Before

An application R-Drive Image starts before the backup operations starts. If you need to start several applications, you may use a command file.

Example: "cmd.exe /c example.bat"

After

An application R-Drive Image starts after the backup operations completes. If you need to start several applications, you may use a command file.

Example: "cmd.exe /c example.bat"

Snapshot AUX applications

R-Drive Image is able to make applications run before and after taking the snapshot of one or several volumes. Please note that those application should return a 0 exit code. Leave these fields blank if in doubt.

Before

An application R-Drive Image starts before it takes the snapshot of one or several volumes. If you need to start several application, you may use a command file.

Example: "cmd.exe /c example.bat"

After

An application R-Drive Image starts after it takes the snapshot of one or several volumes. If you need to start several application, you may use a command file.

Example: "cmd.exe /c example.bat"

See Creating consistent point-in-time backups for more details.

4 Verify that the information on the Processing panel is correct and click the Start button

You may also create a script for this action. Click the Script to Clipboard button and paste the script to any text-processing utility.

> R-Drive Image will start creating the image file(s)

The Progress bar will show the progress of the current operation and overall process. When the image is created, the Image created successfully. message will appear.

When the operation is over, you may see the results of the operation by clicking the Open logs button .

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