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Create an Image from Files


You may backup only selected files rather than the entire object. You can do that in the Create Image and Create an Image from Files (below) actions. You may also copy those files to a specified folder .

Create Image from selected files from the Action Selection panel

1 Click Create image from files on the Action Selection panel

R-Drive Image will start analyzing the computer disk configuration, the Progress... message showing the progress.

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

Click the controls to learn their functions or go to the respective help pages

 

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 the place on the Choose destination of new image panel to which the image files will be written, specify the file name, and click the Next button

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.

Images 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.

• Image Options panel

Image compression ratio

You may compress the data in the image to save space. Please note that the smaller size you select the more time will be spent to create the image file and vise versa.

Volume size for multi-volume image

You may set this option to Automatic and let Windows decide how to split the image file. This mostly depends on the file system on the destination disk. You may also either explicitly specify the split size, or choose a preset for various devices with removable storage. Select Fixed size for that.

For the RDR format, a new partial file of the image will be started when the previous file reaches the specified file size.

Estimated size

Shows the estimated size of the image file. An actual image size depends on how much empty space is on the selected partition and what file types are there .

Password protection

You may protect your image file with a password. Note: If you leave the Encrypt image option clear this feature will provide a relatively moderate protection against conventional unauthorized access. If this option is selected, R-Drive Image will encrypt the image using the AES-XTS algorithm.

Image description

You may attach a text description to the image for annotation. Maximum length of the description is 255 characters.

Validate image when completed

Select this option if your want R-Drive Image to check the newly created file image for its consistency. This may be useful for storing image files with critical data. Please note that this operation requires additional time.

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

Click to expand/collapse Backup Options

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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