Bootnow Enhancement
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:37 pm
I would like to suggest an enhancement to Bootnow where a hidden partition would only be bootable when called from a running OS and not from the default menu. Since I prefer cold backups, I have automated the backups to run at night. At 3 in the morning, the routine gets triggered through the task scheduler and will boot into a partition with a WinPE image and backup the selected partitions. When complete, the system will either shutdown or reboot based on the settings. I had to remove the password settings to the WinPE partition to achieve this.
Current command called for the backup, O:\Bootnow\BOOTNOW.EXE WinPE - Backup 01
Suggested command called for the backup, O:\Bootnow\BOOTNOW.EXE hidden.BBM WinPE - Backup 01, where the, WinPE - Backup 01, is on the hidden.BBM menu.
Basically, if a menu with a BBM extension is on the command line, use that menu, otherwise, try to boot from the default.BBM or whatever the default menu is named, if renamed.
I think other users would welcome this enhancement.
Thanks for any consideration on the above.
Current command called for the backup, O:\Bootnow\BOOTNOW.EXE WinPE - Backup 01
Suggested command called for the backup, O:\Bootnow\BOOTNOW.EXE hidden.BBM WinPE - Backup 01, where the, WinPE - Backup 01, is on the hidden.BBM menu.
Basically, if a menu with a BBM extension is on the command line, use that menu, otherwise, try to boot from the default.BBM or whatever the default menu is named, if renamed.
I think other users would welcome this enhancement.
Thanks for any consideration on the above.