TeraByte Unlimited

Brian K wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 12:09 am Ok. IFW won't suit you. How do you run IFL? While in Mint or from Boot media?

Edit: many changes. Done.

(nothing Terabyte runs in Mint or any Linux (unless maybe in a VBox) - it is a windows program, but that is very fine - don't need it... )
You need to understand Terabyte, probably by installing/playing with it.

There are a bunch of those Terabyte 3-letter things
IFL image for linux
IFW " windows
IFU " UEFI
etc
They are all just iso's that are burnt to a USB stick to be stand-alone bootable. Gives you the choice of whether you want to a) boot to a linux kern to do your backup, or b) boot to windows PE to do your backup, or c) whichever. The backup image would be the same in essence. Some people are more comfortable with one or the other so Terabyte gives them all. But it turns out that though they produce the same backup image in essence, they do it in the "linux", or "windows", or UEFI", etc way, which is very different at the hardware chain-write-command level, thus very different speeds. (it is theoretically possible to do the entire backup with one write command. They were doing this I/O-chaining back in the '60's on the IBM mainframes. Saves a ton of processor (and thus wallclock) time.)

Then there is the Terabyte image suite which is an exe that is installed to windows. It, itself, can do a backup on windows while windows is running (remember macrium could do that), and can also write the isos to sticks (I think it's (on windows) Terabyte app/Utilities button/...) for whatever flavor of bootable you wish to use, if you wish to use one.

Now I'll beat the robot and say
You do you
because that is so helpful.

kris455,

You mentioned...

" (FAST - 2 min for 100GB!!!)"

What size is your .TBI file?

Brian K wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 12:45 am kris455,

You mentioned...

" (FAST - 2 min for 100GB!!!)"

What size is your .TBI file?

83.6GB from I believe about 105GB using default settings. Both from and to are fast M.2 sticks mounted to mobo. I generally use Samsung but the disk with the images is an Inland TN450 which I tend to think of as less spiffy but it flies. The from is a sammy 980 pro

-- ASUS Prime Z790-V WIFI, I9-12900k, UEFI/GPT, 32GB, Sam 980 Pro 1T M.2 . --- microcenter bundle.
GeForce RTX™ 3060 Ti VISION OC 8G (rev. 2.0)

parts
CoolerMaster TD500 mesh white case, Corsair RM750e fully modular PSU, CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Halo S F 6 R CPU white cooler.

I never overclock. The games I play are 20year old stuff - NWN, NWN2 etc but max out the 3060 Ti.

You encouraged me to experiment with large images. I used NVMe to NVMe (Samsung 970 Pro). A different computer from the "Restore Methods" thread.

Data in partition 117 GB. Image size 107 GB. Image creation took 61 seconds. A metadata restore took 9 seconds.

Backup and restore done in IFL. It's fast.

Brian K wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 2:38 am You encouraged me to experiment with large images. I used NVMe to NVMe (Samsung 970 Pro). A different computer from the "Restore Methods" thread.

Data in partition 117 GB. Image size 107 GB. Image creation took 61 seconds. A metadata restore took 9 seconds.

Backup and restore done in IFL. It's fast.

Yeah, it screams! Love it! (my main nvme is 11 partitions)(and it's only half used)