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1. Sig ReplaceNT Sig 1 Use this option if you are restoring a partition that Windows had assigned a drive letter Image for Linux User Manual Page 101 of 150 before you backed up the drive If you use this option Image for Linux will restore the disk signature associated with the source partition Default if omitted Image for Linux will use the disk signature already present in the MBR of the target drive or if none exists Image for Linux will create one csig ChangeNTSig 1 This option only applies to full drive restores It allows you to change the NT Signature restored to the target drive This can be useful if you plan on having both the original and restored hard drive in the same computer at the same time while running Windows otherwise Windows may detect the duplicate signature and modify it which may depending on the OS prevent the restored hard drive from booting properly Default if omitted Image for Linux will not change the restored disk signature ohd UseOrgHDNum 1 Use this option to tell Image for Linux to keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partition after Image for Linux has restored the partition to the target drive This option is primarily used for Linux partitions Default if omitted If the target drive number differs from that of the source drive Image for Linux will update applicable drive references residing within the restored partition to re
2. cdrs n CDReadSpeed n Use this setting to specify the maximum disc reading speed that Image for Linux will use when reading a CD or DVD disc during the validation phase of a backup operation with nbeing a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting may be used to force a lower reading speed than that automatically used by the optical drive s firmware Slower Image for Linux User Manual Page 96 of 150 reading speeds may increase reliability nshould be a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting is only applicable when you are backing up to CD DVD media and you have also included either the v or vb option The maximum reading speed that is actually used is determined by whichever is lower The cdrs n value that you specify or the speed deemed appropriate by the drive s firmware according to the CD DVD media in use For example if you are using media that is rated at 32X for reading the maximum reading speed will be no more than 32X regardless of the setting you choose here Similarly if you supply a value that is invalid for or beyond the drive s design limits the drive will automatically use the next highest speed supported by both the drive and the media in use DVD speeds are approximately 1 8 CD speeds so if you are using DVD discs multiply the desired speed by 8 to determine the value to use here For example to obtain a maximum reading speed of 4X with a DVD use cdrs 32 since
3. 2 Double click MAKEDISK EXE The MakeDisk welcome screen appears Image for Linux User Manual Page 14 of 150 tat MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 Welcome to Image for Linux bootable media setup This wizard will guide you through the steps required to create bootable media for Image for Linux Click Next to begin Previous 7 Cancel Copyright 2004 2012 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 3 Click Next on the MakeDisk welcome screen Select if you wish to create the boot media using the Default Settings or Custom Settings and then click Next tat MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 Select the product to build Default Settings Custom Settings lt lt Previous f Cancel Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 4 The License Agreement screen appears Image for Linux User Manual Page 15 of 150 tot MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 m License Agreement Full Use License TeraByte Unlimited End User License Agreement Revised April 1 2011 PLEASE READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE UPGRADING COPYING INSTALLING OR USING THE ACCOMPANYING SOFTWARE PROGRAM the Softwarel THIS AGREEMENT SETS FORTH THE STANDARD FULL accept the agreement do not accept the agreement lt lt Previous F Cancel Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 5 Read the Im
4. Image for Linux User Manual Page 30 of 150 Name ImageVD Type VHD Dynamic Expanding v Size 50G e g 1 GiB a S OKON eane You can create one of five types of drives a RAW Fixed Size creates a plain raw file as the virtual drive Its size is fixed and allocated with zeros on creation a VHD Dynamic Expanding creates a VirtualPC Dynamic Expanding virtual hard drive These types of virtual drives append data to the file as you add data to the virtual drive the file size starts small and grows as needed a VHD Fixed Size creates a VirtualPC Fixed Size virtual hard drive These types of virtual drives allocate data for the file when its created and the file size does not change a VMDK Monolithic Sparse IDE creates a VMWare Sparse IDE virtual hard drive These types of virtual drives append data to the file as you add data to the virtual drive the file size starts small and grows as needed i VMDK Monolithic Sparse SCSI creates a VMWare Sparse SCSI virtual hard drive These types of virtual drives append data to the file as data is added to the virtual drive the file size starts small and grows as needed Note that a new virtual drive must be formatted and partitioned before you can use it However you can restore an image or copy a partition into a new virtual drive without needing to partition or format it first 5 On the Backup From Select Source Drive Image for Linux displays
5. hin h n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with c and s to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you restore a backup image This parameter specifies the last head and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the BIOS reported values of the drive sin S N Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with c and h to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you restore a backup image This parameter specifies the last sector and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the BIOS reported values of the drive gc GeoCalc n Place under the HDx section Determine how a devices geometry is obtained or calculated 0 Default 1 LBA 2 Large 3 Normal 4 Bit Shift 5 Device Bit Shift Default if omitted Default method is used rsin N A Use this parameter to resize a partition after restoring nis the size in MiB s that you want to establish for the restored partition If you try to use this parameter in conjunction with x the Expand option x overrides rs Default if omitted Image for Linux restores the partition without resizing log 0 SaveLog 0 Use this option to disable logging Default if omitted Image for Linux logs during a restore operation Image for Linux Validate Options In Table
6. ii IMAGE DEPLOYMENT LICENSE f in addition to the standard Software license you purchased an Image Deployment license as indicated on your sales receipt from TeraByte then A you may make an unlimited number of Images on any Computer System on which you may use the Software under this license Image for Linux User Manual Page 148 of 150 and B you may deploy each Image to other Computer Systems referred to as deployment computers each such deployment computer having been provided an Image Deployment license Image Deployment licenses remain allocated to such deployment computers until and unless such deployment computer is taken out of service and replaced In such case said Image Deployment license may be transferred to such replacement system subject to limitations as provided in subsection 1 a iii above For the right to distribute Images to additional computers you will need to purchase additional Image Deployment License rights from TeraByte Images deployed as described herein may only be restored or referenced on Computer Systems having been licensed with at least an Image Deployment license and once restored may not be moved to any Computer System not so licensed without prior authorization from TeraByte f PARTITION MANAGEMENT LICENSING If the Software s functionality as licensed includes the ability to create resize slide or otherwise manage partitions on a hard drive or otherwise to control or re
7. IMAGE for Linux TeraByte Unlimited 4 Onthe Copy From Select Source Drive screen Image for Linux displays all available hard drives Select the drive or the drive containing the partition you want to copy Image for Linux User Manual Page 64 of 150 image for Linux GUI 2 67 ent Select Source Drive Copy From ATA M4 CTO064M4SSD2 sda ATA ST3500630AS sdb ATA ST31000524AS sdc TeraByte Unlimited lt lt Back Next gt gt Exit Note Hard drives connected to an IDE controller will appear as either dev hdn or dev sdn SATA SCSI USB or IEEE 1394 FireWire drives appear as dev sdn under the general category of SCSI disks The order in which the drives appear depends on the way they are connected to the system Console version only If you don t see all of drives that you expect to see try pressing the ESC key until you return to the main menu wait a few seconds choose Detect Device Changes and again try selecting Linux Drive on the Copy from Select Drive Interface screen 5 Onthe Copy From Select Copy Location on HDn screen that appears select the partition or drive that you wish to copy Image for Linux User Manual Page 65 of 150 Image for Linux GUI 2 67 Select Copy Location on HDO S84AF435 ATA M4 CTO64M4SSD2 sda MBR Copy From 61030 MiB Entire Drive Y System Reserved Partition 01 100 MiB HPFS NTFS M win7 Partition 02 60927 Mi
8. Understanding Validation Options on Page 61 for an explanation of each option Image for Linux GUI 2 67 O Disable Auto Eject M Log Results to File 7 On the Summary screen that appears select Start A progress bar appears on screen You can interrupt the backup and validation operations at any time by pressing the F12 key or clicking Exit Image for Linux will ask you to confirm that you want to cancel before it interrupts the current operation When Image for Linux finishes this message appears After you press Enter to dismiss the message that appears when Image for Linux finishes validating the main menu for Image for Linux reappears At this point if you are finished using Image for Linux select Exit remove the Image for Linux boot media and then either reboot or shut down the computer Understanding Validation Options There are several options available when you validate an image Disable Auto Eject This option prevents Image for Linux from automatically opening the optical drive tray If you don t select this option Image for Linux will open the drive tray whenever a disc is needed and at the completion of the restore operation Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for Linux log the details of the validation operation Image for Linux saves the log as if1 1log inthe imagel Image for Linux User Manual Page 61 of 150 program directory You can use the logfile or LogFile options to speci
9. 7 The Miscellaneous Global Options screen appears Image for Linux User Manual Page 17 of 150 i MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 Sa m Miscellaneous Global Options optional Use Windows 9x MBR Disable Automatic Scaling Restrictions Disable Automatic Boot Partition Updates Retain Failed Backups Cancel lt lt Previous Copyright 2004 2012 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Check boxes to enable the options Use Windows 9x MBR Windows Vista and later tied the kernel loader to the MBR code such that using previous MBR code may not allow Windows Vista or later to boot on certain machines Leave this option unselected the default to have Image for Linux use the code base compatible with Windows Vista or later The new MBR code will continue to boot older OSes with the exception of some rare configurations using Win9x on FAT32 Disable Automatic Scaling Restrictions Select to have Image for Linux scale small partitions when restoring a full drive image By default small partitions will not be scaled and will be restored at their original sizes Disable Automatic Boot Partition Updates Select to prevent Image for Linux from automatically updating the boot partition when restoring a full drive image Retain Failed Backups If you enable this option and a backup operation fails Image for Linux won t delete the files from the failed backup Note The above option
10. In the course of mounting and unmounting you might need to create additional mount points or remove mount points To create directories use the mkdir command to remove directories use the rmdir command For example to create the directory mydir type the following mkdir mydir To remove the directory mydir type the following rmdir mydir The following TeraByte Unlimited KB article covers some additional information on working with partitions in Linux http terabyteunlimited com kb article php id 131 Working with Network Drives Two of the more common network file systems available in Linux are smbfs Samba and nfs network file system You can mount either of these file systems over a network connection and then Image for Linux can access either of them as a network drive from a mount point in the local file system Windows Samba network shares can be easily mounted by choosing the Mount Network Shares option from the Image for Linux boot media menu and following the prompts Network shares mounted via the menu will be mounted using cifs using mount cifs rather than smbfs This KB article provides more information on working with network shares http www terabyteunlimited com kb article php id 347 Image for Linux User Manual Page 132 of 150 Appendix E Restoring to a Smaller Drive or Partition Despite ever increasing hard drive sizes many users find themselves in situations requiring them to move to a smalle
11. between partitions restoring them adjacent to each other Default if omitted You must explicitly specify the target area when restoring a partition Gaps may exist between restored partitions when restoring or copying a full drive V PreValidate 1 Use this parameter to have Image for Linux perform a standard validation on the image file s prior before restoring them Default if omitted Image for Linux does not validate the image files before restoring them vb PostValidate 2 Use this parameter to have Image for Linux check that each byte from the source image file was restored to the drive properly Default if omitted Image for Linux does not validate the restored data pw mypassword or pw my password N A Use this parameter to supply the password needed to decrypt a backup that you encrypted and or password protected when you created it If your password contains embedded spaces or dashes surround them quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples Default if omitted Image for Linux does not supply a password noej NoEject 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to never automatically open the optical drive tray Default if omitted Image for Linux will automatically open the optical drive tray whenever a new disc is needed and when Image for Linux finishes restoring Image for Linux User Manual Page 104 of 150 cdrs n C
12. Default if omitted If logging has not been disabled with log 0 a log named ifl log is created in the current directory of the operating environment logmax n LogMaxSize n Ensures the log file doesn t grow beyond the size n given Once n is reached the data from the top of the file is purged Because of this you typically don t want a large n value Default if omitted There is no size limit on the log file logl n LogLevel n Causes less or more information to be output to the log file Use level 1 for errors only 2 for warnings 3 for status 4 for information 9 for debugging 10 for debugging with flush If using 10 or higher the email option will be ignored emails will not be sent Default if omitted Informational level logging is performed ctf CreateTagFiles 1 Use this option to cause a file named T BTAG in the root of any copied or restored partition with information about what program was used and when it was restored or copied Note that if this option was enabled during a restore or copy then later backed up and restored with tagging disabled the old tag file remains on the partition In other words with this option off it doesn t delete tag files on restored or copied partitions Default if omitted No tag file is created of 8 OFlags 8 Setting this bit oriented option to 8 will cause single partition and multiple partition Image for Linux User Manual Page 83 of 150 backups
13. If a partition is resized during the copy the wiped area for that partition is the final size of the copied partition not the size of the source partition When copying a full drive or when copying multiple partitions to a drive with no existing partitions the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and copy to it in a single operation Default if omitted Image for Linux will not perform any wiping of unused sectors att AlignToTarget 1 When copying an entire drive use this option to instruct Image for Linux to force alignment to the target drive regardless of the alignment used on the source drive For example if the a2k option is also specified the restored drive will be aligned to 2048 sectors When copying a single partition specifying this option will instruct Image for Linux to not adjust the alignment 2048 sector alignment will be used if the target has it already or not if it doesn t and a partition already exists Default if omitted The alignment used on the target drive will be determined automatically based on the source drive n2ka N A By default Image for Linux automatically uses 2048 alignment when you copy from the command line and the source contains 2048 aligned partitions Use this option to instruct Image for Linux not to automatically override normal cylinder based alignment If you don t enable this op
14. Ifyou select a USB flash drive UFD you also must select the USB Mode to use Normal No Partition Partition or Partition Ex whichever works on your computer your computer s BIOS determines which option works Image for Linux User Manual Page 20 of 150 Normal Creates a 1 44 MB floppy diskette image on the UFD Any additional space on the UFD beyond the floppy image size is not available for use Think of this option as if MakeDisk were formatting the UFD to be a 1 44 MB floppy If you were to view the UFD in Windows the drive would appear to be 1 44 MB even though it might have originally been a 4 GB drive The UFD is formatted as FAT No Partition The entire UFD is created as a big floppy If you were to view a 4 GB UFD created using this option in Windows you d see free space beyond the amount used by MakeDisk up to the size of the drive This free space is available to be used normally If the UFD is 4GB or smaller it s formatted as FAT Otherwise it s formatted as FAT32 Partition The entire UFD is used as a single bootable partition The computer s BIOS will usually detect this type of UFD as a hard drive Any unused space on the UFD is available to be used normally If the UFD is 4GB or smaller it s formatted as FAT Otherwise it s formatted as FAT32 Partition Ex This is the same as the Partition mode except that the INT 13 Extension is used this is required for some computers to boot a UFD The G
15. Image for Linux User Manual Page 6 of 150 Image for Linux and this document will follow IEC recommendations and will thus use the terms megabyte MB gigabyte GB etc to refer to base decimal and mebibytes MiB gibibytes GiB etc to refer to base binary So when you read about the data storage size convention used by Windows the units will appear as mebibytes MiB or gibibytes GiB even though Windows itself refers to the units as megabytes MB or gigabytes GB Image for Linux User Manual Page 7 of 150 How Image for Linux Works Image for Linux is a backup and restore program that is designed to function in the Linux operating environment but can back up a hard disk containing any type of operating system Image for Linux protects your system by creating a compressed or uncompressed snapshot of all used areas of your FAT FAT32 NTFS Ext2 3 4 or ReiserFS partition or volume For other file systems it saves and restores a compressed or uncompressed snapshot of all sectors in the partition or volume both used and unused areas The snapshot backup created by Image for Linux is referred to as an image You can write the image backup to a set of files that you store in a different partition of the hard drive you are backing up on an external hard drive on a network drive or directly to most USB 2 IEEE 1394 ATAPI CD R RW or DVD RW drives Image for Linux is essentially an adaptation of Image for DOS that is designe
16. NOTE This option causes Image for Linux to ignore the Omit Page File Data and Omit Hibernation Data options Wipe Target Unused Sectors This option will wipe zero out unused sectors in the copied partition s or drive depending on the type of copy performed When copying single partitions or when copying multiple partitions to a drive with existing partitions sectors located outside of the copied partition s are not wiped If a partition is resized during the copy the wiped area for that partition is the final size of the copied partition not the size of the source partition When copying a full drive or when copying multiple partitions to a drive with no existing partitions the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any Image for Linux User Manual Page 68 of 150 partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and copy to it ina single operation Omit Page File Data Selected by default this option eliminates page file data from the copy process Omit Hibernation Data Selected by default this option eliminates hibernation data from the copy process Remove Gaps on Copy Select this option to remove any gaps free space between partitions Partitions will be copied adjacent to each other Assume Original HD If you select this option which mainly applies to Linux partitions Image for Linux will keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partitions that ha
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18. This allows you to change the partitioning scheme used on the drive MBR EMBR and GPT drive types are supported 8 Onthe Restore Options screen that appears select the options you want to use while restoring For an explanation of each option see the sections Understanding Restore Options for an Entire Drive on Page 51 and Understanding Restore Options for an Individual Partition on Page 54 9 Onthe Summary screen that appears select Start During the restore process a progress bar appears on screen and a message appears when Image for Linux finishes After you press Enter the main menu for Image for Linux reappears At this point if you are finished using Image for Linux select Exit remove the Image for Linux boot media and then either reboot or shut down the computer Note Until you reboot the operating system reflects the contents of the drive partition and file system in the state they were before you restored Not rebooting can cause data corruption You can override the reboot prompt by restoring using the command line rb 0 switch but do this only if you are an advanced user and understand the potential ramifications of not rebooting Geometry Settings If you restore an individual partition you can use this window to override geometry settings stored in the backup file Image for Linux User Manual Page 49 of 150 Geometry Override Drive 0 c 0 v Use MBR Geometry
19. Validate MBR Geometry Use Original Geometry Alignment v Align on End Align End by Resizing Use 2048 Sector Alignment Align MBR Ending HS Align MBR HS when Truncated gt fa Ho i 0 _ Use Global Settings v Save The Geometry Override settings allow you to set alignment options as well as specific Cylinder C Head H or Sector S to use for a particular drive In addition to manually entering the values you can enable the Use MBR Geometry to have Image for Linux set the geometry based on the MBR entry of the first partition in the backup Or you can enable Use Original Geometry to have Image for Linux use the geometry from the backup image that represents the geometry from the environment used to create the backup This CHS option is helpful when you need to specify geometry values that differ from those assigned by the operating environment which commonly occurs when you attach a hard drive from one machine to the USB port of another machine to restore the first machine s image C Last Cylinder 0 to 1023 H Last Head 0 to 254 S Sectors per Track 1 to 63 Use MBR Geometry Use drive geometry based on the MBR entry of the first partition in the backup file This is useful when restoring to a drive on a machine separate from where the drive will ultimately be booted Validate MBR Geometry This option is used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR is aligned to known s
20. aspx familyid 93F20BB1 97AA 4356 8B43 9584B7E72556 amp displaylang en See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows 2000 Download for the Microsoft Windows 2000 Sysprep Tool http www microsoft com downloads details aspx familyid 0C4BFB06 2824 4D2B ABC1 0E2223133AFB amp displaylang en Using Sysprep to Duplicate Disks http www microsoft com technet prodtechnol windows2000serv reskit deploy dgcb ins izyl mspx mfr true See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows NT Windows NT Workstation Deployment http www microsoft com technet archive ntwrkstn deploy depopt default mspx mfr true Image for Linux User Manual Page 76 of 150 Image for Linux Advanced Configuration Options Image for Linux offers a number of advanced configuration options You can set these options in a user created ifl ini file or using environment variables that you include on the command line or in a batch file The way you run Image for Linux affects the way Image for Linux processes advanced options If you run Image for Linux using the menu interface as described earlier in this manual Image for Linux sets all options using if1 ini and you can customize ifl ini If you also want to set environment variables store them in a batch file that you run prior to running Image for Linux If you run Image for Linux from the command line as described in the section Ru
21. drive or diskette using the MakeDisk utility which is included with Image for Linux The default boot media you create using the MakeDisk utility uses the following default configuration parameters Wired network using eth0 interface wireless networking is not supported DHCP server must be available to obtain IP address Console login is not required on boot The root password is if1 used for SSH login The ISCSI initiator daemon is started The time zone is UTC QWERTY keyboard layout 80x25 as default video mode console version 1024x768 or better default resolution GUI version If you use an operating system platform that doesn t support MakeDisk or if you wish to customize the contents of the bootable media that you create see the section Installing Image for Linux Manually on Page 71 to create the bootable media that contains Image for Linux Follow these steps to use the MakeDisk utility under Windows to create the bootable Image for Linux media the MakeDisk utility is included in the Image for Linux ZIP archive file 1 Extract the contents of the Image for Linux ZIP archive file to a folder of your choice Note If you are using a version of Windows that has a built in compressed folders feature e g Windows Me XP or later you can double click the ZIP file and then open the File menu and choose Extract All in Windows Explorer to extract the contents
22. etc This setting is only applicable when you are validating an image stored on CD DVD Image for Linux User Manual Page 111 of 150 media The maximum reading speed that is actually used is determined by whichever is lower The cdrs n value that you specify or the speed deemed appropriate by the drive s firmware according to the CD DVD media in use For example if you are using media that is rated at 32X for reading the maximum reading speed will be no more than 32X regardless of the setting you choose here Similarly if you supply a value that is invalid for or beyond the drive s design limits the drive will automatically use the next highest speed supported by both the drive and the media in use DVD speeds are approximately 1 8 CD speeds so if you are using DVD discs multiply the desired speed by 8 to determine the value to use here For example to obtain a maximum reading speed of 4X with a DVD use cdrs 32 since 8 x 4X 32 Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the Optimal speed setting iobs IOBS 1 Include this option to try to improve I O performance in cases where network or USB device performance is poor Default if omitted Image for Linux does not use this option mp MultiPass 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to use Multi Pass mode when validating a differential backup In Multi Pass mode Image for Linux validates the full backup in one pass and the differential ba
23. pass and then restores the differential backup in a second pass This setting is not applicable when restoring a full backup You must use this option if the applicable full backup resides on removable media Default if omitted Image for Linux uses Single Pass mode restoring the full backup and the differential backup in one pass cds N A Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to query all available CD DVD drives when trying to locate the appropriate source backup Default if omitted You must explicitly specify the CD DVD drive that contains the source backup mo N A Instructs Image for Linux to display the following message immediately upon running Press the lt space bar gt for the menu interface or wait for the restore to start If you press the space bar while this message appears Image for Linux will switch to interactive mode and wait for you to initiate the restore operation via the menu interface Default if omitted The Press the lt space bar gt message is not displayed and the restore operation proceeds using the command line Image for Linux User Manual Page 106 of 150 att AlignToTarget 1 When restoring a full drive image use this option to instruct Image for Linux to force alignment to the target drive regardless of the alignment used on the source drive For example if the a2k option is also specified the restored drive will be aligned to 2048 sectors When restoring
24. you will be required to respond to the request asr 0 AutoScaleRestrict 0 Image for Linux User Manual Page 89 of 150 Use this option to prevent small partitions from being automatically scaled when restoring or copying a full drive All partitions will be scaled normally per scaling option selected to fit the destination drive unless a minimum size is specified using the nos option Default if omitted Partitions with a size of 15GiB or 1 8 the drive size whichever is less or smaller will not be scaled when restoring a full drive image or copying a full drive This provides an automatic method to avoid scaling system reserved recovery and utility partitions to larger sizes when upgrading to a larger drive aubp 0 AutoUpdateBootPart 0 Use this option to prevent Image for Linux from automatically updating the boot partition when a full drive image is restored or a drive is copied Default if omitted The boot partition including an EFI system partition will automatically be updated when a full drive image is restored or a drive is copied stdout filename N A Use this option to redirect program output that would normally be displayed in the console to the specified file For example imagel 1 d 0 stdout output txt The output from the 1 operation will be saved to the file output txt Default if omitted Program output is displayed normally in the console Image for Linux Backup Opti
25. 2 74 O Scale to Fit O Align to Target O Change Disk Signature O Validate Before Restore O Validate Byte for Byte O write Standard MBR Code O Wipe Unused Sectors O Remove Gaps on Restore O Assume Original HD O Scale to Target O Ignore 10 Errors O Disable Auto Eject O Reboot when Completed O Shutdown when Completed M Log Results to File Image for Linux User Manual Page 51 of 150 Update Boot Partition This option updates any references to the restored partition in the active boot partition on the target drive This is useful for situations where the boot partition differs from the system partition However you typically wouldn t want to use this option if you re creating a copy of an existing partition you want to keep unless the target drive will be independent of the original drive For this to be useful the active boot partition should already be on the target drive or part of the same copy or restore operation Note This option is not displayed if the Automatic Boot Partition Update global option is enabled the default Scale to Fit On FAT FAT32 NTFS or EXT 2 3 4 file systems selecting this option will make Image for Linux assume that the size of the original hard drive is based on the location of the end of the last partition Image for Linux then applies the same scaling to the target hard drive If any unpartitioned space existed at the end of the source drive that unpartitioned space won t exist on the
26. 40 followed by 1 2 etc as needed The actual speed increase realized when creating a differential will vary depending on the system If the hash file is deleted a differential backup will proceed as normal without it This option can also be used to create a hash file for an existing full image For example hash f mnt1l backups win7full tbi Default if omitted Image for Windows does not create the hash file during a backup operation log 0 SaveLog 0 Use this option to disable logging Default if omitted Image for Linux logs during a backup operation Image for Linux Restore Options In Table 4 you find the command line options that you must set to use Image for Linux to restore a backup image Table 5 shows you optional parameters you can set The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Restore_Defaults section unless as noted otherwise Image for Linux User Manual Page 98 of 150 Table 4 Image for Linux Required Restore Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable r N A Use this option to indicate that you want to restore an image file Also required Either d option to restore from a full backup or base option to restore from a differenti
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28. Include this option to try to improve I O performance in cases where network or USB device performance is poor Default if omitted Image for Linux does not use this option err AllowErrors 1 Use this option to tell Image for Linux to ignore read write errors caused by bad sectors on the target drive during the restore operation This parameter does not apply to bad sectors on the source drive Default if omitted Image for Linux will notify you concerning the error and give you the option to continue or abort ubi UpdateBootini 1 This option applies only if a copy of boot ini exists in the root directory of the restored partition If enabled this option instructs Image for Linux to update all partition n references in the restored partition s boot ini file to accommodate a partition layout that differs from that of the original drive Image for Linux will set all partition based entries in the applicable boot ini to point to the restored partition but will not change file based entries This option has no effect when doing a full drive restore Default if omitted Image for Linux does not try to update the boot ini file ubp UpdateBootPart 1 This option updates any references to the restored partition in the active boot partition on Image for Linux User Manual Page 105 of 150 the target drive This is useful for situations where the boot partition differs from the system partition However you typical
29. Instead use d and Image for Linux will be able to execute the command In Table 1 you find the global parameters you can set for Image for Linux regardless of the action you set backup restore validate or copy Important Note It s highly recommended that all global options to be set be done before those specific to the operation This is because certain command line options use whatever global option is set at the time the parameter is handled For example if using the geoa2k option when restoring specify it before the r parameter imagel geoa2k r The table shows you the command line option on the left and the INI file variable on the right In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Options section except as otherwise noted Table 1 Image for Linux Global Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable uvl 0 VolumeLabels 0 Instructs Image for Linux to display the string found in the partition table of the EMBR if possible rather than volume labels Default if omitted Image for Linux will display volume labels even if identifiers for applicable partitions exist in the EMBR Seq SeqVollD 1 Instructs Image for Linux to assign ID numbers to volumes in sequential order rather than random order Default if omitt
30. Windows start an Administrator Command Prompt 2 Change to the folder containing imagew exe imagewc exe or image exe 3 Run the command Image for Windows is used below imagew 1 all f e backups my backup gt output txt This will obtain all the partition information from the e backups my backup tbi image and save it to a file named output txt in the same folder as imagew exe If using Image for Windows Console or Image for DOS you can view the output onscreen by not redirecting it For example imagewce 1 all f e backups my backup e Using Image for Linux from the IFL Boot Media 1 Boot to the IFL CD If necessary mount the partition or network share that contains the backup image file Use the Mount Network Shares menu option or exit to the Command Prompt and use dpmount 2 Select the Exit To Command Prompt menu option or start a terminal By default the current path is the one which contains imagel tbu 3 Run the command imagel 1 all f mnt1l backups my backup gt output txt This will obtain all the partition information from the mnt1 backups my backup tbi image and save it to a file named output txt in the same folder as imagel Note The output txt file may contain escape code sequences as well as the partition data and may look strange in a text editor Output can also be viewed onscreen by not redirecting it imagel all f mntl backups my backup Image for Linux User Manual Pa
31. a Partition To back up an entire drive check the box beside Drive Remember you can back up only one drive at a time If you want to back up a partition check the box beside that partition When restoring an image of a partition you might need to use the Update BOOT INI Set Active and Write Standard MBR Code or Restore First Track options described in the section Image for Linux Restore Options If you individually select all partitions on a drive Image for DOS handles the backup as individual partition backups not as a full drive backup You can restore an entire drive in one restore operation using individual partitions but you can t set sizing or rescaling options or restore to a different location sector LBA When a partition is highlighted the following options are available Delete Press the Del key or click Delete to delete the selected partition You will be prompted to confirm the deletion Details Information Press F1 or click Information to view the details of the partition used space free space size needed to restore etc Compact Press F3 or click Compact to compact the partition s file system FAT FAT382 and NTFS file systems are supported This option allows you to Image for Linux User Manual Page 33 of 150 reduce the size required for a restore You will be prompted to confirm the compaction and then asked for the compaction value size in MiB For example if you have a 250G
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33. all available hard drives Select the drive or the drive containing the partition you want to back up Image for Linux User Manual Page 31 of 150 image for Linux GUI 2 67 ent Select Source Drive Backup From ATA M4 CTO64M4SSD2 sda ATA ST3500630AS sdb ATA ST31000524AS sdc TeraByte Unlimited lt lt Back Next gt gt Exit Note Hard drives connected to an IDE controller will appear as either dev hdn or dev sdn SATA SCSI USB or IEEE 1394 FireWire drives appear as dev sdn under the general category of SCSI disks The order in which the drives appear depends on the way they are connected to the system If you don see all of drives that you expect to see try pressing the ESC key until you return to the main menu wait a few seconds choose Detect Device Changes and again try selecting Linux Drive on the Backup from Select Drive Interface screen 6 Onthe Backup From Select Item to Backup from HDn screen that appears select the partition or drive that you wish to backup If you choose to back up a partition skip to Step 8 Image for Linux User Manual Page 32 of 150 Image for Linux GUI 2 67 Select Item to Backup from HDO 584AF435 ATA M4 CTO64M4SSD2 sda MBR Backup From z A re l iG 61030 MIB Entire Drive Y System Reserved Partition 01 100 MiB HPFS NTFS Win7 Partition 02 60927 MiB HPFS NTFS TeraByte Unlimited Selecting a Drive or
34. backup image drive and partition information from the specified backup image file Use with all to obtain more details It is not necessary to include the TBI extension with the file name The image file description is listed if one exists When all is not specified no drive information is displayed and the partition information is limited to the name size file system and ID Example imagel all f mntl backups my backup stdout output txt In this example detailed drive and partition information from the backup image file mntl backups my backup tbi will be saved in output txt Default if omitted Physical drives and partitions are listed Image for Linux User Manual Page 121 of 150 Troubleshooting If you should encounter any problems while running Image for Linux please visit our on line support page at http www terabyteunlimited com support image for linux htm Image for Linux User Manual Page 122 of 150 Appendix A Understanding the Types of Backups Many software packages create file based backups while Image for Linux creates a sector based backup This section describes both types of backups and their differences File Based Backup When you create a file based backup you copy files from one storage location to another using a third party software package the built in Microsoft backup utility or by dragging and dropping files and or folders using Windows Explorer Creating a file base
35. be useful the active boot partition should already be on the target drive or part of the same copy or restore operation Note This option is not displayed when copying a full drive if the Automatic Boot Partition Update global option is enabled the default Scale to Fit On FAT FAT32 NTFS or EXT 2 3 4 file systems selecting this option will make Image for Linux assume that the size of the original hard drive is Image for Linux User Manual Page 67 of 150 based on the location of the end of the last partition Image for Linux then applies the same scaling to the target hard drive If any unpartitioned space exists at the end of the source drive that unpartitioned space won t exist on the target drive after you restore your image This option has no effect on copies made to hard drives using other file systems You cannot use this option in conjunction with the Scale to Target option If you inadvertently enable both options Scale to Fit will take precedence Align to Target If you select this option Image for Linux will force alignment to the target drive regardless of the alignment used on the source drive For example if the Align Partitions on 2048 Sectors global option is enabled the restored drive will be aligned to 2048 sectors If this option is not selected the alignment used on the target drive will be determined automatically based on the source drive Change Disk Signature This option only applies to full drive c
36. causes a raw sector by sector backup and later restore of the entire drive without regard to any partitions or adjustments Additionally it will not be possible to create differential backups for an entire drive image of this type Omit Page File Data If you select this option and the PAGEFILE sys file resides in the root directory of the source partition Image for Linux will not back up PAGEFILE SYS If PAGEFILE SYS resides anywhere else on the source partition other than the root directory Image for Linux will back it up regardless of this setting Image for Linux User Manual Page 39 of 150 Omit Hibernation Data If you select option and the HIBERFIL SYS file resides in the root directory of the source partition Image for Linux will not back up HIBERFIL SYS lf HIBERFIL SYS resides anywhere else on the source partition other than the root directory Image for Linux will back it up regardless of this setting Ignore IO Errors This option only affects how Image for Linux handles bad sectors on the source drive and it applies to both the back up phase and the validation phase of the backup operation Normally if Image for Linux encounters a bad sector on a source partition during a backup operation it will notify you concerning the read error and give you the option to continue or abort If you select this option Image for Linux wil
37. copy of the backup is not available you can fall back on the copy of the backup that you saved on CD DVD discs Don t get rid of an existing set of backup discs when you create a new set Instead keep two or more sets of backup discs That way you can fall back to an older backup if something should go wrong with the newest backup If you are using multiple sets of backup CD DVD discs keep the newest set offsite to guard against physical damage Use multiple external hard drives and rotate between them Keep at least one drive offsite Creating a Full Backup You proceed through a series of menus to create a full backup Insert your Image for Linux boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer Then follow these steps 1 After a series of on screen lines of code the Welcome to Image for Linux screen appears console version or the desktop and Image for Linux GUI appear GUI version Image for Linux User Manual Page 25 of 150 image for Linux GUI 2 67 Welcome to Image for Linux Please choose which operation you would like to perform at this time Select Operation Backup Restore Validate Copy TeraByte Unlimited lt lt Back Www terabyteunlimited com desktop 1 desktop 2 mm Image for Linux GUI 2 67 Image for Linux GUI Welcome to the IFL Network Boot Disk TeraByte Inc If needed partitions or network shares can be manually mounted or unmounted whil
38. created to have the restore first track and write standard mbr code options restricted upon restoring with version 2 62 or later This is not an option for normal use Default if omitted No restrictions are set relax n RelaxedMatching n Use this option when performing a differential backup to instruct Image for Linux to relax some of the criteria it uses to determine the drive you used as the source during the corresponding full backup This option has no effect during full backup operations Use one of the following values in place of n 1 Enable relaxed criteria Disk signature must match 2 Enable relaxed criteria and also ignore the disk signature Note Specifying relax is equivalent to relax 1 Default if omitted Image for Windows does not relax the criteria it uses to detect the full backup source drive quit N A Use this option to cancel any operation before it occurs Anything prior to the operation beginning still occurs This is useful for processing a global command line option without bringing up the user interface Image for Linux will return 1 if no error Otherwise an error code for the failure will be returned Default if omitted The operation is not canceled email smtphost from to subject p u pw Email smtphost from to subject p u pw Use this option to have Image for Linux email the results of an operation This causes the email to be sent even if log 0 is used However
39. file you want to validate 5 Set validation options For details on available validation options see the section Understanding Validation Options on Page 61 Image for Linux User Manual Page 11 of 150 Obtaining Image for Linux You can download either the unregistered trial version or the registered version of Image for Linux If you have not purchased Image for Linux click here to download the unregistered trial version http www terabyteunlimited com image for linux htm If you have purchased Image for Linux click here to display a product download form for obtaining the registered version You will need to provide your name email address and Image for Linux order number https terabyteunlimited com product download php The file you download is a compressed file that contains at least these files IFL_EN_MANUAL PDF is a copy of this manual LICENSE TXT is a copy of the Image for Linux license agreement MAKEDISK CFG is the MakeDisk configuration file for Image for Linux MAKEDISK EXE is the MakeDisk utility which allows you to easily create bootable media to run Image for Linux ORDER TXT is an order form for Image for Linux included in the trial version only config zip is a file that contains extra files and directories you can use to customize the Image for Linux boot disc help directory contains several additional documents covering s
40. for Linux displays options you can select See the Understanding Copy Options section on page 67 for an explanation of each option Image for Linux GUI 2 74 Options O Scale to Fit O Align to Target O Change Disk Signature O Validate Byte for Byte O write Standard MBR Code O Copy Unused Sectors O Wipe Target Unused Sectors M Omit Page File Data M Omit Hibernation Data IO Remove Gaps on Copy O Assume Original HD O Scale to Target Ignore 10 Errors Reboot when Completed ade O Shutdown when Completed M Log Results to File 9 Select Next On the Summary screen that appears click Start when you are ready to begin the Copy process A progress bar appears on screen You can interrupt the operation at any time by clicking Exit or pressing the F12 key Image for Linux will ask you to confirm that you want to cancel before it interrupts the operation When Image for Linux finishes a window appears to inform you that Image for Linux created the copy successfully Understanding Copy Options Update Boot Partition This option updates any references to the restored partition in the active boot partition on the target drive This is useful for situations where the boot partition differs from the system partition However you typically wouldn t want to use this option if you re creating a copy of an existing partition you want to keep unless the target drive will be independent of the original drive For this to
41. if an operation never starts an email is not sent The p u and pw values are optional and relate to the port user and password that should be used Port 25 is the default SMTP port If the subject is omitted Image for Linux determines the text for the subject The subject can be customized for success failure or both by inserting the characters brackets into the subject The text before is the success text the text after is for a failure Additionally you can include the place holder ec which is replaced by the error code otherwise Image for Linux appends the completion code text to the subject Examples each example should be on one line Using default subject text email smtp mydomain com from mydomain com to mydomain com 25 login mydomain com password Using custom failure subject text email smtp mydomain com from mydomain com to mydomain com IFL Backup Failed Error ec 25 login mydomain com password Using custom success failure subject text and default port email smtp mydomain com from mydomain com to mydomain com IFL Backup Completed IFL Backup Failed Error ec login mydomain com password Using the default custom subject text as used by version 2 71 and earlier Image for Linux User Manual Page 84 of 150 email smtp mydomain com from mydomain com to mydomain com 25 login mydomain com password email smtp mydomain com from mydomain com
42. if1 ini file Show Command IFL GUI or F6 IFL Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a backup with the options you selected in Image for Linux When using IFL GUI you can save the command line to a script file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for Linux by clicking the Save to File button and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Save Command IFL F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a script file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFL GUI use the Show Command option above Depending on the Linux shell being used it may be necessary to edit the command line to make it functional Please see syntax examples on page 80 Creating a Differential Backup When you create a differential backup Image for Linux compares the condition of the source partition or hard drive to a full backup you identify to determine what changes have occurred on the source partition or hard drive since you created the full backup A differential backup contains only the changed sectors For details on differential backups see Appendix B Backup Strategies on Page 124 The process for creating a differential backup is very similar to the process for creating a full backup and you set many of the same options during both processes When you analyze the steps you take you ll notice the follow
43. in the first Password text box and retype it in the second Password text box for verification Note If you create a backup with the Encrypt Data option you will need to supply the password whenever you wish to validate the backup restore it or open it in TBIView or TBIMount If you lose and or forget the password you won be able to open or restore from the backup TeraByte Unlimited has no way of recovering data from an encrypted backup with an unknown password If you do not enable the Encrypt Data setting Image for Linux will use the Password text boxes to password protect the image file without any encryption The maximum password length is 128 characters Passwords are case sensitive and may contain upper case letters lower case letters numbers special characters spaces and non ASCII characters Backup Unused Sectors By default if the file system s you are backing up are one of the recognized types i e FAT FAT32 NTFS Ext2 3 4 ReiserFS or XFS Image for Linux will back up only used sectors If you select this option Image for Linux will include all used and unused sectors in the backup This option has no effect on partitions that do not contain a recognized file system such partitions will always be backed up in full regardless of this setting NOTE This option causes Image for Linux to ignore the Omit Page File Data and Omit Hibernation Data options For entire drive backups this option
44. in the target location to point to itself This can be useful when copying Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating systems to a new drive or location Copy Disk Signature This option applies when you copy a partition that had been assigned a drive letter within Windows If you select this option Image for Linux will copy the disk signature associated with the source partition If you don t select this option Image for Linux will use the disk signature already present in the MBR of the target drive if none exists Image for Linux will create one If you are copying a partition that had been assigned a drive letter in Windows and you wish to keep that drive letter assignment select this option Copy First Track If you select this option Image for Linux will copy the first track of the source hard drive which includes the master boot code and the disk signature This enables you to restore the MBR EMBR Move to Original MBR Entry If you select this option Image for Linux will move the partition table entry of the copied partition to the same location in the master partition table as it had on the source drive Image for Linux will also move the existing partition table entry to another location rather than overwrite it You may want to enable this option if you use an environment that tracks master partition table entries such as Linux Resize Partition Currently available only for FAT FAT32 NTFS a
45. is a lowercase L not the number 1 Valid values for action are B Backup R Restore Copy Copy V Validate L List partitions optical drives or file contents REBOOT Reboot system For example you might type the following at the command prompt to create a backup using Image for Linux The command specifies the source drive and partition the target drive and partition and the backup filename imagel b d 0 0x01 f 1 0x01 mypath filename Image for Linux User Manual Page 79 of 150 Note Depending on the Linux shell being used when filenames or options contain spaces or dashes and must be surrounded by quotes you may need to use an alternate syntax than the one shown in the parameter examples Four are shown below 1 imagel v f mntl my backup file 2 imagel v f mntl my backup file 3 imagel v f mntl my backup file 4 imagel v f mntl my backup file If the incorrect syntax is used Image for Linux will report an invalid parameter and exit with an error code The first parameter b identifies that you want to perform a backup The second parameter d 0 identifies the drive to back up This example backs up Hard Drive 0 The next part of that parameter 0x01 identifies the partition to back up on the selected hard drive this example backs up the first partition If you want to back up the entire drive simply omit the part of the paramet
46. last head and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the BIOS reported values of the drive S N S N Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with c and h to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you copy This parameter specifies the last sector and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the BIOS reported values of the drive rs n N A Use this parameter to resize a partition after copy n is the size in MiB s that you want to establish for the copied partition If you try to use this parameter in conjunction with x the Expand option x overrides rs Default if omitted Image for Linux copies the partition without resizing log 0 SaveLog 0 Disables logging Default if omitted Image for Linux logs during a copy operation Image for Linux List Options Table 10 lists the List parameters you can use when you run Image for Linux from the command line There are no INI file variable equivalents for these parameters they are only valid on the command line Table 10 Image for Linux List Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable L N A Use this option to indicate that you want to list the drives and partitions on the system or those contained in a backup image file Output can be redirected to a file or viewed onscreen Example 1 imagel 1 d 0 stdout
47. option must be Image for Linux User Manual Page 93 of 150 used if the applicable full backup resides on removable media Default if omitted Image for Linux uses Single Pass mode identifying changes and backing up in one pass cdws n CDWriteSpeed n Use this setting to specify the maximum disc writing speed that Image for Linux will use when burning a CD or DVD disc and force a lower writing speed than that automatically used by the optical drive s firmware Slower writing speeds may increase reliability nshould be a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc The maximum writing speed that Image for Linux actually uses is determined by whichever is ower The cdws n value you specify or the speed deemed appropriate by the drive s firmware according to the CD DVD media in use For example if you are using media that is rated at 8X for burning the maximum writing speed will be no more than 8X regardless of the setting you choose here Similarly if you supply a value that is beyond or invalid for the drive s design limits the drive will automatically use the next highest speed supported by both the drive and the media in use DVD speeds are approximately 1 8 CD speeds so if you are using DVD discs multiply the desired speed by 8 to determine the value to use For example to obtain a maximum burning speed of 2X with a DVD use cdws 16 since 8 x 2X 16 Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the Op
48. option must come last You may specify any path desired If you use paths and or file names containing spaces or dashes surround them quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples In Table 7 you find the command line parameters that you might want to use with Image for Linux when validating an image The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Validate_Defaults section unless as noted otherwise Table 7 Image for Linux Optional Validation Parameters noej NoEject 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux never to automatically open the optical drive tray Default if omitted Image for Linux will automatically open the optical drive tray whenever a new disc is needed and at the completion of the backup operation cdrs n CDReadSpeed n Use this setting to specify the maximum disc reading speed that Image for Linux will use when reading a CD or DVD disc during validation with n being a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting may be used to force a lower reading speed than that automatically used by the optical drive s firmware Slower reading speeds may increase reliability nshould be a positive integer e g 2 4 16
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50. output txt In this example 4a 0 identifies hard drive 0 as the drive for which you want to list partitions and stdout output txt indicates Image for Linux will save the output to Image for Linux User Manual Page 120 of 150 the file output txt Example 2 imagel 1 all In this example a detailed report of all drives and partitions will be shown onscreen d n N A Specifies the drive for which you want to list the partitions where n the drive number Default if omitted All drives and partitions are listed opt N A List optical drives Includes drive number and name Hard drives will not be listed Default if omitted Optical drives are not listed fs N A Include free space available for each partition in listing This option has no affect when used with all or f Default if omitted The amount of free space is not listed all N A Specify to produce a more detailed report In addition to the basic information it includes e Hard drive BIOS Device number number of Sectors Sector Size and CHS values e Partition Start LBA End LBA FS ID PE Flag Free Sectors Used Sectors Last Used Sector MBR Entry number MBR End CHS and MBR Flag e When used with f additional Data Info is listed For differential images the base image filename is listed Default if omitted Only the basic information is listed f N A List
51. so that its number matches the source drive again enabling this option can be beneficial Ignore IO Errors Under ordinary circumstances if Image for Linux encounters a bad sector on the target drive while restoring an image Image for Linux will notify you concerning the write error and give you the option to continue or abort If you select the Ignore IO Errors option Image for Linux will ignore the error and continue Generally you should select this option only if you need to restore to a target drive that contains known bad sectors On some systems if you select this setting and Image for Linux encounters bad sectors there will be a significant delay as the internal retry recovery routine of the drive attempts to handle the bad sector s Disable Auto Eject This option prevents Image for Linux from automatically opening the optical drive tray If you don t select this option Image for Linux will open the drive tray whenever a disc is needed and at the completion of the restore operation Reboot When Completed Use this option to automatically reboot your computer after the restore finishes Shutdown When Completed Use this option to automatically shut down your computer after the restore finishes Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for Linux log the date and time it completes the restore operation Image for Linux saves the log as ifl log in the imagel program directory To be able to save if1 1
52. the edges of discs Compression Select Standard or one of the Enhanced options to compress the backup files that Image for Linux creates With compression Image for Linux typically produces smaller image files but takes longer to back up If you select None Image for Linux creates your backup more quickly but produces larger image file s The attainable compression ratio depends on a number of factors including the number size and content of the files on the source partition and the level of file fragmentation on the source partition Typically Image for Linux compresses backup files 40 60 However if the source partition primarily contains files that do not compress well such as media files like MP3 JPG and AVI or archive files like 7Z RAR and ZIP the compression ratio will be much lower The Enhanced Size A B C options correspond to the Enhanced Normal Slower Slowest options used by version 2 71 and earlier These options provide greater compression but the backups may take considerably longer The Enhanced Size D E F options are faster than their A B C counterparts but offer slightly less compression The Enhanced Speed A B options offer decent compression with the emphasis on back up speed over backup file size Note The Enhanced Size D E F and Enhanced Speed A B options require version 2 72 or later they are not backwards compatible File Size Select this option to choose the maximum size of the imag
53. to clone that setup so that you can place it in another computer You can use the Copy operation Copying a Partition or Drive Using the Copy operation Image for Linux makes a sector by sector copy of the used areas of the partition or drive you select and places that copy on the partition or drive you designate overwriting any information stored on the target location If the partition or drive you copy is a bootable partition or drive the copy will also be bootable Note Unless you copy an entire drive Image for Linux does not automatically set the copy as the active boot partition unless you select the Set Active option To create a copy of a partition or drive follow these steps 1 Start Image for Linux 2 Onthe Main Menu Select Operation screen select Copy and press Enter Image for Linux User Manual Page 62 of 150 image for Linux GUI 2 67 L A Welcome to Image for Linux Please choose which operation you would like to perform at this time Select Operation Backup IMAGE Restore for Linux Validate Copy TeraByte Settings Unlimited Exit Image for Linux User Manual Page 63 of 150 3 On the Copy From Select Drive Interface screen select the interface used by the drive or the drive containing the partition you want to copy These steps assume you select a Linux drive mage for Linux GUI 2 Doo Select Drive Interface Copy From Linux Virtual Drive
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55. use by Image for Linux n is a number between 0 and 9 you use to represent any of 10 virtual drives If you reuse a number Image for Linux will replace the prior definition for that virtual drive You must define the virtual device before using it with other command line parameters using one of two formats a Just include the file name of an existing virtual drive or b Provide additional parameters after the filename using commas as given in the sample above For the cr parameter use the letter C or the letter R Using C tells Image for Linux to create a new virtual drive if one doesn t exist and using R tells Image for Linux to recreate the virtual drive even if one already exists Note that Image for Linux gives no warning before recreating a virtual drive if you use R For the type parameter use either raw vhdd vhdf vmdk vmdks where raw is a plain raw file that is allocated as the virtual drive vhdd is a VirtualPC Dynamic Expanding file vhdf is a VirtualPC Fixed file vmdk is a VMWare Monolithic Sparse IDE file and vmdks is a VMWare Monolithic Sparse SCSI file You can use a special form of the command line parameter to remove all references to any defined virtual drives v without the quotation marks This special format is useful when you want to override any Vn references that may exist in an INI file Default if omitted No virtual drives are defined kfb KeepFailedBackups 1 Prevents Image for Linu
56. use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the base and before the source hard drive number Linux device g SCSI generic device o Optical drive when you combine this option with either of the options above this option must come last You may specify any path desired If you use paths and or file names containing spaces or dashes surround them quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples N A Use this option to specify the target path and file name for a backup file f fillename f mypath filename f my path file name f my path file name Or f d p filename f d p mypath filename Image for Linux User Manual mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Or Specify target device partition path and file name dis target hard drive number pis target partition ID hex or decimal Page 110 of 150 f d p my path filename notation f d p my path filename mypath or my path is path to filename f ntsig p mypath bkup filename is target file name for image f dev name p mypath bkup Device modifiers may be used as needed When used they must be placed after the f and before the target hard drive number Linux device g SCSI generic device o Optical drive when you combine this option with either of the options above this
57. with a single 465GB partition containing Windows and 150GB of programs and data e The source drive s required space for restore is 220GB e A backup image of the source drive has been created SOURCE TBI e The destination drive is either a 128GB or 256GB SSD drive Example 1 Normal Restore For the purpose of this text a normal restore is one which requires no compacting resizing or special steps to accomplish prior to restoring This type of restore can be used any time the required space for the restore is less than the available space on the destination drive even if the source partition is actually much larger Using the example configuration SOURCE TBI can be restored normally to the 256GB SSD since it requires only 220GB It would not be possible to do a normal restore to the 128GB SSD due to insufficient available space When restoring an OS partition or disk image entire drive any standard options necessary to ensure proper booting would also apply here Set Active Update BOOT INI Update Boot Partition Restore First Track etc Additionally when restoring a disk image and the source drive was larger than the destination the Scale to Target or Scale to Fit option must be selected Otherwise the program will report that there s not enough space on the destination drive even if there is Image for Linux User Manual Page 139 of 150 Example 2 Compact Resize Image and Restore Using the example co
58. you must place them after the base and before the source hard drive number Linux device g SCSI generic device Page 91 of 150 o Optical drive when you combine this option with either of the options above this option must come last v Virtual drive You may specify any path desired If you use paths and or file names containing spaces or dashes surround them quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples The base option cannot be used with the d option zj N A Use this option to specify the target path and file name for a backup file f filename f mypath filename f my path file name f my path file name Or f d p filename f d p mypath filename f d p my path filename f d p my path filename f ntsig p mypath bkup f dev name p mypath bkup mypath or my path is the path to filename filename is target file name for image Or Specify target device partition path and file name dis target hard drive number pis target partition ID hex or decimal notation mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Device modifiers may be used as needed When used they must be placed after the f and before the target hard drive number Linux device g SCSI generic device o Optical drive when you combine this option with either of the options abov
59. 6 you find the command line options that you must set to use Image for Linux to validate an image The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Validate_Defaults section unless as noted otherwise Table 6 Image for Linux Required Validate Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable y N A Image for Linux User Manual Page 109 of 150 Use this option to indicate that you want to validate an image file Also required CDn or a path name as described below to identify the location of the backup image you want to validate base N A Use when validating a differential backup to identify the full backup Image for Linux should use to validate the differential backup base bkup base mypath bkup base my path bkup base my path bkup Or base d p bkup base d p mypath bkup base d p my path bkup base d p my path bkup base ntsig p mypath bkup base dev name p mypath bkup mypath or my path is path to bkup bkup is name of existing full backup omit file extension Or Specify source device partition path and file name d is source hard drive number p is source partition ID hex or decimal notation You can
60. 8 x 4X 32 Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the Optimal speed setting iobs n IOBS n Include this option to try to improve I O performance in cases where network or USB device performance is poor Provide n as the letter A to automatically try to determine the best value otherwise try a value such as 1 2 or 3 Default if omitted Image for Linux does not use this option err AllowErrors 1 Use this option to tell Image for Linux to ignore read write errors caused by bad sectors on the source drive during the backup operation Image for Linux will also ignore errors during the validation phase This parameter does not apply to bad sectors on the target drive Default if omitted Image for Linux will notify you concerning the error and give you the option to continue or abort mf N A Instructs Image for Linux to use Multiple File Set mode Select this option to create a backup that is comprised of one image for every individual partition that you back up Default if omitted Image for Linux uses Single File Set mode and creates a single image regardless of the number of individual partitions you back up desc mydescription N A Use this option to specify the descriptive text you want Image for Linux to associate with the backup up to 511 characters note that command line length limits may not allow a maximum length description If your descriptive text includes spaces surround it with quotes se
61. B 12 20 2011 2 56 pm Win7 SRP 2011 12 20 tbi 9 97MB 12 20 2011 3 00 pm TeraByte Unlimited Image for Linux User Manual Page 45 of 150 11 On the Backup Options screen that appears select the options you want to use See the section Understanding Backup Options on Page 38 for an explanation of each option 12 Onthe Summary screen that appears select Start A progress bar appears on screen When Image for Linux finishes a message appears to let you know that the backup was successful You can interrupt the backup and validation operations at any time by pressing the F12 key or clicking Exit Image for Linux will ask you to confirm that you want to cancel before it interrupts the current operation After you press Enter to dismiss the message the main menu for Image for Linux reappears At this point if you are finished using Image for Linux select Exit remove the Image for Linux boot media and then either reboot or shut down the computer Image for Linux User Manual Page 46 of 150 Using Image for Linux to Restore a Backup It is important to remember that you cannot restore an image over the partition that contains the image file you are using to restore The size of the target location where you restore an image is important The target must be large enough to accommodate the data from the source partition The minimum amount of space required in the target location is determined by the amount of space enco
62. B HPFS NTFS TeraByte Unlimited When a partition is highlighted the following options are available Delete Press the Del key or click Delete to delete the selected partition You will be prompted to confirm the deletion Details Information Press F1 or click Information to view the details of the partition used space free space size needed to restore etc Compact Press F3 or click Compact to compact the partition s file system FAT FAT382 and NTFS file systems are supported This option allows you to reduce the size required for a restore You will be prompted to confirm the compaction and then asked for the compaction value size in MiB For example if you have a 250GB partition that contains 50GB of data and requires 150GB of space to restore and you need to copy it to a 100GB partition you can compact the file system to under 100GB before copying it to the 100GB partition 6 The Copy To Select Drive Interface screen appears Select the interface Linux Drive or Virtual Drive used by the target location where you plan to place the copy These steps assume you select Linux Drive 7 On the Copy To Select Target Drive screen that appears select the drive on which you want to place the copy Image for Linux displays a warning that indicates that all data in the target partition or on the target drive will be overwritten and lost Select Yes Image for Linux User Manual Page 66 of 150 8 Image
63. B partition that contains 50GB of data and requires 150GB of space to restore and you need to restore it to a 100GB partition you can compact the file system to under 100GB before imaging it and then restore it to the 100GB partition 7 If in Step 6 you chose to back up an entire drive the Backup Select screen appears Choose one of the following options image for Linux GUI 2 67 BIE Select Backup Single File Set Multiple File Set IMAGE for Linux TeraByte Unlimited Single File Set Select this option to create a backup that is comprised of a single image regardless of how many individual partitions you are backing up The first file created for the image set will be named lt name gt TBI where lt name gt is a character string you supply If Image for Linux creates additional files Image for Linux will name them lt name gt 1 lt name gt 2 lt name gt 3 and so on The number of files Image for Linux will create depends on the overall size of the backup and the File Size setting you choose when you set the options for the backup in a later step Multiple File Set Select this option to create a backup that is comprised of one image for every individual partition that Image for Linux backs up Image for Linux names the first file created for the first image set lt name gt _0 TBI where lt name gt is a character string you supply Image for Linux adds _0 to identify
64. D Image for Linux User Manual Page 78 of 150 Running Image for Linux from the Command Line You can run Image for Linux from the command line by typing the program name followed by the options you want enabled Be sure to separate the command line options with spaces or colons You can view all available command line options by typing the following command at the command prompt imagel Note The last letter of the program name is a lowercase L not the number 1 When using the console version press Enter to advance through the screens When running Image for Linux from the command line you might need to include references to hard drive numbers and or partition IDs To determine the correct hard drive number or partition ID complete Steps 1 through 5 in the section Creating a Full Backup making sure that you select the hard drive whose number and or partition IDs you need to obtain The hard drive number will then appear in the format HDn e g HDO or HD1 The partition ID appears in parenthesis in the middle of each partition description and consists of either two or four characters Note Under certain configurations hard drive numbers may be different in Linux than they are in DOS Windows or other environments The basic format for running Image for Linux from the command line is imagel action options Note The last letter of the program name
65. DReadSpeed n Use this setting to specify the maximum disc reading speed that Image for Linux will use when reading a CD or DVD disc while restoring a backup image with n being a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting may be used to force a lower reading speed than that automatically used by the optical drive s firmware Slower reading speeds may increase reliability nshould be a positive integer e g 2 4 16 etc This setting is only applicable when you are restoring from CD DVD media and you have also included the v option The maximum reading speed that is actually used is determined by whichever is lower The cdrs n value that you specify or the speed deemed appropriate by the drive s firmware according to the CD DVD media in use For example if you are using media that is rated at 32X for reading the maximum reading speed will be no more than 32X regardless of the setting you choose here Similarly if you supply a value that is invalid for or beyond the drive s design limits the drive will automatically use the next highest speed supported by both the drive and the media in use DVD speeds are approximately 1 8 CD speeds so if you are using DVD discs multiply the desired speed by 8 to determine the value to use here For example to obtain a maximum reading speed of 4X with a DVD use cdrs 32 since 8 x 4X 32 Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the Optimal speed setting iobs lIOBS 1
66. DVD Rw AW 01704 CD Speed Optimal hd lt lt Previous Finish Cancel Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 11 Select the target that MakeDisk should use to create the bootable Image for Linux media When creating a CD DVD you can select a specific CD Speed but leaving the option set to Optimal allows the MakeDisk utility to choose the speed that will work best with your drive Select a specific speed lower than the speed of your CD DVD drive if you encounter problems creating the boot D You can create a bootable USB flash drive with MakeDisk as long as the USB flash drive is not larger than 64 GB If you choose the ISO File option also supply an ISO file name in the box provided Note If you boot the ISO file directly some boot managers support this any custom settings selected will not be applied since IFL will not look inside the ISO file If you choose the CD DVD option be sure to insert a writable CD or DVD disc before proceeding The entire contents of this disc will be overwritten MakeDisk can automatically overwrite CD RW and DVD RW media However if you wish to use DVD RW media it must be either brand new or fully blanked before being processed by MakeDisk To fully blank the DVD RW media use your burning software s full erase function The quick erase function will not work for this purpose
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68. Errors option Image for Linux will ignore the error and continue Generally you should select this option only if you need to copy to a target drive that contains known bad sectors On some systems if you select this setting and Image for Linux encounters bad sectors there will be a significant delay as the internal retry recovery routine of the drive attempts to handle the bad sector s Reboot When Completed Selecting this option tells Image for Linux to reboot the computer after completing the Copy operation Shutdown When Completed Selecting this option tells Image for Linux to shut down the computer after completing the Copy operation Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for Linux log the details of the copy operation Image for Linux saves the log as if1 1log inthe imagel Image for Linux User Manual Page 69 of 150 program directory To be able to save if1 1o0g Image for Linux must be running from a writable medium You can use the logfile or LogFile options to specify an alternate location for i 1 1og Set Active If you select this option Image for Linux will make the copied partition the active partition after completing the copy operation Otherwise Image for Linux will make the copied partition active only if no other partition is active and the target drive is HDO Update BOOT INI When you select this option Image for Linux will update all partition w entries in the boot ini file found
69. Image for Linux check that each byte from the source drive was copied to the target drive properly Default if omitted Image for Linux does not validate the copied data err AllowErrors 1 Use this option to tell Image for Linux to ignore read write errors caused by bad sectors on the source or target drive during the copy operation Default if omitted Image for Linux will notify you concerning the error and give you the option to continue or abort ubi UpdateBootIni 1 This option only applies if a copy of boot ini exists in the root directory of the copied partition If enabled this option instructs Image for Linux to update all partition n references in the restored partition s boot ini file to accommodate a partition layout that differs from that of the original drive Image for Linux will set all partition based entries in Image for Linux User Manual Page 117 of 150 the applicable boot ini to point to the copied partition but will not change file based entries This option has no effect when doing a full drive copy Default if omitted Image for Linux does not try to update the boot ini file wipe Wipe 1 This option will wipe zero out unused sectors in the copied partition s or drive depending on the type of copy performed When copying single partitions or when copying multiple partitions to a drive with existing partitions sectors located outside of the copied partition s are not wiped
70. LINUX LIST OPTIONS cecccecececccececececececececececcenececeececeneeneeeneeeneeeneeenaes 120 TROUBLESHOOTING cccccceccceccecceccecececceceueeceecuecaeeceeceeaeecueeaeeseeceeeaeeeeeens 122 APPENDIX A UNDERSTANDING THE TYPES OF BACKUPS 5 123 FILE BASED BACKUP E E See a a et an be eat a eaten Sh 123 SECTOR BASED BACKUP crre EAEN OCEANE EER EENEN AEE AEA 123 APPENDIX B BACKUP STRATEGIES ccccccccecceecceccecececceceaeececeneeneeceeens 124 FULEIBAGCKUPS a eet eet eee hos cca heehee eta 124 INGREMENTAL BACKUPS EE E ce Ae ee eA 124 DIFFERENTIAL BACKUPS arra rE A E 125 APPENDIX C INTRODUCTION TO HARD DRIVE STORAGE 00255 127 THE PHYSICAL HARD DRIVE 02cccecccecccecceecececececeneceneecaueeauecaeeeeeueeeueeeaueeaneeaeesanees 127 THE LOGICAL HARD DRIVE HARD DRIVE DATA ORGANIZATION ceeeceeeceeeceeeceeeeees 127 APPENDIX D LINUX HELP TOPICS 2 0 0 cc ccc cecccccceccaeccecccececceeeaeececcneeaeeceeens 130 MOUNTING AND UNMOUNTING PARTITIONS 0ccceeeceeeceeecececececececeeceeeceeeceeeceeeneenes 130 Listing Mounted Partitions or Devices 0 0 0 eee ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetaeeeeeeeneaeeeeeeeaeees 130 Mounting a Partition or D VICE sesers na i a EEEE EE E 130 Unmounting a Partition or Device ssesssseessrresssrresrrrnssnrnnesrrnnestnnnestnnnesnnnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnna 131 Creating or Removing Mount Points c ccccecceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeceaeeeceaeeeea
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72. SD You plan to delete many gigabytes of files you won t need and uninstall several large programs However you would also like to preserve the data on the 500GB drive One way to do this is to create a backup image of the drive and then make the desired changes A new backup image can then be created and restored to the SSD or the drive could be copied Once the SSD is ready for use the original drive image can be restored to the 500GB source drive returning it to its original state Understanding Partition Data Organization When you set up a hard drive you can create logical partitions A logical partition is simply a conceptual division on the hard drive You can use different file systems in different partitions and many users partition hard drives so that they can store different operating systems or segregate data on the same hard drive Formatting is the process that prepares a partition on the hard drive to accept data by creating an empty file system that is organized into clusters A cluster a logical grouping of contiguous sectors is the smallest logical unit of storage that you can allocate to hold a file s data Table A depicts the layout of files within clusters on a hypothetical partition 44 clusters contain data with the last cluster in use the cluster closest to the end of the partition being located 75 into the partition Image for Linux User Manual Page 134 of 150 Zee ee et Table A Y z D i
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75. a single partition specifying this option will instruct Image for Linux to not adjust the alignment 2048 sector alignment will be used if the target has it already or not if it doesn t and a partition already exists Default if omitted The alignment used on the target drive will be determined automatically based on the source drive n2ka N A Typically Image for Linux automatically uses 2048 alignment on command line restore operations when the backup contains 2048 aligned partitions Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to not automatically override normal cylinder based alignment If this option is disabled and Image for Linux determines that 2048 alignment is needed then both Align2048 and AlignEndHS options are enabled for the restore Note This option has been deprecated but will remain supported for backwards compatibility The att option should be used instead Default if omitted Alignment is automatically determined when restoring from the command line When a single partition is being restored and a2k is not used Image for Linux will use 2048 alignment if the destination drive contains a 2048 aligned partition or cylinder alignment if the drive contains a partition which is not 2048 aligned Otherwise the alignment used is obtained from the image being restored aoe n AlignOnEnd n Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to align restored partitions at the end
76. ace on the target drive as it did on the source drive Unpartitioned free space that existed on the source drive at the time of the backup will still exist at the end of the target drive after Image for Linux completes the restore operation This option only applies when you restore an entire hard drive Default if omitted Image for Linux does not scale each restored partition X Expand 1 For NTFS FAT FAT32 EXT 2 3 4 partitions when restoring to a target that is larger than the source partition use this parameter to have Image for Linux expand the partition after completing the restore operation Image for Linux User Manual Page 103 of 150 This option is equivalent to the Scale to Fit option for fully restoring drives Default if omitted Image for Linux will not expand the partition and free space will remain after Image for Linux completes the restore operation kf n KeepFree n Use this parameter if you also use either x or stt to specify the amount of space in MiB Image for Linux should leave free Default if omitted Image for Linux will fill the entire available area m FirstFit 1 When restoring a partition use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to choose the target area automatically based on the first area of available free space large enough to accommodate the partition you want to restore When restoring or copying a full drive this parameter will remove any gaps free space
77. ace under the HDx section Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to treat the selected drive as a drive that doesn t use a partition table only if the first sector on the drive is all zeros If you use this option on the command line you must place it before the device is specified Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted Image for Linux treats the selected drive as a drive that uses a partition table nptrm NPTOptRemMedOnly 0x80000 Goes under the HDx section Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to apply the npt or anpt options on removable media only If you use this option on the command line you must place it before the device is specified Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted Image for Linux applies the npt or anpt option to all drives geodis GlobalGeoDisable 1 Use this to disable the global geometry settings and revert to using program defaults or drive specific overrides equivalent to versions prior to 2 52 This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted Global geometry options are not disabled geoah GlobalGeoAlignHS 1 When this option is enabled Image for Linux will prevent problems with unaligned partitions being restored to systems with BIOS Auto Mode enabled Many newer systems use auto mode by default and some e
78. acking up around 30 GB of data you probably will not want to store the backup on a set of CD R RW discs since the backup will likely require 20 discs or more based on an expected compression ratio of 40 60 Better options in this case would be Back up directly to a set of DVD discs i Backup to an alternate hard drive partition and perhaps use the free add on utility BINGBURN later to burn the backup to a set of DVD discs Backup to an external hard drive recommended Plan your backup with a restore strategy in mind You can Image for Linux User Manual Page 24 of 150 Save the backup directly to a set of bootable CD or DVD discs as explained in this manual To restore simply boot with the restore disc and use Image for Linux to perform the restore Save the backup to an alternate hard drive partition To restore run Image for Linux from a bootable USB flash drive or a CD DVD disc Save the backup to an external hard drive recommended To restore run Image for Linux from a bootable USB flash drive or a CD DVD disc Strike your own balance between convenience and resiliency Consider these simple ideas ze Save your backups directly to an alternate hard drive partition and use the free utility BINGBURN to burn a second copy of the backup to a set of CD DVD discs Then if you need to restore you can quickly and conveniently use the backup stored on the hard drive But if things really go wrong and the primary
79. age for Linux license agreement and if you accept it select the I accept the agreement button and click Next 6 If you selected Custom Settings in Step 3 the Global Geometry Options screen will appear Otherwise skip to Step 9 tat MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 m Global Geometry Options optional I Disable Global Geometry I Disable Align MBR for BIOS Auto Mode Align Partitions on 2048 Sectors I Assume Same Target System Use Source Host Geometry I Disable Validate Geometry Before Use lt lt Previous F a Cancel Copyright 2004 2012 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved Check boxes to enable the options Image for Linux User Manual Page 16 of 150 Disable Global Geometry Check this box to disable the global geometry settings and revert to using program defaults or drive specific overrides equivalent to versions prior to 2 52 Disable Align MBR for BIOS Auto Mode This option is enabled by default to prevent problems with unaligned partitions on systems with their BIOS using Auto Mode Many newer systems use auto mode by default and some even don t have an option to turn it off Check the box if you want to disable this option This is equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Align MBR Ending HS and Align MBR HS when Truncated However you can disable this option by checking the box Align Partitions on 2048 Sectors This option provides a convenie
80. ake it functional Please see syntax examples on page 80 Installing Image for Linux Manually In the section Installing Image for Linux you saw how to use the MakeDisk utility under Windows to create the boot media for Image for Linux You also can create the default configuration boot disc from within Linux If you are running Linux you also can run Image for Linux from within Linux without creating a boot disc Finally you can create a customized Linux boot disc Creating a Default Configuration Boot Disc from within Linux If you use an operating system platform that doesn t support MakeDisk you can create the default configuration boot disc from within Linux Note If your system is capable of booting from a USB Flash Drive you also can create a bootable USB flash drive for Image for Linux See the readme txt included in the Image for Linux zip archive for details The default configuration sets the following options Wired network using eth0 interface wireless networking is not supported DHCP server must be available to obtain IP address Console login is not required on boot The root password is if1 used for SSH login The ISCSI initiator daemon is started The time zone is UTC QWERTY keyboard layout 80x25 as default video mode To create a bootable disc that contains Image for Linux and uses the default settings unzip the Image for Linux archive file to a directory of your choice Then burn t
81. al backup and the f option to specify image file Image for Linux should use when restoring d N A Use when restoring a backup to identify the target hard drive and partition Image for Linux will restore the image to the same hard drive number and physical location on the drive that you backed up unless you override this setting If the target partition was a volume and no extended partition now exists at the original location Image for Linux will attempt to create the original extended partition If Image for Linux cannot create the extended partition Image for Linux will restore the image as a primary partition If the target partition was originally a primary partition and an extended partition now exists at that location Image for Linux will restore the image as a volume If an existing partition or volume occupies the same starting location as the partition you want to restore Image for Linux will display a warning message before overwriting the partition or volume You can suppress this warning message as described in Table 5 d d p d is the target hard drive number d ld p d ntsig d dev name p p is the target partition or volume ID hex or decimal notation depending on whether you are referring to a partition or a volume Use this parameter only if you are restoring an individual partition You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the d and before the targ
82. and an unmounted partition Image for Linux User Manual Page 35 of 150 Note Do not save your image to the same partition you are backing up File CD DVD This option allows you to save the backup file s to a CD or DVD disc Image for Linux will automatically make the first CD DVD disc bootable Note Image for Linux can automatically overwrite CD RW and DVD RW media If you wish to use DVD RW media Image for Linux can format it but the process takes 1 hour per disc so you may prefer to use fully formatted fully blanked or brand new discs To fully blank the DVD RW media use your burning software s full erase function The quick erase function will not work for this purpose 9 The screen that appears next depends on the option you chose in Step 8 If you chose File OS a screen appears where you can type a file name see Step 10 for details If you chose File Direct the Backup To Select Drive Interface screen appears this screen closely resembles the screen shown earlier in Step 4 Select the interface of the drive on which you want to store the backup The Backup To Select File Drive screen appears this screen closely resembles the screen shown earlier in Step 5 Select the drive on which you want to store the backup and Image for Linux displays the Backup To Select File Location on HDn screen where you can select a partition on the hard drive if it contains
83. and sector values are located outside the range of the current geometry Default if omitted The actual ending head and sector values are used mg UseMBRGeo 1 Place under the HDx section When restoring a backup set this parameter to tell Image for Linux to use the geometry based on the MBR entry of the first partition in the backup image Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the geometry of the target drive or UseOrgGeo option Mgv UseValidMBRGeoOnly 1 Place under the HDx section This option is used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR on the original system is aligned to known standards before accepting it for use It only applies when mg UseMBRGeo is used Default if omitted This option is disabled 0g UseOrgGeo 1 Place under the HDx section When restoring a backup set this parameter to tell Image for Linux to use the original geometry of the source drive based on the environment used when the backup was created Default if omitted The geometry of the target drive is used C N c n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with h and s to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you restore a backup image This parameter specifies the last cylinder and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the BIOS reported values of the drive Image for Linux User Manual Page 108 of 150
84. as changed or been allocated since you created the last full backup Differential backups are easy to manage during disaster recovery because you need to restore only the last full backup followed by the last differential backup some programs will restore both the full and differential backup in one restore procedure You don t run as much risk of discovering that a backup is damaged or missing and since you only need to restore two backups at most you are not as likely to restore them in the wrong order By its nature the size of a differential backup grows over time If you wait long enough between full backups your differential backup could become almost as large as a full backup and take almost as much time to create Image for Linux User Manual Page 126 of 150 Appendix C Introduction to Hard Drive Storage All modern circa 2007 personal computers make use of at least one partitioned hard drive Knowing at least the basics of how hard drive partitioning and file systems work can help you understand how to work with TeraByte Unlimited imaging products The information about physical hard drives that follows is intended to be a broad overview to provide you with a general understanding of the hard drive The Physical Hard Drive Hard drives contain several round thin rigid disks called platters The rigidity of these platters serves as the basis for the terms hard disk and hard drive In the center of each plat
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86. ces if Image for Linux encounters a bad sector on the target partition while restoring Image for Linux will notify you concerning the write error and give you the option to continue or abort If you select the Ignore IO Errors option Image for Linux will ignore the error and continue Generally you should select this option only if you need to restore to a target drive that contains known bad sectors On some systems if you select this setting and Image for Linux encounters bad sectors there will be a significant delay as the internal retry recovery routine of the drive attempts to handle the bad sector s Disable Auto Eject This option prevents Image for Linux from automatically opening the optical drive tray If you don t select this option Image for Linux will open the drive tray whenever a disc is needed and at the completion of the restore operation Reboot When Completed Use this option to automatically reboot your computer after the restore finishes Shutdown When Completed Use this option to automatically shut down your computer after the restore finishes Image for Linux User Manual Page 53 of 150 Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for Linux log the date and time it completes the restore operation Image for Linux saves the log as ifl log in the imagel program directory To be able to save if1 10g Image for Linux must be running from a writable medium You can use the logfile or LogFile opt
87. ch partition takes up the same relative amount of space on the target drive as it did on the source drive Unpartitioned free space that existed on the source drive at the time of the backup will still exist at the end of the target drive after Image for Linux completes the copy operation This option only applies when you copy an entire hard drive Default if omitted Image for Linux does not scale each copied partition X Expand 1 For NTFS FAT FAT32 EXT 2 3 4 partitions when copying to a target that is larger than the source partition use this parameter to have Image for Linux expand the partition after completing the copy operation This option is equivalent to the Scale to Fit option for fully copying drives Default if omitted Image for Linux will not expand the partition and free space will remain after Image for Linux completes the copy operation kf n KeepFree n Use this parameter if you also use either x or stt to specify the amount of space in mebibytes MiB that Image for Linux should leave free Default if omitted Image for Linux will fill the entire available area m FirstFit 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to choose the target area automatically based on the first area of available free space large enough to accommodate the partition you want to copy Default if omitted You must explicitly specify the target area vb PostValidate 1 Use this parameter to have
88. ckup in a second pass This setting is not applicable when validating a full backup This option must be used if the applicable full backup resides on removable media Default if omitted Image for Linux uses Single Pass mode validating in one pass log 0 SaveLog 0 Use this option to disable logging Default if omitted Image for Linux logs during a validate operation Image for Linux Copy Options In Table 8 you find the command line options that you can set to use Image for Linux to make a copy of a partition or drive The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Copy_Defaults section Table 8 Image for Linux Required Copy Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable COpy N A Image for Linux User Manual Page 112 of 150 Use this option to indicate that you want to perform a copy sd N A Use this option to identify the source hard drive and partition For most users the partition ID will be a number from 1 through 4 For partition IDs of 9 or below you can use a Single digit in place of hexadecimal notation e g 1 is equivalent to 0x1 and 5 is equivalent to 0x5 The volume ID will be a number formatted as OxPVV where P is the extended partitio
89. ct Drive Interface screen appears from which you can choose Linux Drive or Virtual Drive select the interface of the drive that contains the backup that you want to validate The Validate Select File Drive screen appears from the list that appears select the hard drive that contains the backup you want to validate Image for Linux displays the Validate Select File Location on HDn screen select a partition on the hard drive if it contains partitions otherwise press Enter to select the drive If you chose File CD DVD the Validate Select Drive Interface screen appears Select either ATAPI SCSI or SG Then insert the first disc in the set and then select the corresponding CD DVD drive from the list 4 Onthe screen that appears type or press Tab and use the arrow keys to select the name of the image file you want to validate You do not have to supply a file extension just the path and file name itself Image for Linux GUI 2 67 Select the backup file to validate Name 926 38GiB Free Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi RECYCLE BIN 12 20 2011 6 41 pm System Volume Information 12 20 2011 6 41 pm 5GB 12 20 2011 2 56 pm Win7 SRP 2011 12 20 tbi 12 20 2011 3 00 pm 5 On the Validate Select Item to Process screen choose to validate the drive or a partition Image for Linux User Manual Page 60 of 150 6 On the Validate Options screen that appears select the options you want to use See the next section
90. current size If moving to an extremely small drive like a small SSD you will likely need to remove almost everything that isn t part of the standard Windows installation In these cases you may want to consider the option of installing Windows to the new drive and starting over fresh Make Sure the File System is Clean Whether restoring to a smaller drive or to a smaller partition file system errors on any of the source partitions can cause numerous errors including failure to resize or compact the partition If you are unsure of the condition of the file system you may want to run chkdsk on it before imaging or copying it In general it s a good idea to run MEMTEST86 before running chkdsk bad memory may cause chkdsk to corrupt the partition To do this open a Command Prompt an Administrator Command Prompt is required in versions of Windows with UAC is enabled and run the following command making sure to use the correct drive letter for the partition to be checked chkdsk c f Note that checking some partitions such as the Windows partition may require Windows to restart In the case of multiple partitions needing to be checked it may be advantageous to check them from WinPE e g TBWinPE since Windows isn t running and no partitions are locked restarts will not be required Compact or Resize the Partition s Compacting or resizing a partition requires that it be available to be modified If the only sou
91. d backup is simple and you can backup or restore only certain files or folders But a file based backup it has drawbacks For example files that are in use may not be backed up And restoring a file based backup can be tricky Files in use cannot be restored If the required operating system environment and software is not installed and accessible you will first need to install it before you can restore any data Sector Based Backup A sector based backup also called imaging differs from file based backup because imaging operates on the entire partition including all files and the operating system itself This is the method of backup employed by Image for Linux When you create a sector based image as your backup you back up not only your data files but also the operating system in its entirety If you restore a sector based backup your computer returns to the state it was in when you created the image Image for Linux places all information on the target drive in the exact location where it appeared when you created the image In addition you can Restore a sector based backup even if the operating system isn t accessible effectively performing a bare metal restoration Restore individual files if you want using the free TBIView or TBIMount add ons Image for Linux User Manual Page 123 of 150 Appendix B Backup Strategies Whether you create file based backups or sector based backups you can choose between
92. d to run on the Linux operating system If you are familiar with Image for DOS you will find Image for Linux to be quite similar in appearance and function The primary differences that you will encounter are The hard drives and CD DVD devices are listed somewhat differently in the menus You may need to mount and unmount partitions and network drives to save restore and validate images When you create an image using Image for Linux the file system and files are backed up exactly as they are stored on the sectors of your hard drive at the time you make the backup The backup you create is effectively a snapshot of your hard drive at the time you create the image Image for Linux does not examine the files on your hard drive to make decisions about whether they should be backed up Note See Appendix A Understanding the Types of Backups on Page 123 for a description of file based backups vs sector based backups Appendix B Backup Strategies on Page 124 describes the types of backup strategies you can use and the strategy you choose plays an important role when you need to restore a backup See Appendix D Linux Help Topics on Page 130 for an overview of Linux terminology and basic help topics When you create a backup using Image for Linux you back up not only your data files but also the operating system in its entirety To understand the full impact of having an image backup suppose that you install a program
93. e Note You can use the Compact feature of the Terabyte Unlimited imaging programs to reduce the size required when restoring or copying Figure 3 shows the same number of clusters in use but the clusters are arranged optimally with no unused clusters interspersed Figure 3 Although the used cluster arrangement of Figure 3 might be most ideal you generally can t easily arrange clusters in this way Image for Linux User Manual Page 129 of 150 Appendix D Linux Help Topics While using Image for Linux is very similar to using Image for DOS understanding a few key areas of Linux may help you get the most out of the Image for Linux This section is intended to provide some introductory information for those unfamiliar with Linux Mounting and Unmounting Partitions Image for Linux includes the dpmount script which makes mounting and unmounting partitions an easy menu driven process To run the script in the console version of Image for Linux exit to the command prompt type dpmount and press Enter In the GUI version you can also use the icon on the launch bar or right click the desktop and select Mount Drive or Partition In Linux you must mount a partition to access the files on it In some cases partitions are mounted automatically when the system boots based on a table contained in the text file etc fstab You can edit the file to mount additional partitions automatically Note You do
94. e this option must come last v Virtual drive You may specify any path desired If you use paths and or file names containing spaces or dashes surround them quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples Image for Linux User Manual Page 92 of 150 The above options are required when you perform a backup using Image for Linux from the command line In Table 3 you find a list of the optional backup parameters you can use when you run Image for Linux from the command line The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the options are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Backup_Defaults section Table 3 Image for Linux Optional Backup Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable Ppw mypassword or pw my password Use this option to set a password for Image for Linux to use in conjunction with simple password protection or AES encryption If your password contains spaces surround it with a backslash followed by a quotation mark Your password cannot exceed 128 characters and may contain upper lowercase letters numbers special characters spaces and non ASCII characters You must use this option if you also specify enc 1 or enc 3 described later in this table Default if omitted I
95. e MakeDisk utility that comes with Image for Linux or using an alternative method To read about creating the Image for Linux boot media using the MakeDisk utility see the section Installing Image for Linux on Page 14 To read about other ways to create the Image for Linux boot media see the section Installing Image for Linux Manually on Page 71 2 Boot the computer that you want to back up using the Image for Linux boot media 3 Using the Image for Linux menus select a drive or partition to back up For details on using the Image for Linux menus see the section Navigating the Image for Linux Interface on Page 23 gt Select the target location where you want to store the backup image file s 5 Provide a name for the backup image file 6 Set backup options For details on available backup options see the section Understanding Backup Options on Page 38 You can make a differential backup using the same steps you simply select the Changes Only option on the Image for Linux menu instead of the Full Backup option For details on backup strategies that is deciding whether to make full backups or use a combination of full backups and differential backups see Appendix B Backup Strategies on Page 124 For details on creating a differential backup see the section Creating a Differential Backup on Page 42 You can restore an Image for Linux backup using these steps Note F
96. e all opened handles to the volume which may result in lost data Image for Linux will attempt to lock the volume after forcing the dismount Default if omitted Normal locking without forcing a dismount occurs sig ReplaceNTSig 1 Use this option if you are copying a partition that Windows had assigned a drive letter before you copied the drive If you use this option Image for Linux will copy the disk signature associated with the source partition Default if omitted Image for Linux will use the disk signature already present in the MBR of the target drive or if none exists Image for Linux will create one csig ChangeNTSig 1 This option only applies to full drive copies It allows you to change the NT Signature copied to the target drive This can be useful if you plan on having both the original and restored hard drive in the same computer at the same time when running Windows otherwise Windows may detect the duplicate signature and modify it which may depending on the OS prevent the restored hard drive from booting properly Default if omitted Image for Linux will not change the copied disk signature ohd UseOrgHDNum 1 Use this option to tell Image for Linux to keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partition after Image for Linux has copied the partition to the target drive This option is primarily used for Linux partitions Default if omitted If the target drive number diffe
97. e files created by Image for Linux The available options are Max Automatically creates the largest file s allowed by the file system in use on the target medium For example the largest files that may reside on FAT FAT32 and NTFS partitions are 2 GiB 4 GiB and just under 16 TiB respectively 4 GiB Useful for FAT32 compatibility 2 GiB Useful for FAT compatibility 698 MiB Useful if the image file s will later be burned to 700 MiB CD disc s 648 MiB Useful if the image file s will later be burned to 650 MiB CD disc s Write Speed This option appears in place of the File Size option if you chose to save your image to CD DVD discs We recommend that you use the default setting for this option which is Optimal unless you encounter problems Image for Linux User Manual Page 41 of 150 Description You can use this text box to assign descriptive text to individual backups The description you enter will be visible in the file list that appears when you are preparing to restore or validate a backup You view the description by selecting the backup and pressing F1 Save Defaults IFL GUI or F4 IFL Click press to save the settings you establish Note that the settings will only be saved for the current session they will be lost upon rebooting unless you re running IFL from an installed version of Linux Additionally the settings will not be saved if IFL is unable to write to the
98. e running IFL by pressing lt Alt F2 gt mounting or unmounting as needed and then pressing lt Alt F1i gt to return to IFL The current keyboard map is us qwerty Just press lt Enter gt to start IFL or select an item from the menu Image for Linux TBIView SD Tool Script opyP2U Script eraByte Explorer ount Network Shares Auxiliary Menu ixit To Command Prompt eboot or Power Down lt Help File gt Image for Linux console version Image for Linux User Manual Page 26 of 150 The Image for Linux console version welcome screen explains how to manually mount or unmount partitions or network drives while running Image for Linux From this screen you can run Image for Linux TBIView the OSD Tool script the CopyP2V script TeraByte Explorer mount network shares Samba and Windows exit to the Command Prompt reboot or power down the computer and access the Image for Linux boot media help file The Auxiliary Menu allows you to select an alternate keyboard map change the network configuration change the restore disc configuration run TBOSDT mount a drive or partition and run Midnight Commander When using Image for Linux GUI you can access programs using the toolbar or by right clicking the desktop for the main menu The Configure Restore Disc or Restore Disc Configuration command applies to backups made to CD DVD When you store a backup on CD DVD discs Image for Linux makes the first disc of the set bootabl
99. e same location where you store full backup files When you restore a differential backup Image for Linux will prompt you for locations for both the full backup files and the differential backup files 9 The appearance of the screen that Image for Linux displays next depends on the choice you selected in Step 8 See Step 6 for a description of your choices 10 On the Backup To screen that appears Image for Linux suggests a file name for the differential backup file s The suggested name includes the following information in the order it appears I for Linux a number representing the drive being backed up the letters chg which represent the word changes and YYYY MM DD HHMMS representing the date in 4 digit year 2 digit month and 2 digit day format and time in 2 digit hour and minute format the backup starts If you selected a back up of a partition instead of an entire drive the partition ID follows the drive number You can accept the suggested name or supply one of your own You do not have to supply a file extension just the path and file name itself Image for Linux will add the extension automatically Image for Linux GUI 2 67 Enter a filename for the backup Name 926 38GiB Free Backup l0 chg YYYY MM DD HHMM RECYCLE BIN lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 6 41 pm System Volume Information lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 6 41 pm Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi 5G
100. e so that when you insert the disc and boot your machine Image for Linux runs and restores the backup using a default set of restore options You can override the default restore options and use a custom set of restore options if you select the Configure Restore Disc command Note that the custom set of restore options is temporary if you want to make the restore options permanent you must create a custom boot disc as described in the section Creating Customized Image for Linux Boot Media 2 f using the console version press Enter to display the Image for Linux Main Menu Select Operation screen Image for Linux is launched automatically in the GUI version Image for Linux User Manual Page 27 of 150 s i Bag Welcome to Image for Linux Please choose which operation you would like to perform at this time Select Operation Backup IMAGE Restore for Linux validate Copy TeraByte Unlimited Settings Console version only Use the Detect Device Changes command to have Image for Linux look for devices you attach to your computer after starting the program Wait about 10 seconds before you select this command to give the Linux OS time to recognize the device 3 Select Backup to display the Backup Select screen Image for Linux User Manual Page 28 of 150 ALI i i i a EJ Select the type of backup Backup Full Backup Changes Only IMAGE for Linux TeraByte Unl
101. e the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples desc my description Default if omitted Image for Linux doesn t add any descriptive text Image for Linux User Manual Page 97 of 150 purge n Purge n Use this option to delete image files that are n days old or older You can think of it as the number of days to retain images Used only during a command line backup this option processes only files in the target folder of the current file specified using the f option Care should be taken as the purge occurs prior to the backup As an option you can have the purge take place only after a successful backup by providing n as a negative number E g purge 15 Default if omitted Image for Linux doesn t purge any image files filetpl filename FileTemplate filename Sets the default file name offered during interactive use of the program during backup operations Default if omitted The program uses a name that includes the device partitions and date hash CreateHash 1 Use this option to have Image for Linux create a hash file to speed up creating a Changes Only differential backup This option is only available when creating a full image that is not being saved to CD DVD BD This option is also ignored if the bc BackwardsCompatible option is enabled The hash file will be limited to the max file size and have the same file name as the backup with an extension starting at
102. ean shutdown on Windows 2008 R2 Vista 7 This applies to copy and restore only Default if omitted Windows 2008 R2 Vista 7 boot status is cleared phe n PageHiberClear n This option is used to control how the default pagefile and hibernation file are treated after being restored or copied when they have been omitted from the backup copy The values are bit based and can be one of the following values or a combination of the following values added together 1 Clear first 4096 bytes of the page file 2 Truncate page file to zero 4 Clear 8192 bytes of hibernation file Image for Linux User Manual Page 85 of 150 8 Truncate hibernation file to zero For example to truncate the page file and clear the first 8192 bytes of the hibernation file use 6 Default if omitted The first 4096 bytes of the page file are cleared msg mymessage Message mymessage Use this option to specify the text Image for Linux displays on the top of the screen while backing up restoring validating or copying The maximum length of the message text depends on the command line length limit of the shell If your message text contains spaces surround the text with quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples msg my message Use n or n depending on the shell in use to force a new line otherwise text wraps to screen width only msg first line nsecond line Or m
103. ed Image for Linux will assign ID numbers to the volumes in random order cb n CheckBoxes n Determines if check boxes are used for partition selection 0 No 1 Yes Default if omitted Image for Linux uses checkboxes eon N A Instructs Image for Linux to run in console text only mode rather than the CGUI character graphic user interface mode Default if omitted Image for Linux runs in CGUI mode Image for Linux User Manual Page 81 of 150 nocan NoCancel 1 Tells Image for Linux not to permit use of the F12 key to cancel the backup restore validate or copy operation once it has begun Default if omitted You can use the F12 key to cancel the current operation w7mbr 0 Win7MBR 0 Windows Vista and later tied the kernel loader to the MBR code such that using previous MBR code may not allow Windows Vista or later to boot on certain machines By default Image for Linux uses the code base compatible with Windows Vista or later The new MBR code will continue to boot older OSes with the exception of some rare configurations using Win9x on FAT32 Specify this option to have Image for Linux use Windows 9x compatible MBR code Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted MBR code compatible with Vista Windows 7 or later is used vn filename cr type sizeinmb VN filename cr type sizeinmb Makes a virtual drive available for
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105. eeseaeeeseaeeesnaeeeneees 132 WORKING WITH NETWORK DRIVES sececsececeeeeecececeeececeececaueeecucecaueecaueeaensecaneesauess 132 APPENDIX E RESTORING TO A SMALLER DRIVE OR PARTITION 133 PREPARING FOR THE MOVE ceececeececceceeceececeueeecececaeeeneeecauecaueesaeeesaueesaneteneeess 134 EXAMPLES siete he et ee ae ee A er 139 GLROSSARBR a ahi feet se hs Set hh cad it tad ne be nt i bt eh Dat ned Se tne tl 141 WHAT IS SHAREWARE o cc cccccccccceecsusccecceeccescessesesectarcesccescessesecessuvceecdercceees 143 TERABYTE UNLIMITED TRIAL USE LICENSE AGREEMENT 0 144 TERABYTE UNLIMITED FULL USE LICENSE AGREEMENT 147 Image for Linux User Manual Page 5 of 150 System Requirements IBM compatible personal computer Pentium 4 or newer Memory RAM IFL Version Recommended RAM Minimum RAM Console Full 128MB or more 128MB Console No networking 96MB or more 96MB GUI Full 256MB or more 192MB GUI No networking 192MB or more 168MB Linux based operating system Linux kernel 2 6 recommended Note An installed Linux operating system is not required when using Image for Linux from the boot media Recommended External hard drive Note You can use a writable CD or DVD drive but using an external hard drive is the recommended method Image for Linux relies on the Linux kernel to provide access to mass storage devices such as hard drives
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108. eometry Calculation Method options control how the drive geometry is calculated for the USB SD device It is recommended to try the Default option first If the device fails to boot properly e g black screen boot failure device not found etc the other options can be tried Make note of which option works properly for future use Note More information on using UFD boot media can be found in this TeraByte KB article 12 Click Finish and respond to subsequent prompts as necessary MakeDisk will then create the boot media or ISO image When it is done the Success screen appears as shown below Image for Linux User Manual Page 21 of 150 io MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 Lo aca SUCCESS The Process Completed Successfully If you created bootable media then it s now ready for use If you created an 150 file then you ll need to burn it to a disc using your CD DVD authoring software Visit www terabyteunlimited com for the latest help and information Completed ELCASRCMLACENLNAANEAE Previous Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 13 Click Close on the MakeDisk Success screen If you selected the CD DVD or USB SD option in Step 10 you can now use that media to boot and run Image for Linux If you selected the ISO File option in Step 10 you will have to use other CD DVD authoring software to create a bootable disc from the ISO file TeraByte s BurnCDCC
109. er that identifies the partition The third parameter identifies that you are about to specify where to store the backup file 1 identifies the target drive and 0x01 again identifies the partition in this example Image for Linux will store the backup file on Hard Drive 1 in the partition with ID 0x01 The information after 0x01 represents the path and file name where you want to store the backup file In this example Image for Linux stores the backup file in mypath filename To list partitions on a hard drive you would type imagel 1 d 0 When listing information you can include the d parameter to list partitions for a specific drive if you omit d Image for Linux lists partitions on all hard drives When you specify command line options you use the following syntax The dash works on single character options such as b in the example When you use the dash Image for Linux processes only the first character that follows the dash as an option If you wanted to specify two single character options in a row you could precede each by a dash Or you can use the next method Two dashes indicate a multiple character option For example to specify the base option you type base Image for Linux User Manual Page 80 of 150 Note If you use the d colon style you need to use the character For example Image for Linux reads d as d and and Image for Linux won t be able to execute the command
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111. estore Options for an Individual Partition When you restore an individual partition Image for Linux offers these options that you can set Image for Linux User Manual Page 54 of 150 Image for Linux GUI 2 74 Options O Set Active O Update BOOT INI AUTO O Update Boot Partition O write Standard MBR Code Resize Partition O Restore Disk Signature Min New Max O Restore First Track cae z O Validate Before Restore ezma fo B sees O Validate Byte for Byte O Wipe Unused Sectors O Move to Original MBR Entry O Assume Original HD O Ignore I0 Errors O Disable Auto Eject O Reboot when Completed TeraB aa O Shutdown when Completed M Log Results to File First Track Sectors 4a gt Save Defaults Show Command lt lt Back Next gt gt Set Active If you select this option Image for Linux will make the restored partition the active partition after completing the restore operation Otherwise Image for Linux will only make the restored partition active if no other partition is active and the target drive is HDO Update BOOT INI When you select this option Image for Linux will update all partition w entries in the boot ini file found in the restored location to point to itself which can be useful when restoring Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating systems to a new drive or location Update Boot Partition This option updates any references to the restored partition in
112. et hard drive number Linux device NT Disk Signature Follows or omit signature to match on original signature Linux device name HD only base N A When restoring from a differential backup use this parameter to identify the full backup Image for Linux should use base bkup mypath or my path is path to bkup base mypath bkup bkup is name of the full backup omit the base my path bkup file extension Image for Linux User Manual Page 99 of 150 base my path bkup Or base d p bkup base d p mypath bkup base d p my path bkup base d p my path bkup base ntsig p mypath bkup base dev name p mypath bkup Or Specify source device partition path and file name d is source hard drive number p is source partition ID hex or decimal notation You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the base and before the source hard drive number Linux device g SCSI generic device o Optical drive when you combine this option with either of the options above this option must come last You may specify any path desired If you use paths and or file names containing spaces or dashes surround them quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples zj N A Use this option to specify the target path and file name for a backup file f filena
113. eted This may differ from non TeraByte imaging programs which may create the smaller destination partition first and then restore the files in the image backup to it The minimum space required to restore a partition can be determined from the source partition from the image file or by attempting to restore the partition image To Check the Source Partition 1 Start the TeraByte imaging program of your choice and select to create a backup 2 Proceed though the steps until you get to the screen where you select which partitions to include Image for Linux User Manual Page 135 of 150 3 Highlight the partition and click the Information button in Image for Windows Image for DOS GUI and Image for Linux GUI or press F1 in Image for Windows Console Image for DOS and Image for Linux 4 Along with other details the number of MiB to Restore is displayed This is the minimum space required to restore this partition Please note that this value represents the data only operating systems may require an additional minimal amount of free space in order to function correctly To Check an Existing Image File Run the TeraByte imaging program of your choice from the Command Prompt and specify the L ALL and F options Program output can be redirected to a file for easy reference Note Version 2 66 or later is required to use this method e Using Image for Windows Image for Windows Console or Image for DOS 1 If running in
114. etter assignment select this option Restore First Track Whenever you back up any partition Image for Linux also backs up the first track of the source hard drive If you select this option Image for Linux will restore the first track which includes the master boot code and the disk signature This allows you to restore the MBR EMBR if desired Validate Before Restore If you select this option Image for Linux will validate the image file s prior to restoring them If Image for Linux encounters an error during validation Image for Linux will abort the restore operation without overwriting the target Validate Byte for Byte If you select this option Image for Linux will verify that every byte in the source backup image file was written to the restored drive correctly ensuring 100 accuracy This option generally increases the processing time of the overall operation but is advisable to use where maximum reliability is required Wipe Unused Sectors This option will wipe zero out unused sectors in the restored partition s or drive depending on the type of restore performed When restoring single partitions or when restoring multiple partitions to a drive with existing partitions sectors located outside of the restored partition s are not wiped If a partition is resized during the restore the wiped area for that partition is the final size of the restored partition not the size of the source partition When res
115. f the free space is located before the partition the restored partition begins where the unallocated space begins Disk images are treated differently than partition images When restoring a disk image you will not be notified if the image won t fit after selecting the destination drive Instead you must proceed to the options screen and click Next The reason for this is that alignment options or one of the scaling options Scale to Fit or Scale to Target may be used which could change the requirements The actual space necessary cannot be determined until the state of all options are known Note Mounting an image will not allow you to obtain the minimum size required for a restore Removing Unwanted Programs and Files Once you have determined the space that will required to restore or copy to the new smaller drive or partition you ll know how much data will need to be removed to allow it to fit In many cases this will require deleting large data files archives ISO downloads installers videos music etc You may also need to uninstall certain programs planning to reinstall them to a different partition when needed Image for Linux User Manual Page 137 of 150 It should be noted that deleting files from a partition may not lower the minimum required size to restore the partition since data may still exist at previous furthest in use location on the partition Check the space required after deleting files to determine the
116. f you want to enter a description press and hold the Alt key and then press the d key Pressing just the d key would not work in this case because of the initial position of the cursor However when you press Alt d the cursor jumps to and selects the text box in the Description section You can use the Esc key or click Back to move back to the previous menu If you use Esc Back in this manner Image for Linux remembers the selections you have already made throughout the Image for Linux session in the event that you return to the same screen When using the GUI version of Image for Linux you can also use the mouse to select controls toggle options click buttons etc Common programs are available in the toolbar at the top of the screen Additional options and programs are accessible via the main menu which can be opened any time by pressing Ctrl Space or the Windows key Image for Linux User Manual Page 23 of 150 Creating Backups with Image for Linux Create the Image for Linux boot media using any of the techniques described in the section Installing Image for Linux or Installing Image for Linux Manually Insert the boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer To boot from a CD DVD or UFD you may need to change the order in which your computer selects boot devices As your computer begins to boot you should see a message before you ever get to Linux that tells you what key to press to en
117. flect the new hard drive number a SetActive 1 Use this parameter to make the partition you restore active Default if omitted Image for Linux does not make the restored partition active unless no other partitions are active and the restored partition is HDO t WriteMBR 1 Use this parameter to have Image for Linux install standard MBR code after completing the restore operation Standard MBR code is the code that boots the active partition Default if omitted Image for Linux does not write standard MBR code unless the MBR is empty e UseSameMBREntry 1 Use this parameter to have Image for Linux move the partition table entry of the restored partition to the same location in the master partition table as it appeared on the source drive Image for Linux will move the existing partition table entry to another location rather than overwriting it Default if omitted Image for Linux does not move the partition table of the restored partition ms n N A Use this parameter to have Image for Linux move the partition table entry of the restored partition to a given slot in the MBR The value n is 0 to 3 This option is only applicable Image for Linux User Manual Page 102 of 150 when restoring a single partition Default if omitted Image for Linux does not move the partition table of the restored partition embrid n i WA This parameter is used to set a specific ID value to the restored parti
118. fy an alternate location for i 1 1og Save Defaults IFL GUI or F4 IFL Click press to save the settings you establish Note that the settings will only be saved for the current session they will be lost upon rebooting unless you re running IFL from an installed version of Linux Additionally the settings will not be saved if IFL is unable to write to the if1 ini file Show Command IFL GUI or F6 IFL Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a validation with the options you selected in Image for Linux When using IFL GUI you can save the command line to a script file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for Linux by clicking the Save to File button and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Save Command IFL F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a script file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFL GUI use the Show Command option above Depending on the Linux shell being used it may be necessary to edit the command line to make it functional Please see syntax examples on page 80 Copying Partitions or Drives with Image for Linux You can use the Copy operation to place an copy of the contents of one partition or drive on another partition or drive Suppose for example that you have a hard drive all set up and configured just the way you want it and you want
119. ge 136 of 150 Use Shift PgUp and Shift PgDn to scroll through the output If the console buffer is too small to let you view all the information you will most likely need to redirect it to a file Examine the output and find the details of the partition you re going to restore The Last Used Sector value determines the minimum space required to restore the partition For additional information on using this method please see the corresponding TeraByte KB article To Check by Attempting to Restore the Partition Image Note This method is included for completeness only 1 Start the TeraByte imaging program of your choice and select to do a normal restore of the partition Select the destination partition or free space area and click Next 3 A notice with the number of MiBs required will be displayed if the destination is too small If you must know the minimum size and the notice is not displayed you can select a very small partition or one you know is too small as the target Important Note When restoring or copying a partition any unallocated space located adjacent to the destination partition will be included in the available size For example if the drive contains a 10GB partition and has 25GB of free space adjacent to it you could successfully restore a partition image that requires 30GB to the 10GB partition The restored partition will begin at whichever location is located towards the beginning of the drive For example i
120. he HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to set a copied partition s head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry when it is located outside the range of the current geometry Default if omitted The actual ending head and sector values are used mg UseMBRGeo 1 Place under the HDx section Set this parameter to tell Image for Linux to use the geometry based on the MBR entry of the first partition on the source drive Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the geometry of the target drive or the UseOrgGeo option 09 UseOrgGeo 1 Place under the HDx section Set this parameter to tell Image for Linux to use the original geometry of the source drive based on the environment being used to copy Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the geometry of the target drive c n c n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with h and s to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you copy This parameter specifies the last Image for Linux User Manual Page 119 of 150 cylinder and n is a number you supply Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the BIOS reported values of the drive hin h n Place under the HDx section Use this parameter in conjunction with c and s to manually specify the cylinder head and sector values for the target drive when you copy This parameter specifies the
121. he file i f1net iso to a CD DVD using appropriate burner software For the registered full version run the setup script to enter the Product Key so that the Image for Linux User Manual Page 71 of 150 Product Key will be included on the IFL boot disk You only need to run setup once for this purpose Note Unzipping the archive on a Linux file system helps ensure that you don t encounter problems with file permissions and upper lower case which can occur if you unzip on a FAT FAT32 or NTFS partition Running Image for Linux without using a Boot Disc From within Linux you can run Image for Linux without creating a boot disc The first time you want to run Image for Linux follow these steps 1 Extract the zip archive on a Linux file system not FAT FAT32 or NTFS 2 Open a terminal window such as xterm and change to the directory that contains the files you extracted from the Image for Linux archive file 3 Become root 4 Type setup at the prompt Note The setup script displays a menu for configuring the restore disc options extracts the Image for Linux program sets up the IFL directory to create bootable restore discs and extracts config zip for creating custom versions of the disk For the registered full version the setup script also prompts for the Product Key Entering a valid Product Key will set up both ifl ini and iflnet iso so that IFL will not prompt for a Product Key 5 To
122. his option Image for Linux will notify you of errors only after the backup process completes and you will need to recreate all discs in the backup Idu LimitDiscUsage 1 You can use this option when saving images to a CD or DVD drive to leave the last 10 of the disc unused the last 10 of the disc tends to encounter more data errors Default if omitted If you do not enable this option Image for Linux will use the entire disc comp n Compression n Specifies how Image for Linux should compress backup files as they are created Valid values for n are 0 through 15 The equivalent n values for the GUI compression options are as follows Image for Linux User Manual Page 95 of 150 0 None 1 Standard 2 Enhanced Size A Enhanced Normal prior to version 2 72 7 Enhanced Size B Enhanced Slower prior to version 2 72 10 Enhanced Size C Enhanced Slowest prior to version 2 72 11 Enhanced Size D 12 Enhanced Size E 13 Enhanced Size F 14 Enhanced Speed A 15 Enhanced Speed B The Enhanced Size D E F options are faster than Enhanced Size A B C but provide less compression Backup files will normally be compressed more than the Standard option Enhanced Size values 2 10 offer increased compression as the value increases at the expense of speed Enhanced Size values 11 13 D E F offer slightly less compression at a faster speed than their 2 7 10 A B C counterpart
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124. imited 4 Select Full Backup to display the Backup From Select Drive Interface screen Select the interface used by the drive or the drive containing the partition you want to back up These steps assume you select a Linux drive Image for Linux User Manual Page 29 of 150 image for Linux GUI 2 67 edie Select Drive Interface Backup From Linux Virtual Drive TeraByte Unlimited Ennn lt lt Back Next gt gt Exit priii Virtual Drives and Image for Linux You can use Image for Linux to back up to or restore from a single file virtual drive In most cases you re likely to use a virtual drive with Image for Linux if you want to back up a physical drive and then restore it to the virtual drive of a virtual machine you ve created using VirtualPC or VMWare You can add a virtual drive while working in Image for Linux Press F2 console version or click the Add Virtual Drive button GUI version to display the window where you can navigate to an existing virtual drive If you type the name of a virtual drive that doesn t exist Image for Linux displays a message asking if you want to create a file for the virtual drive Select Yes and Image for Linux displays a dialog box like the one below where you can define the type and size of the virtual drive You can specify the size in bytes by including no letters Or you can specify the size in Mebibytes by supplying an M or in Gibibytes by supplying a G
125. ing differences When you create a full backup you identify the source drive you want to back up When you create a differential backup you identify the full backup Image for Linux should reference when creating the differential backup To create a differential backup follow these steps 1 Insert your Image for Linux boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer 2 Onthe Image for Linux Main Menu select Backup Image for Linux User Manual Page 42 of 150 Console version only Use the Detect Device Changes command to have Image for Linux look for devices you attach to your computer after starting the program Wait about 10 seconds after you select this command before proceeding 3 Onthe Backup screen that appears select Changes Only 4 On the Backup Select screen that appears select an option to determine how Image for Linux detects changes and performs the differential backup If you choose Single Pass Image for Linux identifies the changes you have made to the source partition since you created the full backup and then backs up those changes all in one pass You cannot use this option if the associated full backup spans multiple CD DVD s If you choose Multi Pass Image for Linux compares the source partition against the full backup in one pass and then makes the differential backup in a second pass You must use this option if the associated full backup spans m
126. int represents the directory on which you want to mount the device The directory you use as the mount point in the command must already exist and should contain no files Specifying the file system with the t option is usually not necessary but appears here for completeness For example 1 To mount a FAT32 partition called dev hda1 at the mount point mnt type mount dev hdal mnt or mount t vfat dev hdal mnt 2 To mount an Ext2 partition called dev sdb4 at the mount point nome user mount1 type mount dev sdb4 home user mount1 or mount t ext2 dev sdb4 home user mountl 3 To mount a ReiserFS partition called dev hdb2 at the mount point nome user mount2 type mount dev hdb2 home user mount2 or mount t reiserfs dev hdb2 home user mount2 4 To mount an NTFS partition called dev sdb2 at the mount point mnt type ntfs 3g dev sdb2 mnt Unmounting a Partition or Device Use the umount command to unmount a partition Note The spelling of this command is umount and not unmount The syntax for umount is umount dir or umount device Image for Linux User Manual Page 131 of 150 That is you can provide the directory where the partition is mounted or the partition device itself as the command line parameter for umount For example 1 To unmount the partition mounted at mnt type umount mnt 2 Tounmount the partition called dev hda1 umount dev hdal Creating or Removing Mount Points
127. ions to specify an alternate location for i 1 1og First Track Sectors This text box allows you to specify how many sectors of the first track of the hard drive should be restored If you enter AUTO in this box the tracks needed for the EMBR will be restored If you aren t sure type AUTO in this box Save Defaults IFL GUI or F4 IFL Click press to save the settings you establish Note that the settings will only be saved for the current session they will be lost upon rebooting unless you re running IFL from an installed version of Linux Additionally the settings will not be saved if IFL is unable to write to the if1 ini file Show Command IFL GUI or F6 IFL Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a restore with the options you selected in Image for Linux When using IFL GUI you can save the command line to a script file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for Linux by clicking the Save to File button and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Save Command IFL F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a script file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFL GUI use the Show Command option above Depending on the Linux shell being used it may be necessary to edit the command line to make it functional Please see syntax examples on page 80 Understanding R
128. ition if you accidentally restore incremental backups in the wrong order the problems you experience may not manifest themselves until some future date at which point recovery can become almost impossible Differential Backups Differential backups include only data that has changed since the most recent full backup was performed To use this method you make a full backup at an interval of your choice In between full backups you perform differential backups which include all data that has changed since the last full backup If you need to restore your entire system you need to restore the latest full backup followed by the latest differential backup unless the backup program being used supports a complete restore in one restore procedure Unlike incremental backups which rely on every other incremental backup in the chain a differential backup relies only on the full backup Image for Linux User Manual Page 125 of 150 For example suppose that you are relying on file based backups and you perform a full backup that includes FILE1 FILE2 and FILE3 Then you change FILE2 and you perform a differential backup This differential backup will include only the data of FILE2 since the other files in the most recent full backup have not changed If you then change FILE3 and perform another differential backup this differential backup will include data from both FILE2 and FILES A differential sector based backup includes any sector that h
129. k for image file s on a CD or DVD disc 4 The screen that appears next depends on your choice in Step 3 If you chose File OS a screen appears where you can select the file you want to restore see Step 4 for details If you chose File Direct the Restore From Select Drive Interface screen appears from which you can choose Linux Drive or Virtual Drive select the interface of the drive that contains the backup that you want to restore The Restore From Select File Drive screen appears select the hard drive that contains the backup from the list shown Image for Linux displays the Restore From Select File Location on HDn screen select a partition on the hard drive if it contains partitions otherwise press Enter to select the drive If you chose File CD DVD the Restore From Select Drive Interface screen appears Select either ATAPI SCSI or SG Then insert the first disc in the set and then select the corresponding CD DVD drive from the list 5 On the Restore From screen that appears navigate to and select the backup file you want to restore Next select either the entire drive or partitions to restore You can click the Information button to get details on the selected drive or partition e g number of MiB used free and needed to restore Note If you select a differential backup to restore you will be prompted to select the related full backup file and you will have the option to restore in a single pass or in
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131. l ignore the error and continue Generally you should select this option only if you need to back up a source partition on a drive you know contains bad sectors On some systems if you select this setting and Image for Linux encounters bad sectors there will be a significant delay as the internal retry recovery routine of the drive attempts to handle the bad sector s Disable Auto Eject This option prevents Image for Linux from automatically opening the optical drive tray If you don t select this option Image for Linux will open the drive tray whenever a disc is needed and at the completion of the backup operation Reboot When Completed Use this option to automatically reboot your computer after the backup finishes Shutdown When Completed Use this option to automatically shut down your computer after the backup finishes Log Results to File Select this option to make Image for Linux log the details of the backup operation Image for Linux saves the log as if1 1log inthe imagel program directory To be able to save if1 10g Image for Linux must be running from a writable medium You can use the logfile or LogFile options to specify an alternate location for i 1 1og Speed up Changes Only Backup Select this option to have Image for Linux create a hash file to speed up creating a Changes Only differential backup This option is only available when creating a full image that is not being saved to CD DVD BD This op
132. ll accomplish the same results You may end up compacting some partitions and resizing others depending on the particular need at the time Once a partition has been compacted or resized an alternative method would be to copy it directly instead of imaging and restoring Image for Linux User Manual Page 140 of 150 Glossary Hard Drive HD HDD A high capacity non volatile data storage device Hard drives are typically installed inside a computer out of sight In addition they are used in many external devices connected via USB eSATA etc Partition A unique area of a hard drive that is allocated for use by a file system A hard drive can contain many partitions File System An organized structure that allows data to be stored and accessed by a filename You can basically think of it as the filing system used by the operating system to store and retrieve your data On a hard drive the file system almost always resides in a partition Volume Generally a volume is considered to be any file system or device that is used to hold data but when using Image for Linux it also represents a specific partition that resides in an extended partition Extended Partition A special type of partition that is divided in to one or more partitions called volumes Drive Letter A single letter that represents a file system in Microsoft operating systems Since a file system on a hard drive is almost always in a partition or volume it also re
133. ly wouldn t want to use this option if you re creating a copy of an existing partition you want to keep unless the target drive will be independent of the original drive For this to be useful the active boot partition should already be on the target drive or part of the same copy or restore operation Default if omitted Image for Linux does not update the active boot partition wipe Wipe 1 This option will wipe zero out unused sectors in the restored partition s or drive depending on the type of restore performed When restoring single partitions or when restoring multiple partitions to a drive with existing partitions sectors located outside of the restored partition s are not wiped If a partition is resized during the restore the wiped area for that partition is the final size of the restored partition not the size of the source partition When restoring a full drive or when restoring multiple partitions to a drive with no existing partitions the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and restore in a single operation Such as when deploying images to used systems Default if omitted Image for Linux will not perform any wiping of unused sectors mp MultiPass 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to use Multi Pass mode when restoring a differential backup In Multi Pass mode Image for Linux restores the full backup in one
134. mage for Linux does not assign a password and the backup will be neither password protected nor encrypted rb n N A Instructs Image for Linux to reboot the computer after completing the backup operation The value n can be 1 to reboot with all prompts 2 to reboot with completion message but without reboot message error does not cancel reboot 4 to reboot without completion message or reboot message error cancels reboot 8 to shutdown Default if omitted Image for Linux attempts to determine if the computer needs to be rebooted after completing the backup and if so prompts you to reboot be BackwardsCompatible 1 Image for Linux version 2 30 and later use a TBI format that is not compatible with prior versions Enable this option to have Image for Linux create the TBI file using a format that is compatible with prior versions Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the new TBI format md MakeDir 1 This option causes Image for Linux to always create the target path if doesn t exist Default if omitted Image for Linux doesn t attempt to create the target path mp MultiPass 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to use Multi Pass mode when creating a differential backup In Multi Pass mode Image for Linux compares the source partition against the full backup in one pass and performs the differential backup in a second pass This setting is not applicable when performing a full backup This
135. maging programs such as Image for Windows and Image for DOS For example you can create an image using Image for Linux and restore it using Image for Windows The reverse is also true Images created by other TeraByte Unlimited imaging programs are compatible with Image for Linux Ways to Use Image for Linux You can use Image for Linux in the following ways You can create restore and validate images on unmounted EXT 2 3 4 ReiserFS XFS FAT FAT32 or NTFS partitions You can create restore and validate images on any mounted file system including network drives You can create restore and validate images on USB IEEE1394 ATAPI SATA and SCSI CD DVD devices You also can create bootable CD DVD restore discs and you can perform imaging operations interactively using the menus or from the command line Image for Linux User Manual Page 9 of 150 Image for Linux Quick Start In this section you ll find a general overview of the major processes Image for Linux can perform backing up restoring and validating an existing backup image Each of these processes is described in detail including pictures later in this manual To make a full backup of a drive or partition using Image for Linux follow these steps Note For detailed steps on creating a full backup see the section Creating Backups with Image for Linux on Page 24 1 Create the boot media that contains Image for Linux using either th
136. matically for unrecognized file systems skp 0 SkipPageFile 0 Set this parameter to instruct Image for Linux to include the page file in the copy Default if omitted Image for Linux skips the page file data skh 0 SkipHiberFile 0 Set this parameter to instruct Image for Linux to include the hibernation file in the copy Default if omitted Image for Linux skips the hibernation file data E N A Use this option to tell Image for Linux to overwrite the target without first prompting for confirmation Default if omitted Image for Linux prompts before overwriting the target clr N A Use this option to have Image for Linux clear the MBR and EMBR prior to copying Default if omitted Image for Linux does not clear the MBR and EMBR rb n N A Use this option to have Image for Linux reboot the system after copying The value n Image for Linux User Manual Page 114 of 150 can be 1 to reboot with all prompts 2 to reboot with completion message but without reboot message error does not cancel reboot 4 to reboot without completion message or reboot message error cancels reboot 8 to shutdown Default if omitted Image for Linux attempts to determine if the computer needs to be rebooted after copying and if so prompts you to reboot fd ForceDismount 1 Use this option to force dismounting a volume partition that can t be locked for copy Using this option will invalidat
137. mber m Image for Linux GUI 2 67 a Backup l0 YYYY MM DD HHMM RECYCLE BIN lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 6 41 pm System Volume Information lt DIR gt 12 20 2011 6 41 pm Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi 5GB 12 20 2011 2 56 pm Win7 SRP 2011 12 20 tbi 9 97MB 12 20 2011 3 00 pm Image for Linux User Manual Page 37 of 150 11 On the Backup Options screen that appears select the options you want to use See the section Understanding Backup Options on Page 38 for an explanation of each option Image for Linux GUI 2 71 Ftd kd Options compression O Validate Byte for Byte Standard F O Encrypt Data O Backup Unused Sectors Password M Omit Page File Data M Omit Hibernation Data O Ignore I0 Errors File Size O Disable Auto Eject O Reboot when Completed O Shutdown when Completed M Log Results to File O Speed up Changes Only Bac O Backwards Compatible Description Max TeraByte Unlimited Save Defaults Show Command lt lt Back Net gt gt Exit Teossererovececesseceververd 12 Onthe Summary screen that appears select Start A progress bar appears on screen You can interrupt the backup and validation operations at any time by pressing the F12 key or clicking Exit Image for Linux will ask you to confirm that you want to cancel before it interrupts the current operation When Image for Linux finishes thi
138. me f mypath filename f my path file name f my path file name Or f d p filename f d p mypath filename f d p my path filename f d p my path filename f ntsig p mypath bkup f dev name p mypath bkup mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Or Specify target device partition path and file name dis target hard drive number pis target partition ID hex or decimal notation mypath or my path is path to filename filename is target file name for image Device modifiers may be used as needed When used they must be placed after the f and before the target hard drive number Linux device g SCSI generic device o Optical drive when you combine this option with either of the options above Image for Linux User Manual Page 100 of 150 this option must come last You may specify any path desired If you use paths and or file names containing spaces or dashes surround them quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples The above options are required when you restore a backup using Image for Linux from the command line In Table 5 you find a list of the optional backup parameters you can use when you run Image for Linux from the command line The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the options are available i
139. me Original HD If you select this option which mainly applies to Linux partitions Image for Linux will keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partitions that have been restored to the target If you do not select this option and the target drive number differs from that of the source drive applicable drive references residing within the restored partitions will be updated to reflect the new hard drive number This option has no effect if you are restoring to a target drive whose number matches that of the source drive If you are restoring to a target drive whose number differs from that of the source drive but you plan to subsequently move the target drive so that its number matches the source drive again enabling this option can be beneficial Scale to Target If you use this option when restoring an image Image for Linux restores the image proportionally to the target drive For example suppose that you backed up a 250 GB hard drive and restored the image to a 500 GB hard drive If you use this option you allow Image for Linux to double the size of the restored image This option only works for FAT FAT32 NTFS and EXT 2 3 4 file systems and has no effect on images restored to hard drives using other file systems You cannot use this option in conjunction with the Scale to Fit option If you inadvertently enable both options Scale to Fit will take precedence Ignore IO Errors Under ordinary circumstan
140. meters Customize the restore disc settings To create customized boot media follow Steps 1 to 4 in the preceding section This will extract the contents of the config zip archive file which contains all additional files and directories required to create customized versions The file config txt Is the primary configuration file and is commented to describe the available options Edit this file and set the options as needed Image for Linux User Manual Page 73 of 150 After you set up the options for your customized boot media run one of three scripts makelSO makeHDD or makePXE to create the customized version on the medium of your choice Note If you want to create a bootable USB flash drive use the makeHDD script If you are using Linux kernel Version 2 6 or later and the Enhanced Disk Drive EDD module is available make sure that you enable EDD because Image for Linux uses EDD to determine the correct CHS geometry for the target hard drive during a restore operation EDD is enabled by default if you create a boot disc using MakeDisk or using the steps described in the section Creating a Default Configuration Boot Disc from within Linux If you are using an older version of the Linux kernel or your version of Linux does not use the EDD module e g Ubuntu Image for Linux will attempt to use other means to determine the geometry Note You can find additional details on setting up customized option
141. mpassed from the beginning of the source partition to the last used area of the source partition For example if the source partition had 2 GB of data and the last part of that data ended 15 GB from the beginning of the source partition the target area needs to be at least 15 GB in size regardless of the overall size of the source partition Note If the target is larger than the source partition there will be an area of free space left over unless you use the Resize Partition option or perform the restore via command line using the x parameter as explained later in this manual Also if your computer contains more than one CD DVD drive and you are restoring using Image for Linux from a CD DVD disc please make sure that you insert your Image for Linux bootable disc in one CD DVD drive and no other CD DVD drive contains a bootable disc Restoring a Backup Using Image for Linux Insert your Image for Linux boot media into the appropriate drive or USB port and boot your computer Then follow these steps 1 Onthe Image for Linux Main Menu select Restore Use the Detect Device Changes command to have Image for Linux look for devices you attach to your computer after starting the program Wait about 10 seconds after you select this command before proceeding 2 On the Restore Select screen that appears select an option to determine how Image for Linux handles the selection of the target drive and op
142. multiple passes If you stored your backup on CD DVD s select the Multi Pass option 6 On the Restore To Select Drive Interface screen that appears select either Linux Drive or Virtual Drive to identify the interface of the drive you want to restore 7 Onthe Restore To Select Target Drive screen that appears select the hard drive onto which you want to restore the image you selected in Step 5 Then Image for Linux User Manual Page 48 of 150 select the partition on that drive A message appears explaining that the partition you select will be deleted before Image for Linux restores the image Select Yes and press Enter When the Restore To Select Restore Location on HDn screen is displayed the following functions are available Select a free space partition and press the Insert Ins key or click Create Extended to create an extended partition You can then restore the backup to that partition Select a partition and press the Delete Del key or click Delete to delete the partition You will be asked to confirm the deletion You can select a partition and press the F1 key or click Information to view the number of MiB used free and needed to restore You can select a drive and press the F6 key or click Geometry to set the geometry for the target drive More information on this function is provided in the Geometry Settings section below Press F8 or click Change Disk to change the drive type
143. n and VV is the volume number in hexadecimal from 01 to FF If you are not sure of the partition or volume ID number run Image for Linux using the interface choose the Backup option and click Next The screen that lists the partitions and volumes also will display the ID in parentheses as a hexadecimal number You should prefix that number with a 0x on the command line sd d p d is the source hard drive number sd ld p sd ntsig p is the source partition or volume ID hex or decimal notation depending on whether you are referring to a partition or a volume sd dev name p Linux device v Virtual drive NT Disk Signature Follows Linux device name HD only td N A Use this option to identify the target hard drive and partition For most users the partition ID will be a number from 1 through 4 For partition IDs of 9 or below you can use a single digit in place of hexadecimal notation e g 1 is equivalent to 0x1 and 5 is equivalent to 0x5 The volume ID will be a number formatted as OxPVV where Pis the extended partition and VV is the volume number in hexadecimal from 01 to FF If you are not sure of the partition or volume ID number run Image for Linux using the interface choose the Backup option and click Next The screen that lists the partitions and volumes also will display the ID in parentheses as a hexadecimal number You should prefix that number with a 0x on the comma
144. n other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Restore_Defaults section Table 5 Image for Linux Optional Restore Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable D N A Use this option to tell Image for Linux to overwrite the target without first prompting for confirmation Default if omitted Image for Linux prompts before overwriting the target clr N A Use this option to have Image for Linux clear the MBR and EMBR prior to restoring an image file Default if omitted Image for Linux does not clear the MBR and EMBR rb n N A Use this option to have Image for Linux reboot the system after restoring an image The value n can be 1 to reboot with all prompts 2 to reboot with completion message but without reboot message error does not cancel reboot 4 to reboot without completion message or reboot message error cancels reboot 8 to shutdown Default if omitted Image for Linux attempts to determine if the computer needs to be rebooted after restoring and if so prompts you to reboot Sp p N A Use this option to specify an individual partition ID to restore from a full backup p is the source partition ID in hex or decimal notation Default if omitted If you supply a backup of an entire hard drive as the source for restoring Image for Linux will restore all partitions contained in the backup
145. n the set and then select the corresponding CD DVD drive from the list 7 On the Select Full Backup To Continue screen that appears select the TBI file that corresponds to the desired full backup You can type the name of the TBI file you don t need to type the TBI file extension or you can press Tab and then use the arrow keys to highlight the file and press Enter to select it If the TBI file resides inside a folder highlight the folder and press Enter to display the contents of the folder Image for Linux GUI 2 67 Select the file that contains the full backup Name 926 38GiB Free Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi RECYCLE BIN 12 20 2011 6 41 pm System Volume Information Bo tell 6 41pm F Backup l0 2011 12 20 1450 tbi SG Win SRP 2011 12 20 tbi 3 12 20 2011 3 00 pm TeraByte Unlimited Information lt lt Back Next gt gt If you open a folder and want to navigate back to the parent folder select the list item and press Enter Image for Linux User Manual Page 44 of 150 If you select a file that you created using the encryption or the password protect option supply the correct password to continue 8 Onthe Backup To Select File Access Method screen that appears choose File OS File Direct or File CD DVD to identify the location where you want to save the differential backup files Note You do not need to store files from a differential backup in th
146. nd EXT 2 3 4 partitions you can use this text box to specify a new size for the copied partition bound by the Minimum and Maximum values specified by Image for Linux The units used here are mebibytes abbreviated MiB Please refer to the section titled Data Storage Size Unit Conventions at the beginning of this manual for more information Save Defaults IFL GUI or F4 IFL Click press to save the settings you establish Note that the settings will only be saved for the current session they will be lost upon rebooting unless you re running IFL from an installed version of Linux Additionally the settings will not be saved if IFL is unable to write to the if1 ini file Show Command IFL GUI or F6 IFL Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a copy with the options you selected in Image for Linux When using IFL GUI you can save the command line to a script file or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for Linux by clicking the Save to File button and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Image for Linux User Manual Page 70 of 150 Save Command IFL F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a script file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFL GUI use the Show Command option above Depending on the Linux shell being used it may be necessary to edit the command line to m
147. nd line td d p d is the target hard drive number td ld p f _ td ntsig p is the target partition or volume ID hex or decimal notation depending on whether you are referring to a partition or a volume td dev name p You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the td and before the source hard drive number Image for Linux User Manual Page 113 of 150 Linux device v Virtual drive NT Disk Signature Follows Linux device name HD only The above options are required when you perform a copy using Image for Linux from the command line In Table 9 you find a list of the optional copy parameters you can use when you run Image for Linux from the command line The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the options are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Copy Defaults section Table 9 Image for Linux Optional Copy Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable raw RawMode 1 Set this parameter to force Image for Linux to use raw mode which copies all sectors rather than just used sectors even for recognized file systems Default if omitted Image for Linux copies only used sectors backed up for recognized file systems and uses raw mode auto
148. nd volumes also will display the ID in parentheses as a hexadecimal number You should prefix that number with a 0x on the command line For entire drive operations omit the p d d p d ld p d ntsig p d dev name p d is the source hard drive number p is the source partition or volume ID hex or decimal notation depending on whether you are referring to a partition or a volume You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them you must place them after the d and before the source hard drive number Linux device v Virtual drive NT Disk Signature Follows Linux device name HD only The d option cannot be used with the base option base N A Use when performing a differential backup to identify the full backup on which Image for Linux should base this differential backup base bkup base mypath bkup base my path bkup base my path bkup Or base d p bkup base d p mypath bkup base d p my path bkup base d p my path bkup base ntsig p mypath bkup base dev name p mypath bkup Image for Linux User Manual mypath or my path is the path to bkup bkup is name of existing full backup omit file extension Or Specify source device partition path and file name d is source hard drive number p is source partition ID hex or decimal notation You can use device modifiers as needed When you use them
149. nfiguration restoring an image of the 465GB partition to the 128GB SSD could be performed as follows Using Compact 1 Move 100GB of data files to a USB drive to bring the total used space down to around 70GB Boot to Image for Linux and select to create a backup Select the 465GB Windows partition Make sure the 465GB Windows partition is highlighted and use the Compact option press F3 5 Specify a size of 100GB 6 After the compaction completes continue with creating the image of the partition Restore this image to the 128GB SSD specifying to resize it to use all available free space When restoring an OS partition any standard options necessary to ensure proper booting would also apply here Set Active Update BOOT INI Update Boot Partition etc just as with a normal restore Using Resize 1 Move 100GB of data files to a USB drive to bring the total used space down to around 70GB Use a partitioning program such as Bootlt BM and resize the 465GB partition to 100GB Boot to Image for Linux and select to create a backup 4 Select the 100GB Windows partition and create an image of it Restore this image to the 128GB SSD specifying to resize it to use all available free space When restoring an OS partition any standard options necessary to ensure proper booting would also apply here Set Active Update BOOT INI Update Boot Partition etc just as with a normal restore Either method wi
150. nning Image for Linux from the Command Line Image for Linux processes the command line switches and uses if1 ini to process global default options but ignores all other options in if1 ini and finally processes any environment variables you set So environment variables take precedence over ifl ini Image for Linux INI File To apply settings to Image for Linux using the INI file you edit the text file named ifl ini using a text editor Image for Linux will look for if1 ini in the current directory only Note that ifl ini must be a lowercase file name Settings you specify in if1 ini need to be placed under a section name For details on the settings available refer to Tables 1 to 10 in the section Running Image for Linux from the Command Line A typical backup if1 ini file might look like this Options SeqvolID 1 Time Zone PST8PDT License ProductKey nnnn nnnn nnnn BACKUP_DEFAULTS PostValidate 2 HDO UseOrgGeo 1 Image for Linux Environment Variables All of the environment variables you can use with Image for Linux are set by using the same options as you would use from the command line not the INI options The command line options appear in the left column of Tables 1 to 10 Image for Linux User Manual Page 77 of 150 To establish Image for Linux environment variables in Linux you use the export command either from the command line prior to running Image for Linux or ina script For e
151. not need to mount partitions automatically to be able to access a partition to save or restore an image If a partition s file system is FAT FAT32 NTFS EXT 2 3 4 you can access the partition directly without mounting it by choosing to save the image to a partition in Image for Linux rather than to a file For other file systems such as JFS XFS and ReiserFS you must first mount the partition to which you want to save a backup image or from which you want to restore a backup image The following details manually mounting and unmounting partitions Listing Mounted Partitions or Devices You can use the df command or the mount command without any parameters to list all currently mounted hard drive partitions as well as any mounted CD DVD drives floppy drives etc to determine whether a partition is already mounted Most versions of df also support the T option which displays the file system in use on each mounted partition At the command prompt type df T Mounting a Partition or Device Use the mount command to mount a partition The mount command has the following basic syntax mount t o dev xxx mountpoint Image for Linux User Manual Page 130 of 150 t is an optional parameter that specifies the file system for the partition you want to mount o is an optional parameter you can use to specify options for the device you want to mount dev xxx represents the device you want to mount and the mountpo
152. nt way to enable 2048 sector alignment for all drives This is popular with users of SSD type drives It is the equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Use 2048 Sector Alignment Align MBR Ending HS Align MBR HS when Truncated and disabling Align on End Assume Same Target System Enable this option to prevent problems where users restore an image from another system to a drive that will be put back in the other system For example the hard drive from PC A is backed up PC B is used to restore to a new hard that new drive is placed back in PC A Without this option enabled Image for Windows would setup the partition to properly boot on the hard drive for PC B which can sometimes not always be a problem when the hard drive is going back to PC A This option solves that and is equivalent to the individual Use MBR Geometry override Use Source Host Geometry This option is the global equivalent to the individual Use Original Geometry override Disable Validate Geometry Before Use This option is enabled by default and used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR on the original system is aligned to known standards before accepting it for use It only applies when Assume Same Target System is enabled Check this box to disable this option Note The above options are also available in Image for Linux by clicking the Settings button IFL GUI or selecting Global Settings IFL CUI Click Next after setting the desired options
153. o0g Image for Linux must be running from a writable medium You can use the logfile or LogFile options to specify an alternate location for if1 1log First Track Sectors This text box allows you to specify how many sectors of the first track of the hard drive should be restored If you enter AUTO in this box the tracks needed for the EMBR will be restored If you aren t sure type AUTO in this box Resize Partition Currently available only for FAT FAT32 NTFS and EXT 2 3 4 partitions you can use this text box to specify a new size for the restored partition bound by the Minimum and Maximum values specified by Image for Linux The units used here are mebibytes abbreviated MiB Please refer to the section titled Data Storage Size Unit Conventions at the beginning of this manual for more information Save Defaults IFL GUI or F4 IFL Click press to save the settings you establish Note that the settings will only be saved for the current session they will be lost upon rebooting unless you re running IFL from an installed version of Linux Additionally the settings will not be saved if IFL is unable to write to the if1 ini file Image for Linux User Manual Page 57 of 150 Show Command IFL GUI or F6 IFL Click press to display the command line you would type at a command prompt to start a restore with the options you selected in Image for Linux When using IFL GUI you can save the command line to a script file
154. of a cylinder or when the Align2048 option is enabled at the end of a 2048 sector boundary 2 Align on end by resizing 0 Disable align on end Default if omitted Normal alignment aoe 1 is used a2k Align2048 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to align restored partitions based on 2048 sectors If this option is enabled then you will normally want to enable the AlignEndHS ahs option and disable the AlignOnEnd aoe 0 option Default if omitted Alignment is automatically determined when restoring from the command line When a single partition is being restored and a2k is not used Image for Linux will use 2048 alignment if the destination drive contains a 2048 aligned partition or cylinder alignment if the drive contains a partition which is not 2048 aligned Otherwise Image for Linux User Manual Page 107 of 150 the alignment used is obtained from the image being restored ahs AlignEndHS 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to force a restored partition s ending head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry Default if omitted The actual ending head and sector values are used ahst AlignHSOnTrunc 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to set a restored partition s head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry when the head
155. ograms to reduce the minimum required size or use Bootlt BM to resize the source partition smaller In either case use a size less than that of the new smaller partition When moving an entire drive to a smaller drive you may need to compact or resize multiple source partitions Image for Linux User Manual Page 133 of 150 4 Create a backup image of the drive or partition Once the source partition or drive is ready files moved partitions compacted file systems checked etc create a backup image 5 Restore the image to the new location When restoring specify the desired new smaller size Or if restoring a drive image use one of the scale options e g Scale to Fit If you are planning on copying the source partition s to the smaller drive you can skip Step 4 and perform the copy instead of Step 5 For more specific details on restoring to a smaller drive or partition as well as several example scenarios please continue reading Preparing for the Move Depending upon the specifics of the move and which method will be used it s possible extensive changes will be made to the existing data file systems resized or compacted data deleted programs uninstalled file systems repaired and so on It is recommended to create a backup image of the drive before proceeding if data safety or the ability to return to the present state is important to you As an example you may be moving from a 500GB Windows drive to a 128GB S
156. ons In the following table you find the command line options that you must set to use Image for Linux to make a backup image The table shows you both the command line option and the INI file variable In some instances both forms of the parameter are available in other cases only one is available When one form of an option isn t available N A appears To set up an INI file place these parameters in the Backup_ Defaults section Table 2 Image for Linux Required Backup Parameters Command Line Option INI Variable b N A Use this option to indicate that you want to perform a backup Also required Either d option to specify a full backup or base option for differential backup and the f option to specify target image file destination d N A Use when performing a full backup to identify the source hard drive and partition For most users the partition ID will be a number from 1 through 4 For partition IDs of 9 or below you can use a single digit in place of hexadecimal notation e g 1 is equivalent to 0x1 and 5 is equivalent to 0x5 Image for Linux User Manual Page 90 of 150 The volume ID will be a number formatted as OxPVV where P is the extended partition and VV is the volume number in hexadecimal from 01 to FF If you are not sure what the partition or volume ID is run Image for Linux using the interface choose the Backup option and click Next The screen that lists the partitions a
157. opies It allows you to change the NT Signature copied to the target drive This can be useful if you plan on having both the original and restored hard drive in the same computer at the same time otherwise Windows may detect the duplicate signature and modify it which may depending on the OS prevent the restored hard drive from booting properly Validate Byte for Byte If you select this option Image for Linux will verify that every byte in the source location was written to the target location correctly ensuring 100 accuracy This option generally increases the processing time of the overall operation but we advise you use this option where maximum reliability is required Write Standard MBR Code If you select this option Image for Linux will install standard master boot code to the Master Boot Record MBR after completing the copy operation The other portions of the MBR i e the partition table disk signature etc will not be affected Otherwise Image for Linux will install the standard master boot code only when it appears that there is no existing boot code Copy Unused Sectors By default Image for Linux copies only sectors in use If you select this option Image for Linux will copy all sectors on a partition or drive regardless of whether they contain data For entire drive copies this option causes a raw sector by sector backup and later restore of the entire drive without regard to any partitions or adjustments
158. optical drives and network drives To ensure the best hardware support from Image for Linux use the newest kernel available For the most part modern Linux distributions running on a 2 6 series kernel are likely to support all hardware devices you may need to access Assuming the kernel version and configuration supports it you will be able to create restore and validate images using any of the following IDE SATA eSATA SCSI USB 1 1 2 0 3 0 and IEEE 1394 hard drives ATAPI and SCSI CD DVD devices Mounted network drives SMB NFS etc Data Storage Size Unit Conventions Since Image for Linux and this document refer to data storage size units this section provides clarification on the definitions we use Storage device manufacturers typically define gigabytes GB in base decimal where 1 GB 1 000 MB 10 bytes 1 000 000 000 bytes Microsoft Windows on the other hand defines GB in base binary where 1 GB 1 024 MB 2 bytes 1 073 741 824 bytes Because of the confusion that can result when these different data storage size unit conventions are each referred to as gigabytes the gibibyte along with the kibibyte mebibyte etc was established in 1998 by the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC A gibibyte abbreviated GiB is a base binary unit so 1 GiB 2 bytes 1 073 741 824 bytes The IEC retained the term gigabyte to refer to base decimal where 1 GB 10 bytes 1 000 000 000 bytes
159. option the overall processing time Image for Linux takes to restore the image will increase but you can restore the image with greater certainty that the restored image will be reliable Validate Byte for Byte If you select this option Image for Linux will verify that every byte in the source backup image file was written to the restored drive correctly ensuring 100 accuracy This option generally increases the processing time of the overall operation but is advisable to use where maximum reliability is required Write Standard MBR Code If you select this option Image for Linux will install standard master boot code to the Master Boot Record MBR after completing the restore operation The other portions of the MBR i e the partition table disk signature etc will not be affected Otherwise Image for Linux will only install the standard master boot code when it appears that there is no existing boot code Image for Linux User Manual Page 52 of 150 Wipe Unused Sectors This option will wipe zero out unused sectors on the restored drive When restoring a full drive the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and restore in a single operation Such as when deploying images to used systems Remove Gaps on Restore Select this option to remove any gaps free space between partitions Partitions will be restored adjacent to each other Assu
160. or TBScript TBS file that runs Image for Linux by clicking the Save to File button and then clicking OK The command line can be edited before being saved Save Command IFL F8 Press to open a window where you can edit the command line if desired and then save it to a script file or TBScript TBS file To save the command line using IFL GUI use the Show Command option above Depending on the Linux shell being used it may be necessary to edit the command line to make it functional Please see syntax examples on page 80 Image for Linux User Manual Page 58 of 150 Validating Backups with Image for Linux You can use Image for Linux to validate backups at the time you create them and also before you restore a backup You also can validate a backup at any time using the instructions provided below When you validate a backup Image for Linux performs internal consistency checks on the backup file s helping to ensure that the backup will be reliable if you need to restore from it When you use the steps that follow to validate a backup Image for Linux performs a standard validation not a byte for byte validation which provides a more intense scrutiny of a backup file You can perform a byte for byte validation only as part of a backup operation See the section Understanding Backup Options on Page 38 for details on a byte for byte validation Validating a Backup Insert your Image for Linux boot media into the ap
161. or detailed steps to restore a backup see the section Using Image for Linux to Restore a Backup on Page 47 Image for Linux User Manual Page 10 of 150 1 Boot your computer using the Image for Linux boot media 2 Onthe Image for Linux main menu select Restore 3 Select the source location that contains the backup image file that you want to restore 4 Select the backup image file you want to restore 5 Select the target location that you want Image for Linux to overwrite with the information contained in the backup image file 6 Set restore options For details on available restore options when you are restoring an entire drive see the section Understanding Restore Options for an Entire Drive on Page 51 For details on available restore options when you are restoring an individual partition see the section Understanding Restore Options for an Individual Partition on Page 54 You can validate a backup as you create it or if you don t have time to validate it when you create it you validate it later Follow these steps Note For detailed steps to validate a backup see the section Validating Backups with Image for Linux on Page 59 1 Boot your computer using the Image for Linux boot media 2 Onthe Image for Linux main menu select Validate 3 Select the source location that contains the backup image file that you want to validate 4 Select the backup image
162. ou change FILE2 and you perform an incremental backup This incremental backup will include only the data of FILE2 since you did not change the other files in the most recent full backup Then if you change FILE3 and add FILE4 and make another incremental backup the latest incremental backup will include only data from FILE3 and FILE4 If you are relying on sector based backups you perform a full backup at an interval of your choice and in between you perform incremental backups But an incremental sector based backup is not based on files that have been added or changed Instead an incremental sector based backup looks for and includes newly allocated sectors and changes to the contents of any sector since the last backup Suppose that you move a file without changing its contents In a sector based backup the sector reallocation caused by moving the file is a change that will be included in the next incremental backup even though you didn t change the file itself Note Although defragmenting the file system does not change file content it can lead to many sector level changes because defragmenting files moves them from one disk location to another Incremental backups are hard to properly manage and tend to be troublesome during disaster recovery It is not uncommon to discover while trying to recover from a disaster that an incremental backup is either lost or damaged making all subsequent incremental backups worthless In add
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164. partitions otherwise press Enter to select the drive If you chose File CD DVD the Backup To Select Drive Interface screen appears Select either ATAPI SCSI or SG and then select the CD DVD drive you want to use when making the backup Typically all of your CD DVD devices will appear when you select one of the options and if you select the other options a No usable CD DVD drive found message will appear The option that works depends on your kernel version and configuration If your system uses a 2 4 series kernel the devices will appear on the SG menu if your system uses a 2 6 series kernel the devices will appear on the ATAPI SCSI menu Image for Linux User Manual Page 36 of 150 10 Image for Linux displays the screen shown in the figure which suggests a file name that includes identifying information for the image file you are about to create You can change the file name you don t need to include the file name extension just the path and file name itself Image for Linux will automatically add the tbi extension Note In the default name shown in the screen below l stands for Linux 0 represents the drive being backed up and YYYY MM DD HHMM represent the date in 4 digit year 2 digit month and 2 digit day format and time in 2 digit hour and minute format the backup started If you opt to back up a partition instead of an entire drive the partition ID follows the drive nu
165. pecific topics related to the IFL boot disk In this directory you ll find the iflhelp txt file which summarizes Linux commands you can use to perform a variety of functions such as listing storage devices and displaying network information iflnet iso is an image that you can use to create a bootable CD DVD disc containing Image for Linux using the program s default configuration OS Lic zip is a file that contains all of the copyright and licensing information for the various Linux components quickstart txt is a text file that contains overview information for using the Image for Linux Network Boot Disk installing the network boot disk to a hard drive or a USB flash drive running Image for Linux from a Linux distribution and customizing the Image for Linux Network Boot Disk Image for Linux User Manual Page 12 of 150 readme txt is a text file that briefly summarizes the information found in this manual setup is the script used to set up Image for Linux on a Linux distribution For the registered version it also prompts for the product key Image for Linux User Manual Page 13 of 150 Installing Image for Linux Image for Linux is not installed in the usual sense of the word Instead you run Image for Linux by creating the bootable media that contains the Image for Linux program Then you simply boot with that media to run Image for Linux If you use Windows you can create a bootable Image for Linux CD USB flash
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167. presents a partition or volume Logical Drive A term used in Microsoft operating systems to describe the specific drive letters that point to volumes In practical terms it is the same thing as a drive letter Source Image for Linux User Manual Page 141 of 150 When backing up source refers to the hard drive that you want to back up When restoring source refers to the location on a storage medium that contains a backup you want to restore Target When backing up target refers to the location on a storage medium usually CD DVD discs a hard drive partition or an external hard drive where you want to store a backup When restoring target refers to the location on a hard drive where you want to restore a backup you previously created A restore target can either be an area of free space or a partition In the latter case the partition and any information it contains will be deleted immediately prior to the restore Image for Linux User Manual Page 142 of 150 What is Shareware Shareware distribution provides users with the opportunity to try software before buying it If you try a Shareware program and continue using it you are expected to register it Individual programs differ on details some request registration others require it and some specify a maximum trial period When you register the software you may receive anything from the right to continue using the software to an updated program
168. propriate drive or USB port and boot your computer Then follow these steps 1 On the Image for Linux Main Menu Select Operation screen select Validate Console version only Use the Detect Device Changes command to have Image for Linux look for devices you attach to your computer after starting the program Wait about 10 seconds after you select this command before proceeding 2 On the Validate Select File Access Method screen that appears choose one of the following options which refer to the location where Image for Linux should look for the backup to validate File OS Choose this option to use the operating system file services to find image files to validate on mounted partitions File Direct Select this option if the image file s you want to validate are stored on a hard drive and an unmounted partition File CD DVD Select this option if the image file s you want to validate are stored on CD or DVD discs 3 The screen that appears next depends on your choice in Step 2 If you chose File OS a screen appears where you can select the file you want to validate see Step 4 for details If you chose File Direct the Validate Select File Drive screen appears select the hard drive that contains the backup you want to validate from the list shown and then select the correct partition Image for Linux User Manual Page 59 of 150 If you chose File Direct the Validate Sele
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171. r drive The difficulty level of this process depends on a number of factors including the method used and the details of the particular configuration This appendix presents several methods to accomplish this task and hopefully provide a trouble free transition Typical reasons to move to a smaller drive or partition include Moving the OS partition to a faster drive e g going from a 1TB hard drive toa 256GB SSD drive Segregating the OS from data e g splitting a single 950GB partition into a 100GB OS partition and a 850GB data partition Splitting a RAID 0 setup into single drives Migrating to a new physical system or to or from a virtual system Emergency recovery using parts on hand Testing recovery scenarios Procedure Summary The basic steps are as follows 1 Determine the minimum space required to restore the partition s If the source partition contains more data than can fit on the new smaller partition it will be necessary to delete files or move files to a different drive When moving an entire drive to a smaller drive you will need to check space requirements for each partition on the source drive Check the file system for errors Run chkdsk f onthe source partition s to check for file system errors Errors can cause compacting and resizing to fail Note You may want to run MEMTEST86 before chkdsk if RAM integrity is unknown Compact or resize the partition s Use the compact feature in the imaging pr
172. r is not changed u N A Use this option to cause Image for Linux to not display the completion message on success of the operation A message will still be displayed if success with bad sectors or an error occurred This allows the rest of the user interactive prompts to continue to work normally whereas with uy or un they would be auto answered Default if omitted The completion message will be displayed on success 0h N A Image for Linux User Manual Page 88 of 150 Use this parameter to perform an unattended backup and tell Image for Linux to assume the answer to all Yes No prompts is No and the answer to all OK Cancel messages is Cancel Image for Linux then aborts the backup process when the first Yes No prompt appears Place this parameter just after the action parameter b r v to ensure this parameter is in effect for prompts that may occur in other command line options This option is disabled when additional media is needed file not found and um is not specified Default if omitted Image for Linux does not run an unattended backup S N A Use this parameter to perform an unattended backup and tell Image for Linux to assume the answer to all Yes No prompts is Yes and the answer to all OK Cancel messages is OK This option is disabled when additional media is needed file not found and um is not specified Place this option just after the action parameter b r v to ensure this parame
173. rce of the desired partition is an image backup you must first restore the image to a drive large enough to contain it so it can be compacted or resized and then reimaged or copied Also note that you can t compact a partition that s in use for example you can t compact the booted Windows partition You would need to boot to Image for DOS Image for Linux or Image for Windows in WinPE To compact a partition Start the TeraByte imaging program of your choice Select to create a backup On the partition selection screen highlight the partition that needs compacted Click the Compact button graphical versions or press F3 console versions Enter the new size arwn gt Image for Linux User Manual Page 138 of 150 To resize a partition Boot into Bootlt Bare Metal Enter Partition Work Select the partition than needs resized Click the Resize button Enter the new size IRN The time required to compact or resize a partition depends on the amount of data that must be moved and the speed of the system Examples Several examples of restoring to a smaller drive or partition are shown below e Example 1 Normal Restore e Example 2 Compact Resize Image and Restore For more details and an additional method using robocopy please see the corresponding TeraByte KB article Unless otherwise stated the examples below are using the following base system configuration e The source drive is 500GB
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175. rs from that of the source drive Image for Linux will update applicable drive references residing within the copied partition to reflect the new hard drive number a SetActive 1 Use this parameter to make the partition you copy active Default if omitted Image for Linux does not make the copied partition active unless no other partitions are active and the target partition is on HDO t Write MBR 1 Use this parameter to have Image for Linux install standard MBR code after completing the copy operation Standard MBR code is the code that boots the active partition Image for Linux User Manual Page 115 of 150 Default if omitted Image for Linux does not write standard MBR code unless the MBR is empty e UseSameMBREntry 1 Use this parameter to have Image for Linux move the partition table entry of the copied partition to the same location in the master partition table as it appeared on the source drive Default if omitted Image for Linux does not move the partition table of the copied partition mS N N A Use this parameter to have Image for Linux move the partition table entry of the restored partition to a given slot in the MBR The value n is O to 3 This option is only applicable when restoring a single partition Default if omitted Image for Linux does not move the partition table of the restored partition embrid n N A This parameter is used to set a specific ID value to
176. run Image for Linux type imagel at the prompt Although you only need to run the set up script once you can run it again to change any of the options for which the script prompts including the Product Key BOS SeaaaaeMe Image for Linux GUI in Ubuntu 11 10 Image for Linux User Manual Page 72 of 150 Creating Customized Image for Linux Boot Media You can create customized boot media for Image for Linux to start the program from a CD DVD a hard drive or a USB flash drive You also can create a set of boot files for a PXE network boot When you create customized boot media you can Specify and use a static IP address default route DNS Use an alternate or additional network interface or no network interface Configure wireless networking Specify a default video mode other than 80x25 console version Specify an alternate keyboard map the default is US QWERTY Include custom scripts in the scripts directory Optionally execute some or all of the scripts on boot Specify a time zone other than UTC Specify that console login is required on boot Set the root password Specify a hostname other than i 1 Enable the SSH server on boot Customize the ISCSI configuration in the iscsi directory Edit and include the if1 custom ini file to specify custom settings for Image for Linux Enable support for Linux Volume Manager volumes Enable login from a serial port such as COM1 and or COM2 Specify kernel boot para
177. s The Enhanced Speed A B options offer decent compression with the emphasis on back up speed over backup file size Backup files will normally be compressed less than the Standard option Value 15 offers higher compression than 14 at the expense of speed Actual compression levels and speeds obtained will vary depending on the data being backed up and the system being used Note The Enhanced Size D E F options and the Enhanced Speed A B options are not backwards compatible and require version 2 72 or later Attempting to open a backup file created using a compression value higher than 10 with version 2 71 or earlier will result in a message to use the newer version or an error message that the image is corrupt depending on the older version being used Default if omitted Image for Linux uses standard compression enc 1 or enc 3 Encryption 1 or Encryption 3 Specifies whether Image for Linux should use simple password protection without encryption enc 1 or 256 bit AES encryption enc 3 If either enc 1 or enc 3 are specified you must also specify pw Default if omitted Image for Linux uses no encryption or password protection noej NoEject 1 Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux never to automatically open the optical drive tray Default if omitted Image for Linux will automatically open the optical drive tray whenever a new disc is needed and at the completion of the backup operation
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180. s are also available in Image for Linux by clicking the Settings button IFL GUI or selecting Global Settings IFL CUI 8 The Additional ifl ini Options screen appears Most of the options needed to use Image for Linux are set for you by default but you can use this screen to set additional options For example you might want to use the TimeZone variable to identify your time zone for Image for Linux as shown in the figure Image for Linux User Manual Page 18 of 150 below For a complete list of available environment variables see Image for Linux Advanced Configuration Options on page 77 Click Next to proceed tat MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 Additional ifl ini Options optional Separate multiple options with semicolons TimeZone EST5EDT More y More H lt lt Previous i Cancel Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 9 The License Product Key screen appears i MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 License Image for Linux Product Key 0000 1 111 2222 lt lt Previous F Cancel Copyright 2004 2011 TeraByte Inc All Rights Reserved 10 If you own a licensed copy of Image for Linux supply your serial number and then click Next The Select Target screen appears Image for Linux User Manual Page 19 of 150 tat MakeDisk Image for Linux V2 Lo aaa Select Target 27 150 File 5 CD DVD mer 0 SONY
181. s in Setting up the IFL directory to create custom versions in Section 2 of readme txt included in the Image for Linux archive file In addition the help directory contains several additional help files on various configuration topics such as wireless LVM ISCSI PXE boot serial port configuration boot problems boot parameters and including a custom version of ifl ini on the boot media Image for Linux User Manual Page 74 of 150 Deploying Your Image When you deploy an image you restore it to a number of computers in an organization Therefore the information in this section does not apply to most home users If you are deploying images in Linux you might find the information in pxe txt iscsi txt and iflhelp txt helpful You might also want to read the following information stored on the Terabyte website http www terabyteunlimited com kb article php id 033 If you are deploying images of Windows machines using Image for Linux you might want to read through the following information Image for Linux does not change the SID of Windows NT 2000 XP 2003 Vista or Windows 7 systems If you are using Image for Linux for deployment purposes and want to change the SID for Windows you should use the MS sysprep utility or you can download a free utility named NewSID You may want to set up the base machine so that the last partition ends at one track less than the actual end of the hard drive around 8 MB less
182. s message appears L Notice AGE The backup has completed successfully la LL i After you press Enter the main menu for Image for Linux reappears At this point if you are finished using Image for Linux select Exit remove the Image for Linux boot media and then either reboot or shut down the computer Understanding Backup Options You can set the same options when backing up in Image for Linux whether you are backing up a partition or an entire drive Image for Linux User Manual Page 38 of 150 Validate If you select this option Image for Linux will perform internal consistency checks on the backup file s after creating them Enabling this option increases the overall processing time but can help ensure that the backup is reliable Validate Byte for Byte If you select this option Image for Linux will verify that every byte in the source data was backed up correctly ensuring 100 accuracy This option generally doubles the processing time of the overall backup operation but is advisable to use where maximum reliability is required You can but do not need to select the Validate option if you select the Validate Byte for Byte option Encrypt Data If you select this option Image for Linux will encrypt the backup file s with 256 bit AES encryption prior to saving them to the target medium If you select the Encrypt Data option you must also supply a password in the Password text boxes Enter the password
183. self How much data am I willing to re enter because once you restore your latest backup you will need to re enter all information since you made that backup Many people do not want to re enter any information so they back up daily Others feel their computer usage is such that they are willing to back up once each week and re enter up to seven days worth of data Decide how much data you are willing to re enter and set your backup schedule accordingly Incremental Backups Note Although you cannot make an incremental backup using Image for Linux we include information on incremental backups so that you can understand how they work Image for Linux User Manual Page 124 of 150 Incremental backups include only data that has changed since the most recent backup was performed whether the most recent backup was a full backup or a previous incremental backup To use this backup method you perform a full backup at an interval of your choice say every two weeks In between full backups you perform incremental backups If you need to restore your entire system you need to restore the latest full backup followed by each of the incremental backups you performed since that full backup unless the backup program being used supports a complete restore in one restore procedure For example suppose that you are relying on file based backups and you perform a full backup that includes FILE1 FILE2 and FILE3 Then y
184. sg first line nsecond line For some shells including the default used on the boot disc you ll need to omit the colon msg first line nsecond line Or include the whole option in quotes using a single dash msg first line nsecond line Use desc to use the image description as the message msg desc Note Image for Linux GUI will ignore this parameter Default if omitted No message text is displayed uggs 0 UseGlobalGeoSettings 0 Place under the HDx section Use this parameter to disable the use of the global geometry settings for this individual drive This applies to interactive use of global geometry settings Default if omitted Global geometry settings apply to the drive npt NoPartTable 0x10000 Place under the HDx section Use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to treat the selected drive as a drive that doesn t use a partition table If you use this option on the command line you must place it before the d option It stays in effect until you disable it using npt 0 You may want to disable this option if you use additional options to select a device partition such as the f 0 0x1 filename option Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted Image for Linux treats the selected drive as a drive that uses a Image for Linux User Manual Page 86 of 150 partition table anpt AssumeNoPartT able 0x40000 Pl
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186. tandards before accepting it for use It only applies when Use MBR Geometry is enabled Use Original Geometry Use the geometry saved in the backup file that represents the geometry from the environment used to create the backup file Image for Linux User Manual Page 50 of 150 Align on End Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to align restored partitions at the end of a cylinder or when the Align2048 option is enabled at the end of a 2048 sector boundary Align End by Resizing For partitions that Image for Linux can resize use this option to instruct Image for Linux to align both the beginning and the end of a partition by resizing Use 2048 Sector Alignment Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to align restored partitions based on 2048 sectors Align MBR Ending HS Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to force a restored partition s ending head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry Align MBR HS when Truncated Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to set a restored partition s head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry when these values are located outside the range of the current geometry Use Global Settings Enable to allow global geometry settings to control the drive Understanding Restore Options for an Entire Drive When you restore an entire drive Image for Linux offers these options that you can set Image for Linux GUI
187. target drive after you restore your image This option has no effect on images restored to hard drives using other file systems You cannot use this option in conjunction with the Scale to Target option If you inadvertently enable both options Scale to Fit will take precedence Align to Target If you select this option Image for Linux will force alignment to the target drive regardless of the alignment used on the source drive For example if the Align Partitions on 2048 Sectors global option is enabled the restored drive will be aligned to 2048 sectors If this option is not selected the alignment used on the target drive will be determined automatically based on the source drive Change Disk Signature This option only applies to full drive restores It allows you to change the NT Signature restored to the target drive This can be useful if you plan on having both the original and restored hard drive in the same computer at the same time otherwise Windows may detect the duplicate signature and modify it which may depending on the OS prevent the restored hard drive from booting properly Validate Before Restore If you select this option Image for Linux will validate the image file s prior to restoring them will perform internal consistency checks on the backup file s If Image for Linux encounters an error during validation Image for Linux will abort the restore operation without overwriting the partition If you select this
188. ter Setup typically the Delete key F2 or F12 Once in the BIOS you need to follow the instructions provided in your BIOS to reorder the boot sequence to permit your CD DVD drive or UFD to be examined before your hard drive If your system starts by offering you the option to select a boot menu you can use the boot menu to identify the device you want to use to boot When you create a backup you can create either a full backup or a differential backup A full backup is exactly what it sounds like Image for Linux backs up your entire hard disk A differential backup works in conjunction with a full backup you create a full backup the first time and then create differential backups which contain only changes for subsequent backups A differential backup will initially be smaller than a full backup but as you make changes the size of the differential backup will grow over time Before you make the decision concerning the type of backup you want to create read Appendix B Backup Strategies for a detailed explanation of full backups and differential backups Things to Consider Before Backing Up There are very few rules to follow when formulating a backup plan Please consider the following ideas to help you create a backup that will help you easily recover from a disaster For more information on backup strategies see Appendix B Backup Strategies on Page 124 Consider the destination for your backup For example if you will be b
189. ter is a hole by which the platter is mounted to a spindle The platters rotate around this spindle at high speed typically 5 400 to 10 000 rotations per minute or RPM Internal view of a hard drive in operation The arm appears blurred due to its rapid movement Photo courtesy of Michael Blessenohl The Logical Hard Drive Hard Drive Data Organization Data is organized on the platters of hard drives in the form of tracks and sectors which are established during manufacturing The tracks which exist on each side of each platter are concentric circles Sectors are defined by radial lines that go from the center point of the platter to the outer edge When you set up a hard drive you can create logical partitions A logical partition is simply a conceptual division on the hard disk You can use different file systems in different partitions and many users partition hard disks so that they can store different operating systems or segregate data on the same hard drive If you set up different partitions so that you can use different operating and file systems you can Image for Linux User Manual Page 127 of 150 use Terabyte s BootIT Bare Metal to select the operating system in which you want to work each time you boot your computer Formatting is the process that prepares a partition on the hard disk to accept data by creating an empty file system that is organized into clusters A cluster a logical grouping of contiguous sec
190. ter is in effect for prompts that may occur in other command line options Default if omitted Image for Linux does not run an unattended backup ui N A Use this parameter when performing an unattended backup to tell Image for Linux to assume the answer to all Abort Retry Ignore prompts is Ignore Use this parameter in conjunction with uy or un Default if omitted Image for Linux assumes the answer to all Abort Retry Ignore prompts is either Yes or No depending on whether you set uy or un um N A During an unattended backup using CD DVD discs use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to ignore the first request for media This parameter helps you start the backup if you have already inserted a disc and a prompt appears asking for the disc This parameter works only for the first prompt you need to respond to other prompts for media unless you specify uy or un If you combine uy or un with this parameter then any additional disc requests will cause the program to end with an error instead of prompting for the media For media other than CD DVD discs or during a restore validation using this parameter allows the program to end with an error instead of prompting for the media Place this parameter just after the action parameter b r v to ensure this parameter is in effect for prompts that may occur in other command line options Default if omitted Media change requests will disable the uy or un parameters and
191. teractive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted This option is disabled geombrv GlobalGeoMBRGeoValidate 1 This option is used to ensure that the geometry from the MBR on the original system is aligned to known standards before accepting it for use It only applies when gemombr GlobalGeoMBRGeo is enabled This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores To disable use geombrv 0 Default if omitted This option is enabled geoorg GlobalGeoOrgGeo 1 This option is the global equivalent to the individual Use Original Geometry override This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted This option is disabled nos size NoScale size This option offers a way to prevent scaling of small partitions when scaling to a larger drive Partitions that are size in bytes or smaller will not be scaled For example 200m would not scale partitions that are 200MiB or smaller Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted All partitions are scaled when scaling is used chgvid ChgVollD 1 Use this option to change the file system volume id serial number of restored or copied FAT NTFS HPFS partitions Note that the ini file value is not used on command line based operations Default if omitted The file system volume ID serial numbe
192. the active boot partition on the target drive This is useful for situations where the boot partition differs from the system partition However you typically wouldn t want to use this option if you re creating a copy of an existing partition you want to keep unless the target drive will be independent of the original drive For this to be useful the active boot partition should already be on the target drive or part of the same copy or restore operation Write Standard MBR Code If you select this option Image for Linux will install standard master boot code to the Master Boot Record MBR after completing the restore operation The other portions of the MBR i e the partition table disk signature etc will not be affected Otherwise Image for Linux will only install the standard master boot code when it appears that there is no existing boot code Restore Disk Signature This option applies when you restore a partition that had been assigned a drive letter within Windows prior to being backed up If you select Image for Linux User Manual Page 55 of 150 this option Image for Linux will restore the disk signature associated with the source partition If you don t select this option Image for Linux will use the disk signature already present in the MBR of the target drive if none exists Image for Linux will create one If you are restoring a partition that had been assigned a drive letter in Windows and you wish to keep that drive l
193. the copied partition if an EMBR exists The ID is only used if not already in use by another partition To assume the same ID as a partition being overwritten use the value zero for n Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the copied partitions original id gpt N A Instruct Image for Linux to create a GPT on the target drive Note that restoring first track overrides this option This is mainly used with the clr option to ensure the full size of the drive that is greater than 2TiB is accessible You can also provide an option nomsr if the GPT to be created should not have a Microsoft Reserved Partition created on it While Image for Linux supports a GPT it does not currently officially support an EFI based system Default if omitted Image for Linux does not create a GPT on the drive tft RFT 1 Use this parameter to have Image for Linux copy the first track when it copies the partition Default if omitted Image for Linux does not copy the first track fts n RFTS n Use this option to specify how many sectors of the first track of the hard drive Image for Linux should copy Use 0 to indicate the entire track Default if omitted Image for Linux determines the number of tracks needed to copy stt Scale 1 Image for Linux User Manual Page 116 of 150 For NTFS FAT FAT32 EXT 2 3 4 partitions use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to resize each copied partition proportionally so that ea
194. the image file set If Image for Linux creates Image for Linux User Manual Page 34 of 150 additional files for the same image set they will be named lt name gt _0 1 lt name gt _0 2 lt name gt _0 3 and so on Image for Linux names the files of the second image set i e the second partition included in the backup lt name gt _1 TBI lt name gt _1 1 lt name gt _1 2 lt name gt _1 3 and so on Image for Linux will name subsequent image sets accordingly with _2 _ 3 and so on appended to the file name If you choose this option each file Image for Linux creates represents only a single partition and you won t be able to completely restore a drive with one menu option but will have to restore each partition separately The number of files Image for Linux will create for each image set depends on the size of the corresponding partition and the File Size setting you choose in a later step 8 Onthe Backup To Select File Access Method screen that appears select one of the following options which refer to the location where Image for Linux will be saving the backup m Image for Linux GUI 2 67 OE Select File Access Method Backup To File OS File Direct File CD DVD TeraByte Unlimited File OS Choose this option to use the operating system file services to save the image files File Direct This option allows you to save the image file s to a folder on a hard drive
195. three different backup methods Full Backups Incremental Backups Differential Backups In this section you will find information that explains each of these backup methods The backup method you choose actually affects you most when you need to restore the backup some backups are easier to restore than others In addition to understanding backup methods it s also important to store your backup media in a safe secure location We strongly recommend that you store your backup media in a different physical location than your computer and that you place your backup media in a fire proof safe designed for media By storing your backup media offsite you don t run the risk of losing both your computer and your backups in the event of fire or theft By storing your backups in a fire proof safe designed for media your backups will be protected if a fire occurs at the location where you store your backups Note Be sure to use a fire proof safe designed for media because while paper doesn t burn until 451 degrees Fahrenheit media will melt Computer media may be damaged at temperatures above 125 degrees Fahrenheit and 80 humidity Full Backups A full backup as the name implies involves backing up all specified data How Often Should Back Up We hear this question a lot and there is no right answer Instead there is the answer that works best for you To figure out how often to back up ask your
196. timal speed setting max nMiB or max nGiB MaxFileSize nMiB or MaxFileSize nGiB Use this setting to specify the maximum file size of the image files that Image for Linux creates nshould be a positive integer e g 648 698 877 1003 etc Image for Linux can use either mebibytes or gibibytes so you must specify either MiB or GiB respectively Do not place any spaces between the number and the unit designation The maximum file size is ultimately dictated by the file system used on the target drive Also some network redirectors limit file size to 2 GiB which can be a limiting factor for backup files stored on a network drive Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the maximum file size supported by the target file system raw RawMode 1 Set this parameter to force Image for Linux to use raw mode which backs up all sectors rather than just used sectors even for recognized file systems For entire drive backups this option causes a raw sector by sector backup and later restore of the entire drive without regard to any partitions or adjustments Additionally it will not be possible to create differential backups for an entire drive image of this type Default if omitted Image for Linux backs up only used sectors for recognized file systems and uses raw mode automatically for unrecognized file systems Image for Linux User Manual Page 94 of 150 skp 0 SkipPageFile 0 Set this parameter
197. tion and Image for Linux determines that 2048 alignment is needed then Image for Linux enables both the Align2048 and the AlignEndHS options for the restore Note This option has been deprecated but will remain supported for backwards compatibility The att option should be used instead Default if omitted Alignment is automatically determined when copying from the command line aoe n AlignOnEnd n Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to align copied partitions at the end of a Image for Linux User Manual Page 118 of 150 cylinder or when the Align2048 option is enabled end of a 2048 sector boundary 0 Disable align on end 2 Align on end by resizing Default if omitted Normal alignment aoe 1 is used a2k Align2048 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to align copied partitions based on 2048 sectors If this option is enabled then you will normally want to enable the AlignEndHS ahs option and disable the AlignOnEnd aoe 0 option Default if omitted The alignment is based on cylinders ahs AlignEndHS 1 Place under the HDx section Use this option to instruct Image for Linux to force a copied partition s ending head and sector values in the MBR to match the current geometry Default if omitted The actual ending head and sector values are used ahst AlignHSOnTrunc 1 Place under t
198. tion if an EMBR exists The ID is only used if not already in use by another partition To assume the same ID as a partition being overwritten use the value zero for n Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the restored partition s original id gpt WA Instruct Image for Linux to create a GPT on the target drive Note that restoring first track overrides this option This is mainly used with the clr option to ensure the full size of the drive that is greater than 2TiB is accessible You can also provide an option nomsr if the GPT to be created should not have a Microsoft Reserved Partition created on it While Image for Linux supports a GPT it does not currently officially support an EFI based system Default if omitted Image for Linux does not create a GPT on the drive cfi RFT 1 Use this parameter to have Image for Linux restore the first track when it restores the partition Default if omitted Image for Linux does not restore the first track fts n RFTS n Use this option to specify how many sectors of the first track of the hard drive Image for Linux should restore Use 0 to indicate the entire track Default if omitted Image for Linux determines the number of tracks needed to restore Stt Scale 1 For NTFS FAT FAT32 EXT 2 3 4 partitions use this parameter to tell Image for Linux to resize each restored partition proportionally so that each partition takes up the same relative amount of sp
199. tion is also ignored if the Backwards Compatible option is enabled The hash file will be limited to the max file size and have the same file name as the backup with an extension starting at 0 followed by 1 2 etc as needed The actual speed increase realized when creating a differential will vary depending on the system If the hash file is deleted a differential backup will proceed as normal without it To create a hash for an existing full image use the hash operation command line parameter Backwards Compatible Image for Linux version 2 30 and later use a TBI format that is not compatible with prior versions Select this option to have Image for Linux create the TBI file using a format that is compatible with versions 2 00 through 2 29 Validate Disk If you store your backup on optical media you also can choose to validate each disc to ensure that no media errors occur while Image for Linux stores Image for Linux User Manual Page 40 of 150 the backup on each CD DVD disc If Image for Linux detects an error it prompts you to replace the failed disc at the time the error is detected If you don t enable this option Image for Linux notifies you of errors only after the backup process is complete Limit Disk Usage This option only applies when saving images to CD DVD targets If enabled this option instructs Image for Linux to leave the last 10 of each disc unused to help prevent data errors that are more common near
200. tions If you choose Automatic Image for Linux attempts to choose the target drive and options automatically using information stored in the backup files If Image for Linux cannot identify the target drive and options or you don t accept the suggested target drive Image for Linux will use the Normal option and ask you to select the target drive and options If you choose Normal Image for Linux will ask you to select the target drive and options Note If you created a backup in Image for DOS or Image for Windows and restore using Image for Linux Image for Linux might not be able to use the Automatic option because Image for Linux might not be able to match the disk signature in the Image for Linux User Manual Page 47 of 150 backup with the target disk on the machine to which you want to restore In this case Image for Linux uses the Normal option where you select the target drive and options 3 From the Restore From Select File Access Method screen that appears select between the following options which refer to the location where Image for Linux should look for the backup file you want to restore File OS Choose this option to use the operating system file services to restore the image files from mounted partitions File Direct This option allows you to look for image file s to restore ina folder on a hard drive and an unmounted partition File CD DVD This option allows you to loo
201. to instruct Image for Linux to include the page file in the backup Default if omitted Image for Linux skips the page file skh 0 SkipHiberFile 0 Set this parameter to instruct Image for Linux to include the hibernation file in the backup Default if omitted Image for Linux skips the hibernation file V PostValidate 1 Set this parameter to instruct Image for Linux to perform a standard validation of the image file s as part of the backup operation To set the INI value use PostValidate 1 Default if omitted Image for Linux does not validate the backup image after creating it vb PostValidate 2 Set this parameter to instruct Image for Linux to perform a byte for byte validation of the image file s as part of the backup operation This also performs a standard validation To set the INI value use PostValidate 2 Default if omitted Image for Linux does not validate the backup image after creating it vpd ValidateDisk 1 You can use this option when saving images to a CD or DVD drive This option ensures that the discs containing image files are readable and verifies that the data on the discs appears to be the same as the data that Image for Linux used to create the discs Per disc validation can detect media errors that may have occurred during the disc writing process If Image for Linux detects an error Image for Linux will prompt you to recreate the failed disc Default if omitted If you do not enable t
202. to leave room for different brands or models of the same size hard drive See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows XP How to Use the Sysprep Tool to Automate Successful Deployment of Windows XP http support microsoft com kb 302577 Windows XP How to and Technical Article Resources http technet microsoft com en us library 0b878149 aspx Download for the Microsoft Windows XP SP1 Deployment Tools http www microsoft com downloads details aspx familyid 7A83123D 507B 4095 9D9D 0A195F7B5F69 amp displaylang en Download for the Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Deployment Tools http www microsoft com downloads info aspx na 47 amp p 1 amp SrcDisplayLang en amp SrcCategoryld amp SrcFamilyld 0c4bfb06 2824 4d2b abc1 0e22231 33afb amp u details aspx 3ffamilyid 3d3E90DC91 AC56 4665 949B BEDA3080E0F6 26displaylang 3den See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows Vista Image for Linux User Manual Page 75 of 150 http technet2 microsoft com Windows Vista en library 2957d7c4 02c7 4205 afb5 f03434d8f37d1033 mspx mfr true See the following for more information on how to prepare for deployment for Windows 2003 Server What is Sysprep http technet2 microsoft com windowsserver en library c03a5469 ef71 4545 b970 ce2add5e715c1033 mspx mfr true Download for the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Sysprep Tool http www microsoft com downloads details
203. to mydomain com IFL Operation Result ec 25 login mydomain com password Note Emails will not be sent if using Log Level 10 1log1 10 or higher Default if omitted No email is sent po n PerfOpt n This option is used to manually control various file IO options of Image for Linux The settings can have an impact on the overall performance The values for n can be as follows and combined using addition 32 Use smallest alignment applies to 2 59 or later Default if omitted Image for Linux uses the values as it sees fit tz AAAnBBB TimeZone AAAnBBB This option sets the time zone that Image for Linux uses When you save images to NTFS partitions or CD DVD discs using the correct time zone will ensure that the date time stamps of the image files will be correct when they are viewed within Windows AAA and BBB are three letters you supply to represent the time zone The characters don t mean anything to Image for Linux and are for your use nis the time offset number to indicate the offset from GMT Greenwich Mean Time and be positive or negative For example you might use a time zone setting such as PST8PDT or EST5EDT Please refer to http www terabyteunlimited com kb article php id 260 for more information Default if omitted Image for Linux does not establish a time zone cbs 0 ClearBootStatus 0 Use this option to prevent Image for Linux from forcing Windows to assume a cl
204. to test it and discover it is not what you expected You attempt to uninstall it and it misbehaves Before you know it the fully functional well behaved computer you fondly remember from 30 minutes ago is gone and in its place you now have a devil child that won t even boot If you restore an image backup taken before you installed the errant program you effectively remove all traces of the program your computer returns to the state it was in before you installed the errant program and life goes on as if the errant program never existed on your hard drive To understand the technical details of Image for Linux User Manual Page 8 of 150 how Image for Linux creates a sector based image see Appendix C Introduction to Hard Drive Storage on Page 127 After backing up with Image for Linux your computer is protected from crashes data loss hardware problems and malicious software i e viruses since you can restore the snapshot image whenever necessary You can view and extract individual files or folders from an image backup by using the free TBIView or TBIMount add ons You can obtain these from www terabyteunlimited com if you purchased a disk based version of Image for Linux you ll find TBIView on your installation media In addition TBIView is included on the Image for Linux boot media TBIMount only runs under Windows The images you create using Image for Linux are fully compatible with the other TeraByte Unlimited Version 2 i
205. toring multiple partitions to a drive with no existing partitions the entire drive is wiped including all gaps between any partitions Using this option provides an easy way to wipe a drive and restore in a single operation such as when deploying images to used systems Move to Original MBR Entry If you select this option Image for Linux will move the partition table entry of the restored partition to the same location in the master partition table as it had on the source drive Image for Linux will also move the existing partition table entry to another location rather than overwrite it You may want to enable this option if you use an environment that tracks master partition table entries such as Linux Assume Original HD If you select this option which mainly applies to Linux partitions Image for Linux will keep references to the source hard drive number intact within the partitions that have been restored to the target If you do not select this option and the target drive number differs from that of the source drive applicable drive references residing within the restored partitions will be updated to reflect the new hard drive number Image for Linux User Manual Page 56 of 150 This option has no effect if you are restoring to a target drive whose number matches that of the source drive If you are restoring to a target drive whose number differs from that of the source drive but you plan to subsequently move the target drive
206. tors is the smallest logical unit of storage that you can allocate to hold a file s data Figures 1 through 3 depict the layout of files within clusters on a hypothetical partition In each figure shown 44 clusters contain data In Figure 1 the ast cluster in use that is the one closest to the bottom right is at the very end of the partition Figure 1 The location of this last cluster at the time that you create an image determines the minimum amount of free space that must be available on the hard drive to which you intend to restore called the target drive Note If you are restoring a partition with an image created using raw mode or if the partition uses an unrecognized file system the target drive needs to be equal to the full size of the source partition regardless of cluster allocation Figure 2 shows the same number of clusters in use but the ast cluster in use is located in the fifth row rather than at the very end of the partition Figure 2 Image for Linux User Manual Page 128 of 150 Although Figure 1 and Figure 2 depict the exact same number of used clusters the location of the last used cluster in Figure 2 allows you to restore an image of that partition to a much smaller target because when an image is restored each cluster is placed in a location on the target that is identical relatively speaking to its original location on the drive you inaged called the source driv
207. ultiple CD DVD s image for Linux GUI 2 67 dea Select Backup Single Pass Multi Pass TeraByte Unlimited gtesesenencsenvenessenensony lt lt Back Next gt gt Exit 5 On the Select Full Backup To Continue Select File Access Method screen that appears choose File OS File Direct or File CD DVD to identify the location of the full backup related to this differential backup 6 The appearance of the Select Full Backup To Continue screen that Image for Linux displays next depends on the choice you made in Step 5 Image for Linux User Manual Page 43 of 150 If you chose File OS a screen appears where you can select the full backup file name see Step 5 for details If you chose File Direct the Select Full Backup To Continue Select Drive Interface screen appears from which you can choose Linux Drive or Virtual Drive select the interface of the drive that contains the full backup The Select Full Backup To Continue Select File Drive screen appears select the hard drive that contains the full backup from the list shown Image for Linux displays the Select Full Backup To Continue Select File Location on HDn screen select a partition on the hard drive if it contains partitions otherwise press Enter to select the drive If you chose File CD DVD the Select Full Backup To Continue Select Drive Interface screen appears Select either ATAPI SCSI or SG Then insert the first disc i
208. utility can be used for this Tip Be sure to test your boot media to make sure that it works and you can see backup images you made previously Image for Linux User Manual Page 22 of 150 Navigating the Image for Linux Interface To select menu items in Image for Linux use the arrow keys to select the desired option and then press Enter to display the next screen Some screens such as the Backup Options screen contain several sections of options some of which can be toggled on or off On these screens use the Tab key to move from section to section For options that you can toggle on and off highlight the option using the arrow keys and then use the space bar to toggle the option on or off as desired Image for Linux also makes wide use of accelerator keys An accelerator key is an individual letter that you can press or press in combination with the Alt key to select an option or a menu item In Image for Linux accelerator keys appear in yellow or are underlined How you use an accelerator key depends on the current location of the cursor If it is in the same section of the screen as the desired accelerator key simply press the applicable accelerator letter If the cursor is in any other section press and hold the Alt key and then press the applicable accelerator letter For example when the Backup Options screen first appears in the console version of Image for Linux the cursor is in the Options section I
209. v The location of the last cluster at the time that you create an image determines the minimum amount of free space that must be available on the hard drive to which you intend to restore In this example assuming the partition size was 100GB you would not be able to restore it to a space smaller than 75GB Table B is a representation of the partition after being compacted It contains the same number of used clusters with no unused clusters interspersed As a result an image of this partition can be restored to a much smaller destination Compacting and resizing are both operations that allow you to relocate the data in the partition while maintaining its integrity Compacting leaves the partition size unchanged and moves the data so it fits the smaller specified size Resizing a partition smaller is similar to compacting but also reduces the size of the partition More information on this subject can be found in Appendix C Introduction to Hard Drive Storage Determining the Space Required When determining the minimum space required to restore a partition it s important to understand that the TeraByte imaging programs restore the partition image as an actual image As explained in the previous section this requires the same space for the data as the source partition since the restored data is not relocated within the destination partition while being written Any resizing of the restored partition takes place after the restore has compl
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211. ve been copied to the target location If you do not select this option and the target drive number differs from that of the source drive applicable drive references residing within the restored partitions will be updated to reflect the new hard drive number This option has no effect if you are copying to a target drive whose number matches that of the source drive If you are copying to a target drive whose number differs from that of the source drive but you plan to subsequently move the target drive so that its number matches the source drive again enabling this option can be beneficial Scale to Target If you use this option when copying a disk or partition Image for Linux copies the image proportionally to the target drive For example suppose that you want to copy a 250 GB hard drive to a 500 GB hard drive If you use this option you allow Image for Linux to double the size of the copy This option only works for FAT FAT32 NTFS and EXT 2 3 4 file systems and has no effect on copies made to hard drives using other file systems You cannot use this option in conjunction with the Scale to Fit option If you inadvertently enable both options Scale to Fit will take precedence Ignore IO Errors Under ordinary circumstances if Image for Linux encounters a bad sector on the target drive while copying Image for Linux will notify you concerning the write error and give you the option to continue or abort If you select the Ignore IO
212. ven don t have an option to turn it off This is equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Align MBR Ending HS and Align MBR HS when Truncated This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Use geoah 0 to disable Default if omitted This option is enabled geoa2k GlobalGeoAlign2K 1 This option provides a convenient way to enable 2048 sector alignment for all drives This is popular with users of SSD type drives It is the equivalent to enabling the individual overrides Use 2048 Sector Alignment Align MBR Ending HS Align MBR HS when Truncated and disabling Align on End This option only applies to interactive sessions it does not apply to command line restores Default if omitted This option is disabled geombr GlobalGeoMBRGeo 1 This option is used to prevent problems where users restore an image from another Image for Linux User Manual Page 87 of 150 system to a drive that will be put back in the other system For example the hard drive from PC A is backed up PC B is used to restore to a new hard that new drive is placed back in PC A Without this option enabled Image for Windows would setup the partition to properly boot on the hard drive for PC B which can sometimes not always be a problem when the hard drive is going back to PC A This option solves that and is equivalent to the individual Use MBR Geometry override This option only applies to in
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214. x from deleting the backup created when the backup operation fails Default if omitted The backup created is deleted if the backup failed recover Image for Linux User Manual Page 82 of 150 Attempts to access image files that are reported as incomplete and suppresses the data loss message clearing of boot sector data on a failed validation during restore If you obtain an image stream corrupt message using this option the restored file system should not be trusted You should attempt to obtain the files you need which may not be valid then reformat the partition or restore a good image Default if omitted An incomplete image is reported when opened and boot sector data is not updated or cleared on a restore that fails logfile path logfile txt LogFile path logfile txt Use this parameter to specify the path and filename of the log file path is the desired path logfile or log file is the name of the log file and txt is the file extension of the log file Image for Linux doesn t automatically add a file extension If you use a path and or filename containing spaces or dashes surround them quotes see the beginning of this section pg 80 for alternate syntax examples logfile my path my file name The folder you specify for the log file must exist prior to performing an applicable operation in Image for Linux If the path does not exist Image for Linux will not create the specified log file
215. xample you can Use the following command to set the log file name to myfile log overrides ifl log export ifl logfile myfile log Use the following command to set the log file name to myfile log overrides ifl log and also set the aoe option Align on End to 1 export ifl logfile myfile log aoe 1 Note that you specify the ifl variable in lower case In addition when setting more than one option separate the options with a semi colon and enclose in quotes as shown in the example above the portion of the export command after the sign To display a list of all currently exported environment variables use the export command without any arguments To see one particular variable you can also use the echo command for example echo ifl To remove an environment variable use the export command with the n option export n ifl Image for Linux File Path Variables To include dates in the image file name path you use a set of special variables and a special format of variablename The variable names available to you are YYYY four digit year YY two digit year MM two digit month DD two digit day of month DOY three digit day of year DOW three character day of week HHMM four digit hours and minutes and VER program version For example the following variables would embed the 4 digit year 2 digit month and 2 digit day in the image file name Backup on YYYY MM D
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