If you encounter problems, think of consulting the FAQS
Caution! The use of the images disks is under your whole responsibility!
A bad handling with the restorations and you can lose all your data!
When you safeguard images disks, you must make sure that the image is complete by restoring this image on a virgin peripheral or of no importance.
As its name indicates it, the disk image is the exact image of your hard disk.
Carry out the disk image of your hard disk ensures you in the event of crash system / virus a handing-over on level of your computer in record time.
More need to reinstall the operating system, reinstall and configure your programs... To lose several hours because of an unhappy accident.
The disks images can be compressed or not compressed. The maximum size of an disk image corresponds approximately to the space used on the disk.
For example, if you have a hard disk of 40 Go, and that space used (total size - open space) is 4 Go, the image will make to the maximum 4 Go.
It is advised besides, before carrying out an disk image, optimize your hard disk.
No, the disk image will make to the maximum the size really used if you do not ask for compression at the time of its safeguard.
It is advised besides, before carrying out an disk image, optimize your hard disk.
To have a partition of 250 Go is disadvised when it is about the partition system (that which contains the operating system), for reasons of performances of your computer.
Correct use of a hard disk is to make a partition of approximately 20 Go for the operating system, the remainder for the data. Thus, when your system crash, you can just restore the partition system without touching with the partition of the data.
To carry out the operations of safeguard / restoration of disk images :
- The machine to be safeguarded / restore must have a minimum of 128 Mo of read-write memory, a minimum processor of 350 Mhz,
- An access to Internet via a router / gateway (obligation of authentification by Internet for the use of the system of disk images),
For the safeguard / restoration disks images :
- That is to say another machine on which you share a repertory in read / write (smb),
- That is to say a sftp server on a linux machine of your network,
- That is to say a peripheral of storage on the same machine, formatted in fat16, fat32, ext2 or ext3,
- That is to say a good connection Internet for the safeguard/restoration directly on your Europe-Backup' account of safeguard.(The use of this last option will give thereafter the access to a special option, for a restoration even faster...)
Yes of course! And if you have Grub, the installation of the boot will be proposed to you at the end of the restoration.
Technical questions & problems
Yes, moreover it is advised to safeguard by disk image only the system partitions.
You can safeguard each partition independently, or ask to safeguard all the disk (all the partitions will be safeguarded).
Yes, you can ask to restore only one partition, or all the disk.
Caution!!! A restoration involves the automatic and irremediable suppression of what was present at the site of the partition.
Caution!!! The restoration of only one extended partition does not function.
If your new disk is smaller than the old, then :
- On the old disk you had only one partition, the disk image is thus too tall: You cannot restore!
- On the old disk you had several partitions, the partition to be restored is smaller than the size of the new disk: You can restore.
That you restore a partition, or all the old disk, there is no problem.
There will remain a piece of the disk not used.
If your new disk is not the same model / mark, and even if it is of the same size (exemple: 80 Go), then :
- The partition of the old disk took all space (80 Go), the number of blocks on the new disk is at least equal to old: you can restore.
- The partition to be restored did not take all space, you can restore.
- In the other cases, you cannot restore.
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