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I smile when I see Linux (XFCE based) OS's/software being used to back up Windows.

Another helpful video Brian. Worked a charm. I use Syncback free edition to backup files each time I turn off the laptop. I also use OneDrive for cloud storage. This Redo program is much quicker than the built-in Windows system backup option in my experience.

I have been using the free version of Macrium to clone and image drives for a few years. It has worked flawlessly including recovery a few times after a corrupted Windows. I only image the C partition and recover that only when Windows is too damaged for repair.

Thanks for another invaluable little tut, Brian. Used it to migrate from 970EVO 500GB to P5+ 2TB via USB HDD. Apart from Etcher constantly failing to verify the dongle write (Rufus worked fine for me) it was as smooth and quick as you demonstrated. Keep on making great content - this is how the Britec09 do. EDIT: Because the new SSD was 1.5TB larger than the old, the space available after booting up was only the original 500GB size so I used Disk Management to shrink the size of C: by a few MB, then I could extend it all the way to get the full capacity.

Hello Ben from Australia. I use: 1) Acronis for backup 2) Veritas System Recovery (formerly Symantec Norton Ghost). This is my favourite backup software. 3) Microsoft Robocopy running with commands from a batch file. 4) Windows 10 and Windows 7 Backup as a fall back recommendation for friends that are not backing up their PC.

Have been using Acronis for years however I like Redo so I will give it a go, looks much quicker than Acronis, thanks Brian

The name of the Backup is the date in reverse. So no need to put a date in your notes. If you reverse the date it is easier to find the correct file/folder.

Some questions: 1. If I install a new SSD do I need to format the drive (in my case EXT4) before I restore or will it restore it for me? 2. If the new drive I am restoring to is larger will I need to resize? You mentioned gparted but at which stage and how do you use this? Thanks

Brian, I don't know is it your voice or the mic, but you always sound very good. Please tell me what mic do you use?

Thanks mate!... for a good Back Up option for this old fart! Will follow the pathway you're showing here! Mind you having to stand on my head down here in Australia to watch your You Tube channel is a bit difficult for this 73 year old... on my 11 year old PC!!!

I use a Startech disk copier. My boot drive is a removeable 1Tb SSD. I put it in the copier and copy onto an identical disk drive. I can also copy onto a larger drive and then use EasUS partition master to make full use of the extra space on the larger drive. This is the easiest ever way of doing a backup but it's not the quickest.

Just started using Macrimum reflect. Funnily enough, after my third scheduled backup, when booting next day my pc couldn't find the boot drive! Although it was detected in the BIOS. Used the Fix boot problems option, and it booted into windows instantaneously. Idk what (macrimum itself?) broke it (brand new ssd), but MR fixed it.

Great video. I have not used this in quite some time. Good to know it has been updated and made so simple.

I've used Redo Rescue and Rescuezilla. I happen to like Rescuezilla a little better because it uses the same backup format as Clonezilla and it can actually open and restore Clonezilla backup files. I'm cautious about Redo Rescue only because it was dormant for so long.

Really useful - pretty easy to follow and Have my test machine backing up right now.

I'm going to try this but like others below, Macrium Reflect has worked flawlessly for me.

I do love this program its great for what I need, I keep coming back to this video as a refresher :)

Macrium Reflect has always been my go to backup software. I can't tell you how many times it has pulled me out of the fire...

Thank you been wanting to do this to my son’s PC.

Im currentlt using minitool shadowmaker. you can create images inside windows. to restire the system you have to create a usb. the free version has some limitations.

Hello ; As you know, the Windows 10 20H2 update has arrived, but with this update, the driver update is not automatic after the computer has been formatted, unfortunately, we do it manually in the other updates section, which causes some drivers or old computers to fail. Can we do this as an automatic driver update after entering the internet after formatting as before?

please post video about copymik command line tool. this is alternate and advanced than robocopy and rsync.

These are handy, but sometimes it's good to have software that can restore individual files/folders. Can this program do that easily?

I am using Synctoy 2.1 for my backup.

Macrium Reflect Mate and Clonezilla

Thanks for your awesome videos :) I have a question, can I use this instead of (Macrium Reflect) if I want to backup system image then restore it to a different machine? Thanks a lot :)

Macrium Reflect Free is superb. I've been using the paid version for years, but the free version is still full featured.

Thanks Brian, really useful.

Thank you for the video. I do not see any bare metal option upon restore. Is it done automatically ? usually there's a "universal restore" or such function to select restoring an image that was created in other backup software solutions, Like Acronis or Easeus todo workstation

I paid for Acronis and found it a pain. Did different things each time with the same settings, and I found it impossible to retrieve a file or folder in isolation - it is replace everything or nothing. With the tiny cost of storage now I just drag my data HD into a USB stick and let it do its thing.

This is brilliant - loved the video and I'll definitely be checking this out.

Love watching your video Brian, I wanted to try out redo rescue, but it keeps asking me for Login and password. I have no idea what it would be, it never aksed me to enter it to start with. Keep the video going. much appreciated

thanks for this, looks like a great piece of software. I will give it a look

Hi Bri, i made a usb drive backup about 4 years ago when i bought a new laptop using aomi, is this still good or should i redo making an updated version if it matters?

Would this be better than CLONING a drive (which takes longer)? Do you get everything including the boot sector?

Looks like it's Linux based. I'm always a bit weary of free backup programs as they generally use proprietary file backups and you can't restore anything unless you use that program. So if that company stops the free version, you might be screwed if there's a catastrophe and need to restore. Personally I like Free File Sync. It's free and backs up your files as you see them on your drive. Yes it might not be as disk efficient as zipping them up, but you're guaranteed to be able to restore them if something does happen.

dism++ is far superior imho, mainly because you can backup a live windows installation into a .wim file via VSS. Also, it installs another boot partition to boot right into the dism++ GUI for restoring backups, finetune wim files, add, delete, modify things to your liking, it has a boot-repair option which works very reliable... a file explorer is also integrated, it is very barebone (the explorer i mean), but it does the job. you could start the win10 recovery environment with it or just an admin cmd. from there you can use tools native to windows like wpeinit and wpeutil (for creating a temporary pagefile and also change the keyboard locale or /initializenetwork, if you need internet connectivity). you can go even deeper and create OOBE commands, delete bloatware apps/features and delete/compact the installation file PLUS, it ONLY uses Windows native tools like dism, and CBS... give it a try. especially if you have multiple windows installations or wim/esd files.

Actually, you can boot redo rescue like os, why using virtual machine for that?

Can it support Ventoy?

The video was great and I wanted to back up in case of HDD failure or worse. Unfortunately each time I try to flash the usb it fails. I have tried two different usbs and different ports att times windows pops up and says it needs to format

Bit convoluted - Wouldn't it just be easier to install on the computer like Easus etc ??

Hello there ; As you know, the Windows 10 20H2 update has arrived, but with this update, the driver update is not automatic after the computer is formatted, unfortunately we do it manually in the other updates section, which means some drivers or old computers fail. Can we do this as an automatic driver update after getting on the internet after formatting as before? Thanxs

what is the difference between this kind of backup and disk cloning and if i use this way is it going to be helpfel if i want to use it in place of installing new windows??

Can I do the restore to another computer that is similar to my computer ? Eg another dell optiplex 745 ?

Great solution...download directly though (not from Sourceforge)

Can you do one with the built in win 10 backup

Thank you!

Cool upload mate 👍

Nice Video guy 😉

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Does work with Sysprep before use Redo Rescue ?

Great video nice programs.

Great video, but I had no idea I'd have a black screen for a few minutes after starting up Redo Rescue in BIOS. I started freaking out.

Hello, if i taken a backup from System only without other partition that includes data , how I can restore the system only ? I can't see in restore option to select partition?

BRITEC09: I wonder if you can help me. I have iPod which is some years old now, but am able to happily load and unload music and audiobooks from my itunes library; however, for some reason, even though I've updated iTunes, it won't recognise my iPod. The odd thing is just before flashing up that it didn't recognise my iPod, I was able to click my iPod onto iTunes, where it recognised it, and clear the songs and audiobooks I didn't want on anymore. I don't understand. I've been pulling my hair out. Thank you.

is there a way to access this backup within windows?

great job thanks

Windows has a built in back up service. Why add yet another piece of software?

Rescuezilla is a spin-off of this.

I use Macrium reflect,, i even paid for the pro version to back up files, but I thought i would try this redo rescue, but I can not get it to work, I even tried burning to a DVD disk, a sd cards a couple of different flash drives, but all i get after i select redo from the fisrt screen is login and password. i know that the software runs on a linux live disk, even tried root, but no go.

Lovely description of the redo software but way too light on what you are backing up. My concern is my data, not the OS or Applications programs which I can replace. This SW looks to have lots and lots of 'features' that - to my simple mind - complicate the decision process.. I have files on my laptop that I do not want to lose access to. I need to identify the folders they are in and back them up as, if and when they are changed. I need to be able to restore these files to the drive they were backed up from, or quite possibly to a hard drive on a different device should the source have gone south. This simplistic explanation of how one can back up 'some files' to another drive and restore those files to the original source device is just that simple - as about as useful. As the saying goes "tell us something we don't know." Then again, could it be that your knowledge is relatively superficial?

Will this software backup and restore a Windows Server 2019 system???

I need to have a look at this, Acronis just doesn't want to perform any backups for me. Shame really

AOMEI Backupper is also great

Thanks a lot!

Thank you very much 🙏

Hi Brian. I respectfully submit that Etcher is rather unreliable compared to Rufus. I was on a Linux board recently and at least 50% of users reported failures. I want Etcher to work (because it's kinda Mac like) but to me it is still junkware.

Can you help bring back my Evoo IPad? Thanks

Wow this wallpaper... link please?

¿does this program backup installed programs in windows? ¿does this program backup uwp applications?

I haven't delt with windows since windows 7 back in the day I use to love norton ghost is that still a thing in 2020? Love the vid keep up the good work

Will this work to copy my HDD in my restored IBM T60 running windows XP 32 bit? Part of my restoration was to add an SSD but I can not find any software that will copy the HDD to the SSD. I even purchased the pro version of AOMEI which claimed it ran on XP but when I copied the HDD to the SSD, it would not boot as it said there was no boot sector found on the SSD. (Yes, the box was checked where it asked if I wanted to make this a boot disk) I have tried all the other software I could find. I am running windows 10 in my other computers I just wanted to keep that one original even though some guys can get their T60's to run win 7.

Can I install 'Redo Rescue' on a PC and clone an HDD (from a different PC) to an SSD by: 1) attaching this HDD with a SATA/USB cable 2) having the SSD (ie, the destination disk) attached to the PC via a 2nd SATA/USB cable Note: I do NOT want to clone the PC where I installed 'Redo Rescue'.

Nice One 👍

I need to try this and see if you can back up to the same drive you boot from? I need to make multiple USB boot drives and copy the same image to restore to them. Then we have student workers go machine to machine and restore them with the new image for the school year. *BEFORE ANYONE COMMENTS:* - yes we have SCCM, no we do not have the network to handle the load all over campus - second issue with SCCM, or other network solutions: no Ethernet port on some laptops - another issue with SCCM, MAC devices The issues with SCCM are also the issues with ManageEngine and several other options, the want to boot with Linux or Windows PE and then connect to the network; which is not offline / barebones, and obviously requires network connectivity. Also curious if this can be automated to just process the restore without much user intervention. Plug in USB, Function key to get to BIOS, select boot device, and walk away to the next machine with another USB.

holy crap that was very fast

Will it repair bcd corruption ?

My PC just finished the 20H2 update and asks for a restart, naturally. My question: is it best to defrag my harddisk before, or after restart? Thanks.

the program redo rescue requires a login and password -what gives??

I did the backup and it went good, but is it normal that all my PC is 78GB and the backup is only 41GB? Thanks

The name of the backup is the date in international format. yyyymmdd. Very useful in computers because files names with this format actual sort by file name in date order.

For MX Linux you can use SNAPSHOT

i Don't Have Acronis.tibx 2021 Yet But i do have 2019 and 2020 and i see "NO" Bloatware on it and I've use it For Years...a Good 10yrs with hardly any issues other than Bug Fixes and New Features...The Only Thing i Have issue with is the Dashboard/Console The Backup Timing is Off; Where I've Backed-up 100% the Online DashBoard says 97 or 98 just not 100% immediately For Where I'm at .

Wondering if there is software out there to reset Windows 10 Pro to factory settings without losing anything. I have very little Data although I have collected a lot of Bookmarks and Chrome settings, auto logins etc? To mention even Registry settings etc that have been either corrupted somehow or tinkered with? Thanks for any ideas.

thank you

Much better (free) options than a company that updates every 6 years....

very helpfull bit of software!

The SSH and FTP Server don't work

Redo does not list my 250Gb SSD

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Does this work for backing up data usb sticks? I have a 256gig USB stick I need to make a copy of to install to another usb stick. Would this program be a solution to this? No Autoboot required.

Ok

"That number" is your date, actually...

FastCopy

that is very very fast i can not even move 20gb of files in under 10 min let lone 3 min

550 MB for a backup program is HUGE. No thanks.

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Is there a commercial reason why you every time propose Etcher in your recording? Etcher is full of shit, that’s why it is so big. There are free and lighter and safer programs that can do the same!

¿can i do backup in a pc and then restore it in a diferent pc?