What is Reddit's opinion of Drive SnapShot?

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snap shot you say? I've got just the right thing for you it is called snapshot
No need to install heavy app/tools which leave unknown amount of DLLs and other cfg files every where. Just one exec file.
Allows you to back up/restore the current volume you booted from.
Has saved me 3times after 2 hdd failures and one just to have a clean start.

Hell yes. Even for mundane problems they sometimes "help" out by reinstalling the OS image with their latest and greatest. Pull it out, use Drive Snapshot to grab an image.

Hello,

yes you can create a Image from the entire disc. There are many free or paid third party programs in the market. I use for this DriveSnashot. It is not free though. But you can test before buying. Here the link to the website: http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm

Best regards

Perhaps not exactly what you want, but I use this:

http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/

Creates images of my C: to files on my larger D: drive.

I've had to restore from it once when my C: SSD died, and it worked flawlessly!

I use Drive Snapshot (http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm) to make a backup of my SSD to my second HD every morning via Scheduled Tasks with the parameters being C: destination (which you replace with the location and name of the backup file ending in .sna) -L0 -W -O.

I don't use coupons.com but I do know the guts of a computer.

The software stores the counter for the number of coupon's printed locally on your harddrive or remotely on the coupon.com servers. If it's remotely then there's not much you can do.

If the info is stored on your computer then it's likely storing the data in your computer's registry. You can take a snapshot of your registry before using the program then restore from it after using the program. This will revert whatever changes they made. There are many different programs that can backup your registry before making changes. You can also have a program monitor another program to undo any changes made after it ran. Both of these are features of most uninstallers.

Personally I prefer to restore from a full image backup of my drive. I create those backups periodically as part of my normal backup routine. Since you have a whole bank of computers this is what I suggest; Take an image of the HD of one of your computers. (This is a small free image creating program.) Save the image. Now install the coupon.com program and print up your 2 coupons. Then restore the image which will completely replace everything on that drive with how it looked when you made the backup. Reinstall the coupon.com program. Attempt to print the same 2 coupons from that same computer. If it does not work you know that whatever is preventing you from printing is on their end, not yours.

BTW a quick google of this issue and it sounded like yes coupons.com's software saves the info in the registry.

I like "Drive Snapshot" by Tom Ehlert.

Don't judge the program by the website. Its functionality is basic, but all that you need. Technically (under the hood), it beats everything that's out there. The whole thing is not even 300kB of pure assembler goodness.

I especially like that you can clone a live machine, even if it's in heavy use.

I use Snapshot for this type situation. It is a very powerful app and very light. Only one executable, no need of installing an entire application, just run the exe file.
You would be able to back up an image of the 8Gb onto the same hard disk, as far as Windows is concerned it's just another file.

I use Drive Snapshot and love it for grabbing a quick image while the server is up and running. But for daily data backups I use MozyPro and have been pretty happy with it.

So this looks like a really big broken up snap shot file, or the program used the same extension. Basically this is a used to make clone of a disk and reload them later via the snapshot program in part or in whole. The program we used was command line and ran off a script. We moved to Acronis and haven't used the CLI in years, we still have the files, gotta keep them 5 years from creation. Here is the program, its from early 2000's and worked well, has a viewer too. But its antiquated to today's standards, maybe this is it and good luck!

Drive Snapshot.

Single executable. Tiny (350 KB). Runs from a floppy (if your machine is that old) or from the Recovery Console. Can be scripted via CLI or used in a Windows Scheduled Task for full or incremental backups. Can mount the backup in case you want to extract a file. Works with RAIDs and much more. Couldn't think of a simpler thing. Restores forever. Snapshots for 30 days, then you need to pay (or download it again). Can't remember what we paid (around treefiddy?) but it's a buy once, get all updates forever free thing and not subscription.

Disk2VHD

if you just want to copy your local drive into a VHD (which you can boot from) for testing. Does take a lot of space (well, obviously as much as is current in use on the drive minus swap and hibernation). Is great for making a one-time snapshot. Not incremental. Corrupting the drive (by whatever) usually also kills the snapshot, so not a backup. Restore is a hassle as well (if it works at all).

I've used Easus Partition Manager, a free tool, to move a partition from hard disk to SSD. It might work for you, there's even a cheap pPro licence, but I'm not sure it can do backup to image. And they have other, possibly more fitting tools, likely at a reasonable price.

Alternatively, there's a command line backup tool that does the opposite: create an image of a partition (in 1.5GB chunks). Worth checking out, you can use it for free for a month. Drive Snapshot [Reddit post](/r/software/comments/cjvaqd/this_is_how_i_back_up_my_operating_system_for/)

I have heard decent things about Macrium, but I would recommend Drivesnapshot (assuming your using windows). I use it at work and at home, one of the best thing's I have bought in a long time.

http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/back1.htm

You can download a demo version and try it here: http://www.shareit.com/product.html?productid=177277&quickbuy=1&languageid=1

I use Drive Snapshot. Works wonderfully, you can exclude file types, or directories. It does incrementals if you need to.

Having an image of the entire drive is better than most default backups that only get what they think you might need.

Try using drive snapshot. Really nifty program. If that doesn't work, you can always back up your stuff with windows easy transfer and install a fresh copy of windows then transfer settings. (Use Easy transfer / USMT as a last resort if at all possible lol)

http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/

i use the program called "DriveSnapshot" to create a compressed 1 to 1 image of my 2 SSDs and my data HDD and put them onto the backup HDD. if something fails, you can select the option "restore disk from file" in snapshot and itll basically make your disk look exactly like it was when you snapshotted it at the first point. of course if it crashes my boot drive i have to do the snapshot restore at a different computer, which i do at work (never happended, thankfully). the coolest part is, that you can double click a snapshot file and it opens with the program, it maps it to a free drive letter (like X:) and creates a virtual drive out of it so you can do copy things out of your backup if you for example lost or manipulated a certain file and you want to restore its previous state.

its an awesome program. im thinking of doing a RAID1 to put the backups and some other data on there, but my case (h440) is rather "meh" for a lot of hardrives, i just like more airflow into my system and the drives would block it.

if youre interested, give it a shot: http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/

the company i work at uses it for a lot of customers, business servers and NAS solutions and it works great.

(small tip if you use it, name your backup files like this: backup-$disk.sna)

• select multiple drives to backup, using shift and click to mark them

• replace the "backup" text with whatever you want

• the -$disk parameter saves it as backup-C, backup-D etc, depnding on what drive/partition youre saving

• the .sna extension is the normal extension for snapshot

I use Drive Snapshot for imaging and Duplicati for backing up to DreamObjects at 4¢ per GB per month.

Deep Freeze is good - but it really prevents changes since your configuration is "frozen" while it is active - so not exactly what you were asking for.

Drive Snapshot is really nice. It can take snaps on the fly while you are using the system. You can then restore the snapshot using a live disk or by pulling the drive and putting it in another system.

Drive Snapshot is my tool of choice for windows machines. Uses the VSS service - so you can snapshot a machine that is up and running, store it locally and then move it to some other location after. Or map a network drive, or use removable media, etc. Use it in a batch file with a scheduled task to keep a regular backup/image.

I do not own an SSD so I cannot comment as to what I would recommend, however I have had experience with cloning (ghosting) onto SSD from HDD's, The issue arises with the alignment on the SSD, here is a program that can image the OS and will maintain alignment of the drive so that this issue is resolved. http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/

If you were worried about win7 not being able to detect that it is now running on a SSD and no longer on a HDD it SHOULD!! autodetect after the change...

Hope it helps...