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Real time disk imaging software

Chiyawa
By Chiyawa
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Hi,

 

I'm looking for a software that could do real time imaging software.

 

Okay, let me explain what I really want. I have a 960GB SATA SSD and 2TB HDD. So, I want to set up a backup so whatever is inside my SSD be imaged to my HDD in case my SSD failed, so I can at least do a recovery. However, rather than make it backup at a certain time, I want it to be in real time (for example, if I create the file at my SSD, the file will be duplicate immediately to my HDD, sort of like RAID-1). The HDD will be just for archive rather than work along side with SSD, so meaning I don't want it to be working simultaneous like RAID.

 

So far most backup software (Arconis, Windows Image Backup) couldn't do that (or doesn't offer me the solution I intended). I don't want to schedule backups because my time is not really stable (I usually switch off my PC when I'm not in use), and sometimes the backup triggered when I'm in the middle of something (like gaming or important conferencing, where the respond time is crucial). So far RAID is my only option, but I don't want the system to read from SSD and HDD as it'll slow down the loading time.

 

Anyway, any of you have any good suggestion?

 

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Chiyawa

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Well the problem with realtime is your  basically making a raid array, which will make write speeds to that of the hdd as it has to wait for the hdd to finish. Could just make a raid array, but that isn't really a backup as your still have issues like disk corruption. There are realtime file sync protocols, but that is file level, not block level.

 

Have you tried background backup jobs? It shoudn't be noticed when running a game or simmilar, and they should only take like 5 minuts. Or set the computer to wake up at night to backup, then shut down again.

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20 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

Anyway, any of you have any good suggestion?

paragons hard disk copy function will let you clone the SSD within windows while you are using your pc.

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9 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Have you tried background backup jobs?

I tried, and most time, it triggered when I'm about to turn off the PC. It did work, but not up to the level I need. It also has a tendency to perform a backup when I'm waiting for conferencing.

 

11 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Well the problem with realtime is your  basically making a raid array, which will make write speeds to that of the hdd as it has to wait for the hdd to finish.

That's exactly what I'm facing, but rather than writing, reading is the one that made the most impact. Booting Windows right now is like a few minutes long with this setup, even though I'm running on SATA SSD!

I have ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum

 

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8 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

paragons hard disk copy function will let you clone the SSD within windows while you are using your pc.

Okay, I'll give it a shot.

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Just now, Chiyawa said:

Booting Windows right now is like a few minutes long with this setup, even though I'm running on SATA SSD!

that seems like anouther issue. Id try a clean install first. What point is taking so long?

 

1 minute ago, Chiyawa said:

It also has a tendency to perform a backup when I'm waiting for conferencing.

 

A backup shouldn't affect video conferencing, so how is that an issue?

 

1 minute ago, Chiyawa said:

tried, and most time, it triggered when I'm about to turn off the PC.

Did you try having it trigger at bootup?

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25 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

that seems like anouther issue. Id try a clean install first. What point is taking so long?

That's when I set up RAID my SSD with HDD. I'm not sure why, but the system wanted to read from SSD and HDD simultaneously.

26 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

A backup shouldn't affect video conferencing, so how is that an issue?

It doesn't, but when you need to open documents, it took slightly a few seconds more. And since sometimes I need to open AutoCAD E, so yeah, it is a bit annoying.

26 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Did you try having it trigger at bootup?

Tried that, and it slows my PC when boot up, I mean, after I log in, I see my desktop, everything is fine, but system became to crawl when the backup started. Not really ideal because I'm usually on call, so when a client called in, I have to switch on the PC and get everything ready.

I have ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum

 

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33 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

That's when I set up RAID my SSD with HDD. I'm not sure why, but the system wanted to read from SSD and HDD simultaneously.

What raid system? Almost all don't know about ssdds and hdds so they will work at the speed of the slowerest drive, or the hdd

 

34 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

It doesn't, but when you need to open documents, it took slightly a few seconds more. And since sometimes I need to open AutoCAD E, so yeah, it is a bit annoying.

I think once you remove the hdd from the raid it will make that all much faster.

 

I think the raid of the hdd and ssd is the problem here, booting from a ssd should have enough extra io to easily run a backup in the background.

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14 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

I think once you remove the hdd from the raid it will make that all much faster.

 

I think the raid of the hdd and ssd is the problem here, booting from a ssd should have enough extra io to easily run a backup in the background.

Yeah, I did that.

 

Anyway, like I was saying, I need a solution that can image my SSD to HDD in real time. Backup just couldn't do that, even though I can set the frequency to back up hourly, it is still not very ideal as the backup has to go through checking every file first before backing up. I know I can use incremental backup, but I don't really have a lot of storage space for that. My solution is to create a real-time image of my SSD to HDD to save space, but I couldn't find a software that can do that. RAID actually done pretty good job, but it also mean that it wants to read the SSD and HDD together, which slows the system down. Backup solution actually solve that, but they are not running at real time, often require initialising both SSD and HDD in order to backup, which is a time consuming, even with incremental backup.

 

So, I need a RAID 1 level of write operation but not read operation.

I have ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum

 

I apologies if my comments or post offends you in any way, or if my rage got a little too far. I'll try my best to make my post as non-offensive as much as possible.

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