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<title><![CDATA[By: Lu Hulu]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100144</link>
<description><![CDATA[Does AllwaySync 9.2 copies files based on VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) for open and lock files? I always have problem with any copy software that halts when it encounters an open or locked files.

Another thing here. Does AllwaySync handle long filenames?]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:29:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Lu Hulu]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100143</link>
<description><![CDATA[#84 - Macs-PC,

Does AllwaySync 9.2 copies files based on VSS (Volume Shadow Service) for open and lock files? I always have problem with copy software that halts when it encounters an openor lock file.

Another thing, does the softare handles long filenames? Long filenames is a problem quietly shoved one side by Microsoft as it has no useful solution to the problem it created in the first place.

Hope you check back here.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:54:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: dasacom@gmx.de]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100142</link>
<description><![CDATA[hi all,

I need help. I installed and activated.

Burned the Boot-CD. And now my HDD is not recognized.
It is a newer SATA Notebook.

How can I inegrate the SATA Driver into the Boot-CD?

Otherwise I have to look for an other backup software.

Thanks for your help

cu
dasacom]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:39:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Macs-PC]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100141</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>#75 Johnno</b> <i>"#34 – Mike.
I am not running a network to Sync to ….. will these sync to an external HDD?"</i>

<b>Hi Johnno</b>

<i>I know that this response is a day late BUT I'm in the UK &amp; we're 8 hours AHEAD of GAOTD so I was probably asleep at Ur time of asking !!! </i>
<b>I'm just hoping U read back for the reply !!!</b>

To answer U'r question -<b> YES - They will sync to a USB Drive or Internal or Network</b> &amp; WELL WORTH the 5 minutes it takes to setup !!!

<b>In the LEFT COLUMN is Ur ORIGINAL Documents</b> folder to be backed up &amp; in the <b>RIGHT COLUMN - the DESTINATION</b> to back up to &amp; <b>these can be "Browsed" for </b><i>so U don't need to remember &amp; type the PATH in</i> :o)

<b>I hope U get to see this !!!

<i>Always Happy To Help</i> :o)

<i>- - Mike - -</i>
( Macs-PC )</b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:51:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Jack]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100139</link>
<description><![CDATA[# 55 Saul making a bootable xp cd is not a easy task.According to M$ it is not even possible.
Well this is only partly treu.But for wat you like to do just goolge for a Linux live cd ISO.
Make a live CD of it and look what files you can recover this way.If the CD drive does not work annymore make a booteble live usb stick lots of info on linux live CD/USB you can find here.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/live-ubuntu-810-usb-persistent-install-windows/
I hope this helps.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:44:51 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Jack]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100138</link>
<description><![CDATA[#45 Tez. 
 
It looks like that a few people do not like it that you try to save some $$ (looking to the useful counter). 
I am only wondering about your question. 
The offer here is one of these Imaging ore if you like backup programs and it is free today. 
I recommend try this one and may be even one of the free alternatives store the backup and hope you never need it. 
 
Enjoy you new used PC hand and have a nice day.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:24:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Skye-hook]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100137</link>
<description><![CDATA[To #45- Just use an ISO Image backup program, preferably 1 that tests what it has created &amp; verifies that all is well. I myself prefer Acronis True Image, but you might give this giveaway a try anyway. Macrium reflect is also good but I hear it doesn't verify that all was done well, not corrupted somehow. This offering today does that.
No backup is good if you can't EASILY use it to restore your PC. we were actually offered 1 here that you to buy the program later if you needed to use the backup it makes, to restore your pc. Useless.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:21:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: raron]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100136</link>
<description><![CDATA[Another free alternative: <a href="http://ping.windowsdream.com/" rel="nofollow">PING (PartImage is not Ghost)</a>

It is also OS independent and can backup to (multiple) DVD amongst other things. The only thing it cannot (I think) is to extract one single file from an image. Also, it doesn't have a graphical GUI, it resembles more of a DOS gui, but it's linux based.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:16:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Ron]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100135</link>
<description><![CDATA[My personal experience, contrary to consensus hasn't been as good. A while back I bought a copy of Acrontis and used it on my old XP PC.  Came the day XP died, and oops, Acrontis decided it didn’t want to restore the full image copy I made.  Gosh, darn, shucks!  YMMV

I'll be giving the tool a try now.  Clean install in Vista Business SP2 32 bit.  Ran full copy of my 23 GB drive in roughly 40 minutes to a 1TB external USB drive.  Max compression down to 13 GB. Verify of backup file took less than 10 minutes.  Full copy of 29 GB data drive in 1/2 hour, max compressed to 17 (or no compression to 29 GB?).  Verify took 15 minutes.  I appended the data drive into the same “container” file as the early OS drive.  It appears to have created a new file, copying old one backup files and appending new backup files.  Strange because now I have 2 files (folders?) with similar names (program adds a number suffix) that appear to be linked, I couldn’t rename the earlier one because it as in use by some other program, I suspect the other program is the virtual drive that was created with second file/folder name.  I created and booted successfully from the Bootable Recovery CD.  Didn’t do a recovery since it was full image.

For the initial install, if the readme.txt file had used the label “Product ID” to match the registration dialog box, instead of the more logical “License Key” it actually used, things would have been clearer.  Which ever way you go, match the terminology, make it a little more idiot proof


I don’t like the UI, where is the built in Help?  I found a HELP.CHM in the installation, but no link/button to it in the app!  Lame!
- Where is option to create Bootable Recovery CD/DVD?  I saw option to automatically to split backup onto multiple CD/DVD (good), but no mention of downloading executable program to run restore in future.  Help file mentions a “Recovery Media Builder” is needed to do this.  I found Installed file name is “Builder.exe”.  There should be a link/button to it in the app.  Build recovery includes option to bundle recovery app and a set of backup files with it (GOOD!).
- Where is option to see what version is running (not in Help!).  OK, found it, a stupid little “A” next to the close app “X”.  Totally non standard, where did that come from.
- Where is Option to explicitly define Include/Exclude files/folders.  Only the predefined exclude page and hibernation files (good start, better than nothing).
- Where is Option to automatically perform verify as part of backup?  Have to restart app and run verify step separately.
- App automatically closes after backup and/or verify process, ie have to re-start it after backup to do a verify …
- The verify function implies that you can put more than one backup into a single backup EGO file, haven’t seen indication of how to do that, and why it is a good idea?
- in Verify process there is a point where it indicates 100% done, but is not yet fully complete, giving you option of “accidentally” cancelling it just before it finishes.
- I would really like to be able to specify a default backup location (and other config options)
- I tried to Explore a backup, but the app just said it image was loaded in read only mode, then it closed (at first I thought it crashed!).  After it closed, it left the virtual drive open, but it wouldn’t access the image from the app.  The help file implies that you can use Windows Explorer to now read the backup as specified virtual drive (I: in my case).  It would be nice if the app made it clearer, better yet if it opened explorer with the virtual drive selected.  When I used the app to close the virtual drive, the app closed too.  Very annoying.

While backing up my data drive I watched the CPU usage, it looked like a seismograph of an earthquake constantly zigging between 30 and 90% usage, with occasional prolonged peaks at 100%.  But even so, I was still able to do other simple use.  Simple wordprocessing writing this review, web browsing, without many noticeable delays.  The interesting part is that I have a dual core CPU and the app was running on BOTH cores at the same time.  That is unusual, all other apps I’ve seen only use 1 core at a time.  That apparently makes this the first multi-threaded application I’ve run.  Cool! (From a programming point of view.)  Given that, if it became too CPU intensive (interfering with other use, but I doubt it will due to inherent bottleneck of HD access) I think it would be nice to be able to limit it to 1 core or an upper limit of CPU usage, from within the application setup.

Given the points I’ve raised above, as an application builder myself, I really have to question that this is an application that has had 4 major releases.  It looks incomplete (non standard User Interface, missing links/buttons).  And I have to wonder why the app is called “Keriver Image” while the program file is called “Cloverwin.exe”.


#34 Sync tools are a good strategy.  I also use an additional strategy.  I've repartitioned my HD, C: for Windoze (or other OS) (D: defaults to installed Optical Drive) E: becomes my personal DATA drive and a small F: drive for the Windows Swap file (just to get it out of the way of the OS).  I've been able to redirect many of the "Personal" userid related folders, ie desktop, favorites, documents etc.  The idea is that if windows takes a dive my personal files are not impacted.  I can re-install the OS and applications without impacting/losing data.  If need be I can even reformat the C: drive.  Combining your sync suggestion with my partitioning scheme provides an additional layer of protection.  I was able to do this type of repartition on my 220gb drive using the Disk management tool provided with Vista.

#40 Installing apps to an external drive location will not work the way you hope.  It will allow the apps to run, but after re-installing the Operating System (Windows), most apps will not work because they require specific entries in the Windows Registry.  That being said, there are tools that track application installations, including the registry entries, and that can generate a file that will recreate those entries.  Sorry no names handy.

#45, Yes, you need a backup tool that will do an "Image Copy" of the drive.  And tool will have to be able to create a "Bootable Recovery Disc" (CD or DVD) that will allow you to run the backup tool from CD/DVD and restore the "Image copy" from the external drive to your local drive.  Several have already been named by other postings.

As others have pointed out, Windows System Restore is a weak tool to rely on.  My experience has been that it has let me down at least as often as it has helped.  Here is a tip on how to get some control over the space it uses: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1077 

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=933 – this tip tells how to redirect the USERID personal folders (ie desktop, documents, pictures etc) in XP/Vista/Win7.

I’ll keep it for now, and see how it works out.  I’ll continue to run my other backup app alternately so I have a fallback.  This app has potential, but there are better free options out there (that others have already mentioned)]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:13:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Diana]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/keriver-image-41/#comment-100134</link>
<description><![CDATA[Registration code never comes up for me; tried it several times.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:07:50 -0400</pubDate>
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