Feature REQUESTS

[n8chavez]

Everyone seems to be missing my point, so I'll illustrate it as best I can.

Say I have multiple images; six differentials, four full, and five incremental images, and I want to find a file that's somewhere in those images. I can either A) open each image individually and look for the data I want or B) Merge all the images together then mount that single image and then get my data. Which is easier and less time consuming? For me, it would be B. The way merging is now assumes that I'm either concerned about space or that I may want the images deleted after they all merge. What if neither is true? What if I want to grab my data in the above scenario and yet still restore one of those images? I can't. They way merging works now, I'm screwed because those images get deleted.

All I'm saying is, add the option to delete so users have a choice.

[al3x]

Merging doesn’t merge together all the files that were once in a single backup. If you merge backups, the content will be shrunken to that of the newest version.

Example:
- Full backup 1: One huge file A gets created
- Diff backup 2: A small file B gets created and file A is deleted
- You merge both backups: File A will be gone, only file B exists

So the merged backup will only contain the files of the latest version that was included. This is to save space: In this example you now only keep one full backup without the huge file A but it will still have file B as that was added in the newest backup you did.

If merging would keep all the files of all backups, you wouldn’t save space and this would create a Frankenstein built of all the individual backups because both files would be restored, a state that never existed. Windows might not even run in that restored version, you can’t know for sure.

Another thing to think about: What if one file was changed between the backups? How would you handle that merge then? You can’t keep both versions so you would also only keep the latest version of that file.

Hope that helps 

[aldist]

Upon completion of backup consolidation, the original backups involved in the consolidation will be deleted. This has always been the case and will continue to be so. The action is completely logical, it does not create any physical or moral problems.

[Dude Guyman]

The following is with version 5.4.2.5, presumably later versions too?

1. Using the "rescue media" sets my PC clock back one hour every time it boots. Must be to do with daylight savings time because it didn't do it before (summer), but it is a minor annoyance. Having it NOT mess with the clock would be nice.

2. A resolution change option in the rescue media would be nice. Mine is stuck a 800x600 and it makes it pretty hard to use. This is specific to my PC/BIOS (Asrock B550 and B450 boards both do it) because any WinPE boot or even the Windows install is stuck at 800x600 until I get my graphics driver in or run or run "bcdedit /set {globalsettings} highestmode on". Running bcdedit in the Hasleo PE environment does not help (it takes a reboot so does not persist, of course).

[n8chavez]

Physical or moral problems? Oh for fuck sake! It was a simple request, since that's the purpose of this thread. I didn't mean to offend anyone, which I apparently did. And by the way, aldist, your post is so unbelievable pretensions, arrogant, and condescending all at the same time that I'm submitting it for douchiest post of the year. I hope you win. Fingers crossed.

[Epictetus]

Physical or moral problems?

Er ... Maybe that might have been a translation/language issue rather than anything more serious. Maybe give her/him the benefit of the doubt?