Feature REQUESTS

[Bespoken]

There are many temporary files created during a backup process (.vpf, .sbs, .idx, .vfp, .fpc, .fif, .ent). Would it be possible to have them created in a temporary folder rather than the target folder? If so could the folder be a specified in the Settings.

This would be helpful where the target is a OneDrive folder. Currently, when the backup processing is running these files, created in the local OneDrive folder, are mirrored to the cloud OneDrive storage. At the end of the process the temporary files are deleted. OneDrives issues a notification that "many files were recently deleted". The deleted files are retaining in the OneDrive recycle bin for 30 days.

This is not optimal.

[admin]

I would like either:

Offline restores to automatically reboot the PC once finished; or

There to be two different settings for "Apply the powerplan after the restore is complete" - one for online restores, and one for offline restores.



The reason is that when I do an offline restore, due to using a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard I can't exit the winre environment.

I don't want to set the default to "reboot", as that will cause a big surprise when doing online restores! And there's not much time to manually toggle the option once a restore has been initiated.

Thanks for your suggestion, we'll think about it. Honestly, there are already too many backup options, is this really necessary?

[admin]

There are many temporary files created during a backup process (.vpf, .sbs, .idx, .vfp, .fpc, .fif, .ent). Would it be possible to have them created in a temporary folder rather than the target folder? If so could the folder be a specified in the Settings.

This would be helpful where the target is a OneDrive folder. Currently, when the backup processing is running these files, created in the local OneDrive folder, are mirrored to the cloud OneDrive storage. At the end of the process the temporary files are deleted. OneDrives issues a notification that "many files were recently deleted". The deleted files are retaining in the OneDrive recycle bin for 30 days.

This is not optimal.

Thanks for your suggestion. This has indeed caused some issues, and we’ll work on improving it in future releases.

[taotoo]

I would like either:

Offline restores to automatically reboot the PC once finished; or

There to be two different settings for "Apply the powerplan after the restore is complete" - one for online restores, and one for offline restores.



The reason is that when I do an offline restore, due to using a Bluetooth mouse/keyboard I can't exit the winre environment.

I don't want to set the default to "reboot", as that will cause a big surprise when doing online restores! And there's not much time to manually toggle the option once a restore has been initiated.

Thanks for your suggestion, we'll think about it. Honestly, there are already too many backup options, is this really necessary?

No, not really necessary - I guess I can use the power button to force a reboot instead.

Alternatively, I don't know if it's possible to move/copy the dropdown menu to this screen:

[admin]

Thanks for your suggestion, we'll think about it. Honestly, there are already too many backup options, is this really necessary?

No, not really necessary - I guess I can use the power button to force a reboot instead.

Alternatively, I don't know if it's possible to move/copy the dropdown menu to this screen:

Thank you for your suggestion. Sometimes this area displays multiple settings options, leaving insufficient room for the "Power" option. However, we will consider other possible approaches to address this issue.

[al3x]

With the recent fix for the OneDrive exclusion I was wondering if the following would be possible:

• Exclude some folder like C:\Steam\ from the image backup.
  
• During delta restore you would have an option to keep C:\Steam\ untouched the way it is right now.
  

Realistically speaking I don't think it's possible because image restore works on block level.

But maybe it could be implemented somehow by watching over the changed blocks and prevent overwriting the data.
Or data could be moved to a temporary partition at the end and restored afterwards. But that could be a lengthy operation then.

That would be an awesome feature though, you could roll back your PC and keep excluded folders instead of them being purged.

[Bespoken]

The target of my System Backup is a desktop PC on my network. That PC needs to be active (not asleep) when the backup starts. I have enabled a Pre-command in the Backup options to run a small .bat script that sends a WOL command to the desktop PC.

Unfortunately this does not work as the first thing that the backup task does is to check if the target location is available. This is done before the Pre-command is run, so the backup tasks fails as the desktop is asleep.

As a feature request would it be possible for the Pre-command to be run before the check for the target was made.

A workaround is to define a Windows Scheduled task with the .bat script to be run just before the Scheduled Backup. This workaround is messy as it requires two scheduled activities to be adjusted if the start time changes. Having everything under control of HBS would be ideal.

I cannot think of any downsides to the Pre-command being performed before the target check is made.

Please consider this request.

[Froggie]

Can't they both be done in a BATCH script run from Hasleo by the pre-Command...??

[Bespoken]

Can't they both be done in a BATCH script run from Hasleo by the pre-Command...??

No. The first thing that the backup task does is check if the target is available. If it is not the backup task fails. The Pre-command never executes.

[admin]

With the recent fix for the OneDrive exclusion I was wondering if the following would be possible:

• Exclude some folder like C:\Steam\ from the image backup.
  
• During delta restore you would have an option to keep C:\Steam\ untouched the way it is right now.
  

Realistically speaking I don't think it's possible because image restore works on block level.

But maybe it could be implemented somehow by watching over the changed blocks and prevent overwriting the data.
Or data could be moved to a temporary partition at the end and restored afterwards. But that could be a lengthy operation then.

That would be an awesome feature though, you could roll back your PC and keep excluded folders instead of them being purged.

This is a brilliant idea . However, as you pointed out, backup and restore operations are performed at the block level, which makes this quite challenging. We’ll need some time to properly digest this proposal.