HASLEO BACKUP SUITE FUNDAMENTALS AND ADVICE
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garioch7, and the
Hasleo Forum Team.
Primary Links: None. This information is a compilation of information from multiple websites and sources.
This Hasleo Backup Suite
(HBS) FAQs Topic post, the previous post, and the next several subsequent posts, have been created to answer very basic questions about backup (
imaging) software programs for new users, including this post that answers the question:
HOW DOES THE HASLEO BACKUP SUITE WORK?
The Hasleo Backup Suite (HBS), like other imaging programs, employs “Tasks” to manage the user’s backup strategy. When you open the HBS program for the first time, you will be presented with an Introductory Screen on the Home GUI, which is the primary user interface of the HBS program.
You will be presented with the following options:
Once the “Backup” component of the HBS program is opened, you will be presented with the option to create three different types of HBS primary backup Tasks:
Subsequent
HBS FAQs Topic Posts will examine and explain in detail the merits of each HBS backup option, and how to initiate/manage each HBS backup option.
You may have heard the term “Full Backup”, and you would like to do just that, so why is that not an initial option?
The answer is that it
is an HBS option that is associated to a
preexisting Task. The Task must be selected to be presented with the Full Backup option. That option will instruct the HBS program to repeat the backup type associated to that Task, and create a completely new version of the type of backup listed in that preexisting Task. So you must create your
first backup to access that feature.
If you are a user with only one SSD/HDD (
Solid State Drive/Hard Disk Drive) in your computer, the simplest and most effective, but longest solution, is to select a “Disk/Partition” backup of
all partitions on your OS (
Operating System) drive.
In the event of a catastrophic failure or corruption of your OS drive, you will be fully protected,
IF you have a current Hasleo Backup Suite USB Emergency Disk created and ready to go. This
HBS FAQs Topic post discusses, in detail, creating an HBS Emergency USB boot disk.
You need only replace the failed OS drive with another, boot from the HBS Emergency USB disk, and restore all of the partitions on your former drive to your new drive in less than an hour.
One additional note about the Hasleo Emergency USB disk: it is not recommended that you create backups when booted from the resulting WinPE environment.
(05-22-2026, 12:10 PM)Admin Wrote: “Now many computers have BitLocker encryption enabled on the Windows partition by default. If you perform a backup under WinPE, these partitions are in a locked state, and Hasleo Backup Suite can only back up in sector-by-sector mode. During restoration, since the partition is still encrypted, Hasleo Backup Suite cannot modify the data in the operating system partition to match the restored partition, resulting in the system being unable to boot.
In addition, if the Windows partition is not unlocked under WinPE, HBS cannot even recognize the operating system, making it impossible to perform a system backup.
Therefore, we do not recommend performing backups under WinPE. WinPE should primarily be used for restoration operations.”
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You should also be aware that HBS offers you the choice between having its GUI (
Graphical User Interface) in either Light or Dark mode. By default, HBS will default to the user’s Windows OS theme when it is installed, but you can change that in the Themes option.
One final note: at the time this HBS FAQs post was initially created, the Hasleo Backup Suite lacks a “Global” options feature. Every time a user creates a new backup Task, s/he must reselect the options that they want applied to that individual backup Task. If they do not, the default settings are used by HBS. A “Global” options feature will be implemented in a future version.
BEST BACKUP STRATEGIES:
The foremost advice is that you should always have more than one backup. Backups can become corrupted. That is why it is
always advisable to initiate a Complete Image Check, rather than a Quick Image Check, to ensure that your
entire image, and all of its contents, are successfully readable by the HBS program.
When restoring from a complete Disk/Partition image, the first thing that the HBS program does is to delete the existing partitions and data from the drive to be restored to, called the “Target” drive. If the restore fails due to corruption in backup file, then the user is often left with an unbootable computer, if the corruption affected critical Windows OS files.
It is
always advisable to repeat a Complete Image Check on the full Disk/Partition backup
before starting a restoration. If it does not pass, you may still be able to restore individual files that were not corrupted. Just because a backup reported a successful Full Check Image after creation, does
not mean that no corruption has occurred subsequently.
That is one reason why it is so
necessary to have
more than one backup.
Very importantly, do
NOT store your backups in a partition or folder on the drive being imaged/backed up. If that drive becomes corrupted or fails, your backups are gone too, as is everything else on that drive.
Always have your backups/images, or copies thereof, on an external drive,
only connected long enough to accept a copy or the original of your backup image. That ensures that your backups on that external drive are beyond the reach of ransomware, and other malware. Any other internal drives may also be a target for some aggressive malware programs, including ransomware.
Also a power surge or other catastrophic event, like fire or flooding, could potentially damage
all of a computer’s internal drives.
Every user will decide what is the best backup/imaging strategy for them, and there are literally thousands of
effective variations of a
robust backup strategy.
The author
personally prefers a very simplistic backup strategy, as an example. He creates a new Task for each full Disk/Partition backup of all of the partitions on his OS SSD weekly, on which he stores all of his programs and data files.
He does not create subsequent Full, Differential, or Incremental Backups of that Task. It is completely a stand-alone Task, associated to only one full Disk/Partition image of all partitions on that OS SSD drive.
He uses Proton Drive to sync his modified data files instantly to the cloud. As well, he keeps copies on another internal drive, all of which are backed up weekly to the most recent Disk/Partition image both to an internal and external backup drive, as well as being copied to at least one external drive weekly, using a
Robocopy batch file.
Many users prefer to keep their data files on a separate partition of their primary OS drive; or, if they have more than one internal drive, to another internal drive on their computer, but the latter is not an option for most laptop users. The Hasleo Backup Suite has the capacity to create only System Backups, which does not backup user data partitions on the primary OS drive or other non-essential partitions required to successfully restore your Windows operating system.
A separate Task can be created to backup the user’s data files partition, and then the user can run Differential or Incremental backup jobs under that Task to keep every modification to files in the user data files partition on a schedule that the user determines appropriate to them.
There is also the option in the Hasleo Backup Suite to create a File Backup Task. A user can select which folders s/he wishes to backup. Once that Task is created, s/he can choose how often it is backed up, and whether those backups are Full, Differential, or Incremental.
The Hasleo Backup Suite offers a very powerful scheduling option, so that your backup jobs can run without user intervention once saved to a backup Task. Many users set up schedules to back up selected folders, their entire system, or other partitions on their computers with their created HBS Tasks.
As long as the computer is on, those scheduled backup jobs will run, without user intervention. Many users like to backup their changing data daily by automatically running Differential or Incremental backups using the Scheduling option, but you can run full backups as well, via the Scheduling option in the HBS program.
Subsequent
HBS FAQs Topic posts will explain what the various backup/imaging options and features do in the Hasleo Backup Suite, and offer further advice.
As stated, this "basic" series of
HBS FAQs Topic posts is written to assist new users understand the necessity and complexity of the Hasleo Backup Suite, and imaging programs in general.
Suggestions to improve this post are always welcome. A Private Message should be sent to @
garioch7 to inform him of your suggested improvements.
Post 5 Initial Date: 2026-06-12
04-28-2026, 06:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-18-2026, 04:48 AM by garioch7.
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