Hasleo Backup Suite 3.0 Released (November 21, 2022) Website User Guide Changelogs Download https://www.easyuefi.com/backup-software/downloads/Hasleo_Backup_Suite_Free.exe (or via: Softpedia)
Hasleo Backup Suite 3.0 launches with file backups and other improvements By Martin Brinkmann - November 26, 2022
Everyone can use a useful alternative especially in a pinch if their main backup/restore program chokes.
It looks like a viable replacement for Macrium Reflect Free. It doesn't seem to lack any of the functionality that MRF has. However I would welcome more feedback from users.
Hi @ Wilders Just tried Hasleo. 1) Quite fast (Doing system Backup) 2) Nowhere to make notes/comments on each backup. Use Notepad and make your own notes for each backup folder. 3) The Emergency (Recovery) Disk is poor. It only makes an ISO and then you have to use proprietary Burning software to create DVD/USB. See image. Has promise but why on earth they didn't integrate a fully fledged USB Rescue Disk. Terry
Worked for me, if a USB drive was plugged in before starting the creation process then it recognised it with the top option in your image and built it directly. Showstopper for me is that you can't seem to schedule Full-Inc/Diff chains.
Hi 800ster You are correct I retried Hasleo and it does burn to USB IF THE USB is inserted before launching Hasleo. My apologies to anyone who read my post 5. Terry
It's probably a good idea to remind anyone who has tried this one that it is still going forward in development and what we might find lacking or not to expectations might just be around the corner as far as features. Usually the way it goes in something starting out and trying to draw interest to their creation making worth their time & effort.
Here a feedback by @Scott W: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/reliable-backup-program.449123/#post-3118392
Got it. Thx! No reason to apologize. At least we know that the inserted USB is important for creating of a rescue disk seamlessly.
Not sure what happened here when I attempted to create an Emergency Disk. I had a USB flash drive inserted in the PC when I started - and it ignored the flash drive in favor of reformatting and partitioning my D: drive ( the one with my documents and other data files on it). Thank heavens I had made a backup from Macrium beforehand....
<Whoa!>... that's not a surprise I'd be looking for , but at least you're "testing" using the proper tools (a reliable imaging tool being the most important).
@beagle1957 - if I read your comment correctly, it appears that HBS chose a random partition to format for its Rescue Media... yes? If so, was your D: partition a drive by itself or did it share a drive with other partitions? And if a drive by itself, was it INTERNAL or EXTERNAL (USB, eSATA, etc.)? I was actually gonna test this suite but I just may hold off a bit at the moment ... at least on this System.
It was an internal hard drive. I do have external hard drives but turned all of them so that the USB flash drive was the only external drive plugged in and active. Has anyone tried making an .iso yet?
When the System didn't find an external UFD connected, it offered an ISO creation... that went fine for my UEFI-only/non-Secure BOOT System. I then used the tool, RUFUS, to create the BOOTable UFD device from the ISO. All went just fine with the Rescue UFD BOOTing into a Hasleo Rescue environment. That's as far as I went.
Some basic observations --------------------------- 1. Imaging process uses all cores/threads available. A 43.6gB used sector OS configuration (EFI, MSR, Recovery & OS partitions) images in 1:23 at MEDIUM compression (image size=28.5gB). Source device = 3.3gB/sec NvME SSD, Target device=500+mB/sec SATA3 SD. 2. Verification (manual)=2-min, 26-sec. "Quick" Verification (manual)=3-sec (only checks whether all files of the backup image exist or whether the structure of some files has been damaged, it does not check all the data blocks backed up). 3. Restore full=2:12 (a full restore only available, no difference restoration process) When using a LIVE restoration request, HBS will create a BOOTable entry (if it doesn't exist) into the System's BCD and set a 1-time BOOT into that entry (which is most likely a WIM it just built prior to creating the entry). The System then automatically BOOTs into that WIM and executes the RESTORE asked for on the LIVE System. When finished it cleans up the BCD to eliminate the created entry. The System hardware used is an 8-core/16-thread AMD CPU at 3.6ghz base frequency running 32gB of RAM.
Thanks @TheRollbackFrog for sharing those results. Interesting manner it selects with the 1-time boot BCD modification and clean up afterwards. Please tell us more. I'm becoming curious. This "restore" is accomplished with the ISO made UFD PE?
Just for comparison in my case with Macrium Reflect: A 80Gb used sector OS configuration (EFI, MSR, Recovery & OS partitions) images in 14 minutes and 44 seconds at MEDIUM compression (image size=59.97 Gb). Read 2.1 Gb/s - Write 720.5 Mb/s.
Just because I am a glutton for punishment, I tried making the Emergency Disk one more time. Once again, it ignored the USB flash drive and did the following: (1) Renamed the drive letter of my D: drive to F: (2) Created a new 128 MB partition on the same drive and named IT D: Fix was easy, delete the new D: partition and rename F: back to D:, but I don't think Hasleo will be a viable contender to replace Macrium Reflect Free. At least on my system.
The RESTORE was not done with a Rescue UFD, it was done with a disk-based WIM file created during the LIVE recovery process and hooked into the BCD prior to the reBOOT and recovery process. I'm guessing this process could not be used if the OS disk was seriously broken/corrupted... that's when you would have to use a Rescue Media UFD (or CD/DVD). @beagle1957 - when you plug in that UFD into your normal LIVE OS and do a <right-click> "Properties" on it, what TYPE of disk does it say it is?
Hi @ Wilders I need some help from our more knowledgeable members please. I have carried out a number of system backups, full and differential and as far as I know successfully. I am now edging towards a restore but was a bit thrown by the menu options shown in the attached image. What I really want to know is do I need to do anything in this page. Can I just press the "Proceed" button. I am carrying out a straight forward B ackup operation and similarly Res tore Operation Thanks Terry
Terry, there's no need to do anything at that window unless you want to resize, upon restore (maybe to a new bigger disk), the RECOVERY partition you have selected... "Proceed" should be fine.
