Comments on: Backups – Part 2

By: rivo

rivo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:43:29 +0000

I had the same error with version 1.x.x version of DriveImage XML. Downloading and installing version 2 solved it.

By: airjrdn

airjrdn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:20:32 +0000

I’ve never seen that error, and a quick search didn’t turn up much. I’d recommend contacting DXML support to get their input. Their contact info is at http://www.runtime.org/support.htm and hopefully they’ll be able to provide you with a solution or workaround. If so, please post back here to help others in the same boat.

By: devoreb

devoreb — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:11:57 +0000

I used VistaPE (similar to BartPE, but for a vista environment) to set up a bootable disk with DIXML. I’m using a backup saved to a USB hard drive enclosure, split into several parts (.001, .002, etc extensions). Every time I have DIXML begin a restore, it immediately fails and tells me there was an “error writing to compressed stream.”

So far I have no luck finding out what this might mean or how to fix it. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

By: airjrdn

airjrdn — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:28:09 +0000

I’m not a network guy, but the first things that come to mind are IP addresses and the Windows SID – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Identifier#Duplicated_SIDs

I would think hardcoded IP addresses would give you IP Address Conflict messages, but not stop you from logging in. I’m not sure about the SIDs though.

Scroll way down to the bottom of http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/2003_Server/Q_23257202.html and look at the accepted solution there. See if it offers you any help.

By: videocripp

videocripp — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:09:03 +0000

i’m working in a french school and we have bought ten pcs. On one pc, we have installed all the applications we usually used and we have clone an image with dix. We are in a domain under windows server 2003. We have put this image on the nine pcs. Every things are working except one thing. When the users want to enter their password to connect, a error message come, they can’t connect. The only solution is to disconnect the rj45, put the password and replace the rj45. on one pc i’ve try to rename the pc, nothing, i’ve try to use newsid, nothing so if someone cant have an idea it will help us and it will avoid us to reinstall all the pcs.I’ ve reintall one pc with a windows cd and everythings is working well.

By: airjrdn

airjrdn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:00:03 +0000

Thanks for posting that. I’d basically given up on a “full” solution using DXML because of the MBR issue. Macrium Reflect handles it the way DXML “should”, but one thing I wish Reflect would do is allow backups from the bootable media. Their bootable media only offers the ability to do restores.

By: artiface

artiface — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:01:15 +0000

I just went through this exercise and thought I would share what I found.

DIXML does not write the MBR. This is only a problem when trying to restore to a bare metal drive or one with corrupt MBR. There is a utility called MbrFix that does work from the BartPE command line that will finish the job DIXML leaves undone.

I just made a batch script and linked it into the BartPE menu.

path\MbrFix.exe /drive 0 fixmbr

that was all that was needed to have the restored drives boot.

you can find the tool and description here:
http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm
http://www.sysint.no/en/Download.aspx

By: oldog

oldog — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:33:07 +0000

Thanks airjrdn. Yeah, I guess the issue with storing images on a different partition is that if your hard drive burns down (literally!), your images are lost… As you said, I guess the only solution is to store the images on a different (external) hard drive.

By: airjrdn

airjrdn — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:59:03 +0000

Actually, I don’t remember DXML accessing the bootable CD after it initially loads, but I’m not saying you’re wrong. I never burn my images, I always put them on a separate partition or drive, so that’s not something I have a ton of experience with.

By: oldog

oldog — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:20:07 +0000

I agree with dwightschrute… after booting up using the BartPE bootable CD, DiXML constantly accesses the CD/DVD drive to function properly, so how to restore an image contained on a CD or DVD?? I haven’t tried replacing the BartPE CD with an image DVD, but it’s a no-brainer that DiXML probably won’t even be able to browse the image properly (and the computer will probably need to be hot rebooted!).

Anyone has a brilliant idea? (apart from storing the images on a different partition or external drive!)