System Backup vs Disk/Partition Backup

[Froggie]

Greetings!  While running both images from the Emergency disk (static disk being imaged), each one containing the EFI, OS & Recovery partitions (it's an UEFI System)... for a 26.4gB image, the System backup was 20,061 bytes SMALLER than the Disk/Partition backup of the same partition set.

Can you give me an idea why there would be any difference at all in those images...???  Thanks!

[admin]

When performing a system backup, the program will store the information of the current Windows operating system in the backup image, which should be the main reason why the system image file is larger than the disk backup image file.

[pt58]

Greetings!  While running both images from the Emergency disk (static disk being imaged), each one containing the EFI, OS & Recovery partitions (it's an UEFI System)... for a 26.4gB image, the System backup was 20,061 bytes SMALLER than the Disk/Partition backup of the same partition set.

Can you give me an idea why there would be any difference at all in those images...???  Thanks!

I haven't checked this out, but its possible that System Backup ignores the hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys which can save many GB in the backup image. Those 2 files will be recreated if the system is restored from a System backup
Disk backup probably backs up everything including hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys.

[Froggie]

@pt58 - if that was the case, the difference would be a lot larger than slightly less than 20kB.

I would ask ADMIN... first of all, the System Image is SMALLER than the identical (same partitions) Disk image, not the other way around.  I'm still interested in what that slightly larger DATA is for the Disk image might be, generally speaking.

[pt58]

@pt58 - if that was the case, the difference would be a lot larger than slightly less than 20kB.

I would ask ADMIN... first of all, the System Image is SMALLER than the identical (same partitions) Disk image, not the other way around.  I'm still interested in what that slightly larger DATA is for the Disk image might be, generally speaking.

Yes sorry, I missed the fact that the difference was only 20kB!!
I was thinking the size difference was 20GB.
I'll crawl back under a stone.  

[Froggie]

@pt58 - no stones allowed, thanks for the interest!

[admin]

Sorry it was my mistake, please give me more time to give an accurate answer.

[Froggie]

Take all the time you need, I know it's dark over there right now 

[admin]

In the case of running HBS from a Emergency disk, it will automatically save the log file to the installation directory of HBS in Windows every time the backup operation is completed, which should be the reason why the image file gets bigger.

[Jim1cor13]

In the case of running HBS from a Emergency disk, it will automatically save the log file to the installation directory of HBS in Windows every time the backup operation is completed, which should be the reason why the image file gets bigger.

I just checked my log file in the bin folder of HBS, I am working in Windows and it is 2.9mb in size and I noticed about every 5 minutes it appears to be leaving the following messages regarding Microsoft Windows network servers, it has been doing this since I installed version 4.2 February 14, and I am not in any workgroup network server: This is the last few messages today since 3:06PM:

2024-03-09 15:01:45 T:00001220 .\EnumNetworkCompuers.cpp 129 nRet=0x007E0001000004C6 wszDescription=The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available  wszProvider=Microsoft Windows Network
2024-03-09 15:06:57 T:00001220 .\EnumNetworkCompuers.cpp 129 nRet=0x007E0001000004B8 wszDescription=The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available  wszProvider=Microsoft Windows Network
2024-03-09 15:06:57 T:00001220 .\EnumNetworkCompuers.cpp 129 nRet=0x007E0001000004C6 wszDescription=The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available  wszProvider=Microsoft Windows Network
2024-03-09 15:12:09 T:00001220 .\EnumNetworkCompuers.cpp 129 nRet=0x007E0001000004B8 wszDescription=The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available  wszProvider=Microsoft Windows Network
2024-03-09 15:12:09 T:00001220 .\EnumNetworkCompuers.cpp 129 nRet=0x007E0001000004C6 wszDescription=The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available  wszProvider=Microsoft Windows Network

I assume it is normal for it to seek out this network information, though I do not have any scheduled tasks for backup, I do manuals.

Thank you for this great product!