11-21-2023, 07:49 PM
Hello Froggie,
I understand your concerns, but let me explain further:
I am using a MacBook with Parallels, and therefore I do not have an SD-card slot and no secondary internal SSD.
I want SSD failure protection on the go, so I need a small (!) USB-C (!) 1TB (!) flash drive ("stick") (no annoying USB-cables and large external SSD drive "dongles") where I can conveniently quickly make an incremental "snapshot" three times a day. This has worked great with Macrium, but Macrium is now no longer ARM-compatible. Paragon, Aomei and MiniTool are also either not compatible or have considerable issues. Hasleo thankfully is compatible and has no issues.
I got the SanDisk Ultra® Dual Drive Luxe USB Type-C™-Flash-Laufwerk which generally has favorable reviews.
I also have the Kingston MobileLite Duo 3C SDXC card reader. Last time I used it it always got very hot (could try again).
For the initial full backup, I need to create a very large file, obviously, with all my data. The compressed file might be 40GB or so. I remember the SanDisk has overheated several times when I was like 70% done. So I paused the process in Macrium 3 or 5 times or so, and it worked.
Subsequent incrementals are no problem because they are much smaller.
I could also try to get robust dash cam / video 4K SDXC cards that might not overheat so fast, but last time I checked they had limited capacity and/or where very expencive. Plus I think the card reader tends to get really very hot.
I also tested R-Drive Image which was the only other program besides Hasleo Backup Suite that worked well on my Mac. But it's not free. It has some disadvantages and some advantages compared to Hasleo.
R-Drive Image in fact does have an option to limit bandwidth. I think it is also of relevance for network connections perhaps? In any case R-Drive Image has the possibiliy to limit both the READ spead (from the source, in MB/s), and the WRITE speed (onto the target destination device, in MB/s).
Another possibilty might (!) be that I could pause the Virtual Machine, and that could hopefully pause the data transfer, and cause (hopefully) Hasleo to resume the backup process after resuming the virtual machine from the pause. But I was a bit sceptical as this might introduce additional potential backup integrity issues (or not, I don't know). In any case most people don't use virtual machines. Perhaps hibernations or standby of Windows during the Backup task will also work? I have not tried that because of fear that it might cause consistency/integrity issues with the Backup, though it is all VSS-based and should probably work.... But also consider that pausing the VM / Windows standby is not very convenient to do during a backup, depending on one's backup habits. For my scenario, it would be possible because I do not do large backups often.
I understand your concerns, but let me explain further:
I am using a MacBook with Parallels, and therefore I do not have an SD-card slot and no secondary internal SSD.
I want SSD failure protection on the go, so I need a small (!) USB-C (!) 1TB (!) flash drive ("stick") (no annoying USB-cables and large external SSD drive "dongles") where I can conveniently quickly make an incremental "snapshot" three times a day. This has worked great with Macrium, but Macrium is now no longer ARM-compatible. Paragon, Aomei and MiniTool are also either not compatible or have considerable issues. Hasleo thankfully is compatible and has no issues.
I got the SanDisk Ultra® Dual Drive Luxe USB Type-C™-Flash-Laufwerk which generally has favorable reviews.
I also have the Kingston MobileLite Duo 3C SDXC card reader. Last time I used it it always got very hot (could try again).
For the initial full backup, I need to create a very large file, obviously, with all my data. The compressed file might be 40GB or so. I remember the SanDisk has overheated several times when I was like 70% done. So I paused the process in Macrium 3 or 5 times or so, and it worked.
Subsequent incrementals are no problem because they are much smaller.
I could also try to get robust dash cam / video 4K SDXC cards that might not overheat so fast, but last time I checked they had limited capacity and/or where very expencive. Plus I think the card reader tends to get really very hot.
I also tested R-Drive Image which was the only other program besides Hasleo Backup Suite that worked well on my Mac. But it's not free. It has some disadvantages and some advantages compared to Hasleo.
R-Drive Image in fact does have an option to limit bandwidth. I think it is also of relevance for network connections perhaps? In any case R-Drive Image has the possibiliy to limit both the READ spead (from the source, in MB/s), and the WRITE speed (onto the target destination device, in MB/s).
Another possibilty might (!) be that I could pause the Virtual Machine, and that could hopefully pause the data transfer, and cause (hopefully) Hasleo to resume the backup process after resuming the virtual machine from the pause. But I was a bit sceptical as this might introduce additional potential backup integrity issues (or not, I don't know). In any case most people don't use virtual machines. Perhaps hibernations or standby of Windows during the Backup task will also work? I have not tried that because of fear that it might cause consistency/integrity issues with the Backup, though it is all VSS-based and should probably work.... But also consider that pausing the VM / Windows standby is not very convenient to do during a backup, depending on one's backup habits. For my scenario, it would be possible because I do not do large backups often.