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      buckITall
      last edited by

      When uploading image I would like to leave out a partition used for local backups.
      Currently we have to upload the entire disk then return to the server and delete the partition.
      This is very time consuming considering the back-up partition is sometimes over 100Gb

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      • Tom ElliottT
        Tom Elliott
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        [quote=“buckITall, post: 27253, member: 101”]When uploading image I would like to leave out a partition used for local backups.
        Currently we have to upload the entire disk then return to the server and delete the partition.
        This is very time consuming considering the back-up partition is sometimes over 100Gb[/quote]

        Why is there a partition on the same disk that is your “local backup”?

        Wouldn’t it make more sense to have the “local backup” on a separate disk?

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          fractal13 Developer
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          This could be a useful generic feature. It seems that it would take quite a bit of work though.

          • Modify UI to present the option (user would have to identify the partition(s) to skip somehow, by number?)
          • Modify DB to save the option
          • Modify the passing of information to the upload script to include the option
          • Modify the upload script to obey the option

          I’d be willing to take a stab at the upload script, but haven’t spent any time in the other parts of the system, so I doubt I’d be effective there right now.

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          • JunkhackerJ
            Junkhacker Developer
            last edited by

            this seems like a pretty complicated feature to add, but just to throw an idea in for implementation
            i would have the image format be something like this
            d1.mbr
            d1p1.img
            d1p2.img
            d1p3.skip
            d1p4.img

            this would self document the image files that partition 3 is to be skipped when downloading

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              buckITall
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              [quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 29142, member: 7271”]Why is there a partition on the same disk that is your “local backup”?

              Wouldn’t it make more sense to have the “local backup” on a separate disk?[/quote]

              I agree, the process of backups were created before I was hired on…currently using Ghost 2003 boot up disc and creating images on 2nd partition. Our systems are loaded with Operating systems dating back to XP -> Windows 8.1, along with different languages of each…so you can imagine how many images are is stored. We do not use volume licenses…each image is retail.

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