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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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        buckITall last edited by

        [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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        • Junkhacker
          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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            fractal13 Developer last edited by

            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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            • Tom Elliott
              Tom Elliott last edited by

              [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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