R-Drive image is suitable for Windows drive image and backup

R-Drive Image is a powerful utility that can create disk image files for backup or copying purposes. The disk image file contains an exact byte by byte copy, partition, or logical disk of the hard drive, which can fly without stopping the Windows operating system, thus not interrupting your business. Then, these drive image files can be stored in various locations, including various removable media such as CD-R (W)/DVD Iomega Zip or Jazz CD, etc.

With R-Drive Image, you can fully and quickly recover data loss caused by operating system crashes, hardware attacks, and hardware failures after heavy workloads.

R-Drive Image is one of the best backup and disaster recovery solutions to prevent data loss in the event of a fatal system failure.

system requirements

• Run Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2000 Intel compatible platforms for Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008/2003 (including 64 bit versions).
• Installing and running R-Drive images requires administrative privileges.

Differences in authorized versions:

• R-Drive Image Standalone: A license that allows a licensee toA personal computer or workstation(Not a server) provides services and can be transferred to another computer when the computer being served is stopped or replaced. The license cannot be transferred back and forth between different computers, nor can it be reused on the computer where the license is transferred.
• R-Drive Image Corporate: A license that allows a licensee toWorkstation or serverProvide services and be able to transfer to another computer when the service computer is stopped or replaced. The license cannot be transferred back and forth between different computers, nor can it be reused on the computer where the license is transferred.
• R-Drive Image Technician: A technician license allows the licensee to:Any number of workstations or servers providing servicesHowever, the licensee shall not copy the software and use multiple copies of the software. This software can be temporarily installed and/or run on a serviced computer, but it should be removed to serve another computer. If you have multiple technicians and wish to provide services for multiple computers simultaneously, you should consider a larger number of licenses.
• R-Drive Image Commercial: This license grants IT service providers, system integrators, consultants, and computer assemblers the right to backup, recover, and deploy multiple machines based on their own or customer needs. A license allows the use of one copy of the software and provides unlimited services for various storage devices and systems.
• R-Drive Image OEM kit: Please refer to the Q&A post for details:

• Advanced Drive and File Imaging

R-Drive Image can dynamically create images without the need to restart Windows. Image files can be written to any storage location visible to the host system, including removable and network drives.

The R-Drive image file may contain images of the entire hard drive, individual partitions, individual files, or even several unrelated disk objects. The data in such files may be compressed, password protected and encrypted, annotated, and split into multiple files. R-Drive images use volume snapshots to create consistent point in time disk images. You can check the image file for errors to ensure complete data integrity. This check can be automatically performed on existing images and after creating new images.

In addition to the native image format. rdr and Windows native VHD/VHDX virtual disks, enterprise, technical, commercial, and OEM toolkit licenses can also create image files in the widely used VMDK and VDI formats in virtual machines.

• Advanced Image Recovery

R-Drive Image restores images or individual files and folders from the image to the original drive, new drive, any other partition, and even dynamically frees up hard disk space. You can adjust the size of the partition being restored, and you can delete and/or erase, move, or adjust the size of existing partitions. The entire hard disk image can be restored to another drive and scaled down/expanded as needed.

To restore the system and other locked partitions, you can directly boot the R-Drive image from Windows or use a separate boot USB drive or CD/DVD to its boot version.

All R-Drive image licenses allow for restoring native. rdr images Windows native VHD/VHDX images and DMG images. The company license and technical personnel license also restore VMDK and VDI images, while the commercial license and OEM toolkit also support E01 and AFF images.

• Disk to disk replication

R-Drive mirroring can clone a disk by copying data from the source disk to the target disk, converting one disk to another. Not only a hard drive, it can also copy data from one or more partitions on one hard drive to another. You can adjust the size of the partition being replicated, and you can delete and/or erase, move, or adjust the size of existing partitions. This is an essential feature for migrating the entire system to another hard drive.

• Partition Manager

The flexible partition manager performs the most common disk management operations: delete, erase, create partitions, and adjust partition sizes. Before disposal or transmission, the entire hard drive can be safely erased and cleaned to avoid sensitive data leakage.

• Planned tasks

Most disk backup tasks can be scheduled to run unattended for a certain period of time. For example, you can have R-Drive Image automatically backup your computer during off hours. In addition, creating a backup set that is consistent with data and saves space can be a very complex task. The built-in scheduler has very universal and flexible control over the start time of such tasks. Action reports can be sent via email and external programs can be launched after completing each task. Except for the scheduled time, each task can be manually initiated.

• Unattended operations and scripts

Complex scripts can be created for frequent and repetitive unattended disk operations. These scripts can be executed from the command line or included in command files. Support creating new image files, appending data to existing image files, recovering data from images, checking images, and connecting/disconnecting images as virtual logical disk images. Scripts can be created manually or from the R-Drive Image user interface.

• Start version

The startup version of R-Drive Image performs all disk operations performed by the Windows version (except for scheduled operations and scripts), but is mainly used to restore data to system disks and other locked disks, as well as to provide services for non Windows computers. It supports UEFI boot (including Mac computers), various hardware devices (viewing lists), and data transfer over Microsoft networks (CIFS protocol). There are two types of boot versions that can be created: Linux based systems and Windows PE based systems. These versions were created directly from the Windows version and are suitable for small USB pen drives or CD/DVDs.

• Supports multiple file systems

R-Drive Image supports FAT/exFAT NTFS, ReFS/ReFS2+(Elastic File System Windows 2012/2016 Server, HFS/HFS+/APFS, Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solar), and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux).

It can adjust NTFS The size of FAT, HFS/HFS+partitions.

R-Drive Image can perform raw data imaging/copying/recovery on disks that are not recognized by the file system.

• Support the most common partition schemes

support

-Basic (MBR) GPT, BSD (UNIX) APM (Apple partition map) partition layout scheme;

-Dynamic volume, Windows storage space (Windows 2000- August 10, 2022/11);

-Apple software RAID CoreStorage, File Vault, and Fusion Drive;

-Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM/LVM2) and mdadm RAID;

Fully supports basic (MBR) and GPT partition layouts. R-Drive Image can create basic/GPT disks, adjust their size, and change their partition layout during copy/restore operations.

Support automatic resizing of dynamic disks.

More features

• A simple wizard interface. Almost all actions can be specified with just a few mouse clicks, without the need for in-depth computer management skills.
• Multilingual user interface: English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
• Support S.M.A.R.T. warnings. If there is a potential risk of hardware failure in the hard drive, its S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) system will issue a special warning. R-Drive Image will display such warnings and include them in its confirmation email.
• Single file backup. A single file can be saved in an image file or simply copied to a specified folder. Copy files in different ways (only copy changed files). If specified, files deleted at the source location will also be deleted at the target location. Batch mode: Advanced file filtering for easier searching and labeling of files. You can create file filters using a graphical user interface or manually write file filters.
• Support cloud services. Image files can be saved to various cloud services and restored to the local system. Supports Google Drive, Microsoft? OneDrive ® And Dropbox ®。
• Image replication. Multiple copies of the same image are saved during a single imaging process. Create a copy of the image file in the main location, and then copy the file to another location. Multiple copies of a single image file greatly enhance the security of the image.
• Rotation scheme (further development of backup sets): A file set (usually composed of full images and differential/incremental backups) is considered as a single unit. These units will be stored for a period of time and then replaced by updated units according to certain rules. The rotation scheme strikes a balance between data retention and restoration requirements and the amount of storage space used for storing backups. Supports predefined and custom rotation schemes. Custom rotation schemes are available in company, technician, commercial, and OEM kit licenses.
• Virtual drive mounting allows the created image files to be mounted as read-only virtual drives, and all files on such drives can be accessed by Windows and other applications.
• Detailed and universal logs can be accessed directly from the user interface.
• Large scale system deployment: R-Drive Image can be used to set up multiple identical computers. Once a computer is fully configured, its disk image can be created and deployed to all other computers to reduce time and cost.
• System Recovery OEM (System Recovery Disk) is a part of the R-Drive Image OEM suite used to run software from bootable (bootable) disks and restore faulty computer systems to factory (assembler) settings. It can also be a CD DVD, USB, ZIP drive, or any other removable storage device.