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Paragon Snapshot for Mac OS X Public Beta Testing
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<blockquote data-quote="Anatoly" data-source="post: 856805" data-attributes="member: 37640"><p>Dear bobtomay,</p><p></p><p>Thank you for your questions.</p><p></p><p>We will definitely fix your first three points (1, 2 and 3). Thank you very much.</p><p></p><p>I would like to clarify your fourth point. </p><p>Snapshot technologies should be used by backup solutions (such as Disk Utility) to make backup images. These backup solutions may use any algorithm (compress, skip free space and so on) to save data (from snapshot).</p><p></p><p>Snapshot IMAGE is a sector level copy of the volume (you are right), so its size will be equal to the volume size. You can save snapshot image (dump) as DMG image and get access to data stored in it. With Paragon Snapshot for Mac OS X you can easily make a backup image, even if some files are in use by the system or applications. To do that, please first make a snapshot of a volume you need to back up. Then click on this snapshot, and select the required volume from the list (that is included into the snapshot), and then click Open Device. On the desktop you will see a block device named similar to the name of the selected volume. Launch Disk Utility. Select new the block device, and then click New Image. Specify an image name and its destination, click Save. Using this technique you can create DMG image of your system partition that can be easily restored then.</p><p>You can find a detailed instruction in Guide to Beta Testing (Chapter 4, Creating a backup image).</p><p></p><p>Please let me if you have any question.</p><p>Thank you in advance.</p><p>Anatoly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anatoly, post: 856805, member: 37640"] Dear bobtomay, Thank you for your questions. We will definitely fix your first three points (1, 2 and 3). Thank you very much. I would like to clarify your fourth point. Snapshot technologies should be used by backup solutions (such as Disk Utility) to make backup images. These backup solutions may use any algorithm (compress, skip free space and so on) to save data (from snapshot). Snapshot IMAGE is a sector level copy of the volume (you are right), so its size will be equal to the volume size. You can save snapshot image (dump) as DMG image and get access to data stored in it. With Paragon Snapshot for Mac OS X you can easily make a backup image, even if some files are in use by the system or applications. To do that, please first make a snapshot of a volume you need to back up. Then click on this snapshot, and select the required volume from the list (that is included into the snapshot), and then click Open Device. On the desktop you will see a block device named similar to the name of the selected volume. Launch Disk Utility. Select new the block device, and then click New Image. Specify an image name and its destination, click Save. Using this technique you can create DMG image of your system partition that can be easily restored then. You can find a detailed instruction in Guide to Beta Testing (Chapter 4, Creating a backup image). Please let me if you have any question. Thank you in advance. Anatoly. [/QUOTE]
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