We have a new way to select drives for disk image backups, which does not require there to be a local destination for the disk image to be saved to, and which does not require much local free disk space to process it for offsite backup. In previous versions of our software we leveraged the wbadmin command that is built into Windows to make bare-metal disk images that are used to recover a system through a Windows Recovery Environment or to make a system state image that can be used to roll back server settings to a prior good state.
We are now able to select disks and stream them offsite using our powerful and efficient Rolling Differential algorithm, which saves on storage as well as local disk space overhead.
To select a Physical Drive, you can do so from the Client GUI's Selections Tab, select 'Computer' and then 'Physical Drives' which will show a list of Physical Drive's available for backup, along with their Partitions, size and type.
To do a file level restore of a backed up disk, you will see it in the 'Available to Restore' section of the Client GUI > Restore tab, nested under the "#" folder:
You are able to apply the same sorting and filtering functionality to these restorable drive files that you can to any other restorable data.
If you are currently using this legacy disk image, or if you want to use it on a computer instead of our newer methods, you can un-hide the Backup > Disk Imaging page using the new setting at the bottom of the Expert page to make the navigation link visible again.
Currently this functionality works for drives up to 2TB in size and under.