Evaluation of Karen's Replicator 3.5.1
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From: John Corliss on 15 Aug 2007 09:55 I downloaded and installed this program, hoping it would be something that could clone my main hard drive's main partition to my backup hard drive's backup partition and do it incrementally. Good news is that it's incremental, bad news is that it doesn't do a genuine clone on my XP Home SP2 computer. This is because the following files couldn't be copied because of Error 32 - "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process": C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\ntuser.dat C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\ntuser.dat.LOG C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.LOG C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\NTUSER.DAT C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\ntuser.dat.LOG C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.LOG C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\EventCache\(some CLSID).bin C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default.LOG C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM.LOG C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY.LOG C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.LOG C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.LOG This failure to copy the registry, AFAIK, would mean that the backup partition would be unable to start Windows, at least without more than the default registry settings. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. So, effectively, the program doesn't do anything that XXCopy doesn't do when run in XP. In fact, the files above are the same ones that XXCopy can't copy. However, Karen's Replicator does have a nice graphical interface and for my purposes, the settings are much easier to set since I don't have to worry about command line parameters and the like. It also produces a nice log of the task you run and the log is configurable to either include or exclude the following: Job Summary Errors Warnings Deletions Up-To-Date Files Exclusions Successful Copies I guess it's a keeper, but I still would like to be able to incrementally clone my main partition (non-compressed) to my backup hard drive so that if my main drive fails, all I have to do is to yank it and hook up the backup (slave) drive as the master drive to be back in business until the replacement hard drive arrives. NOTE!!!!!! Having a backup hard drive is only ONE... repeat! OOOOOOOOOO NNNN NNN EEEEEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOO NNN NN NNN EEEEEEEEEE OOO OOO NNN NN NNN EEE OOO OOO NNN NN NNN EEEEEEE OOO OOO NNN NN NNN EEEEEEE OOO OOO NNN NN NNN EEE OOOOOOOOOO NNN NN NNN EEEEEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOO NNN NNNNN EEEEEEEEEE of the backup strategies I use. No preaching to me about how to back up my $#!%?%! data, PLEASE! -- John Corliss BS206. I try not to reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett, Bear Bottoms, Hummingbird or proteanthread. Due to all the spam coming from that service, I use NFilter to block all Google Groups posts from being displayed in my news reader. No ad, cd, commercial, cripple, demo, NAGWARE, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares or warez for me, please.
From: meerkat on 15 Aug 2007 10:13 "John Corliss" <jcorliss(a)fake.invalid> wrote in message news:13c61ebpgic5c20(a)corp.supernews.com... >I downloaded and installed this program, hoping it would be something that >could clone my main hard drive's main partition to my backup hard drive's >backup partition and do it incrementally. > > Good news is that it's incremental, bad news is that it doesn't do a > genuine clone on my XP Home SP2 computer. This is because the following > files couldn't be copied because of Error 32 - "The process cannot access > the file because it is being used by another process": > > C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\ntuser.dat > C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\ntuser.dat.LOG > C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\Local Settings\Application > Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat > C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\Local Settings\Application > Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.LOG > C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\NTUSER.DAT > C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\ntuser.dat.LOG > C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application > Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat > C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application > Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat.LOG > C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\EventCache\(some CLSID).bin > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default.LOG > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM.LOG > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY.LOG > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.LOG > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system > C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.LOG > > This failure to copy the registry, AFAIK, would mean that the backup > partition would be unable to start Windows, at least without more than the > default registry settings. > > Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. > You`re correct John. Sadly it appears to be one of the few times when a payware program has to be used. And for what it`s worth, I use SyncBack for the rest of what you talked of in your post. bw..
From: bluerhinoceros on 15 Aug 2007 10:38 John Corliss wrote: <snip> > files couldn't be copied because of Error 32 - "The process cannot > access the file because it is being used by another process": <snip> > of the backup strategies I use. No preaching to me about how to back up > my $#!%?%! data, PLEASE! Hi John: I hope you will see this as informative rather than preachy, but there's an article here that discusses accessing VSS copies under XP. You may find it interesting or even useful. http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2006/09/18/761515.aspx Cheers.
From: ms on 15 Aug 2007 10:43 John Corliss <jcorliss(a)fake.invalid> wrote in news:13c61ebpgic5c20 @corp.supernews.com: > I downloaded and installed this program, hoping it would be something > that could clone my main hard drive's main partition to my backup hard > drive's backup partition and do it incrementally. > > Good news is that it's incremental, bad news is that it doesn't do a > genuine clone on my XP Home SP2 computer. This is because the following > files couldn't be copied because of Error 32 - "The process cannot > access the file because it is being used by another process": > snip > > This failure to copy the registry, AFAIK, would mean that the backup > partition would be unable to start Windows, at least without more than > the default registry settings. > John Karen has alway been IMO one of the most competent freeware authors. You might contact her with the above, long ago she answered me, may not these days due to spammers, but your comment may improve the product. The recent updates in Replicator may indicate response to user comments. Mike Sa
From: Craig on 15 Aug 2007 11:03
meerkat wrote: > "John Corliss" wrote: .... >> >> Good news is that it's incremental, bad news is that it doesn't do a >> genuine clone on my XP Home SP2 computer. This is because the following >> files couldn't be copied because of Error 32 - "The process cannot access >> the file because it is being used by another process": >> >> C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\ntuser.dat >> C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\Local Settings\Application >> Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat >> C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\NTUSER.DAT >> C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application >> Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat >> C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\EventCache\(some CLSID).bin >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system >> >> This failure to copy the registry, AFAIK, would mean that the backup >> partition would be unable to start Windows, at least without more than the >> default registry settings. >> >> Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. >> > You`re correct John. Let's not give up the ghost just yet ... NTOS distributions, since at least NT 4.0, have included a system state back up utility. If you're able to manipulate the files in /that/ backup (ie uncompress & dump to sub-dir) then Karen's can grab it. So, it'd look like this: 1) run the system state backup proggie for your flavor of NTOS 2) extract files 3) run Karen's to exclude open system state files and include archived system state files. Hopefully this could be automated w/scheduling services & autoHotKey (or whatever that's called). Btw, stepping back a bit, have you contacted Karen about this? I understand she's responsive ... in between point-releases that is <grin>. -Craig |