recimg

I have been reading all I can about this but it does not say how to use it. Is it reliable and what does it do?

 

Interesting find peter. At first glance it looks like a cross between a conventional imaging system such as Acronis or Easeus Todo and a snapshot program like RollbackRX. I'll do some digging.

 

I have downloaded but not opened the program.
I am glad you are looking into it. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you - B.
Peter

 

Hi peter, if you haven't already done so have a read of the user manual HERE. It is very easy going though the product itself is so simple to use the guide is barely necessary. Certainly when compared to complex programs like Acronis it is about as simple to use as would be possible, and having the ability to restore your system without affecting your documents is going to appeal to many users.

At present though it isn't possible to restore an image if your system won't boot and that is quite an admission for a backup program! See HERE, and until that gets addressed I can't see much point to it at all.

Promising product though and I shall follow its progress with interest.

 

Hi Bernard
You presented that reply accurately so I will not reiterate. That lack of disc boot was the feature that caught my eye right away.
I wonder if one can use another disc to get to the external drive then with that program, find the recimg image.
An example would be to backup with recimg, insert the Acronis or Macrium disc to access the external drive then recover the recimg image.
I assume the obvious lack of mutual interface/architecture would prohibit that.

I too will be keeping an eye on it as it would be something I would definitely use if the disc could find the image and recover it.
Let's hope the engineers or developers are working on it.

I'll bet the day they put the disc out, there will be a fee!
How well it performs and how much it costs will determine if they will be a contender for the other imaging programs.
Thank you for your kind reply.
Peter

 

B- I saw this post about no disc and could not understand it. perhaps it means something to you.
Peter

>>Originally Posted by brihy1
i tried this program but theres no rescue disc,i ask this question on there forum and they said maybe in the future.doesnt help if you cant boot your computer.


"Open a command prompt and set your wim backup directory as the default refresh source:

eg. recimg /setcurrent d:/backup

Then you can use the refresh feature in the built-in Windows recovery console to restore."
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Hi peter - recimg.exe seems to be a Win 8 command line tool which, as I understand it, and that isn't very well, can be used to create custom system images in .wim format. I suspect that the program we are looking at - RecImg Manager - is simply providing a gui for this executable without itself adding any additional functionality. But at least it makes the process more accessible to the likes of you and me.

I need to do quite a bit more work before I can shed any further light on this but as backup and imaging are my main interest at least I do have some incentive.

Hopefully I'll be back.

 

That is understandable, B.
I am glad you were able to shed more light on it. It may be something to look at in the future. The disc issue you surfaced is a real concern.
Thank you
Peter

 

ok peter, I think I've now got my head around this recimg thing, though actually getting it to work as it should is something else! As I suggested Recimg Manager is just a gui for the recimg.exe program available in Win 8 and if you run it it does create a .wim file in a location you choose. To restore a .wim image file you use Win 8's Refresh feature, either from Win 8 or from a Win 8 installation disk Repair feature, but this is where it's failing for me, as the former complains the recovery environment isn't installed and the latter says it can't find any images to restore.

Either way, and even if it worked successfully, it doesn't do anything an imaging program doesn't do, and is pretty slow doing it. Maybe my test was adversely affected by doing it in Win 8.1 Preview rather than Win 8 but tbh it just looks like a 'me too' effort to compete with Acronis et al and I won't be wasting any more time on it.