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Best HDD image software that let me recover files/folders without restoring the whole image
I want a software that I can use to take backup/image of whole disks via my network (internal is OK) and then on the server/computer that I use to store the image file, I need the option to run the software so I can access the images files, and recover files and folders, without having to restore the full image.
I plan to run Windows on the server/workstation (I think maybe a Workstation with Win10, since lots of software has really expensive Server options) so please only Windows software.
I'm pretty sure I used Acronis for this "back in the day" but don't know if they offer this anymore?
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Acronis do this, man
Is it windows only?
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/
TL;dr: yes
Windows (>8) can do that natively.
Either from the command line, or with a GUI (e.g. disk2vhd by Microsoft/Sysinternals)
Might not be the best but it does what you are asking for.
http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/
The way I want to use it, are to use a USB stick there I can boot from, and take a image of the disk on to a local workstation.
Then use the local workstation to pull out files/folders when I need to.
^ this.
@netomx @Clouvider - thank you. Got a new license for Acronis, made a WinPE USB stick, used FTP server on the workstation (don't know why network storage was not available, just FTP or NAS) backup the device, and I could edit the image, copying out files and folders on the workstation.
Just what I wanted.
Veeam might still offer their Veeam backup explorer that will take backups of physical computers while they are running.
Ghost
Yea, used Ghost back around 1998-2004, not used them since that. Are they still good?
I don't know about the current version. Never use it. I am using good old 1998-2004 ghost32 and ghost64 for imaging my system. It works out of the box on windows recovery environment.
My boss is actually calling this new worksation our "Ghost server", but it's actually not a server and it's not using Ghost...:D