Possibility of combining WinClone with daily backups from Windows Home Server

mangochutney

Hi. Looking to invest in this software, if there is a way to perform the following;

I am a 99% Windows user on a MacAir. In my home/work/office, I have multiple PC Windows clients and they are automatically backed up to a WHS server daily. I have successfully clone restored images back to regular x86 PC hardware from WHS. It's a set-and-forget backup solution.
Where it falls over is the ability for a Mac Air user to restore daily WHS backup back into a bootcamp zone.

Is it possible for a method/utility to allow full access to the NTFS part of the WinClone image and replace the data there-in with recent WHS backup data?

This would be the ideal backup solution for Windows-on-Mac users IMO. It wouldn't have to be confined to WHS, any Windows cloning software/ method could possibly be used.

tperfitt

Not currently. Sorry.

mangochutney

Hi, thanks for the reply.
I wonder if you used a proprietary compression method to make your images?
Are you aware of any app that can open up Winclones?

mangochutney

-Would you have any interest in pursuing this?
I would gladly pay towards a bit of R&D time.

tperfitt

It sounds like you are asking for incremental backups to the existing Winclone image. Is that the case?

tim

mangochutney

Hi, sorry for the late reply.
No need for incremental access. Just a one time access to be able to overwrite the Winclone NTFS backup data with the latest (incremental) WHS backup. I can restore the WHS backup to a spare hard disk. It would need to be mounted by your software or a third party mounter to be able to read it.
A sort of manual, but worth while thing to be able to do if I need a bare metal restore.
I hardly ever use my MAC OS, so to have to boot into it to perform a Winclone backup every day.

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