Paragon Rescue Kit For Mac
Dear Forum Visitors, Thank you very much for your useful feedback. You can download Known issues for Beta1. Dear brendalana, Unfortunately, Rescue Kit for Mac OS X does not support Power PC processors (G4 and G5).
Paragon Rescue Kit™ for Mac OS X 3 User Manual Introduction Paragon Rescue Kit™ for Mac OS X is a Linux based bootable recovery environment that gives you an opportunity to get access to the hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes in case of its malfunction, a virus attack, or a system failure.
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Dear skapplin and shoarthing, Please check the Beta1. I hope the boot process became faster and interface more Mac-friendly. Dear Tholian, Now we packed the ISO image in a DMG archive (to not confuse people). Dear llee, Rescue Kit for Mac OS X has the following main restriction: You can restore a backup image to the same partition the image was backed up. Click to expand.That is a rather severe limitation, I think.
It certainly places a severe limitation on my ability to test, because apparently the only way to test a backup created by the beta version of Rescue Kit of a drive currently in use would be either to overwrite the backup up device as part of the test, or to perform the test by backing up a device whose characteristics I could match exactly with a replacement restore target. Or is this restriction completely absolute? Would I be able to restore from my backup if I replaced the original device with another having identical characteristics?
Could I use a Rescue Kit backup to restore to a device that had replaced the original because of hardware failure? What if the original had been replaced for the purpose of upgrading storage capacity?
What specific details define the sameness between backup source and restore destination required by Rescue Kit? Device ID and size? Device ID only? At the very least, I think the restore function should prohibit restoring to inappropriate targets, and the more thorough the explanation of what makes a restore target appropriate, the better. Feature request and suggestion. I have downloaded the beta, and used it to successfully boot my Mac Mini.
It worked very well. At first I tried booting my G5, and then remembered that it was for intel Macs only. It would be nice to have a simple finder-like file browser. You can 'trick' the system into allowing you to browse through the directories by choosing file restore, but I think it would be a nice addition to the main screen to have a simple file browsing application. Perhaps in this proposed finder-like file browser, you could have the feature of being able to select files and then right-click to mark them for recovery.
Also if you selected a folder for recovery, it would recover all files & subfolders within. I do not remember if you MUST configure the network before performing a network file recovery. Is this true? If it is true, then it would be really nice to have the feature of having the program use a default network setting of DHCP, which would be the case for most users.
You can keep the network control panel for those users who don't have the standard DHCP settings for their network. John Feinberg Montclair NJ. Renaissance rebel on flowvella. That is a rather severe limitation, I think.
It certainly places a severe limitation on my ability to test, because apparently the only way to test a backup created by the beta version of Rescue Kit of a drive currently in use would be either to overwrite the backup up device as part of the test, or to perform the test by backing up a device whose characteristics I could match exactly with a replacement restore target. Or is this restriction completely absolute? Would I be able to restore from my backup if I replaced the original device with another having identical characteristics? Could I use a Rescue Kit backup to restore to a device that had replaced the original because of hardware failure? What if the original had been replaced for the purpose of upgrading storage capacity?
What specific details define the sameness between backup source and restore destination required by Rescue Kit? Device ID and size?
Device ID only? At the very least, I think the restore function should prohibit restoring to inappropriate targets, and the more thorough the explanation of what makes a restore target appropriate, the better. Have now tried beta1; which appears to fix an annoying UI issue - trackpad becoming very unresponsive after any operations on a Penryn Macbook Pro - which I in beta0. Writespeed to HFS+ volumes of the Paragon UFSD seems improved as well by roughly 15% or so - tho' is is still very much slower than writing to NTFS. Exceptionally useful to be able to backup FAT32 Boot Camp partitions with auto pagefile removal. I have been using NTFS solely because the excellent (Freeware) has demanded NTFS prior to its very latest version.
The beta1 backup wizard only allows me to select an internal drive partition as a source for the backup. That makes testing more difficult, because I would need to overwrite the internal drive partition as a part of a restore test, and I don't consider it very prudent to do that with a partition containing data that I rely on. I've already been informed that restoring to a different destination partition isn't robust. Maybe I can perform a test if I can manage to find a second similar computer with a corresponding drive partition containing dispensable data. First thoughts. I'll start by saying, my sole interest in any backup software is to backup and restore remote macintoshes.
A continuing and frustrating hobby. Note that I got caught by the 'x86' CPU bit - I then knew why my G5 hadn't booted Not everyone will know what that 'x86' will mean - it's a simple and important documentation change. Iso burned fine, booted my Intel iMac in about 4 minutes (much better that 10 odd for DiskWarrior). Simple to follow, for someone who can fill in the more worrying bits - and I CAN read! (the manual that is.) 4. A little trouble mounting a network drive, but suggest that the problems were more to do with me than the software.
Impressed with the little network driver. I'd agree with a previous comment about it being slow to a HFS+ formatted destination. It's highly likely that in most instances, the source mac will be going to an 'Apple' format disk - local or otherwise. Had two types of errors whilst copying a test profile over: a) ERROR! Cannot open file b) Can not create file The log window isn't long enough (and probably never could be in some instances) to see the full path to the actual file was giving the 'problem' (something needs to be done here). Eventually, having told it to 'skip' which ever files it was complaining about, it completed, interestingly the top half of the GUI said there was 1.3Mb with 10 secs left - but the interactive log window said it had completed - so a little discrepancy there.
I then couldn't see in any of the (saved) logs where it would tell me which files had 'failed' - perhaps someone could point me to where that info is. If the paths aren't in the logs - why not? Impossible to track which files you need trace after the event. Ultimately, this would appear to be a useful app to have in the arsenal of things to try and fix a 'broken' mac. It's certainly nice that seemingly you can bypass any 'OS X - ness' in booting up, and access the drive directly to get what you can off before you commit the drive to the bin; a 'last stop, it's all gone wrong' utility then.
Agree with previous post that adding other features with disk maintenance (a la DiskWarrior or TechTool) would be nice, but I don't know if Paragon want to get into all of that? It's a simple, fast-ish app that tries to help when all else has failed. So, good thinking Paragon! It fills a gap in the market, please let me know what other features you will be adding when you're ready. All the best Clive. Click to expand.The partition should have the same first track and size (two parameters). Once again, the full version will not have this limitation.
Llee, Its strange you cant use an external hard drive. Please try to check it again with another drive. Dear feinberj, Our network wizard should automatically use a default network setting of DHCP.
Dear gheys, Unfortunately wireless network is not supported. Thanks for your suggestion. We will consider this. Dear ankou, Sorry for this inadequate information.
I hope this functionality will present in our full version only. Dear forum visitors, If you have any suggestions on how to improve the user interface, please let us know. I think after we update our GUI we will be ready to release the Lite (free) version. Thank you all.
Best regards, Anatoly. Extra Tools I downloaded the beta today and burned it without any problems. I then booted off the cd and started looking around.
I think the major problem is that there are no tools there to help fix any possible disk problems. As this is supposed to be a tool to help get data from a failing disk, there needs to be some tools to check and repair the disk (similar to chkdsk in windows and disk warrior in mac os x) that we are trying to get data from. We should be able to at least: verify and repair permissions verify and repair disks verify and repair files and folders With all new operating systems where it is impossible to properly check a drive unless you boot of another disk, these tools should be there as well. Hopefully, once one can verify and repairs files, folders and disks, it should help us get more information off the disks as well, which provides for a better result to all concerned. Pre-Release Versions are now available Dear Forum Visitors, We are proud to announce that Paragon Rescue Kit for Mac is now available as a Pre-Release Version.
We did a lot of fixing and improvements. Get high performance and minimal system overhead. You can get informations about this version Registration and Download (Still a beta-tester? - You will get an email with the needed informations) You can download the Manual for Rescue Kit for Mac OS X We are also happy to announce the Pre-Release Version of Paragon CampTune. With Paragon CampTune, it’s now really easy and secure to resize both, the MAC system partition or the second OS partition from BootCamp™. You can get informations about this version Registration and Download You can get an overview of all Mac related Paragon products Both programms are ISO files which only need to be burnt to CD. We want you to send us your feedback about bugs you have found, improvements or missed functions.
Thank you in advance and best regards, Philipp Mac-Team. Success with Rescue Kit Release Candidate With the release candidate, I was finally able to successfully execute both backup and restore. I haven't fully tested the results, but I'm fairly confident that the process was successful, it boots anyway.
I made a backup using Rescue Kit, then erased my source partition, then performed the restore. I, too, would be more comfortable if the options for disk and partition selection were a little closer to those generally presented in the Mac OS for these kinds of operations, like the basic layout of Disk Utility, for example, because I'm still not as confident as I would like to be that I'm making the correct selections in the interface. But I did get it to work. I hope to try another restore operation, this time restoring from a network share. Network restore unsuccessful I created a network share for the backup that I successfully restored from when it was connected as a local volume.
When I connected to the share and tried to run the restore while booted into Rescue Kit's restore environment, however, I received a 'Can't open/create file' error message when I selected the '.pbf' file in the 'Select Archive' window when I clicked the button next to 'Select Image' at the 'What to restore' step. Why was I able to successfully restore when the partition containing the backup image was mounted as a local volume, but not when it was mounted as a network share?
Paragon Rescue Kit For Mac Mac
PARAGON SOFTWARE INTRODUCES NEW RESCUE KIT FOR MAC USERS Free Tool Kit Designed to Prevent Data Loss During a Worst Case Scenario Freiburg, Germany, April 22, 2008 – Paragon Software Group (PSG), the technology leader in innovative data security and data management solutions, today announced the release of Rescue Kit for Mac OS X – Lite. The new software allows users to recover quickly and easily from system problems by rescuing important data and restoring their system back to its original state. Paragon’s Rescue Kit for Mac OS X – Lite, helps to prevent data loss in the event of a ‘worst case’ disaster such as a system crash or other mishap. The innovative solution aids in the recovery of vital data to another destination such as a removable drive, another hard drive or network volume. The new tool kit comes with fully automated wizards that allow users to easily backup and restore partitions. “In the event of a serious system malfunction, the ideal recovery solution would enable you to employ a recovery tool ‘after the fact’ to get your system up and running in as little time as possible, with no loss or corruption of your sensitive data,” said Tom Fedro, president of Paragon Software Group – Americas. Using Paragon’s Rescue Kit for the Mac OS X – Lite, users can now skip the time consuming process of application setup and customization that is now required to become operational.
The Paragon Rescue Kit restores the Mac to its original state and was created to enable users to be up and running quickly. It is the only solution which can perform a sector-level backup, enabling end users to backup and restore the entire system much faster than typical utilities available today. The product incorporates Paragon’s unique NTFS for Mac technology, which allows rapid reading and writing of data to NTFS volumes and easily transfers data between Windows and Mac partitions.
The Rescue Kit also includes a File Transfer Wizard, which gives end users complete access to any file system, even those not supported by the OS or even if it is on an un-mounted partition (i.e. Drive letter is not assigned). “No one can afford to lose all the information on their computer, and the lost productivity can be devastating.
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Our Rescue Kit helps users get up and running in no time. It does what it says – and comes to the rescue – with an optimized solution,” Fedro added.