Command Line Backup, Clone and Ram disk

Input

DiskMasterX /?

Type “DiskMasterX /?” in Command prompt to look for help

Output

DiskMasterX { /b | /c | /r | /l | /ram | /? }

-"DiskMasterX" has six functions, which are backup(/b), clone(/c), restore(/r), list(/l), ramdisk(/ram), and help(/?)

DiskMasterX /l /?

-display the complete usage of the list command

DiskMasterX /b /?

-display the complete usage of the backup command

DiskMasterX /c /?

-display the complete usage of the clone command

DiskMasterX /r /?

-display the complete usage of the restore command

DiskMasterX /ram /?

-display the complete usage of the ram disk command

Parameters

Description

{/b}

Specify the type of backup, it could be one of the following: new, inc, dif or full
new - create a new backup task

{/t}

Specify the type of source, it could be one of the following: system, disk, part or file
system - backup your system; disk - backup disks; part - backup partitions; file - backup files

{/s}

Specifies the source for the backup:
For a disk backup specify the number of the disk, e.g. /s 0.
For a partition or dynamic volume backup, specify the drive letter, e.g. /s C.
For partitions without a drive letter, specify the partition number, e.g. /s 0:1
For a file backup specify the file path (The last character of the directory path must be "\"), e.g. /s "d:\path\|"

{/d}

Destination path for saving the backup image, e.g. /d "D:\Path\File"

Parameters

Description

{/b}

Specify the type of backup, it could be one of the following: inc, dif or full
inc - create an incremental backup based on the last backup; dif - create a differential backup based on the last full backup; full - create a subsequent full backup.

{/d}

Specify the main file for creating incremental or differential backups from (If there is only one backup task in the directory, you can specify it as a directory), e.g. /d "d:\My Storage\disk backup"
This means creating an incremental or a differential backup based on image--"d:\My Storage\disk backup\dm.fvd"

Parameters

Description

[/n]

Assign a name for the backup to distinguish it from others

[/o]

The compression level of the image file could be one of the following: 0, 1 or 2
0 - no compression, 1 - fast standard compression, 2 - higher compression level, but takes more time to process.

[/e]

Encrypt image file, e.g. /e "123" means "123" becomes the password for the image file.

[/u]

Username; if you backup to a network and the username is required to access the network. You may set up the username by using this parameter, e.g. /u "admin"

[/p]

Password; if you backup to a network and a password is required to access the network; e.g. /p "123456".

[/m]

Size in MB for splitting a large image file into smaller files.
This specifies the maximum size of each file; e.g. /m 1490.

[/k]

Backup the disk or partition in a sector-by-sector way or not, it could be decided by one of these two parameters: 0 or 1
0 - standard backup, which is the default backup option; 1 - RAW backup; This will do a RAW (pseudo forensic) sector-by-sector backup, e.g. /k 1

[/w]

Wait for the operation to complete, it could be decided by one of these two parameters: 0 or 1
0 - not wait; 1 - wait to finish backuping, e.g. /w 1

Parameters

Description

{/r}

restore the backup of a system, disk, partition or dynamic volume, and restore the backup of files.

{/t} {system | disk | part| file}

specify restore type. "system" means to restore system backup; "disk" means to restore disk backup; "part" means to restore partition backup or dynamic volume backup; "file" means to restore file backup.

{/s}{"D:\my backup" | "\\192.168.1.1.\my backup\my backup.fvd"}

specify the path of the image file (If there is only one backup task in the directory, you can specify it as a directory).

[/v]

specify to use the latest backup version to restore(because of incremental or diferential backup). The backup version corresponding to the current image file will be restored without this "/v" command.

[/i] {"0|0:0|F|path"}

specify the source, which means the disk, partition or dynamic volume to be restored in the image file. '/i 0' means disk 0 or dynamic volume 0; '/i 0:0' means partition 0 on disk 0; '/d F' means the destination location is partition F or dynamic F; '/i path' means file path for file restore (The last character of the directory path must be "\"); no '/i' means no need to specify the partition to be restored while performing system restore.

[/e]{"123"}

specify the password for the image file

[/d]{0|0:0|D|path}

specify the destination location to restore to. '/d 0' means destination location is disk 0; '/d 0:0' means the destination location is partition 0 on disk 0; '/d D' means the destination location is partition D or dynamic D; '/d path' means the destination location is file path; no '/d' means restore to the original location.

[/f] {fill | original}

adjust the size of the destination partition. "fill" means to fill the entire destination partition after restoration; "original" means to keep the same size as the source partition after restoration. This command is not available for dynamic disks.

[/a]

specify to use partition alignment to optimize for SSD.

[/u] ["admin"]

specify the user's name to access the NAS share.

[/p] ["123"]

specify the password to access the NAS share.

[/x]

specify universal restore to restore system to dissimilar hardware. It has to be used with '/t system' and '/t disk'.

[/k]

specify sector by sector restore. Only when the image file was backed up sector by sector, can it be restored using sector by sector restore

[/w] {1 | 0}

Wait for the operation to complete, it could be decided by one of these two parameters: 0 or 1.

Parameters

Description

{/c}

clone system, disk, partition or dynamic volume.

{/t} {system | disk | part}

specify clone type. "system" means system clone; "disk" means disk clone; "part" means cloning patition or dynamic volume.

[/s] {0 | 0:0 | D}

specify the source to be cloned. No need to specify the source while performing system clone; '/s 0' means cloning disk 0; '/s 0:0' means cloning partition 0 on disk 0; '/s D' means to clone partion D or dynamic D.

{/d} {0 | 0:0 | D}

specify destination location. '/d 0' means the specified destination location is disk 0; '/d 0:0' means the specified destination location is partition 0 on disk 0; '/d D' means the specified destination location is partition D or dynamic volume D.

[/k]

specify to use Sector by sector clone.

[/a]

specify to use partition alignment to optimize for SSD.

[/f]{fill | original}

adjust the size of the destination partition. "fill" means to fill the entire destination partition after cloning; "original" means to keep the same size as the source partition after cloning. This command is not available for dynamic disks.

[/w] {1 | 0}

Wait for the operation to complete, it could be decided by one of these two parameters: 0 or 1.

Parameters

Description

[/l][0]

List disks and partitions on this computer. Use /l to show ALL disks on this computer, /l 0 or /l 1 shows partitions only of disk 0 or disk 1.

[/l][/s "d:\backup.fvd"]|[/e]|[/u ]|[/p]

list disk, partition, and dynamic volume. '/s' means the path of the specified image (If there is only one backup task in the directory, you can specify it as a directory); '/u' and '/p' means the users' name and password to access the specified NAS shared path; '/e' means the password of the encrypted image.

Parameters

Description

{/ram}

Specify the type of ram disk, it could be one of the following: new, update, start, stop, set or unset.

{/drv}

Drive letter for ram disk, e.g. /drv Y.

[/sz]

Specify size(MB) to ram disk. e.g. /sz 3000 (Free RAM space).

[/sv]

Save ram disk's data. e.g. /sv 1.

[/systmp]

Set system temporary directory to ram disk. e.g. /systmp 1.

[/usertmp]

Set current temporary directory to ram disk. e.g. /usertmp 1.