Create Command Line Backup with Qiling Disk Master

Command Line Backup of Qiling Disk Master

Qiling Disk Master provides DiskMasterUI.exe utility for users to make backups from command line interface or by creating a batch (.BAT) file. It is very useful for unattended and multi-task backups. The DiskMasterUI.exe command line utility enables you to perform most of the backup operations that are supported by the Qiling Disk Master graphical user interface (GUI).

You can create a backup of the system state, hard disks, or partitions from command prompt by using the DiskMasterUI.exe command followed by various parameters.

• The available backing up types include new, full, incremental and differential.
• A backup image can be saved to a locally attached storage (either internal or external) or a remote shared network.
• DiskMasterUI.exe utility also supports additional actions, like naming, compressing, splitting, encrypting image file and backing up data sector by sector.

To restore backed-up images, please use the Qiling Disk Master GUI.

How to Create Backups with DiskMasterUI.exe Command Line Utility

The following example shows how to use the DiskMasterUI.exe utility to back up system drive from CMD. This example makes a new backup of system and names it "sysbackup". Drive F is set as destination path to store the backup image file. The compression level is 0 which means no compression, and image file is encrypted with password 123.

Step 1. Download and install Qiling Disk Master Professional. It has 30-day free trial, so you can enjoy it before purchasing.

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Step 2. Click on the "Start" button in the lower left corner. In the search box, type "cmd", or press WIN+R and type "CMD", and then run as administrator privilege. After that, Command Prompt will open (If you launch Qiling Disk Master GUI, please close it before opening command prompt).

Step 3. At the prompt, type:
DiskMasterUI /b new /n sysbackup /t system /d f: /c 0 /e 123

And then hit "Enter" on your keyboard to perform the command line backup operation.

Tips:

• The command line of Qiling Disk Master does not support file backup and restoration yet. Besides, you need to run command line prompt as administrator privilege.
• You can also create a batch (.BAT) file with command line or scripts for unattended and multi-task backups.
• To display the list of all available parameters of DiskMasterUI.exe command-line utility, please type "DiskMasterUI /?" at a command prompt.

• For more examples and detailed parameters explanation, please go to help document about Command Line Backup.