![]() ![]() The full backup took 33 minutes to complete. I was also given a window to enter a comment describing the archive. I set up a new folder on the Segate drive, and named my backup file. Next, the wizard let me decide upon compression level (I chose normal), image splitting if you want to back up to DVDs ( did not split the image).įor backup destination, I chose my Segate External HD. ![]() I had already moved all recorded TV off my mini, so the wizard showed that the size of objects to back up was 298 GB, and the estimated archive size was 35.6 GB. I chose to backup up the complete Hybrid HD. Upon selecting Backup, a Backup Wizard lets you check boxes to backup the complete Hybrid HD, or just the Mac or Bootcamp C-drive. Once CampTune loads, you are presented with a nice layout offering lots of options, including Installing Windows OS, Resizing partitions, various Tools, and Backup and Restore operations. Paragon CampTune runs in what is called a WinPE environment for performing backups and restores. The display says Windows is loading files, and then says Starting Windows. With this CampTune Boot Disk in the mini superdrive, you then reboot the system, and you see three icons on the screen: a HD symbol for Macintosh HD, a HD symbol for Windows (bootcamp), and a CD symbol that is also labeled Windows. This boot disk functions exactly the same way as the emergency boot disk available in Acronis True Image. It's only function is to allow you to burn a Boot Disk CD. You install CampTune onto your Mac OS X environment. Paragon CampTune 9.5 works in the following way. ![]() The shows record onto the bootcamp partition and when I need more space, I transfer them to my Windows Home Server which provides 5TB of storage. I use a Hapauge usb digital tuner plugged into my mini, along with a SiliconDust HDHomeRun tuner that communicates with the Mac Mini over Ethernet cable to provide a total of 3 tuners. ![]() I immediately used bootcamp to install Windows 7 and set it up to to have Windows Media Center record and play back all of our TV shows, Netflix, etc., on our wide-screen TV. It has the 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, has a 320GB SATA Hard Drive, and I have not updated the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Operating System. I purchased my Mac Mini in January, 2010. If and when the mini needs to be restored, I will find out if I made a good purchase from Paragon. The setup of the system took me a fair amount of time, and as long as it is working, I do not want to screw things up by a failed restore. It has been working perfectly for two years. The reason is that I use my Mac Mini with its Windows 7 Bootcamp as my Media Center. The backup completed successfully, but I have not tested it performing an actual restore operation. I believe that I successfully made a full back up of my Mac Mini, HD, including both the Mac partition and the Bootcamp partition onto a Seagate External HD formatted NTFS. I recently purchased Paragon CampTune 9.5 This product is very similar to Acronis True Image Home 12 that I use to regularly back up and restore my Windows 7 PCs. Currently I am doing some double duty in backups ( time machine for mac os x and win 7 system imaging for bootcamp ).Īny other relevant thoughts? Paragon seems like a reliable mac os software company. I am somewhat interested as it would be nice to have 1 tool that gets both sets of backups at one time. Primarily it looks like a partitioning/resizing tool but it also has apparently some backup capabilities of getting both mac os x and bootcamp partitions backed up at same time.ĭid some looking around for reviews of 9.5 but did not find much. Looks like paragon has camp tune 9.5 out. The people at Paragon seem to understand disk structure and partitioning quite well.Īnd as a bonus, Camptune will allow backup and restore of your entire Mac physical hard drive (both Mac and Windows partitions) to an external or network drive, although you do have to have it installed on the network share machine to do a restore (no boot disk option). Camptune worked pretty well for me resizing partitions. ![]()
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