Sounds like a gigantic PITA. I usually try to create a clone of all new machines and then yearly clones besides periodically copying all my working files to my home desktop and two home NAS boxes. My safe deposit box and office floor are both littered with cloned disks. I also have several spare D630s ready to take one of the cloned disks if necessary.
I"m assuming the cloning failure was really the encryption and not just something like using old cloning software that didn't understand WIndows7 and 4k block allignment (the program I used to clone XP which was probably a stripped down version of Acronis would not work for Win7 - I had to buy a new version).
Two ideas for the future - (a) Can you run a periodic (weekly?) overnight backup to an external drive? or (b) I don't know exactly how the drive encryption works or what cloning software you are using, but I'm wondering if something like Acronis could be used to create a non-bootable drive image that you could still restore files from if necessary. (Acronis can both clone to a HW disk and create a compressed non-bootable drive image to external storage) It would take longer to extract things than (a) but might be faster than (a).
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Date: 2015-07-09 04:28 pm (UTC)I"m assuming the cloning failure was really the encryption and not just something like using old cloning software that didn't understand WIndows7 and 4k block allignment (the program I used to clone XP which was probably a stripped down version of Acronis would not work for Win7 - I had to buy a new version).
Two ideas for the future -
(a) Can you run a periodic (weekly?) overnight backup to an external drive?
or
(b) I don't know exactly how the drive encryption works or what cloning software you are using, but I'm wondering if something like Acronis could be used to create a non-bootable drive image that you could still restore files from if necessary. (Acronis can both clone to a HW disk and create a compressed non-bootable drive image to external storage) It would take longer to extract things than (a) but might be faster than (a).
Good luck.