Yes, like a certain engineer aboard a certain famous imaginary starship, R-Drive image regularly, initially reports a far lengthier time to accomplish a backup than it actually takes. Not the first place I’d look, but as there’s no dedicated settings dialog… The program also sports a clone function and nicely, will perform both incremental (all changes since the last backup) and differential (all changes since the initial backup) imaging. Scheduling and scripting are also provided, as well as logging, though you must open the About dialog to enable the latter. Despite the look, there is mouse support. If you want to have fun at your clients expense, use R-Drive Image’s character-based interface running off the boot disc to impress them. The mouse is supported, so it’s actually no more difficult to use than the newer GUI. Use it to both intimidate and amaze your friends and clients. While you need to use the boot media to back up computers not running Windows, in this case-it can actually be fun. Accompanying the regular GUI which mimics the Windows interface, is the character-based interface shown below. The recovery disc interface mimics the Windows interface, but there’s also a character-based GUI shown in the next image. IDGīesides imaging of partitions and entire drives, R-Drive supports cloning, etc. Even better, the company’s R-Studio recovery software can open these raw images to rescue files. It will also create raw images (copying all sectors, not just those containing data), so it can be used to protect just about any computer including those with newer file system such as BtrFS, etc. I use it to back up the my iMac running Windows via Boot Camp (Time Machine ignores the Windows partition).

R-Drive Image runs under and supports all modern Windows file systems (including ReFS), but also supports Apple’s HFS/HFS+/APFS and most Linux/BSD file systems.

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