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Please don't misconstrue what I said. Snapshot is working for many people. Those are just practices I would do if I were creating a live image. Again, I'm sure someone else may have better advice for you on this issue.

Good luck.

I usually do offline backups from Linux w/ wimlib so I may not have the solution for you. The one piece of advice I'd give you is to temporarily disable any antivirus and and shutdown any VM's that you have running before attempting the backup, as these are both accessing the system at low levels an...

It looks like you have a VirtualBox VM running. Is that the case? If so, shut it down, or suspend it at least, before running the capture.
A virtual machine is always changing state and could be writing to the preallocated image file for any number of reasons w/o changing the file size.

Thanks, I'll try it out! Related question (I don't have a wim handy to test this): Does wimlib store info regarding the source filesystem? ...and does wiminfo display this info, if stored? This isn't a feature request, as I can just put this info in the Description field if I need it. Thanks again. ...

While I'm usually imaging/deploying EXT4 and NTFS filesystems, many system repair / recovery / BIOS flashing partitions are created as VFAT/FAT32. I was wondering if there was a technical reason for not supporting file attributes (Archive, Readonly, System & Hidden) on VFAT? It would be nice to ...

synchronicity wrote:Fixed in wimlib v1.8.3.

Thanks again for your work on this.

Notes to my future self... Compiling wimlib under Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev ntfs-3g-dev libfuse-dev libattr1-dev # wimlib prereqs $ ./configure $ make $ echo "Library to extract, create, modify, and mount Windows Imaging (WIM) files" > ./description-pak $ sudo checkinstall ...

That was it!

Thanks @JFX!

I'm trying to get wimlib compiled/packaged/installed under Ubuntu 15.10 I have the following prerequisites installed libxml2-dev ntfs-3g-dev libfuse-dev libattr1-dev From the directory where I've extracted wimlib 1.8.3-BETA12, I run: $ ./configure $ make $ sudo checkinstall Everything seems to compi...

Well, based on one simple restore with wimlib 1.8.3-BETA1, the original issues seems to be fixed. Thanks for your time looking into this!

- TechRyda