I've lost so much video editor work stored on my IMram scratch disk due to Windows 10 just randomly blue screen crashing.
To backup the drive to harddrive, I would periodically shutdown and restart my computer to force a write out to platter disk.
Then I thought, wouldn't be great if they had a Syncronize Windows Tray Icon or something I could just click on? So I went searching, and found the Syncronize Now button on the Data Tab of the IMDisk Configure. And I was like, hallilueah! I just have to keep this control panel open all the time and click this button. Clunky, but okay, a solution.
Then I thought, you know what would really be great? If there was a variable box [ ___ ] where I could enter a minute value, and every X minutes, IMdisk, if it were doing nothing else, would synchronize out to the backup location. Like, every 15, 30, 60 minutes or whatever. I mean, the driver is loaded and running all the time anyway, a Windows interrupt to a timer event should be trivial to implement. If there were no changes on the drive, then calling the Syncronize Now routine pretty much does nothing anyway.
The synchronization of all the ramdisks created with the synchronization option can be called from command line, with something like: "C:\Program Files\ImDisk\ImDiskTk-svc.exe" SYNC
Of course, it requires administratives privileges.
With that, you can either create a shortcut to manually start it from the desktop or the taskbar, or create a scheduled task to start it periodically.
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I've lost so much video editor work stored on my IMram scratch disk due to Windows 10 just randomly blue screen crashing.
To backup the drive to harddrive, I would periodically shutdown and restart my computer to force a write out to platter disk.
Then I thought, wouldn't be great if they had a Syncronize Windows Tray Icon or something I could just click on? So I went searching, and found the Syncronize Now button on the Data Tab of the IMDisk Configure. And I was like, hallilueah! I just have to keep this control panel open all the time and click this button. Clunky, but okay, a solution.
Then I thought, you know what would really be great? If there was a variable box [ ___ ] where I could enter a minute value, and every X minutes, IMdisk, if it were doing nothing else, would synchronize out to the backup location. Like, every 15, 30, 60 minutes or whatever. I mean, the driver is loaded and running all the time anyway, a Windows interrupt to a timer event should be trivial to implement. If there were no changes on the drive, then calling the Syncronize Now routine pretty much does nothing anyway.
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Last edit: Cobra Choppergirl 2024-04-19
The synchronization of all the ramdisks created with the synchronization option can be called from command line, with something like:
"C:\Program Files\ImDisk\ImDiskTk-svc.exe" SYNC
Of course, it requires administratives privileges.
With that, you can either create a shortcut to manually start it from the desktop or the taskbar, or create a scheduled task to start it periodically.