1st I did.
2nd It got some impact on the Windows registry that I could not analyze at VM.
3rd It’s my right to use system restore.
4th The culprit it the avast repair option not doing its job.
And will avast pay me for all the time I need to do this? C’mon… It does not take 5 minutes at all on my system.
It works. I use it. Just that I do it weekly and I would a restore point of yesterday.
I use Macrium.
Virtualbox also allows snapshotting what makes the work more flexible.
It’s not as fast as CTM at old times. But it works.
5 minutes for an image backup? I tried to image my system and was told first that my external HDD wasn’t big enough (it’s 110gb) and then was given a time estimate of about 25 minutes. I canceled it and still have never done an image on any computer I have ever used. I agree that System restore should work with Avast (or anything else) installed and still think that the persistent caching feature may have something to do with the problem since a similar feature caused the same thing for Comodo.
Imaging has a lot a variables that affect its speed. The compression ratio selected; the higher the compression, the slower the backup.
Imaging to a second local drive is always faster and safer than creating an image on the source drive. If you are storing the image on an external USB 2.0 drive, the backup time will be signifigantly slower due the speed of USB 2.0 transfer rate. Imaging to my external USB 3.0 drive on the other hand is almost as fast as to my internal SATA 6 GB/s backup drive.
I guess I should have mentioned that my image backup times are based on a fast SATA 3 GB/s source drive to a separate destination internal SATA 6GB/s drive.
Finally there is the imaging software used. As the saying goes, not all are created equal.
Imaging to a second local drive is always faster and safer than creating an image on the source drive.Something you can't do using the windows 7 backup program. They are smart enough to know that if your drive crashes, so do any partitions. ;D
It seems that this has been going on for quite sometime. Has there been any acknowledgment from the developers on this problem? I would like to see somebody respond to this issue and what they plan on doing to fix it.
Thanks Tgell for bringing the top back.
Another user that can’t use the avast repair option (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=90256.0;topicseen).
I’m running about 50% success on Avast repair. So I guess flip a coin perform you attempt it ;D
Is QA happy with 50%? ???
Is QA happy with 50%?
No. But what you going to do? Avast is a freebie. My mother taught me a long time ago that “beggars can’t be chosers.”
Over the years I have developed the attitude either grin and bear it or pitch it and buy software with less issues. However, as we all know many times that has issues.
I know a solution! Pitch Windows and buy a Mac. A lot of people seem to be doing that these days.