Hi all, I notice that Tech, a avast! Technical with nearly 50k post in the forum, has his signatory with link to Comodo Time Machine. Is it safe to use CTM besides avast! ? Currently I am looking for a reliable system snapshot and recovery. Preferable free but would ok if the fee is minimal or one-off like SAS or MBAM.
Thanks for your help and input.
Here’s the link to CTM forum: https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-ctm-b198.0/
Nevertheless, I also would be interested in Tech’s opinion…!!
asyn
Look… It’s not a toy. But it can restore the computer completely in less than 30 seconds… No sign of trouble going to an old snapshot!
It does what it promises: your computer travel back in time.
It had a very difficult beta phase (crashes, BSODS, loosing data).
It uses the same engine (licensed) of other snapshot/recovery tools (like RollBack). But it is free.
It has a lot of features and worked like a charm in my Windows 7 computer: scheduling, managing snapshots, etc.
Some drawbacks: you “need” to use their internal defragmentation tool (not a 3rd party), you won’t be able to run avast at boot time (but if you get infected, you can restore your system completely), image/backup tools needs attention to copy sector-by-sector.
You could have trouble if you have a multi boot (Linux & Windows) boot.
They’re improving significantly the way CTM works… I’ve disabled the non-reliable System Restore from Windows and I’m using CTM now.
Well, I’ll translate it to my language also 
If you’re interested in screenshots, just let me know…
Thanks for sharing with us, Tech…!! 
asyn
Some drawbacks: you "need" to use their internal defragmentation tool (not a 3rd party), you won't be able to run avast at boot time (but if you get infected, you can restore your system completely), image/backup tools needs attention to copy sector-by-sector.For me these are significant enough to not want to use this product. I prefer the built in defragmentation tool that comes with Windows 7 and does an excellent job. The avast! boot time scan for me is the only regular scan I ever run. It is also one scan that isn't offered by most other AV apps and has access to more of your files than any other way of scanning. ( Just my opinions old friend. :) )
I agree with bob3160
No Comodo for me.
+1
That makes three of us then.
I did go to a number of the comodo forum topics and for me and my existing system setup these drawbacks are a deal breaker.
Things are changing in new versions. They’re quite responsive.
If you test software with frequency, you can use virtual environment (but I don’t have a second Windows license for that) or you can use a rollback system. You can’t rely on Windows System Restore.
Of course, if you’re a general user, you can drop this very useful tool down.
I do not make discriminations to Comodo as many other users. You can use it and it’s does not become your religion.
I’m not a fanboy of Comodo neither avast.
I can test software with total security. The system is just rolled back in 30 seconds… No traces of any installed software: no files, no registry keys, no links, nothing, nada, zero…
I don’t believe anyone is advocating system restore as I have said for many years that it is far from infallible and can have unexpected consequences (I have had mine disabled for over 8 years).
I use drive imaging software as my system restore replacement as it gives an exact copy of your partition.
I don’t discriminate on comodo products just because they are comodo products, just that this one simply doesn’t suit my needs/requirements.
Me too.
Just changing 1 hour for restoration to 30 seconds…
I’m sure you don’t. I’m not referring to you, specifically.
COMODO is the red line I will never cross.
But we all all entitled to our opinions
I’m not biased. I respect all your opinions.
But, please, do not post opinions of programs you’re not using (or have direct experience), please.
FUD no. Fanboy no. Biased no. Don’t you think?
Well since the OP asked for help and input it pretty much opens it up to all opinions.
I am sorry if I started up a post that drew some conflicts among yours. I appreciate all your comment. Taken links to various like Comodo Forum, Drive Image, etc.
A 500GB portable harddisk will cost me around USD95. I wanna learn others cheaper/convennion options to store some backup for my important files. By seeing some serious negative inputs in the comments/advice, I put my decision on hold but really don’t know how to make judgement though.
Not at all…
Comodo Time Machine is NOT a backup solution. It’s not intended for that. It’s a reliable rollback tool (or system restore).
It has drawbacks. You must choose what you want.
I use CTM to protect only the system partition. I have other 4 to defrag and play ;D
https://forums.comodo.com/bug-reports-ctm/ctm-ruin-my-day-my-disk-my-data-t56891.0.html
sorry about that Tech, but this just had to be mentioned :
Looks like the honeymoon is over. Not a very good ending either. 
LOL. They do get you eventually. Comodo actually released a public beta of their Cleaner with two known serious flaws that would cause the OS to be unbootable and unrecoverable if you did certain operations. And thought this was fine in a beta-like everyone would read and understand. And were angry with me when I commented in the beta release thread that Cleaners often caused more problems than they solved and that this one in particular deserved a “pass”. In spite of all the destroyed systems, they have stonewalled even reverting CTM to beta status until some of the more serious problems could be a fixed or a company sponsored recovery guide developed. At least their users will learn a lot about MBR recovery and other useful tools.