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Hope this helps.
Seems promising…
Although seems also that they’re promising too much… few resources, less space consumption, time of execution… and so on.
I am on XP and still using (to my great satisfaction) GoBack - even though now owned and totally ignored by Symantec.
The RollBack Rx is used by a few of the folks I support on Vista. While it lacks some of the features I have learned to depend on in Goback it is a product that works quite well in Vista. It does seem to have some limitations but it really does do what is says pretty well. Again though a product that can be made best use of by a person who is fairly computer literate, has a basic understanding of the way it works and, above all, has more than one disk drive and knows how to arrange disk usage based on the way Rollback Rx works.
The built in back-up software in Windows 7 seems pretty good and, It’s part of the system.
Is it a roll back system or a backup one?
Running continuous backups is different than having a rolling back feature…
Tech,
It’s both as you can see from the following picture:
There is a significant difference that Bob may have missed.
With products like GoBack and Rollback Rx the intent is and does rollback the covered partitions to a preceding point in time at the disk sector level. That means the disk is entirely returned to a previous point in time.
The Microsoft system restore feature has only ever seemed to cover a limited reach of the system that Microsoft deems necessary. It is not (and never has been) transparent what this covers and what exposures it leaves uncovered. I have not doubt that this is better in Windows 7 than Vista and better than XP but I prefer certainty rather than the murkiness still surrounding the “System Restore” feature.
I forgot to add that Rollback Rx (remember I am not a user - but support those who are) does include a full backup capability.
As I can see, Windows is not a rollback feature (just a backup/restore one).
Indeed, it’s not reliable, I mean, the system restore. Works in some situations, not in others. Does not restore back all the disk to a previous situation.
Bob is not talking about the classic System Restore but partition imaging that is now available on Vista and 7. You know like you do with Ghost or similar.
I’ve been using the Windows Complete PC Backup for quite some time now on Vista and it has never failed me. True the images are not compressed as much as with Ghost or True Image but since you can schedule it to run at desired time(via task scheduler), it supports incremental backups and the image files are mountable(hence one can edit them quite easily if need be), not to mention it’s already built into Windows this is a quite decent and most of all inexpensive way of doing system backups. That is if you own Vista Ultimate or Bussines editions.
Tech,
You obviously didn’t look at my post.
System Image is not the same as System Restore.
Windows 7 offerers both!
Bob, I’m not speaking about imaging (backup and restore) neither restoring (system restore), but like Alanrf said, a sector-by-sector restoration tool like GoBack.
Bob,
please advise where you posted anything other than information about a System Restore in this thread.
Alan,
If you look at the picture poste, you’ll notice that it creates an Image as part of the initial backup procedure.
Hope that helps.
We’re not understanding each other… this thread is about a RollBack tool, for sector-to-sector restoration and NOT about a backup (or imaging) system, not even about Windows System Restore. : :
Hi,in fact rollback v8.1 (which I have) has a imaging program built into it, has nothing to do with rollbacks. Works like any other disk imaging.
Rollback Rx does turn off windows system restore on protected drives. I speak from experience on win xp and take for granted the same applies to vista. :