is this data recovery software good?

[iceni60]

has anyone tried this data recovery software called RESTORE? it comes as a livecd, or VM and maybe some other versions i think. i don't know anything else about it! and i don't know anything about backup software either.
http://restore.holonyx.com/
http://restore.holonyx.com/index.php/about-restore
here's the livecd download -
http://restore.holonyx.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=34&Itemid=1
i found some screenshots -
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=198657

i did backup some stuff to an unused HDD once, but everything else is on a few CDs, i want to start making proper backups now.

[Chris12923]

I'll try it in a bit and let you know how it goes.

Thanks,

Chris

[farmerlee]

If you want to make backup images and you have a seagate or maxtor hard drive you can try seagate discwizard or maxtor maxblast 5. Both are free to use if you have either of those brands. Both are based on acronis trueimage 10.

[clambermatic]

"iceni60" howdy...

If 'data recovery' is what you meant by backups... for the purpose of having a workable copy to fall back on when crash occur on your machine, then i would suggest trying Acronis 'TrueImage' (known for it's proven integral usefullness in OS backups)!

BUT if your 'data recovery' means recovering "data" (docx/emails/e-files at HDD) due to unintentional deletions or file corruptions or even HDD mechanical crash (it happen, due to old age), i & at work uses this Indian engineered - STELLAR Phoenix, of which its url is ~ http://www.stellarinfo.com/

... Shalom ;)

[iceni60]

{QUOTE-> I'll try it in a bit and let you know how it goes.

Thanks,

Chris <-QUOTE}
i just looked through the forum at Restore and it looks like it's still beta and things are still being added. and it might need a lot of linux knowledge too ???
http://restore.holonyx.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=65&func=view&id=17&catid=9

farmerlee and clambermatic, thanks for the help, but i'm not going to buy anything for making backups :o lol. i only use linux, but i don't know how relevant that is??

the main reason i want something is because i have a few brand new unused HDDs, yesterday i wanted to backup some stuff - mainly config files for certain programs and note taking programs, bookmarks, rss feeds and loads of ebooks. that all came to over 700MB, so i didn't do it in the end and thought i'd look for some backup software i could use instead. maybe i'll backup more things that way, or maybe even start imaging. i think i want a HDD enclosure too.

[Chris12923]

Well I looked at Restore and it's live cd is Xubuntu version of linux. I could not find a way to backup using it. So yes it is not that simple at least not for me and I have used quite a few backup apps.

Thanks,

Chris

[iceni60]

it looks like he said to do an upgrade to update restore so more bugs are fixed and other features added.
http://restore.holonyx.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=65&func=view&id=17&catid=9#19

you can do that like this if you want to try it -
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitute upgrade

then you have to restart restore, maybe like this -
sudo /etc/init.d/restore stop
sudo /etc/init.d/restore start

if restore is wrong and not in that directory it might be something with a slightly different name.

but, it does look like a linux program, i didn't notice that when i posted! or didn't think it would be so complicated, it might not be worth updating everything if you're not in to linux so much.

[iceni60]

it looks like he wants to get the program moving with more devs, so maybe if you try doing those updates in a month or so there'll be some big improvments.

[Peter2150]

No offense to anyone using linux, but if you are backing up, presumably what you want to back up is valuable. Use something proven reliable. If you want to test this program, fine, but backup with something reliable first.

[Lamehand]

I use Clonezilla, it's free and reliable, for imaging different drives and partitions.
On top of that i backup all data to an external drive.

If something goes wrong the system is back up and working in no time.

http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

If you backup your /home partition on a regular basis (i do this with a cronjob every day) you are always up to date.When something goes wrong it's easy to restore the image of the linux partition and after that install the latest or an earlier /home directory.

Lamehand

[djg05]

You can use either Acronis on Paragon to make Linux images if you work from the rescue disk. Paragon recently had a free version available and is often on Computer Mag cover disks.

There is a image program for Linux but is way to complicated for me.

[garret]

Hello all,

RESTORE has been running in production environments for about 5 years now, but as originally coded, in PHP. The version we are finishing now is in RoR, quite unique for this product space. We opened it as an open source project because there doesn't seem to be anything on this level out there as such.

The confusions about getting it going might be based more on the version than the application itself. The first release is the Data Center Version, which takes considerable more effort to start initially than the coming versions. I have posted a wink tutorial on Sourceforge that might help Here. (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/restore/RESTORE_start.htm?use_mirror=osdn)

Also, we are working on the docs, moving code bases helped with features but killed us on using existing docs :-).

If you need help the forums are working pretty well now also.

Thanks for trying us out, and I hope I haven't over stepped my bounds here.
Garret