Rollback protection

I saw this product some time ago and liked the idea behind it for extra protection but due its price I did without. Check out this link

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/rollback-rx-professional/

Is this a good compliment to regular security apps? Is it worth this price?

 

A couple of years ago, I used Rollback Rx Pro on a Windows XP machine. I do not know what the version number was then.

It always eventually screwed up my hard drive. Sometimes I could NOT even reinstall Windows or use a my OEM restore disk. Had to first zero out the entire drive.

I was using a Velocity Micro machine. The time I had to zero out my hard drive before I was able to restore my PC to running again I had to contact Velocity Micro for help. The Tech told me they get lots of calls from peeps whose PCs have been seriously screwed-up by Rollback RX.

On my machine it would usually take a month before my PC got paralyzed by Rollback. The problem was always that Windows would start to miscount my free space. It would eventually see my hard drive as being 99% used when in fact only about 33% had been used. There was no way to fix it other than reformatting and reinstalling Windows.

Rollback saved my ass several times and I loved having the program on my PC until I learned that it was responsible for my having to reformat and reinstall about once a month.


check out this thread:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=229379

 

ive been using rollback rx for quite a while now, dont remember even how long, i just remember it being part of my everyday system, it works flawlessly for me using Vista 32

 

@firzen771

I see you use a configuration like me:
Vista 32bit, Windows FW Enabled, Windows Defender Disabled
Real-Time: Avira AntiVir Premium / Rollback Rx

With Avira Premium Security Suite 9 and Rollback Rx 9.0 I have the problem that
some system shutdowns do not work - the system keeps powered on.
Even after enabling the Rollback Rx option lockdisk=0.
Do you have or know this problem?

 

Unfortunatelly Rollback Rx doesn't work on Windows 7 so far, so in future if you are planning to change your OS to Win7 you will have to pay extra for upgrade to next release Rollback Rx.

 

BTW i have found interesting article about new System Restore feature in Windows 7 which from this version has a lot of improvements over old XP or Vista SR:
http://www.blogsdna.com/2039/exploring-windows-7-system-restore-restore-previous-versions.htm

So, the question is - will it be still necessary using 'external' Rollback software if Windows 7 will offer it already?

 

I haven't used 7 much but if it works as described I would think Rollback wouldn't be necessary. Thanks.

 

I was thinking about buy license on Rollback Rx in comming promo on BitsDuJour (25th May), but since i noticed that Rollback doesn't support Windows 7 yet, and similiar (the same?) feature is from now implemented in new Windows 7 so I will save some $$

 

if u ppl want to get the most of your money go and buy EAZ FIX which same as roollback RX (diifre reseller ) , BUT eaz fix kept drive image and improve it in ver9 , roolback RX some how take it off and sell it like a "new" product

cheers

 

10x demoneye for the suggestion, I give a try Eaz-fix and i like it so far.
I was wondering if someone knowledgeable would be willing describe main differences between built-in Windows 7 (regards to http://www.blogsdna.com/2039/exploring-windows-7-system-restore-restore-previous-versions.htm ) new System Protection mechanism and Rollback Rx or Eaz-fix (since they are pretty the same app).

TIA,

 

FYI...from what I understand from frequenting the Horizon Datasys Forum, the public release of EAZ FIX has not been updated yet. As demoneye points out it still has the Drive Imaging application included when compared to RB Rx v9. Apparently, the version available to resellers and OEMs' of the product, ie, EAZ-FIX, will soon follow suit.

 

The problem with Windows Restore is it can't restore Windows if it doesn't boot up. Rollback is the only Windows recovery software that lets you restore Windows at boot up if you discover Windows is broken, you can go back in time to a point where it last worked. Its been a lifesaver for me.

 

Not 100% sure yet, but it looks like with Win7 it is possible to restore from its installation disk at bootup using the Repair option. I say this because I used the option this am to fix a botched linux experiment and I saw the option, though all I had to do was fix the boot partition after restoring the Win7 image using ShadowProtect. The function worked flawlessly - no data or user config loss at all.

**EDIT**

I can confirm Win 7 has far better restore/recovery options than XP or Vista, where it is possible to do so from booting off the installation disk. See screenshots. Sorry about quality; had to use the camera.

 

I found this info from Rollback Rx website:

http://www.horizondatasys.com/217802.ihtml

So if point #3 isn't true on these days (Win 7), then we still have #1, #2 and #4 if indeed this is true.

 

It looks like Win 7 will backup an entire partition if desired, though it recommends to an external drive. It even has a scheduler. The restore can be done off the install disk if required, so it looks like this could be a worthy replacement for Acronis or other popular backup/restore software.

 

1000db, FYI – the two utilities that I use (and can recommend) for “rollback protection” are ShadowProtect Desktop by StorageCraft, an image backup tool to save/restore the operating system partition; and the create/restore checkpoint component within Fix-It Utilities, functionality that is similar in spirit to a Windows system restore point (but is more comprehensive).

 

Thanks for posting,

did you use DVD Windows 7 to get to the repair options after boot? I ask because Win 7 creates special System Reserved partition (capacity ~100MB) and it should be possible to rapair options from this partition i think

On the other hand i remember that when i had installed for example game on my Windows 7 and i did a baseline rollback image, then after installation when i wanted uninstall this game i did a rollback to the baseline and some game's files/folders were still present... that's strange.

With Rollback Rx i haven't observed behavior like this, so Windows built-in rollback feature still doesn't offer the same functionality as Rollback Rx.


TIA,

 

Hi Creer,

yes, I used the Win 7 install dvd to boot to the "Repair" option. You may be right about the reserved partition; I'm just not aware of it at this time. I just wanted to see if was possible to restore an image from the dvd, and it certainly looks that way, although it does look for the image on a different hard drive, such as an external one, or off of optical backups.

Win 7's backup/restore just looks to be far more capable than that of XP's and probably Vista's as well.

That is strange. Maybe it only restores data it deems as critical? Who know? I'll have to try this some day once I land another hard drive. BTW, until I see otherwise in Win 7, I still place more stock in Acronis and ShadowProtect for backup/restore.

 

I see now.

It looks like information from Rollback website are true (even if we're talking about Windows 7):

BTW. Today EAZ-FIX saved my bacon... I installed Process Hacker on my computer, installation was complete, but during first run i saw BSOD with information that process kprocesshacker.exe (or smth like that) causes error.
Reboot didn't help and i still saw BSOD. So i use EAZ-FIX during boot (HOME button) and rollback my system to the previous snapshot before installation PH.

Of course i have also backup image, but it will takes more time. Rollback using EAZ-FIX takes about 2min