Rollback Rx

I can vouch för that you dont have to write any review. I bought this program and got the 50% discount (thanks to beetlejuice and the coupon he posted here). It was a good promotional offer imo. I might not be the smartest person on this earth (I guess I have more money than brain) but I did buy it without testing it first, just because of the pretty good offer
If I dont like it or it dont play well on my system I will give it away to a friend who is looking for this kind of program. He has more brains but no money

 

ill be testing it out over the weekend.

Im just tired of having various backups over the years made by different softwares, spread along a couple of laptops and pc`s. so now im taking my time choosing

Ive tested restorit for a week now, and as i understand that one is similare to rollback in function.

 

mango~ I for one would be very interested in reading your comparitive observations between RestoreIT and RollBack RX. An ex-GoBack friend of mine swears by (not at) RestoreIT, but then again, he never tried RollBack Rx. ~pv

 

Did someone try a CHKDSK with Rollback Rx? Since I have Rollback Rx install I can't do a Chkdsk? I always receive a message telling me that it is impossible to open direct access to the "volume" (I don't know the exact translation of volume but it is probably meaning "drive" in english).

Thanks,
Atomas31

PS. : I have Windows XP with Sp2

 

Hmmmm, VERY interesting. Remember, with RollBack you also cannot use the MS or any third-party defragger. Well, you can use them, no harm is done, but the RollBack folks admit that your hard drive will not get defragged. That is why RollBack comes with its own built-in defragger; only by using the RB defragger will you now be able to defrag your hard drive. Just what in tarnation is RB doing to the hard drive? I'm not saying that it is doing anything "bad", it probably is not, but ... JUST WHAT IS IT DOING??

Acadia

 

hm, beginning to get second thoughts about rollback.

no other defragger, and the uninstall seems, well, different.

And its a new program.

On my test laptop, restoreit uninstall was very simple. And that program makes a hidden partition and boots to that before winxp.

just some quick things about restoreit

+boots to its "console" partition before windows. VERY useful on a laptop in the field where bootcd etc isnt always available. Can continue work that day.
+fast incremental create and backup
+ file recovery by right click on a file for previous versions, or in program for deleted ones.
+easy scheduling and doesnt slow pc down

-right now im unable to delete any incremental points. It says it will delete auto, but doesnt. Cant save them externally when low on space
-Everything reasent will be gone when reverting back

- Big one: experienced 2 crashes when i forced a "hard shutdown". Program came up with error "may need reinstall", and the incremental points were damaged. (i forget what word they use) So reinstalled the program.

 

Peter, according to the Rollback website defragging with anything other than the RB defragger is useless. This from their website:

"Do I need to disable Rollback Rx before a defrag of my hard drive to prevent from losing any snapshots?

No.. Defrag won't damage the system or lose the snapshot, it just won't help either... Rollback Rx is managing all the disk sectors, its understanding of the "fragmentation" is different and better than the Windows file system; therefore running a file system based defrag won't help much. Rollback has a build in defrag feature, it's much faster and efficient. We recommend using the built in defrag feature."

And also this:
"Can I use Roxio Perfect Disk or any other third party Disk Defrag software?

Firstly -Yes, you can use the "Roxio Perfect Disk" to defrag the drive with Rollback Rx installed.

In fact you can use any defragmenting tool on a Rollback Rx protected system. It won't damage the snapshots or system. However the defrag won't help much (or anything), because the defragmenting tool will not know the Rollback Rx Data strcuture..."

Acadia

 

My email to Rx was about why they didn`t have forums cuz there was a member here saying that that was misleading when Wilders was mentioned on their site. I just asked if they planned on starting their own and that there was an interest in Rx from a few members. That post just had the info in it that I posted and the code if someone wants to use it. Now whether they do or not is up to them. I don`t have anything to do with Rx other then use the product, I also own ISR so...

 

Guys,I found a possible catch...As I read,the registration/activation procedure of Rollback Rx is the following:
-You get a Product ID and install the product.
-You get the Product ID and a Registration ID and send it to them whether online or by phone/fax.
-They send you a Registration Code which you enter and that is all.
BUT the Registration ID (and as a result the Registration Code) are based on your hardware(more accuratelly:your HDD signatures).
And my question:
What if I change my HDD(because of damage or capacity or anything else) but am still the same userI assume (based on the above) that I won 't be able to register Rollback Rx on my new HDD (or even new computer if I buy a new one)...
What do you have to say on that?I find it really annoying and I practically can 't re-buy Rollback Rx each time I change my HDD...Does anyone know anything about it and what Horizon Datasys has to say on the above?

 

Thanks for that overview mango. By 'hard shutdown' do you mean you didn't allow any running program-files (including RestoreIT) to close? ~pv

 

i powered off the laptop by holding in the power button.

This when i converted a MPEG-4 to xvid, cpu was at 80%. This just as a test, and it seems like restoreit didnt like it 2 out of 4 times.

With a laptop these things can happen, and thats why restore programs are important.

So, it isnt a bulletproof system. Thats why im still on the fence, if the laptop suddenly shuts down and restoreit gets corrupted you better wish that you can boot into winxp afterwards to reinstall it.

 

Is it just my system or does this happen to you:

Whenever I do something in Rollback, like creating a new snapshot or deleting snapshots, that operation is really quick, like ten seconds or so. But after a couple of minutes SHDserv.exe takes 100% of the CPU for 3-4 minutes. Like it is updating what I have done in the GUI.

 

Jeez, thanks Peter2150. Thats it. I checked the log and noticed that it defragged everytime after I did my deletion/creation.
Not to myself - In the future- Look in the log before asking questions

 

mango~ While that situation happens to all of us sooner or later, it should not be all that strange for it to cause a 'hic-cup' in any program running at the time - not to imply that will happen, but it very well could.

I would apprciate hearing more about RestoreIT as you gain more experience using it. ~pv

 

Thanks for your research. Could one say that RB does its work mainly in the file allocation table?

 

yup, done that too. It is hard not to be enthuastic about this program

Now I notice that they have a drive image software that will work with Rollback Rx for free. Has anyone tried that yet? If not I´ll try to do that this weekend and give some feedback. If it works, then that will be the last weight in favor of Rollback over Firstdefence (for me). Firstdefence is a great program, no doubt about that, and it feels a bit more robust than RB, but RB is just so much more flexible imo.

well, I might add, if someone is thinking "social marketing" here, that I have only used this program for a couple of days, and Firstdefence has served me well for almost a year. There might be problems ahead, but this far, after using it quite extensively, I still havent found anything that has made me doubt RB.