First Time FD User

hi i just download the trial of FD and i am confuse

where FD Store my Snapshot backup, i have one Extra HDrive and i want to know if when i take a snapshot if i can backup to that drive, if is possible can someone tell me how i can do this

thanks in advance

 

Snapshots are stored on your C:drive unless you create them as "Archive" Snapshots; you can store Archive Snapshots on other drives, BUT, the Archive Snapshots are not bootable. Take the time to read the manual; it can be confusing at first but after a while you will appreciate the beautiful complexity of this program.

Acadia

 

I was confused too, when I evaluated FD-ISR.
The words to describe the functions are kind of unusual.

What is called snapshot is actually your work drive when Windows is booted.
When you install a program, it is added in the snapshot, because you work there.
You can have up to 10 snapshots at the same time, which means that you can have 10 Windows installations, different from each other.
Or 9 backups, different in time. You select which snapshot you want at boot time.

An archive is meant to backup the snapshot, and you can store it anywhere you like.
Here is the dialog where you can change the location of archives:

http://www.geocities.com/wilbertnl/images/archive-storage.PNG

You are welcome with questions.

 

thanks for you help guys, i will take look at manual help, but so far i don't think this program will fix me, i mean it look very good and is what i need but the part that i don't like is that my snapshot to be bot-able have to be on my C:/ Drive, i mean ya i can have 10 snapshot but my C:/ Drive is like 5 or 6GB for windows And have 250GB Capacity But i have a partition for my C:/ Drive of 30GB Thats enough for windows, so FD Will use example 10 snap x5GB= 50GB

again thanks for you help

 

That is only an option, you may choose to use only 1 or 2 snapshots.

Cheers

 

Mata7,
To reduce the space on your partition [C:], you can archive lesser used snapshots to another partition than [C:] or to an external harddisk or even DVD's or CD's.
If you need them back you can restore them in a new snapshot.
In the next version(s) of FDISR you will be able to work with compressed snapshots.

Avoid any defragmentation during FDISR-activities.

Make sure that you understand the function "copy/update snapshots" very well before you use it.
FDISR-users call it often "refreshing snapshots".

 

ya you right, why in hell i need 10 anyway

thanks thats another great idea