Introducing AX64 Time Machine - hybrid imaging/snapshot software

The previous beta seemed better for me. Restores were consistently faster. This one is consistently longer. I also just had a restore hang for no reason I can tell and had to do a hard reset. Second restore worked but must have been a full from the time it took.

 

For some time now I.E. v. 11 has not worked. I decided to try again to fix it. After being unsuccessful I went to Tweaking.com and used the repair tool. It found a number of errors(I guess) so after doing a backup with FLASHBACK I let Tweaking do it's thing. I suspected it set my Services back to default and it did. After seeing this and seeing I. E. was not fixed at all I attempted to FLASHBACK to where I was before. After this I checked Services and everything was still at default. I then tried a second FLASHBACK, this time including both Full Image Recovery and Restore MBR. Afterwards checked Services to find it was still at default. I of course wonder what else Tweaking did as it seemed to make a number of changes. Any ideas? I was expecting all of system to be put back to where it was before all of this. I should have just uninstalled I.E and tried a reinstall, although I think I had tried that some time ago.

 

Yes it certainly is if FB is somehow selectively restoring.

 

A lot of Windows settings are not available for imaging (made permanent) until after a reBOOT is done following the setting changes... I have found this out the hard way

 

That is disturbing,,,,,,,,long shot but perhaps it has something to do with IE and some off site info held in some way by IE.

I use Opera and I have noticed that every time I do a restore when I go to open Opera I am told that Opera was improperly shut down and did I want to go to the home page or last page. This happens with any program not just AX64 and I assume Opera is noting some change between the last state and restored state. Perhaps something like this is going on in this case as well.

 

But if the image was done prior to the change of setting you would think that they would be permanent (unless its been a very long time since the PC was rebooted after the original settings were set).

 

If you have to reboot before imaging to make sure the changes are permanent, then why not use a boot USB to do the image as well? So much for the "backup and restore from boot media is old school" argument. So yes, at this day and age, cold backup/restore is still the most reliable. Nothing beats it now, and nothing will in the foreseeable future.
I know some people prefer convenience over reliability. I take the opposite. The whole point of making a "backup" is if you could restore to 100% of its original/previous state.
And of course, this is just my opinion, and everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

 

I agree with Pete. Most disconcerting. I used the repair program I mentioned in the Safe Mode. When I change stuff like Services I always reBOOT knowing that often and sometimes always that is needed. The repair program I used seems to dig deep into the system. For example, it changes user rights. Not sure what to do. I feel FLASHBACK failed me and I REALLY don't want to reinstall Windows. BTW..Win 7/64.

 

OK...I decided to try to go back five backups prior. That resulted in an error message with a black screen. I then attempted that same backup in the safe mode as a cold restore. It worked. Slow of course, but it worked. I am thinking the program I used in the repair attempt broke something with FB. I got a number of red flags during the repair tool installation due to unsigned drivers. Trusting the outfit that developed the program, I ignored them. Live and learn. Although I am a bit unsure as to what I learned.

 

I have learned once again that nothing is certain besides death and taxes. Thats sometimes easy to forget.

 

Nothing being certain except death and taxes is near the top (nr. 102) in The Big Book of Cliches, Random House 1988, so in that event not easy to forget.


Unrelated: still having same difficulty with uninstall?
. Instructions are to remove v701 before replacing with v703; but the process failed, yet again, and had to just delete the folder and then try to clean up traces manually.

 

I would add change.

 

Some things don't change, namely death and (the existence) of taxes (taxes, for the most part usually get worse and rarely better so they do change,,,, but they NEVER go away,,,,even after you have died).

 

But easy enough to forget to remember,

as in,,,,,,,

I really was sure that program (name whatever program you wish) would never fail.,,,,,,,,but once again I failed to remember that nothing was certain except death & taxes and now I am in trouble.

 

All Things Change

 

If you know this for a fact you must have figured out how to beat death,,,,AND taxes.

Very impressive,,,,,

will you share your secret?

Actually, I know how to beat taxes but the idea of living full time and irrevocably on the street is just not appealing to me. Death on the other hand,,,,,,well, that I think we are stuck with, for the foreseeable future anyway.

 

In the US state of New Jersey, where I sadly live, the tax after you die is forty percent (40%)! Which is why so many old people, such as myself, contemplate moving. Other than perhaps some places in the Deep South, our state is the most corrupt.

But to come back...has anyone except your servt had the same difficulty with uninstalling the Flashback?

 

Agreed...

Is there already enough evidence to say that the HOT restores done by the current stable build 703 are not reliable? Because if this is the general consensus then I will be definitely out, I waited long enough for a reliable version...


Cheers
manolito

 

I don't know what your main image/backup program is, but of course, it wouldn't and shouldn't be this.
In my opinion, for the best combination of reliability and ease of use is Reflect.

 

Generally working well. Things I'm not happy with are restores from one day ago take 15 minutes if it goes well. The other is not being able to restore in Windows. The previous beta did a few times then stopped. This one never has. That it's taking about 10 minutes longer than Reflect is concerning and not what I was looking for. I hope another update will address this.