Recovery Program

I see you have your e-mail address book on D that is a good idea i don't you could do that,I will try and move mine to D drive.
BC.

 

That's because I know how to do this for Firefox and Thunderbird.
I cut/pasted their profile folder to my data partition and changed two files in the system partition to tell both softwares where they could find their profiles folder.
This procedure is well described on the Mozilla website, so it's an official trick.
I don't know how to do this for other browsers and email-programs.
It was the most difficult part in separating my data files from system files, although it's quite easy, once you know how to do it. The rest of my softwares were alot easier.

 

I agree. Stick with what works for you.

Also, to be fair, please compare performance speeds of ShadowProtect backup vs. Paragon. Some people just can't wait 10 times longer for their backup to occur.

 

Likewise. It earned my trust shortly after turning to it a few years back when Acronis left me stuck in the mud because it always "failed" to restore the darn image, yeah it "said" it was imaging but if it can't do both then it's only a one-way proposition that is nothing more then useless. I ditched it after giving it way too many chances and way too much of my time, all wasted. I'm not even remotely interested in today's TI either, they lost me and for good.
Ghost? Well, anything Norton's is going to cause some havoc too if you don't already some. At least they allow you to go forward without stopping in the middle of the process with an error like tI did. Still though, eventually left them too. I still have both those discs as relics of past failures to look back at and remember why i had so many heart murmurs back then.

PARAGON for me is been nothing short of a dream come true since day #1 and i have no regrets, only satisfaction.

As already mentioned, and in all fairness i think we all would like to review some speed comparisons between those 2. I hear a lot of high regard with the results found in SP so it does have my attention too.

 

As a matter of nosiness Peter, why do you need Windows based?

 

quote from Peter2150 "PS Someone told said Paragon had an image program that works from the CD the same way SP IT edition does. Wanted to test it but couldn't find any Paragon program that works that way"
watch this video peter
http://images.paragon-software.com/db/flash/9.swf

it shows starting paragon 8.0 from the cd without install and being able to backup drive's with hot processing with no install as well.

http://forum.paragon.ag/customer/viewtopic.php?t=1730&sid=320b1303420164de89671ef87c784b07

quote "the feature you described is called Drive Backup Master CD that allows starting our osftware from CD without installing it"
lodore

 

Here, search for zero install:

Apparently not for the cheaper editions available.

 

Astonishing times Peter. If I tell you that my Paragon from within Windows takes exactly 2 hours and from the bootdisk 1hr 45mins to backup 14Gb to External HD you will get an idea how quick your machine is!
However, mine is a USB 2.0 HD connected via PCMCIA converter to a computer with only USB 1.1 capability, so that would explain some of it.
One day........maybe

 

Paragon Vista Plans

Hello Fellow Paragon users:

The vendor has the following site where you can view their PLAN! Hey that's different in itself a vendor with not only a plan but a published plan.

I have been nothing but impressed since I bought the 2 tools from them! Their software engineers are great. Their backup system have saved me at least 3 times from my own folly!

http://www.paragon-software.com/vista.htm

Easter!

I really like your timing study results. To do a full drive backup on my 145 GB maxtor drive takes about 28 minutes. This is with everything else off! and I mean everything, disconnect, no FW, no AS no ASW no defragger nothing. The last thing I want is a surprise update to something in the middle of the backup.

 

Hi Peter, thanks for sharing this testing.I have few Qs.

1- What is ur guess about restore times in all cases?

2- What do u think if u had tried FDISR here, how long it would have taken to image the same? I heard that it,s very fast too.

Thanks

 

ok, ive never really heard of this shadowprotect, but if its just an image restore program,

what advantages are there of using this product over Acronis Home 10?

 

i dont like raxcos FDISR,

12gb for a clean vista snapshot, is wayyyyyy too much data for a backup that has to be stored on the machine.

sure you can boot quicker to it, but rollback rx does the same thing at only 150mb, and acronis does a FULL IMAGE at just 3gb.

so 12gb, i dont think so.

 

Thanks for the metrics Pete. It does look like Paragon has improved their performance since the last time we looked at them. Hopefully they can continue to do this. In the top end of the performance spectrum it becomes very difficult to make large improvements in performance because you're at the point where you're already using highly optimized implementations of the most optimal algorithms.

 

Does anyone know which is the speediest disk controller? In my experience, Intel's southbridges are the speediest followed by NVIDIA's ones. Haven't tried on "pro" RAID controllers, though.

 

In that case time taken by FDISR to make a new snapshot can be multiplied by two, that might give an aproximate guess in practical terms. Am I right?

 

No disrepect intended to your choice C.S.J., and hey if it works for you then consider yourself in the elite lucky minority like ErikAlbert and others IMO. Acronis forums look like a haunted house on Halloween if you ask me, funny thing is, it's been that way for years now. Not exactly an endorsment for confidence IMO. I keep as far away from it as microsoft does their 98/Me operating systems they no longer support, and that's the only thing i can truthfully say i have in common with them. TI cost me a lot of time and disappointment i don't ever have the intentions of repeating again ever. And again, one need only look thru their forums at all the issues and some really toasted machines as in complete data loss. Not my cup of tea, no rant, just the facts Joe (Friday).

On a better and more confident note, can someone point me to the benefits that StorageCrafts Shadow Protect can offer that eclipses the competion? I need to be convinced that SP is all and everything that i've read about from the positive reviews of it because i'm of a mind to place my order very soon if it holds true, plus i need the IT edition i think if i read things right, i want to be able to do that critical imaging/restoring without problem or concern and from what i gather of Peter2150's results, they are right now at the top of the ladder in this field bar none. I need only to locally image AND clone to alternative disk with that blazing speed thats been raved over. And it also does a complete sector for sector partiton as well as full drive cloning also too right?

Thanks