The difference between Acronis TI and Norton GoBack?

Well of course an image/backup has to be stored somewhere. But in keeping with good backup principals, it should be kept on an external/removable hard drive (or removable media such as mag tape or DVD). As you know, most (if not all) system restore programs require their 'snapshots' be kept on the system (C) drive, so with only a system restore solution, should your system drive crash, or if your PC burns-up or is stolen, you are SOL. The point is that it's where the backup/image/snapshot exists that is important - and if it has to be on an internal hard drive, the C-drive is definitely the worst place of all!

Cheers. ~pv

 

True, that was one thing that I did not like about GoBack, the need to keep the Goback bin on the c:drive. BTW, FirstDefense gives you the option of keeping their Snapshots on another drive. I believe that either RestoreIt and Rollback RX does too, but I forget which one gives you that option.

Acadia

 

If we all start using FDISR, then we have no experience with ShadowUser (SU).
As far as I know not many members use SU. The polls of AV's had many replies, while the polls of SU were very poor.
I consider SU as a personal experiment and in my case, I have to learn partitioning and image backup first.
So SU will be last, but I'm not in a hurry, because malwares won't run away. LOL

I'm not against FDISR and FDISR is on my list as possible alternative, just like DeepFreeze and others.
I'm not blinded by SU either. No software is able to do this to me. I'm too sarcastic and I don't trust any software, not even the goodwares.
I only want to play with SU for awhile until I know, what I need to know and that will cost me $70. SU will never be a bad investment, because I still can use it as an additional protection.

I find using SU alot more interesting, than pressing the scan/remove-button of a scanner and I like to see this with my own eyes, what kind of difficulties SU will cause on my computer, rather than reading posts about SU, BUT I will share my experiences and ask for help at Wilders, if necessary.

In fact, I expect even more troubles with goodwares, than with badwares, because I have to keep the GOOD changes on my harddisk.
So I will learn alot more about my computer with SU, than with a scanner.
These blacklist scanners bore me and I certainly don't like the philosophy behind these scanners. I don't hate scanners, but I don't consider them as a good method to fight against the bad guys. Wrong strategy.

 

I fully agree with you, but SU does more than just taking and restoring snapshots.
SU is also more vulnerable, than FDISR, because it is used all the time, while FDISR is only used when you need it.
SU requires only a simple reboot and that is important for me, while FDISR has its own specific procedure.

That's a real problem. I've send an email to ShadowStor more than a week ago and they still didn't reply.
Their website isn't good either, at least not for less-knowledgeable users. The posts at Wilders explain SU much better than ShadowStor.
It makes you believe,
- they don't care about home users OR
- their management is simply bad OR
- their software wasn't successfull enough and they lost their enthousiasm.
...
There was a time, the service was better.
But it will take several months before I start using SU, meanwhile I have time enough to find out what's wrong with ShadowStor.

The whole thing is an experiment, security is a hobby for me and some hobbies cost money and I need a challenge to stay awake.
Running a scanner isn't my idea of challenge and excitement LOL.

$70 isn't exactly a fortune and a good dinner in a restaurant costs me more.
If it was money of somebody else, I would care, but it's MY money.

 

Pete,
I will try them both in trial mode and compare both procedures to restore my system.
I can't make a decision yet, because I never worked with any of them and they all work differently.
So anything is possible : ShadowUser, FDISR, DeepFreeze, ...

One thing is sure, if ShadowStor keeps its mouth shut and doesn't answer my questions, I will ditch them immediately. I'm not going to beg for help. That's not my style.
Personally, I consider this as an insult, not answering my questions.
My first email had no reply, if the third email isn't answered, I won't even try their software.
No support = no ShadowUser and no ShadowSurfer either.
After all there are other possibilities.

Things will be very different, once I start using my new computer.
I will have winXPproSP2 (32-bit/64-bit) on a very fast computer, ready for multi-tasking, partitioning and image backup on another harddisk.

But I want to get rid of the blacklist softwares, even when I have to restore my system several times per day.
I'm not planning to use 30+ softwares to protect my computer, like some members do.