Two ShadowProtect questions

Downloaded and installed the Full Evaluation version of ShadowProtect, so far I'm impressed, not surprising seeing that it came highly recommended from a few folks whose opinion I greatly respect. I imaged my entire hard drive, 41GB of data, in 23 minutes. Now I have two questions.

I am doing this from memory so I might not be getting the exact wording correct: when I first open up the program it asks me if I want to Buy Now, Buy Later, or Activate. So far I am choosing Buy Later. What is the difference between Buy Now and Activate?

Question #2: Naturally I will want to test the recovery disk but I do not want to actually recover the image that I just made. When I put the recovery disk in the cd drive and reboot, and the recovery mode takes over, at what screen just before the actual recovery begins can I cancel out so that I don't actually recover?

Thank you.

Acadia

 

Hi Acadia & Hi Pete --I never knew about the VerifyImage.cmd, which I found on my PC, & which is not discussed in the manual that I could see.

But Pete, sorry to be obtuse - just exactly how do you get that to work?

THANKS, Heather

 

Hi Pete -
Just wanted you to know that I did execute this command and verified my last backup. While waiting for V3 to have this, I'm delighted to know about this command.

Always wondered what you were doing when you said you 'verified the image'

Thanks again - Heather

 

I feel sorry for them who verified good but thereafter can't restore ,i read several stories over at the Acronisforum,so it can also happen with SP stuff,why not !As the saying goes "the proof of the pudding is in the eating " so i verify my image by restoring it after backup.

huub.

 

After a successful backup, the backup image file itself (this applies to all image backup products) is still vulnerable to disk rot and file system corruption. There are a number of causes of disk rot and file system corruption, but most often the cause has nothing to do with the actual backup product itself. At any rate, this is why it's important to have the ability to verify the data integrity of a backup image file.

One thing that ShadowProtect has always done is to perform an automatic verify during any restore operation to ensure that the data that is being restore is correct and has not suffered corruption as the image file sat there on the disk.

 

Never meet these corruptions sofar,if what you said is true then the immediate restore after backup is a double integrity check by itself,and what you said about corruption vote for more frequent backups and spreading these across different media.But my point is that i have to know beforehand that my image is not corrupt,only way to know for sure is a restore and see what happen. A verify between backup and restore is always doubtfull and gives no 100% guarantee,as some Acronis users can attest to this nightmare "verify nice but fails to restore"