Raxco Instant Recovery - Comparisons

Let me invite you to another giveaway as it's a great opportunity to win 1 of 10 Raxco InstantRecovery license. I've read a lot of possitive coments about InstantRecovery here - on wildersssecurity forum - that's why I decided to turn to Raxco Software for sponsoring these 10 licenses and thanks to Lauren you can get your license for free. I hope it's not against the rules to post it here.

http://tweakbytes.com/threads/tweakbytes-official-giveaway-raxco-instantrecovery.3059/

Best regards,
artoor

 

Why does Raxco require so much information from everyone? They will not publish a price on their website. I need to give them a bunch on information about myself to get it. Then I look at their giveaway, and same thing. No way I am posting all that information about me on their website. Something doesn't smell good about that.

 

My friend, you're wrong. Raxco requires only names and e-mails so that they could send licenses to the winners. Any other details are required by TbT forum in order to consider your entry as a valid one. You're free to do what you want - you may join but no one will force you to do so.

Regards

 

I am wrong? Your contest requires the following:
Forum registration.
Posting a positive comment there.
Posting your Facebook/Twitter/Google+ Account information.
Then you say it is "advisable" to follow Raxco webpage on Facebook, Twitter and/or Google+
This sends up red flags to me.

Until yesterday, I couldn't find your pricing anywhere on your website. I had to give you my personal information to get it. It looks like this morning you are showing pricing. Odd.

 

Firstly - I think you're wrong because you asked above "why does Raxco require..." - so I replied - they requires only name and e-mail as written on TbT forum. Other requirements are our internal.
Secondly - I haven't made any changes to the giveaway thread - nothing had been added and nothing had been cut.
My friend it's up to you whether you buy it at a regular price (if you need it at all) or you join this contest - you're free man. So what's your point?

On another note - we people buy via credit cards, pay with debit cards, pay our bills on-line and generally live in surveillance societies. I know we should care about our privacy but believe me or not - if you would like to be anonymous you would have to unplag your cable from the Internet socket.

Have a good day!

PS What is advisable - is not mandatory - it's optional.

 

Hi

Can anyone tell me how long time it takes to do a regular snapshot with Instant recovery ?

 

So it is not really a "snapshot program" by definition of the Word more a snapshot like program ? !

By refresh you mean a new snapshot of the system as in after some minor change ?
If above is correct then my system on c:a 12,5Gb would take about 20sec to do a snapshot of as per above example give or take depending on the change ?

Is there anything one should Think of about IR in regard of problems - i am thinking in terms of RollbackRX ?

 

I just tried a trial of the program and realized the fact that this is not a snapshot program at all and that makes me wonder why they call it that on their site repeatedly since the common understanding of what snapshot means is about speed , this is slow . The only speed factor is the rebooting in to a new image . Taking the secondary snapshot took about 23min to do , that is even slower then imaging programs are . That is not snapshoting that is imaging !

I was looking - and are looking for a faster restore program than Ax64 but more reliable than Rollback , so far the best program i have ever used was on W7 with Comodo`s time machine . What a super software !

Well well , this IR was not "it" .

 

That is a lie !

It does not do what they claim , not at all . The Word snapshot comes from the camera World and means instant Picture and this program is not doing that . It is not a snapshot program . Anyone who says it is that is lying and they are saying that on their homesite all over the Place , repeatedly . They are advertising it , and have been doing it for years , as a snapshot program , and that is just not true by fact which means it is not debatable . A fact is a fact !

Marvelous program , good program , yes , but it is not a snapshot program !

 

Snapshot is the state of a system at a particular point in time. They do not say that they take instant snapshots, they say that they perform Instant Recovery and in that nothing beats FirstDefence-ISR/InstantRecovery.

Panagiotis

 

The word snapshot a.k.a taking a shot in a snap comes from the camera World . To use the word instantly together with the word snapshot would be redundant .The time factor is inherent in the word itself because of the Word snap , so when you use it you automaticly mean instantly .

That is the origin and meaning of the word snapshot .


A Dictionary definition - http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/snapshot

 

Sorry but that is not the definition when used in computing language.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/snapshot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_(computer_storage)

http://www.yourdictionary.com/snapshot#computer

http://techterms.com/definition/snapshot

Panagiotis

 

Haven't been around for a while so would like to add my 2 cents. IR is NOT an imaging program. It does NOT copy sectors, this of course would include your boot sector or record, or whatever it is called. It merely copies your files and folders therefore defragging has absolutely no affect on IR. Yes it is, by its very nature, slow and uses much secondary disk space; it is also EXTREMELY reliable. Having used it for over 10 years now with, no exaggeration, hundreds of restores, it has only let me down twice and one of those times was my fault. The other time was about 9 years ago when the program was still fairly new.

I have said many times that using a computer takes patience. If you do not have patience and want everything done instantly, then DO NOT use this program. If, on the other hand, you want rock-solid reliability and flexibility that I won't even tell you about because you will call me a liar...

Acadia

EDIT: ok, could not resist, I will tell about one of those flexibilities. You can have completely different configurations of your pc in each "Snapshot", different anti-Virus, firewalls, everything, even different OS but that is the one that I never did. IR uses the magic of the NTFS filing system to achieve this, it is like having multiple computers inside of one, like having a Virtual Machine or a multi-boot system. I told you that you would not believe me. Also, Raxco tech support and customer service thru all these years, won't talk about it, again, those unfamiliar with Raxco won't believe me.

 

I have dipped my finger into the nectar, and I too believe. The best money I have ever invested in software.

 

I have a burning question because I don't wish to take an unneeded risk.
I set up two snapshots, the Main and a copy, both of which contain AX64 and of course InstanRecovery). Can I boot the Copy and restore it with an AX64 saved image that does not contain InstanRecovery, install IR and then use that as an valid IR snapshot after I have booted back to the Main?
I cannot quite see how installing IR on the 'recovered' would allow it to find the snapshots.
The reason for the question is that AX64 images exist ready set up in certain subjects and would save a lot of time... ready made.

[Edit]Create empty snapshot is disabled but I do not have bitlocker, at least not intentionally but I do have a lot of files for bitlocker in C:\windows\winsxs\amd64... Any advice please?

 

Thank you for responding. My main aim is dual boot Windows 8.1 with 8.1 but both have different content. I have that content on two images from AX64. The problem with dual booting them is the time it takes to copy itself from external storage before booting. IR being on the same partition will be quicker.
The main AX64 image is the one I have installed IR on and then taken two copies (which took several hours each for 55Gb ??). One of those copies will work with Main as the updateable recovery in case of disaster.
I wanted the second copy to be the other AX64 image which is ready for use but pre-existed IR. I only expect to use AX64 (been using for about a year) to recover one of its images to IR and then uninstall, not intending to use it alongside. If this would not work I have to remove all unwanted software from my second copy of Main then install all the software that is on the AX64 image (a lot of work) while it already exists.
The alternative would I assume be to create a blank snapshot and somehow recover AX64 to it.
1. I cannot select the blank snapshot feature.
2. I don't know if that is the right approach or the details of safely doing it.
I hope this is clear.