First Defense ISR

In this thread I asked about competing prducts in this space

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=105341

Having looked at all of them I decided on First Defence - although I do like the idea of the RestorePC hardware based solution.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=106287


I would like to know how people use it I think I'm going to have 3 rotating images with a couple of test images that have completely different configurations of the system - testing. It does seem to eat disk space pity there is no compression

I continue with True Image for archive backups. I guess it looks like I neeed Perfect Disk

 

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OK, I'll start.
I use Perfect Disk configured to exclude the $ISR files.
I use FDISR with 3 snaps, (that is a primary, secondary, and one more) altering updates about every other day. One snap reserved for when my granddaughter visits. FDISR makes it easy to undo whatever she does when she gets on those kid websites.
I archive 1 snap to my second hard drive and update or replace it about once a week.
I also use Acronis True image about twice a month. When I do make an image, I drop FDISR down to just the primary and secondary. I'm still using TI8. TI9 needs a lot of work before I ever go to it.
FDISR is top notch for me. I feel free to try just about anything knowing I'm just a reboot away to undo any problems.
Oops! Peter beat me to it.

 

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I've found if you run a registry cleaner, such as RegSeeker, it seems to mess with FD. The program was disaabled after running such a program, so I had to rollback to an earlier snapshot. I've also found the KAV v5 reports are missing in the rollbacked version.

 

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I use ISR love it only have 2 snapshots primary and 1 more...I only updated it when i install big things..new? but then i roll back incase of a virus so then i reupdate again saved me ooooooooooodles of time and better then xp restore never worked 1/2 the time MD

 

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Starfish, the thing with FD is that it is SO flexible, that you are able to do so many different things with it. With programs like GoBack, which I can still recommend, especially to newbies, you basically can only do one thing: goback. With FD you can goback, go back to the future if you change your mind, sideways, almost anything that you want. Plus, you can set up different snapshots to use for different programs, even different OS, just like having a partitioning program. So enjoy; thinking up new ways to use this incredible program is half the fun (assuming that you've got the disk space to spare). Good luck.

Acadia

 

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Guys Thanks

I've been a Ghost and True Image user for a long time - And a Goback user for a couple of years but ... Norton stuff either works or stops working and there are few options. It let me done a couple of weeks ago .. and I'm still waiting for tech support to get back

FD answered my questions almost straight away - that's what I want from Product support.


When I looked into FD - it is so much more useful. Its a pity that there is not better documentation - REstoreIT has a huge manual that you can get a feel of it without installing


FD needs to be tried to be believed. A lot of options to play with and no system drag.

 

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Found a solution to this one - added references to FD in exclusions.

 

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I am using KAV 5, and have turned off iStreams. The issue with reports wasn't that they were gone from the hard drive; it was they weren't viewable from the KAV interface. I had booted into my Rollback snapshot to update the Primary, and when I booted into the Primary, the reports weren't viewable from the KAV UI. The whole block was empty! It might be a one-off, but it was most strange. I deleted all the reports manually, started again, and the green notifications were back.