FirstDefense-ISR Technology Wish List

Re: FirstDefense-ISR Scheduled Tasks

...and they may not need these specific schedule options either.

My first reaction to these wishes was also: this can be done if you create some scripts. The howto is documented by Microsoft and available online.

 

Re: FirstDefense-ISR Scheduled Tasks

I'm not going to discuss this any further, because I know I'm right and this is not the right forum to talk about it.

 

Re: FirstDefense-ISR Scheduled Tasks

1) Support for Incremental/Differential backups. While this is not always wanted, it should be optional during snapshot creation stage (as well as on settings dialog so the default can be set). This would allow much faster snapshot creation, whilst still having the benefit of being able to make full archives from these incremental snapshots.

It should also be possible to convert an incremental/differential snapshot to a full snapshot.

2) Support for many more snapshots will be especially needed when (1) is implemented.

3) Optional ability to data anchor ANY file/folder, although this should be disabled by default for security reasons.

4) Ability to have multiple frozen snapshots.

5) Tray icon menu item to Copy/Update snapshot, Boot to snapshot, Data anchor

 

Re: FirstDefense-ISR Scheduled Tasks

6) More informative error messages. For example, I disable all services unless they are absolutely necessary. Because of this, the VSS service was disabled but when I tried to make a snapshot I just got an error saying something like "Cannot create snapshot". Surely it wouldn't be a lot more work to check if the VSS state was disabled and mention this to the user.

 

One thing I realized tonight. It would be nice if the icon in the System Tray would also have a blue star to tell you that you are in Freeze. Thank you.

Acadia

 

Good idea, but I'd like it to be a blue snowflake

 

Heh, heh, this probably isn't even technologically possible, but it sure is fun to dream: You know how you can create a "fresh install" of an NTFS operating system; how about having the ability to create a "blank" Snapshot that will be able to handle a "fresh install" of Linux ...

Acadia

 

Now that Vista Business is out, how soon do you think that Leapfrog Software will update the program to support it?

 

I don't remember which thread where I read it, but it was somewhere at Wilder's, we were told that FirstDefense will be ready for Vista when it is released publicly.

Acadia

 

Rescue CD/ DVD

I will suggest an option for a Rescue CD to restore my system in an extreme scenario where I can,t get FDISR pre-boot screen or can,t access my snapshots or there are no good snapshots on internal HD to restore. This feature might include an option to make a bootable image( on rescue DVD) or an image on an external disk that will be used in extreme cases to restore the system just like imaging software.
There might be multiple reasons that can put anyone in this extrme scenario, like messing up with MBR and unable to get FDISR preboot screen.
This feature might obviate the need for an imaging software to be used with FDISR.

Sorry if this has already been sugested.