I want a complete recovery/backup solution

This has nothing to do with opinions, dogma, feelings. This is about how a software is supposed to work and nothing else.
Would you like it if your textprocessor is missing after restore ?

 

Erik, any software product is supposed to work accordiing to its published specifications and within its intended environment. Like you, I would presume that any software product claiming to be a disk-imaging product should have the capabilty (or option) to image all sectors on any given hard drive...

...I have said (in various posts) that I have sucessfully performed a Raw (i.e., all sectors) image of my C-drive including all Rollback snapshots using ATI, all of which were captured accurately and each of which were restorable. However, I choose not to use that option. That said, what exactly are your specific issues with ATI and Rollback Rx?

 

It's not about ATI and RBRx, it's about Image Backup softwares, which don't backup/restore RBRx completely.
I don't blame RBRx, I blame the Image Backup softwares for not doing their job and ATI is one of them and probably a few others.
RBRx is just a software like any other software on your harddisk.
Of course when most Image Backup softwares have a problem with RBRx, than RBRx is less attractive to be used because of the backup/restore problem.

If ATI wouldn't backup MS Office then everybody would complain, but RBRx seems not to be a problem. Why making an exception, because a few people don't care, while other people need a complete restore of RBRx-snapshots.
Is that logical to you ?

 

Erik, the only thing I find illogical here is that you are overlooking (or ignoring) my comments to the effect that ATI-W can do the job you would have it do (i.e., capture and restore all RB snapshots). I simply don't want to exercise that ATI backup option. Must Jo Ann and I use ATI in the manner you would have RB users use it or is it ok for us to use ATI the way we prefer to use it? ~pv

 

If you are talking about ATI and RAW, that is not a solution.
I don't see any purpose of this discussion anymore, because the problem won't be fixed and the solution is somewhere else, not at Wilders.

 

Hey Pete
Could you elaborate a bit on this

That sounds interesting

Yes

 

Someone must have read my mind. As we speak i'm here online and posting with a test Maxtor drive complete with Rollback Rx firmly in place. I have to see what it can offer for myself in addition to an already proven provider in FD-ISR. The only security i have on is Kerio 2.15 & EQSecure for examination purposes. I don't know squat about Rollback Rx except from posts & discussions i read about it, but it seems to have an equally loyal user base.
I would never discount one rollback program over another unless it simply could not perform as expected without issues. I believe the exchanges that are bearing some hard looks focus on "Features" because from what i read BOTH programs are safe and for the most part completely stable.

 

How about Farstone's DriveClone Pro 3?
Link: http://www.farstone.com/software/driveclone-pro.htm

Instant Recovery + Disk Imaging

Looks good.

 

Cooler and cooler
Thankyou.
Goes into the db for reference.

 

I'd be interested in a Shadow Protect version able to backup up to 10 machines (approximately) which doesn't cost $3500 per year. It would be a version targeted to SOHO users.

 

It might not make sense now (from a business perspective), but in a near future, with growing home LANs and the masification of NAS/DAS/HTPC devices, it might make sense then.
I'll look for that "special server package" though.
EDIT:
OMG, my heart skipped a beat
ShadowProtect Small Business Bundle

Code:

PRICE: $995.00

Also, it doesn't backup Linux/Unix partitions.
For now, I'll stick to the freebies: DriveImage XML and the Paragon offer.

 

For the life of me i never understand why vendors like this limit themselves AND their profitabilities to just Corporate interests. That throws up a big red flag for the rest of us almost on the order of how $M sets their marketing strategy.

If StorageCraft limits themselves along those same lines and leaves all us other end-users at such a distance from something potential useful for us and additionally profitable for them then another vendor will be more than ready to fill that vacumm and establish their place in opposition to the competition.

 

Well, I'm not criticizing StorageCraft's business decisions, I really understand the reasons behind their position. We, hardware/software enthusiasts, are a small minority of the PC market, although we sometimes influence corporate/business decisions.

 

I almost beg to differ with that opinion lucas1985 for the very reason that all the so-called enthusiasts makeup the entire globe and from an overview respective far outnumber even corporations and businesses. I do however understand it's all about driving up the bottom line and that's why business interests are favored most.

I'm not criticizing their business practice in that respect ($), but i am for sake of making it clear for everyone to see the complete picture here, pointing out that they have far more to gain by bringing EVERYONE into the loop instead of by that selective choice only, and thus discourage interest away from them completely, since "WE" the enthusiasts, make up the vast majority if we look at it from a global perspective.

No matter though, as already mentioned, there will always be a more accommadating competitor who will be only more than happy to fill that gap left abandoned. Happens all the time as evident with many of the vendors we find discussed right here in the forums.