Thinking of using FDISR.

They should have created this at the start for 98/Me systems Can you imagine all the savings on Excedrin headache tablets not to mention the constant nerve conditions that would have been averted? Remember the times of frustrations of hearing that BONG!!!!! "This Program Has Performed An Illegal Operation" and explorer would hard crash and wouldn't boot up again? command-scanreg/repair Bahh!! If that would even work.

Yes indeed, i too find this is one super-program which is extremely reliable and just like it says, is INSTANT! in recovery.
Heck, not only that but since i always liked to work with customizations, this FD-ISR also offers for a user to fashion each individual snapshot to carry your own very different visual structure as well as different "other" program configurations that makes it exciting as well as useful. A multi-purpose recovery app that goes the extra mile.

 

I have been thinking about getting FD ISR also.
I already have Shadow Protect. Would it be advantageous to also have FD?
Am I wrong in thinking that I have already got a recovery point in time within the incrementals in Shadow? My wee brain is getting a little confused with all the technolodgy out there with so many firms seeking to outwit the other and each claiming their product is the greatest since sliced bread.
Your help in clarifying is appreciated.
John

 

Hello...me again!!

I was impressed byt his program that i had to buy it. I have been playing with it for whole morning, but it has opened up some questions.

I use Acronis TI10 to back up my c drive and data on to external hardrive. So my question is Do i have switch of FDISR before doing the back up?

Another question is bit stupid, but i have to ask. I am trying to do a schedule, but it keeps asking me username and password...are they the ones that came when i bought the program from raxco or do i need to make them up?

 

Ciderman 77, The username and password is your administrator ones you may have created in your computer under User Accounts. I gave up on it because I am the only user and have never had a need to use a username and password, and I'm not that interested in creating a schedule to bother setting up my username and password. I only have 2 snapshots and an archive, so I can keep the updates current from memory.
I have had FDISR about 4 weeks, and I purchased it about a week ago. I did some practice moves like booting to the secondary and back to the primary. This is great stuff. I'm going to get Shadow Protect in a month or 2.

 

Thanks twl845...I did some thinking and i am not going to use that schedule option. I am going to do it manually when i need to...i think it is easier that way.

Kristian

 

Thanks Peter,
I apologise if I in some way infilitrated into this thread.
I shall download the programme and give it a try.
John

 

Dont worry, you didnt infiltrate in anyway. I am new to this program so we are all here to learn from the more experienced users!

I had it for a day and i had to buy it!! You will be definately suprised how good the program is!!

Kristian

 

Already FDISR saved me....i did some testing. I tis worth every penny. I did ask this before but i didnt get a answer. I use Acronis TI10 to back up my c drive and data on to external hardrive. So my question is: Do i have switch off FDISR before doing the back up?

Sorry guys.....please be patient with me!

Kristian

 

You don't have to do anything, just backup and that's it.
FDISR + ATI are working fine together, I use it myself. Testing the restoration would of course be the proof that it works fine. Restoration in the beginning is always very exciting.

 

Thanks again. It is good to know. I have been playing with FDISR all day, i cant believe how versatile it is. Anyway...i think i am sorted for now.

Thanks everybody!

Kristian

 

Hi, this confuses me as Leapfrog seem to be the people who offer a free trial, I can't find any sort of download on Raxcos site for FDISR other than an outright purchase.

 

As I am thinking of trying this app my questions relate to snapshot create and restore times. So, for example, with a 10G C drive how long will it take to create and then restore the primary; that is, the first snapshot, compressed versus not compressed? Then the second snap?
Just want to get a general idea of the time involved in creating and then restoring snaps.
Thanks.

 

Searching around this seems to be the same product which does appear to have a downloadable demo version.
http://www.raxco.co.uk/product.asp?ProductID=79
Raxco appears to be more business orientated than personal use, maybe leapfrogs involvement is for the personal use side?
I now have a demo version from both Leapfrog and Raxco, where did most people here get their demo and subsequent product from?

Thanx Peter, have done that in the meantime.

 

Dholiday, I made a secondary snapshot of 13GB which took an hour. As the snapshot begins you might see estimated times that are way off base, but as the snapshot progresses the estimated time gets more realistic. Any snapshot you make whether primary, secondary, or archive will take the same time if they're all the same size. That's uncompressed. Updating is way shorter obviously.

 

Hi all:
I downloaded my demo from the Leapfrog Site. As a matter of fact, I had to download the demo twice as I think I got a bad one the first time. Anyway, I've been working on this most of the day, made the necessary adjustment to my COMDO Firewall, disabled all AV's except NOD and finally got my secondary snapshot without errors. I can boot into the secondary and primary now without problems. My question is that when I Copy/Update will I have to disable the AV's again before proceeding?
Thanks,
Pat

 

The only thing I do is shut off Comodo. I leave NOD32 running.

 

Questions about speed can't be answered. Nobody has the same computer.
If you want to know how fast FDISR is on YOUR computer, you have to download the trial version. If you don't like the speed, just uninstall it.

Each copy/update where NEW snapshots, NEW compressed snapshots, NEW archives are involved are much slower, than copy/update between two EXISTING snapshots/archives, these copy/updates are a matter of seconds or minutes.
Creating NEW archives is usually faster than creating NEW snapshots.
The slowest activity is creating a frozen snapshot.
Of course when you start using CD's and DVD's instead of harddisks, it will be alot more slower, that's logical.

I don't care about these speeds. FDISR saves me hours per month in other ways and I can do things, I never could do before.
Learn to think in functions and possibilities, rather than in speed and less space.
If you want speed and more space buy the fastest and biggest PC on earth, but that won't make you an experienced FDISR-user.

 

Thanx for that Peter, now have the trial version up and running and exploring, so far so good.

 

It is a excellent program, you wont be dissapointed. Have fun!

Kristian

 

That is what I thought, thanks.

 

So the first and the second snapshots are copies of the C drive, which can then be copied/updated quite quickly, especially when there are not many files to be updated between the two snaps.