Restore software-what is your choice?

Discussion in 'polls' started by aigle, Mar 27, 2006.

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what is your choice?

  1. RollbackRx

    33 vote(s)
    16.9%
  2. FirstDefence

    54 vote(s)
    27.7%
  3. DeepFreeze

    7 vote(s)
    3.6%
  4. CleanSlate

    1 vote(s)
    0.5%
  5. ShadowUser

    12 vote(s)
    6.2%
  6. Norton GoBack

    10 vote(s)
    5.1%
  7. Restore it

    5 vote(s)
    2.6%
  8. Others( pls specify).

    73 vote(s)
    37.4%
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  1. Long View

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    I really am going to have to try RB. I just can't get my head around keeping data
    on the same drive/partition as an OS and programs. My outlook pst, Firefox profiles..... are all on a data drive so any restore leaves them undamaged. On several machines I now just use DeepFreeze on C: removing the short term need to restore to anything. Acronis takes care of the rest. It really is amazing how many different ways there are to do what initially seems to be the same thing.
     
  2. NLight95

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    My old favorite: Norton Ghost 2003--the DOS version. I have it on a bootable CD and can take it anywhere. Loads lightning quick (as opposed to TrueImage) and I can easily archive backups on DVD. Even works with Vista 32/64 and RAID.
     
  3. raakii

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    my favourite is ayrecovery ---the ultimate clone of ultimate rollback rx
     
  4. EASTER

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    FD-ISR (Classic Original Version By Raxco) NO LONGER OFFERED.

    So, my other choice is DeepFreeze! I luv it, but only for total static system operations. It's formidable, stable, and is never failed me. Coupled with Faronic's other product, Anti-Executable, makes for a total lockdown condition thats hard to beat IMO.
     
  5. incursari

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    I used Paragon Drive Backup and RollBackRX. Both just work and never fail for me. :)
     
  6. Long View

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    I started with Acronis 6, played with FD-ISR, tried DeepFreeze and then Returnil.

    Today I use none of these programs - just Shadow Protect and Shadow Defender.
     
  7. dhopley

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    Dear Poll ,
    Hi , I'm using an Intel Celeron 2.4 ghz 512K RAM four year old PC with XP Pro SP2 and Ubuntu 8.04 dual booted on a three HDD setup 15G, 15G , with 20G backup . XP is NTFS , Ubuntu EXT3 and the common data partition is FAT32 with all the backup images stored in EXT3 format . Backup and recovery of each OS takes around 4 minutes and 3 minutes for data using the SystemRescueCD and the application Partimage , it's been flawless so far in fifteen month's of operation and of course it's Open Source and free .
    Derek
     
  8. LoneWolf

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    Are you using both on the same PC?
     
  9. incursari

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    No. On a different pc.
     
  10. LoneWolf

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    Thanks, appreciate the answer. :thumb:
     
  11. Minimax2000

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    ShadowProtect and FD-ISR here. Combination works very well.

    Frank
     
  12. raakii

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    ayrecovery+drive snapshot(with usb active@boot disk)
     
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  14. Long View

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    Just tried this. very impressive. Slower than some others but free is free.
    If I didn't already have other programs or if other programs produced problems I would be very happy with Macrium
     
  15. icr

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    I have recently started using shadow defender small and really impressive:thumb:
     
  16. pugmug

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    A computer is nothing more than a tool to me.It better work correct everytime.I do not like to wait even with a hard drive crash.I want to be back up online and running,now!I will stay with Casper 5.0,as it is the quick and very easy fix as backups go.Saved my computers 6 times so far with zero problems. http://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/
     
  17. Osaban

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    Since the beginning of this old thread many things have changed: Now having Vista I 'm using ShadowProtect, FD-ISR Rescue, DeepFreeze, and trialling ShadowDefender (so far it's looking good).
     
  18. xandros

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    shadow defender
     
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