FDISR Archives

What's the purpose of having an archive here on the interface? (see attachment)
You can't import, export or boot to it. You can only copy, update or remove it. And it takes up room on C drive.

 

I have never made an Archive Snapshot, but FirstDefense lets you put the Archives onto another hard drive, which FD will not allow with the regular Snapshots. The advantage is obvious: if your hard drive should fail and need replacing, you can later restore one of the Archives and you have your old system back.

Acadia

 

Yes, that's right, Arcadia.
From the Tools drop down list, I can "export" an archive to the 2nd HDD or removable media and from there I can "import" back to put that archive to use if my primary hard drive should fail. It will also serve as a backup if at that time my Image Program should fail to restore. Therefore it's useful.
It's the one on the interface that I question it's purpose.This one is created from the Actions drop down list-->copy/update.

 

In addition to what others posted above, the other advantages I find are that:

1) Archiving produces a compressed image. In my case, I usually see a reduction to about 2/3 the uncompressed size and

2) Aside from what was mentioned above, moving a snapshot off of C: drive allows me to do my normal backups (Dantz Retrospect) more frequently, i.e., I only keep a daily copy of the Primary Snapshot on C:, but I keep 3-day, 1 week, and monthly snapshots as archives on an external USB drive.

I did have to fall back to my 3-day snapshot once, so I simply imported it to my daily copy snapshot, booted into it, and then copied what I booted into to the Primary slot, booted into that and I was back in business.

 

Thanks, Peter. Sorry if I wasn't clear but that's exactly what I was referring to as "a daily copy of the Primary Snapshot", which I do indeed keep on my system drive. That's saved my bacon before, indeed.