This version is brand new. It looks like it is the successor of Rollback XP which has been available for free since M$ dropped the support for Win XP. For a feature comparison have a look here: http://www.horizondatasys.com/en/Rollback_Rx_Home.ihtml I won't get into another heated discussion about the stability and reliability of Rollback. Quite a lot of very opinionated members here at Wilders... If you know its limitations (it is NOT a backup solution, you absolutely have to employ another image backup software additionally), then it might be just what you need. As a snapshot software nothing else can touch it right now... (if it works with your hardware) Cheers manolito
If Rx fails it can and will trash your system and render it dead. In short, you must use an imaging program on a regular basis to protect your system. This way if Rx fails you can restore using the image. The result of doing this will render your Rx broken but you would simply have to reinstall Rx to get back up and running (all snapshots will be lost in this case unless you are imaging all sectors of the drive, not just the used sectors, if you are doing this then all will be fine with Rx and its snaps). Rx is a wonderful program when it works, which is often, but when it fails its a nightmare especially considering the very poor support provided by the publisher.
I have Win 7 64. Does the UEFI/GPT thing also under Win 7 64? How to check it? It will protect only system drive. Can it damage other partition if anything goes wrong?
What do you mean by if Rx fails? Do you mean if it fails during restoring snapshot? I have only used Comodo Time Machine previously & it worked fine for me. I stopped using it as development stopped & I got new Win 7 64 system. I used it on XP.
Just remember, this IS NOT a backup tool of any kind. If you don't care about the structure of your system and or its files and are willing to rebuild it from scratch, incl apps... give it a try.
There's not much known history as far as damaging non-protected partitions... you should be able to get the data back.
Yes, if it fails during a rollback you will be in for a nasty ride. There are many threads on this forum about some of these horror stories and suggestions as to how to protect yourself from them. I suggest you do a search of the forum and get a sense of what can happen. As Froggie said above, this is not a backup program and in no way should it be used as a substitute for one.
I don't quiet understand what you mean....Lets say I want to try a software of some kind, take a snapshot before I install it and then decide I don't want\need\like the software...Surely I can rollback and have the system as it was before I installed the software much like I'd expect from an image?
Hi But from where can you download home edition , i just get a dead file instead of the compressed installation exe from their homepage . And the net gives nothing reliable .
Try this link.... http://www.horizondatasys.com/en/products_and_solutions.aspx?ProductId=40#Download I got the cab file from the link.
This is mentioned in their forum - "For users downloading the software with Internet Explorer, right-click the file and select "Rename" and then add on ".exe" to the end, as that browser will automatically remove that extension type".
There is a huge difference between a snapshot program like Rx and an imaging/backup program. For one thing (and it is only one but a significant difference) Rxs snapshots are stored on the drive it is supposedly protecting. So if your drive is damaged, or if the reversion fails, your snapshots are lost. With an imaging/backup program the images are stored on something other than the drive being protected. In this case if the drive is damaged or something else goes wrong the images are not affected and can be used to recover the system.
I have been using the pro version for a long time on a windows 8.1 64bit and it rules. Its fast and very fast in restore and snapshot taking.
That's correct. Also correct (for the most part). While a 'reversion' could fail due to a corrupted snapshot that wouldn't result in the corruption or loss of all snapshots. That would only occur if the baseline (original) snapshot were corrupted. Absolutely, I've been using this combo for years. Actually, most image-backup programs can backup an RBrx system; you just have to learn 'the rules of the road'. I can echo this success using RBrx, with both WinXP 32bit and Win7 64bit. pv
This is true, Time Machine does leave the MBR alone. But this also means that you cannot use Time Machine to revert to an earlier snapshot if Windows does not boot any more. The current version is from the end of 2013, so I would be very careful using it under Win 8.1 and GPT based hard drives. On my MBR based Win 7 installation it has been very stable and reliable. But I stopped using it because it is just too limited compared to other snapshot software. Contrary to what they say on their website you cannot even mount snapshots to retrieve single files from a snapshot. A nice feature is the integration of their own "Time Freeze" software. Cheers manolito
Actually I was considering Time Machine to replace Windows System Restore. Guess TM is better than WSR.
I will not be using Rollback anytime system. This software will trash your machine, good luck. Replacing Macrium for this, What are people thinking.
Yep, there is something fundementally wrong with this software as numerous updates and patches haven't eliminated catastrophic disk failures. This from a product that was designed to protect your data. I speak from experience unfortunately.
