Rollback Rx

Peter, keep us informed, especially if you can boot back and forth between different snapshots, as you can with FD; I would be most interested, thank you.

Acadia

 

In Rx you can take as many snaps as you want and go back and forth between them. If you install something you can lock the snap and it`ll stay there for as long as you want. Once you unlock the snap you can delete it or wait till Rx does a clean up. It`ll defrag all the snaps or selected snaps whatever you want. I`m sure no expert in this...yet but Rx does more then meet my needs. Plus I still have FDISR to play with.

 

BJ69, let’s see if I understand this correctly. Let’s say that I am using my pc and decide I want to test a new anti-virus, so I make a snapshot of my current system before I start playing around in order to make sure that everything in my main or good configuration is saved.

Then I uninstall my current AV and install the test AV, then make another snapshot, this time of my new configuration.

Then I boot back to my original configuration and continue to surf around, and also continue to update my original AV and other security programs and work on some Word docs.

Then I boot back into my test configuration and play around with the trial AV.

Then I eventually boot back once again to my main configuration: will all of my security updates, Word docs, and other changes still be there, or will I have needed to "update" or "retake" my original snapshot to save them? Thank you.

Acadia

 

Hmmm, interesting Peter, one thing to remember, and this is NOT to knock Rollback which may be an excellent program, but FD has been around for a couple of years, while Rollback is brand new ... maybe some bugs to be worked out?

Acadia

 

In a word yes. You have a tree of your drive ie program files, system. etc you can put which ever folders in so that changes will be saved. Whatever changes that are made will stay in your current snapshot. Like Nod updated this morning and that`ll be saved in my current snap.

There was a update to Rx just a few days ago that killed a couple of bugs it had. Like was said it`s a new program and still needs a lot of testing but over all it`s great.

 

BJ69, I hope that I can explain this correctly. Ok, I also use NOD. When I update NOD in my Primary snapshot (using FirstDefense), I never need to update or “save” that Primary snapshot, every change that I make is kept without my having to do any extras steps. Is Rollback the same way, that is, whatever changes you make in ANY snapshot are kept without having to take the step of “saving” it?

Sorry if my questions seem stupid, but even the Rollback website states, once or twice, either in the faq or Knowledgebase, that this is a complicated program. Complicated, but VERY intriguing!


Acadia

 

Well Acadia that I`m not completely sure about. In Rx it`s baseline (primary) can be updated so I would say yes, but that I haven`t tried yet. I`m sure if Peter gets playing with it he`ll try that to see, if not I`ll let you know once I give it a try. I`m fairly new at this myself so...

 

Hi Acadia,

Here's the answer I received from Rollback Rx in regard of those interrogations of yours :

" Rollback gives you upto "60,000" different C: drives".
Each snapshot that you take with Rollback can be viewed as a First Defense
configuration, it can have different applications, different network
settings,system settings and etc....

You just restore system to a selected snapshot, that will switch the system to that snapshot."

Hope it answers your question,

Atomas31

 

Yup, Atomas, it does, thank you much. I am working on my comparison now, hope to post it in the other thread soon.

Acadia

 

What kind of info does the Rollback folks give you

One thing I can tell about there support is that it is very effective when you email them.

Atomas31

 

Hi guys I just emailed Rx as to what they plan to do about forums support, when and where. I`ll let anyone know (that`s interested) once I receive word.

 

Definitely interested, even though I have no plans on obtaining the program, at least not yet.

Acadia

 

Well I got an email back with some info and some good news for the folks that want it. Here`s a part of my email from the fine people of Rx.

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Yes, In fact we are going to have our own forum which should be live by the end of this month. The forum will be hosted on our own horizondatasys.com website.

Thank you for your continued support and interest in our RollBack Rx product. Here is a coupon for you and your friends that like our RollBack Rx Product:
Coupon: DLDREVIEW10170

The above coupon will save you 50% of the listed price on our website. Simply cut the above coupon code and enter it into the shopping cart when you or your friends want to purchase the product.

Let me know if there is anything else that I can do for you guys.

Best regards,
Lyle Patel

 

BJ69, thank you VERY MUCH, don't know if I will get RB and therefore use the coupon, but I'm sure that others will. Thanks for doing many a favor. $$$

Acadia

 

You`re more than welcome. Hope a few can use the discount if they`re planning to buy, it can come in handy.

 

Big thanks to beeteljuice69 for the coupon! I sure will try this program.
I am gonna uninstall Firsdefence and then install Rollback. I recon there will be no problems leaving Firstdefence snapshots on the c drive? Or could it be a problem? I can always archive them to another drive, but I thought if I can save me from some work.....

 

Been trialing Rollback RX the past couple of days after reading this thread.
Already it has saved me alot of headaches today when my computer unexpectedly rebooted while running another utility. Just selected the desired snapshot and resumed my activity. It's just what I want & plan to use the discount shortly.

Rob

 

This may be of interest to some, its not a comment on the quality of the product this is merely an observation on marketing practices

Have a look at http://www.horizondatasys.com/piece.html?piece=specials_home_users

And just underneath that there was a 25% discount being offered for testimonials

 

Dont want to call it a"bribe",

("Something serving to influence or persuade")



As you see their "insentive" started "Start date: February 6th, 2006"

And in an 24 hour period or so, they have now four "5 star" reviews.

Also, it is only the rollback product linked in that "insentive" that has reviews, the other ones havent a single one.

Oh, and yes the product was added at download.com 12/14/2005, but the reviews only came in after the "insentive".

Yes, they dont say that the reviews have to be positive..but then again negative users wont buy it.


ive been looking into this software, after testing several options before my next complete install and setup.

But it doesnt give me any chance to test it, because the first 20 only get an 50% discount.

So either test it, and look at user reviews constantly, or just post a good review and buy it at 50% off.

strange business ethics for a company selling this kind of software

 

mango,
I'm not so sure that you are limited by the review clause and the limitation of 20 users because beetlejuice69 has classed all of his fellow Wilders members as his friends (not an unreasonable thing to do either)

If they are offering incentives like these it is likely that they are wanting to build their user base in the home market and get the word out and reducing a relatively small number of sales by 50% is cheap to get some good word of mouth advertising

Peter2150 described the product compared to FD in this thread if you hadn't seen it already, that may help a little with your evaluation