Using Archives Properly

While I've made archives and have them stored on an external drive, I've never actually used them.

Current challenge: My dvd drives (both) no longer write to dvd-rw disks. The drives work fine with everything else (dvd-r, cd-rw, etc.). So I wonder if there is a software or registry screwup somewhere.

My secondary snapshot is from around 5 months ago. Booting to that doesn't resolve the issue. So I want to go back further.

How do I use the archives? Do I have to convert them to snapshots, and if so, how do I do that? This would allow me to go back further in time.

 

Thanks, Peter. If I have a Primary snapshot and one secondary snapshot, do you suggest making one additional snapshot to use as the "landing place" to copy/update the archive to?

 

Thank you, stapp. Sounds like a reasonable approach as long as I keep a chart of "who is who".

I'll wait for a few more people to chime in with additional takes on this and then get started.

 

You can do this any way that you want to. You actually only need two Snapshots, the Primary and another one to boot to for recovery. I usually keep a total of three. One of them is very small, just the original install of Windows with First Defense added. I usually use that one to boot to for recovery because it boots up so quickly.

Acadia

 

Thanks, Acadia. I've sometimes kept older snapshots around for extra security when I wasn't sure if I could tell a software was really working the way I wanted it to, but eventually just archived those.

Wish I had known about FDISR when my system was new to have a fast bootup option like yours!