Yeah. like a spars bundle image that I create of various things. I have a 10 gig spars bundle but it's only 2 gigs big as that's all I have in it at the moment. Way too cool! Im a bit slow for grasping stuff sometimes so forgive me. lol! On Aug 14, 2012, at 3:05 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sarah > > No, you've misunderstood, sorry. RollBack does not work like that! If you > have a case whereby Windows won't boot, what you do is boot from the same > drive, but evoke the RollBack menu by pressing the Home button. Then you can > roll the system back. > > But I will say it again. RollBack RX is *NOT* a conventional backup utility. > It is a snapshot creator which keeps a sector-by-sector image record. It > does *NOT* create an entire image of your hard drive, and that is the > important difference which a lot of people don't quite understand. A > sector-by-sector record is *NOT* the same as an entire image. So, if you > have a 100GB hard drive and it contains 90GB of data, your RollBack image is > *NOT* going to be 90GB in total. > > Am I making this any more clear? > > Gordon > > On 14 Aug 2012, at 04:51, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually I read the whole intire thread and I asumed you could boot off of a > usb drive in all operating systems. This method is counter intuative as if > something happens to your internal or you drop your computer down the stairs > you are toast. A block by block back up is good but if you only have a 120 > gig hard drive in said laptop or desk top that is not much space to work with > as your first image might be 100 gigs in theory depending on your OS config. > > I"m used to running IS's off of external drives so naturally asumed that > that's the way role back worked. > > It seems like a good peace fo kit to have around though. > > On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:52, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sarah >> >> No, RollBack does not work that way at all. You obviously haven't been >> reading the thread because this was explained earlier. >> >> Gordon >> >> >> On 13 Aug 2012, at 04:12, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm surprised though that you can't lejt's say have a 3tb drive and have >> role back back up to that instead thereby freeying up drive space. Can you >> then book in to that drive in windows by holding down that hime key and >> choose the snap shot to be restored to yoru internal drive? If so then I am >> wrong. >> >> Tc and be blessed. >> >> On Aug 12, 2012, at 7:30, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That is totally correct. It is important to understand the differences >>> between a Backup tool in the traditional sense, and a shadow backup tool, >>> which RollBack is. Rollback RX gives you as little or as much control over >>> your system, as little or as much backup flexibility as you dictate. I >>> still maintain it's worth every bit of the price it costs for a license. >>> >>> Gordon >>> >>> On 12 Aug 2012, at 11:02, Øyvind Lode - Forums <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> RollBack is not a traditional backup tool. >>> It takes a snapshot of your current setup (bit-level) which you can use to >>> restore your system back to it's state prior to a malware, virus infection >>> etc. >>> Or a installation of some software messing up your system you can then >>> rollback to the latest snapshot and all traces of that software and/or >>> malware etc will be gone. >>> Quite elegant and sweet and I guess I will spend the $69 (US) for a single >>> user license. >>> I use other tools for traditional backup of important data. >>> >>> >>> ======================================= >>> >>> The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>> and worm-free >>> >>> To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web >>> pages located at >>> http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at >>> either of the following websites: >>> >>> http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html >>> >>> Or: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> >>> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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