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From: glorieux on 11 May 2010 06:08 Interesting article on the Comodo (freeware) Time Machine backup program. Wondering (out loud) if anyone has used or is using it and what their thoughts might be. http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/10/screenshot-tour-free-comodo-time-machine-lets-you-roll-back-you/ glorieux
From: VanguardLH on 11 May 2010 07:28 glorieux wrote: > Interesting article on the Comodo (freeware) Time Machine backup program. > Wondering (out loud) if anyone has used or is using it and what their > thoughts might be. > > http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/10/screenshot-tour-free-comodo-time-machine-lets-you-roll-back-you/ Uses a kernel-mode file I/O interceptor driver that causes lots of problems (just read their forums). Interferes with anti-malware. Causes crashes. Backups get corrupted. Use the driver to hide sectors that are used for backups rather than use a hidden partition resulting in disk utilities corrupting the backups or the system and utilities not knowing what sectors are actually available. Usurps the bootstrap area of the MBR which means you cannot use it for, say, other backup programs that also use the MBR bootstrap area for boot-time recovery or multi-boot manager or anything else that uses that boot area of the MBR. Because it replaces the standard MBR bootstrap, you're screwed if it won't boot the load sector for the OS partition. Because of the hiding of sectors within an active partition from the OS and apps, you can't use defrag or other programs that expect the sectors reported to be truely available. There are a LOT of caveats to use this software. Read their forums. I looked at it, tested it in a VM, but decided it was way too hazardous.
From: glorieux on 12 May 2010 06:34 Vanguard Thanks for the input and the detailed reply. Probably a good idea to stay away from it. Thanks glorieux On 5/11/2010 7:28 AM, VanguardLH wrote: > glorieux wrote: > >> Interesting article on the Comodo (freeware) Time Machine backup program. >> Wondering (out loud) if anyone has used or is using it and what their >> thoughts might be. >> >> http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/10/screenshot-tour-free-comodo-time-machine-lets-you-roll-back-you/ > > Uses a kernel-mode file I/O interceptor driver that causes lots of problems > (just read their forums). Interferes with anti-malware. Causes crashes. > Backups get corrupted. Use the driver to hide sectors that are used for > backups rather than use a hidden partition resulting in disk utilities > corrupting the backups or the system and utilities not knowing what sectors > are actually available. Usurps the bootstrap area of the MBR which means > you cannot use it for, say, other backup programs that also use the MBR > bootstrap area for boot-time recovery or multi-boot manager or anything else > that uses that boot area of the MBR. Because it replaces the standard MBR > bootstrap, you're screwed if it won't boot the load sector for the OS > partition. Because of the hiding of sectors within an active partition from > the OS and apps, you can't use defrag or other programs that expect the > sectors reported to be truely available. There are a LOT of caveats to use > this software. Read their forums. I looked at it, tested it in a VM, but > decided it was way too hazardous.
From: Caesar Romano on 12 May 2010 08:23 On Wed, 12 May 2010 06:34:39 -0400, glorieux <orleen.awat(a)can.net> wrote Re Re: Comodo Time Machine: >Vanguard >Thanks for the input and the detailed reply. > >Probably a good idea to stay away from it. > >Thanks +1 on that. -- Work is the curse of the drinking class.
From: rich on 12 May 2010 09:34
On Wed, 12 May 2010 06:34:39 -0400, glorieux wrote: > Vanguard > Thanks for the input and the detailed reply. > > Probably a good idea to stay away from it. > > Thanks > > glorieux Probably a good idea to avoid, 10 years ago there was a similar application Roxio (then Norton) GoBack which worked on the same principle. Great when it works but if anything goes wrong .....disaster. A far better strategy is to have your OS on a small partition and put everything else, documents, music, movies etc on another partition. Back up the OS partition up regularly and restore if anything goes wrong. -- rich |