How often you have used the System Restore Feature of Windows Operating System to find out that “your system can not be restored”. System restore feature in Windows indeed is a great feature to restore your system if something bad happens with it or if the system gets infected. But most often we find its not working due to one reason or other.
Also, it is not a full backup and restore solution for Your PC. If you keep important stuff on your system either professional or personal, you do need to have a proper backup solution for any emergency like Virus infection, corruption of operating system and many more.
There are many backup solutions available. Most of them paid ones like Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image. Today I will talk about Comodo Time Machine , a backup solution with no price tag and loads of functionality.
Comodo Time Machine (CTM) is a powerful system rollback utility that allows users to quickly restore their computers to an earlier point in time. CTM ’snapshots’ are a complete record of your entire system (including the registry, critical operating system files and user created documents).
It is very simple to use with a clean and clear interface providing features like Scheduled automatic snapshots (Backups) at regular intervals along with Roll back to the last known working state in the event of virus attacks or crashes.
The menu interface buttons are eaasy to understand for anyone with options of recovering files or full system or take a new backup/snapshot or recover individual files from old backups. The initial installation may take sometime but after that it works perfectly. It shows different snapshot available which can be used for restoring your system to a predefined or earlier time.
Creating manual backups is easy. Just define the drive you want to back either during installation or later on in settings. Click on “Take a snapshot”, enter some details and rest of things will be done automatically.
Similarly, Restoring your system to a earlier time isn’t that hard. Just choose the snapshot you want your system to revert back and it will restore your system to earlier time.
It does provide a lot of other functionalities also like mounting of snapshots image to virtual drive letting you browse individual files and folders so that you can restore individual files or folders if required.
Talk about your favorite backup solution here and the reasons why you love it. I would love to hear your thoughts.
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Thanks Avinash,Today only i had restored my PC due to my one of RAM failure and my system has become slow in start up.
Thanks for nice info.
Easeus TODO backup and Paragon Drive Backup free editions also do a great job. I didn’t tried time machine yet and I wish to use it in near future.
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I too have been a Paragon user for some time to be honest.
I do want to mention though, Windows 7 has this built in capability. You can back up your system image and create a rescue disk that you just pop in and it restores your whole image you created, just like Paragon or Comodo. It has timed backups, etc… I have used it and it’s been flawless so far. BUT, it takes more space on the hard drive than the others mentioned and it will quickly fill a drive if you don’t set the timed backups correctly. The interface is easy though. I think Vista had some half cracked version of a backup system as well, fortunately Win 7 is MUCH better.
But back to Comodo, I haven’t tried it and likely won’t as I no longer support them and their new ways of business doings. Like the selling of SSL certificate to malware distributors, their toolbar methods, the attacks on people who disagree in the forums, etc… I was, some time ago, a huge supporter and a moderator there and as time went on, I didn’t like many aspects of how it was being turned, how only certain people were being treated and I sure don’t trust them in the least. But that’s just my opinion yet again and no one should judge what they like based on others’ opinions. Their software is still good regardless and I am a moral based person which affects my judgement of what I use, so it’s nothing to do with poorly written Comodo software. ;)
Well, you are right mate about the way Comodo has been doing things recently. I have used their firewall in the past and it worked great. But later on i stopped using them, some of the reasons you talked about above. But still the softwares produced by Comodo are good enough for most of the guys to use. As you said, someone else personal opinion should be left aside while using or testiing a product, I put this one up here as it looks good.
Regarding Windows 7, yes the basic problem is the Disk space that it takes and hence not good for many of us who dont have a bigger hard disk including me.
Oh, Is it so PChammer? I thought that they were very service oriented, as most of their softwares are free. But if they are doing like what you said then I won’t be using them anymore….
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I am thinking about restoring my PC. Definitely i will try this new option. It seems to be interesting…
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Deepika,
I am not sure what you mean by restoring it and here’s why….
First let me mention that the term “restore” for all intents and purposes, typically points to Windows restore, the “restore to an earlier time”. If you mean restore as in reinstall fresh, that’s a different matter and the reason I mention either one is this. If you plan to do a restore, “regardless which term you mean” it should be from a stable solid operating point. And let me mention, you cannot restore simply by installing Comodo or any software, unless it’s your Windows disk which of course will reinstall the whole system, do a repair, etc… My point is, you needed some restore point created with that software prior unless it taps Windows restore and runs that for a restore since those would be the only restore points on your OS. If your system is in good shape, you can create one now, however, when I create an image to restore my OS to, I usually make sure it’s a fresh install with basic securities, updates, and things I know I will use constantly, then I create a backup. I will create backups along the way providing I know my system isn’t compromised and is in good running order. Really, who wants to back up a fouled OS ;) Any case, if I misunderstood, I apologize.
Obviously, you need some backup OS stable operating like a hard disk image or something similar to restore your faulty or infected system back to stable and working condition just like when you you created the image.
I am using Macrium Reflect full edition and it’s never fails for me. I think Macrium is best disk imaging software than other products like Acronis,Norton ghost because it’s light weghit and not consume lots of memory than acronis or ghost.It’s also provide free edition. Which works perfectly with all version of windows.
I just have a look at Macrium Reflect free edition . It looks good though at first sight but it doesn’t provide support for Differential disk images and backups, Incremental disk images and backups, Disk Space Management etc in free version. These features are necessary for a full backup solution. Its only available with the Paid version.
I read the posts but i dont get it !
I know how is working a backup software , i used Drive Image , and now i’m using Acronis. Both of them have the ability to start from a CD , so in case your computer is “dead” , you can put back the back -up (in 10 -15 min) and you are ready to go.
But what is this snapshot ? How can it restore your C partition, but in the same time is low low in size than a C back up ?
I also don’t understand where this snapshots are stored , as long as it can monitor and restore ALL the system partition .
So , if I format the C , reinstall the windows and the Comodo time machine , can it find snapshots of the other partions ?
Hi amd,
A snapshot is a “frozen image of your system” a picture of it if you will at the moment it is taken. In order to explain the technical methods, I would suggest reading somewhere as it’s too lengthy to go into, however, it’s a smaller image that a typical backup and while I don’t recall Comodo having a boot disk, there should be a pre Windows load to the Comodo console that gives you an option to boot or restore to your given image. Tis all I have for you and haven’t had a chance to read up on it yet, so hope it helps. If nothing else, browse the Comodo site, likely there is more information there.
You are right PCHammer as usual :) Comodo does give a pre Windows load to the Comodo console giving you an option to boot or restore to your given image.