ShadowProtect Desktop 3 is out...

I've requested an evaluation of SPD3. I will evaluate it and share my findings.
One question, SP is restricted to Windows' filesystems, right?

 

i dowloaded trial version....only SP_Desktop_Setup_3, there's no trial version for SP bootable rescue disc?

 

I downloaded the trial version yesterday. I was surprised how much it resembled Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery. In GUI, wizards, performance and features. Nice app.

 

Any news on when this might be available ?

 

So what, biased toward the best.........i can't blame you !

 

thanks Pete!

I'm trying now this flavor of the month

I run SP backup and so far so good. I'll read this thread later....i want to know how this SP3 better than RBRx

 

Pete,

Can you get SP to verify each image at the time of creation? I couldn't find an auto setting. I did find a manual verify setting but surely there is an auto one somewhere.

 

@Brian,

To my knowledge, there is no way to make the verify command a part of a backup job as you can with other imaging programs. Seems like that would have been a simple thing to do but I can say I have never had a bad image with this app but the feature is desirable and preferred to make this great app even more efficient.

Gary

 

Thanks Gary,

Recently a member in the Radified forum reported writing unverified Ghost 12 images to an external HD. When she tried to restore an image it wouldn't. Further investigation showed that none of the images would verify. The cause was a failing external HD. This would have been discovered earlier if she had chosen to verify at the time of image creation.

Luckily she had an old image on another external HD.

 

@Brian,

Excellent example of why this should be a helpful feature. That is one of th efew things I miss about not using some of the other imaging programs.

Gary

 

I requested an evaluation of the full version 2 weeks ago, and have had no reply. Guess I dont fulfill their criteria whatever they may be.

Would have been nice to have had a reply though......

 

I just had a look at the Recovery Environment. Drive letters are assigned sequentially (C D E F G etc) and don't necessarily match the drive letters seen in WinXP. Is this how you are seeing drive letters?

From Ghost 10 onwards, Ghost reads the MountedDevices registry key and assigns the same letters in the Recovery Environment as are present in WinXP. On the surface this seems a good idea but some Ghost 10 users couldn't see their external HDs from the Recovery Environment due to this measure. A solution has been discovered but the way SP assigns drive letters is preferable. Ghost 9 does it this way, sequentially, and there were no problems seeing external HDs from the Ghost 9 Recovery Environment.

 

i want to use SP3 weekly incremental backup schedule, my question is if i delete older backup (automatic) do i still need to run windows defrag or there's SP feature to do this (automatic defrag)?

i can't find any big advantage of SP3 vs. RBRx....RBRx speed is really tough to beat. If horizon data release some cure to chkdsk issue i will never leave RBRx

in my honest opinion (for now after 2days of playing SP3), RBRx > SP3=ATI

 

@fce

The above is the best advice you will get. You need BOTH types of software. Recovery is NOT the same as Imaging, and will not save you when your HD fails!!

 

And even imaging don't save you if part. tables are disrupted.Only chance then to recover is zeroing the disk to begin with a clean slate and restore an previously made image.Bottomline is if you have solid images you can always recover,be it a diskfailure or systemfailure,if you have also current FDISR archives then it goes all the way faster to restore back to the current state.Normally from total failure to current state takes 25 min.But as already said be carefull with partitioning.......ask Peter !

 

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, SPD should have an option for a byte-by-byte verify with source on image creation, as Image For Windows has. This helps to ensure that the image is at least written to the target successfully.

 

I notice that I have a process named "imagemanager.exe" loaded all the time, does "imagemangerclient.exe" have to be loaded if I want imagemanager to collapse the incremental´s? If so, what is imagemanager.exe? I thought that one took care of the scheduling of the tasks in imagemanager.

I ask because my incrementals didnt collapse at the specified time. I was connected to my localhost.