Ken Blake said:
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You are comparing apples and oranges here. System Restore is not
meant as a complete backup solution and shouldn't be compared to
backup software. System Restore backs up the system only, and
does *nothing* to back up your data, which should be the primary
objective of all backup software.
That's, in a round-about way, is what I meant to say, as I stated in an
earlier post in this topic, that it's used to repair your pc when the
registry has a glitch, and as far as comparing to other softwares, you are
correct..however, too many people think that doing system restore IS the
same as backing up data, they don't understand the difference..thinking
system restore is the cure-all, so in my haste to offer help to the poster,
I decided to not go into great detail about the differences. I was merely
trying to reinforce that system restore was really no longer an option, and
that the NTbackup, or Ghost, were good choices to for backing up a system,
once it's in good working order.
So it's not a matter of preference. Yes, by all means use the
backup software of your choice, but also keep System Restore in
place as a quick way to get you out of trouble if you need to
revert the operating system to a previous state.
I was speaking of Ghost, or NTbackup as a preference for backup
utilities, not really factoring in system restore as a choice, or
preference. I agree that system restore has it's use, and I do have mine
enabled, however, I don't rely on it.
I disagree with the phrase "at the drop of the hat."
Unfortunately, although it should never happen, it occasionally
does. But it's rare.
I have been suprised at the number of people I have come accross in the last
several weeks that have problems with system restore, and perhaps I
exagerated a bit when refering to the 'drop of a hat', but I don't think
it's all that rare. While checking some articles for possible causes, I
came accross at least 5 articles that had information about what can cause
system restore to not function as it should.