GoBack Replacement?

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I'm looking for a program to replace GoBack.

On my old system (Win98SE, 40GB HD) I would get about 2 weeks of restore
points with GoBack. Now, on my new system (WinXP, with two 250GB HDs) I'm
getting only 30 hours of restore points -- with system restore turned off.
Which is pretty useless if I fail to catch the problem right away.

What I'm looking for is a program that will allow me to do the same as
GoBack does, but hopefully with more time in which to do it. Does that make
any sense???

Any suggestions.
?


Paul
 
When you find it, let others know. Many will be interested!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
If I'm not mistaken isn't the an amount of space you can allocate when you
intsall it?
or put it on a seperate partion (if your partition the drives)
should make for more restore points
could be wrong,have been before :-}

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GoBack reserves a separate, unmovable space on each drive protected. The
max amount of HD space GoBack uses to store revert points is 4GB. Which was
fine when HDs were smaller, but is insufficient apparently with larger HDs.

Paul
 
darn wrong again :-(

N.O. Body said:
GoBack reserves a separate, unmovable space on each drive protected. The
max amount of HD space GoBack uses to store revert points is 4GB. Which was
fine when HDs were smaller, but is insufficient apparently with larger HDs.

Paul
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darn wrong again :-(

N.O. Body said:
GoBack reserves a separate, unmovable space on each drive protected. The
max amount of HD space GoBack uses to store revert points is 4GB. Which was
fine when HDs were smaller, but is insufficient apparently with larger HDs.

Paul
Click to expand...
 
N.O. Body said:
GoBack reserves a separate, unmovable space on each drive protected. The
max amount of HD space GoBack uses to store revert points is 4GB. Which was
fine when HDs were smaller, but is insufficient apparently with larger HDs.
Click to expand...

Note that GoBack and System Restore perform different functions. GoBack
is a backup intended to put *everything*, including your data files,
back where they were. SR sets out to restore system files and settings
(and executables from installed programs) to where they were, and
deliberately excludes data. I would suggest using that for that purpose
(for which allotting it 500 MB should cover points for a couple of weeks
in the ordinary way) and use some other tool for backing up data.
 
Two items:
1. GoBack can be configured to allocate more resources. See Goback
help, it can be done during initial configuration or afterwards.
2. I have not used this new program, check it out: FirstDefense-ISR
from Raxco Software, $45 retail, find.pcworld.com/39299. I found this
in the last PC Magazine article on New Products, System Utilities.




I'm looking for a program to replace GoBack.

On my old system (Win98SE, 40GB HD) I would get about 2 weeks of restore
points with GoBack. Now, on my new system (WinXP, with two 250GB HDs) I'm
getting only 30 hours of restore points -- with system restore turned off.
Which is pretty useless if I fail to catch the problem right away.

What I'm looking for is a program that will allow me to do the same as
GoBack does, but hopefully with more time in which to do it. Does that make
any sense???

Any suggestions.
?


Paul
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