Save Comodo Time Machine!

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Hey Jacob

  I think comodo has more than enough to do in order to keep themselves busy.

Each product have their own developing team. Getting resources to one product will not slow down the development of another one.

[Tech]

Each product have their own developing team. Getting resources to one product will not slow down the development of another one.

Well... In the particular case of CTM this does not occur... Don't ask me... But I think there isn't a dedicated team for CTM anymore... If what you're posting is true, what are they doing?

[EricJH]

Waiting to see what Microsoft does. I have seen one reply from a Comodo staff member in a topic about a month ago or so that suggests there is might be one person active. But your guess is as good as mine....

[Tech]

Waiting to see what Microsoft does. I have seen one reply from a Comodo staff member in a topic about a month ago or so that suggests there is might be one person active. But your guess is as good as mine....

Eric, I need to call the programmers and Comodo staff to responsibility.
Look at the forum what happens with data/documents and how should we react.
The software must be removed and not allowed to be downloaded anymore.

https://forums.comodo.com/help-ctm/creating-baseline-snapshot-hangs-with-disk-error-t72528.0.html
https://forums.comodo.com/help-ctm/ctm-is-crap-all-data-gone-t59282.0.html
https://forums.comodo.com/help-ctm/removed-ctm-all-the-users-data-is-now-gonecan-it-be-recovered-t71792.0.html
https://forums.comodo.com/help-ctm/ctm-uninstalling-forever-help-t71870.0.html

and the list could go on...

[wagner.reatto]

man, i am an it tech for +30 years, i used a lot of bkp tools. and never was so easy make 'bkps' before. 

dont even think to stop ctm!!! 

[Tech]

wagner.reatto, CTM is an advanced system restore tool, not a backup one.
You need to backup your files regularly (even using CTM)

[panic]

wagner.reatto, CTM is an advanced system restore tool, not a backup one.
You need to backup your files regularly (even using CTM)

+1 million.

CTM is your evacuation plan, not your fire extinguisher!!

[Greg S]

+1 million.

CTM is your evacuation plan, not your fire extinguisher!!

Well, in a sense it is a backup. If one maintains there snapshots you could always load a snapshot to retrieve whatever you wanted. Same goes for backups. Mount the image and get what you want.

[panic]

Well, in a sense it is a backup. If one maintains there snapshots you could always load a snapshot to retrieve whatever you wanted. Same goes for backups. Mount the image and get what you want.

A backup that is stored on the same physical device as the source is no backup - it's an accident waiting to happen.

The CTM setup I strongly advocate is to start with two spearate physical drives - one for the O/S and apps and the other for user generated data.

The first drive is CTM protected so we can quickly get back to a stable, know operational state.

The second drive (the user generated data drive) is not CTM protected but is backed up to a different device (or location).

The logic behind this is; O/S and apps I can reinstall (time consuming and painful but I can do it) - they are reasonably static. User generated data is, by its nature, dynamic and, unless you have an eidetic memory, cannot be redone by the user.

The whole concept behind a backup is to safeguard the objects that you cannot easily recreate in an accurate and timely manner.

Cheers,
Ewen :-)

[Tech]

A backup that is stored on the same physical device as the source is no backup - it's an accident waiting to happen.

Precisely.
More than that, the snapshots are NOT accessible from outside of CTM running, for instance, by a CD/DVD boot.

The CTM setup I strongly advocate is to start with two spearate physical drives - one for the O/S and apps and the other for user generated data.

Again the best suggestion for all users, i.e., separate OS and data/documents.

[wasgij6]

here is some info i found about windows 8 on lifehacker.com
http://lifehacker.com/5803954/windows-8-preview-23-potential-features-you-should-know-about
and
here some info about a new feature called history vault
http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-history-vault-user-interface-revealed/

[Tech]

Thanks for sharing!

http://lifehacker.com/5803954/windows-8-preview-23-potential-features-you-should-know-about

If History Vault's timed, incremental backups of changed files prove half as usable as Time Machine, it might finally make backup a part of everyday life for users in the real world.
File history, not partition snapshoting. It will timeout, you won't manage the number of history. An intensive file operation can just make everything lost suddenly... It won't be reliable. It will be an accident recovery, restore files from two days ago... something like that.
I see no reason for Comodo to drop CTM...
In fact, I will give up on Comodo in the day Windows 8 have exactly the snapshotting technology. It seems this day will never come...

here some info about a new feature called history vault
http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-history-vault-user-interface-revealed/

As you can see, it's a file history and not a full computer/disk snapshoting.
Other freeware already do file history (like AutoVer and File Hamster).
Will it do snapshotting of the full disk/partition?

[Tech]

Oops... now things seem to be clearer...

http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-to-include-its-own-time-machine-rival-history-vault/

According to one person familiar with the company’s plans, the backup feature will include the ability to restore to a specific time or date on the system.

Bye bye CTM?      

[adam2new]

Need to keep alive for Windows-users sake.

Unfortunately, I use Linux with Windows XP in VirtualBox, so I get to save a snapshot of the hard drive data (and unfortunately, I haven't backed it up recently either... might as well do that now)

[Greg S]

Oops... now things seem to be clearer...

http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-to-include-its-own-time-machine-rival-history-vault/

According to one person familiar with the company’s plans, the backup feature will include the ability to restore to a specific time or date on the system.

Bye bye CTM?      

I don't get it. How is this different than any other backup/image software? Why would a backup/image app cause CTM to stop development? Maybe I'm missing some information but I haven't read anywhere that this is going to be an instant system restore type app.

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