In order of importance: Very High Priority: Option to choose the drives and partitions I want protected with the install default being only the system drive (and ability to add other partitions and drives later) Very High Priority: Ability for CTM to co-exist with encrypted partitions (but not necessarily to protect them). In other words, I want to protect my system partition, but occassionally mount a Truecrypt partition without CTM having problems or trying to protect it. Medium Priority: Ability to co-exist with Windows Home Server client. When I mount an old WHS backup to recover an old file (or any other generic virtual drive like that or ramdisks or whatever), I want CTM to co-exist with that ‘virtual’ drive without causing problems. It does NOT need to protect those drives. Very Low Priority: Support for protecting removable disks, memory cards, usb sticks
I use a dual boot computer. When I restored a snapshot I found that both operating systems were restored to the same point in time, it would be nice to be able to restore one and not the other.
I read some forum posts badmouthing each sucessive beta of DiskShield claiming it lacked various capabilities, each time this happened you proved them wrong and incorporated these into the next beta. DiskShield had an option to “protect against RAW disk access”, I understand it was only an experimental feature in its early days and read some forum posts badmouthing it. I am hoping you will incorporate it into time machine, improve it with each beta, and prove your detractors wrong just as you did with diskShield.
I would love to see a Pre-Boot loader option. Something along the lines of Windows “F8” option. Something that has a hotkey (F6?) to access CTM outside the Windows environment. In case something happens to the OS and I’m unable to boot into Windows to restore a snapshot or baseline. I could access the Pre-Boot loader to restore snapshots.
I’d like a feature which would wipe/zero the unused sectors on the protected drive(s). Then, if third party imaging is used to save all sectors, all the wiped sectors will compress very well resulting in much smaller images. CTM will know which sectors it is using for snapshots and so should be easily capable of wiping the rest.
i have 3 sata drives. Each drive have 3 partitions.
when i installed ctm first it gave me message that ctm doesn’t support more than 4 hdds.
then i removed my 2 hdds and restart the installation. ctm worked perfectly.
but when i plugged in my 2 hdds and start my pc i got a message that remove one or more disk to continue.
So my request is when we install ctm may give messages like ctm doesn’t support more than 4 hdds but it should continues the installation and windows should boot if there is more than 4 hdds.
I have a NetBook and I can only use the Home key with the Fn key
The Fn key needs Launch Manager to be running and Launch Manager is enabled at StartUp
I would like the hotkey to be one that does not require the Fn key
Suggest to replace option “Synchronize data between snapshots” with option to exclude certain objects (files, folders) from snapshot capture/restore operation.
OR at least design CTM in such way that it compares folder structure of two snapshots BEFORE copying data. This will help CTM to copy only needed data leaving unchanged data as it is. Currently “synchronization” in CTM terms means copying whole set of related data from one snapshot to another.
Example:
One added MyDocs folder structure (approx 30 gigs) to objects which should be synced between snapshots. Then snapshot was captured. Then one file of 300 KB was deleted from MyDocs folder structure. Then previously taken snapshot was restored.
After restoration CTM began to “synchronize” MyDocs folder structure: by copying whole 30 Gigabytes of data over exactly same 30 Gigabytes of data (difference is only one tiny file of 300 KB that was deleted) !
For this very reason I relocated all variable data to a second physical non-CTM protected disk. It was taking longer to synchronise that it would have to reinstall Windows.
What about an option to automatically take missed scheduled snapshots? I know that there is the option to remind the user to take a missed snapshot but for novice users it would be good if they didn’t have to be aware of this, let alone having to decide what to do .
With laptops and other systems using standby mode then it is easy to miss a daily scheduled snapshot. Obviously you don’t want it to take, say, 5 snapshots for all missed schedules but to just take one to cover all those missed would be good.
Somehow missed that completely. Thanks JoWa!