Rollback Rx is the Goback Vista Software Alternative
Norton GoBack software compared to Vista compatible RollBack Rx. The ideal replacement for Symantec's legacy GoBack users.
Norton GoBack, was formerly known as Roxio Go Back, Adaptec GoBack, as well as other names. Go back has been sold and transferred frequently from company to company. Currently, Norton Go Back is the only competitive roll-back solution close enough to be shown on the RollBack Rx radar screen. Go Back's comparison and competitiveness is limited. Go Back Software OverviewGoBack is a Microsoft Windows based disk utility, that monitors and records up to 8.3Gb of disk changes. When the disk activity is idle, it tags these as safe checkpoints. Go Back then allows the hard drive to be restored to any of the checkpoints. It does this by effectively undoing all changes made to the disk since the checkpoint point was created. Go Back replaces the MBR Master Boot Record, and also replaces the partition table with a single partition. Because of this change to the partition table, this can cause problems when dual booting other operating systems on the same hard disk. |
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RollBack Rx's Snapshots vs Go Back's Buffer Space
Go Back uses a buffer space for storage of its change files using the FIFO method of storage (First In First Out). This limits the amount of data and eventually - how far back you can actually go back to restore. Thus when the buffer space becomes full, Go Back starts to delete its earlier checkpoints and storage of earlier data.
Go back's technology is based on a file level monitoring and logging technique. It needs to consume a large chunk of the hard disk space to create a history change file. The monitoring system is picking up every little bit of file changes regardless of whether or not, it is worth to know or see. A simple system restart will generate 100s of file changes to log. It really makes one wonder if more truly is better; in Goback's case, more is definitely not better. The details file change history logging consumes the hard disk space quickly, not to mention, the tremendous pressure it puts on system resources.
RollBack Rx's snapshot-based continuous backup solution delivers added security by allowing you to store the state of your PC more often, while using less drive space. Should the need arise, you could easily restore your PC to any of its unlimited number of snapshots. This could potentially be months or even years ago. These snapshots could be automated silently in fixed intervals such as 1 hour ago, or whenever the system is turned on or a particular file is executed.
