Symantec Norton GoBack 4 0
- نسخه :Version 4.0
- نوع فایل : نرم افزار
- زبان : انگلیسی
- سیستم عامل : Windows 32Bit & 64Bit
- تولید کننده : Symantec
- سال تولید : 2005
Description
Given Symantec's history and reputation, it comes as no surprise that Norton GoBack 4.0 is a well-designed, economical product, though the company has done little with it since acquiring it from Roxio in 2003. Our experience indicated that its real strength is system rollback, but GoBack is a decent file-recovery solution, too.
We got GoBack installed quickly, and the software took about 20 minutes (an average speed) to back up our system and data files. A couple of days later, we tried our first system rollback. We picked a Safe Point, which is a system snapshot GoBack takes every few hours, and let her rip. The entire rollback process took 20 to 30 minutes. When completed, GoBack presented us with a list of all the files it was going to delete, which came in handy because we needed to retrieve a couple of documents headed for oblivion. The only downside was that finding those files required scrolling through an extremely long list. A sorting option would be nice. Of course, this wouldn't have been an issue had we followed our own advice and put data on a separate partition or drive.
Other useful features for restoring system integrity include two new additions: Auto Rollback and SafeTry mode. Auto Rollback is a scheduled daily rollback that restores your system to the way it was when the day started. This is useful for family machines that lots of people use to download games, images from the Web, and other miscellaneous junk. The SafeTry mode lets you download, install, and try new applications while leaving open the option of rejecting the app and returning your system to its preinstall state. It worked well when we tried it out with a couple of apps—one we kept and one we rejected, launching a minirollback automatically.
The product also includes hard drive restore features for full or selective recovery, and the ability to create a virtual drive (that contains the previous state of your machine) to compare against the current state, so you can see what changes, if any, took place.
GoBack also lets you recover individual files, such as Microsoft Word documents. You can search through the backed-up files by full or partial filename, last-saved date, location, size, and type. You can also right-click on a given file and choose Show All Versions to see previous incarnations of the file.
During our testing, Word crashed with several documents open (this had nothing to do with GoBack). The auto-restore feature built into Word retrieved the most recent unsaved version of the file we were working on, but GoBack did not, because it waits for a save command before backing up the file. But this is a relatively small limitation—one shared by many products here—in an otherwise solid solution.
We got GoBack installed quickly, and the software took about 20 minutes (an average speed) to back up our system and data files. A couple of days later, we tried our first system rollback. We picked a Safe Point, which is a system snapshot GoBack takes every few hours, and let her rip. The entire rollback process took 20 to 30 minutes. When completed, GoBack presented us with a list of all the files it was going to delete, which came in handy because we needed to retrieve a couple of documents headed for oblivion. The only downside was that finding those files required scrolling through an extremely long list. A sorting option would be nice. Of course, this wouldn't have been an issue had we followed our own advice and put data on a separate partition or drive.
Other useful features for restoring system integrity include two new additions: Auto Rollback and SafeTry mode. Auto Rollback is a scheduled daily rollback that restores your system to the way it was when the day started. This is useful for family machines that lots of people use to download games, images from the Web, and other miscellaneous junk. The SafeTry mode lets you download, install, and try new applications while leaving open the option of rejecting the app and returning your system to its preinstall state. It worked well when we tried it out with a couple of apps—one we kept and one we rejected, launching a minirollback automatically.
The product also includes hard drive restore features for full or selective recovery, and the ability to create a virtual drive (that contains the previous state of your machine) to compare against the current state, so you can see what changes, if any, took place.
GoBack also lets you recover individual files, such as Microsoft Word documents. You can search through the backed-up files by full or partial filename, last-saved date, location, size, and type. You can also right-click on a given file and choose Show All Versions to see previous incarnations of the file.
During our testing, Word crashed with several documents open (this had nothing to do with GoBack). The auto-restore feature built into Word retrieved the most recent unsaved version of the file we were working on, but GoBack did not, because it waits for a save command before backing up the file. But this is a relatively small limitation—one shared by many products here—in an otherwise solid solution.
