OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24337/Concept_Enables_PC_Operating_Systems_to_Survive_Attacks Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:28:27 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Uhhh..we already HAVE that http://www.osnews.com/thread?459975 http://www.osnews.com/thread?459975 And it doesn't even cost anything. It is called Comodo Time Machine. It is great for dealing with customers who are "click happy" or have kids that can break a Sherman tank with a toothbrush.

http://www.comodo.com/home/data-storage-encryption/data-recovery.ph...

I gave CTM and installed it on my GF's machine along with mapping her My Documents to a separate drive so I wouldn't have to worry about setting exemptions for CTM or having a complicated way to set up offsite backups (now she just copies her pictures folder to an 8GB flash, easy peasy) and frankly it turned out to be a lifesaver.

She had to rush in because she had forgot she had errands before work and forgot to log off, and wouldn't you know it her niece came by for a visit and managed to screw up the system 32 DLLs installing some junk freeware games. The poor thing wouldn't even get to the XP boot screen before it would BSOD. With my girl living 2 hours away (she had to move back to the family farm after her dad had a heart attack) I just can't pop over and fix things, but with CTM all she had to do was hit F11 and it took me less than 5 minutes to walk her through a restoration. In 15 minutes flat she was back on the net like nothing ever happened.

So if anybody here has had to deal with "click happy" relatives or customers and are tired of reinstalling Windows I would heartily recommend CTM. It is free, takes less than 10 minutes to install, and it automatically makes snapshots both daily and before you install software. It'll even play nice with system restore, although why you'd want system restore when you have CTM is beyond me. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bassbeast) Comments ZFS has it http://www.osnews.com/thread?460024 http://www.osnews.com/thread?460024 This is silly. ZFS already provides that functionality (as well as many other functions). When you take a snapshot of the Solaris system disk (this takes 1 sec) it will show in GRUB. When you boot, you choose which snapshot you want to boot into. Just boot into any earlier snapshot, and delete the unstable snapshot.

Yes, ZFS rocks. It is the best thing since sliced bread. Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kebabbert) Comments RE: ZFS has it http://www.osnews.com/thread?460032 http://www.osnews.com/thread?460032
This is silly. ZFS already provides that functionality (as well as many other functions). When you take a snapshot of the Solaris system disk (this takes 1 sec) it will show in GRUB. When you boot, you choose which snapshot you want to boot into. Just boot into any earlier snapshot, and delete the unstable snapshot.

Yes, ZFS rocks. It is the best thing since sliced bread.

I was going to post something along those lines too, but then remembered that I've already made too many pro-ZFS comments on here already and are starting to sound like a fanboy Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments RE[2]: ZFS has it http://www.osnews.com/thread?460119 http://www.osnews.com/thread?460119 The original article is vague in one regard - is-it for a specific operating system or is-it general for any OS on a X86 architecture? The later case would be quite interesting. Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BlueofRainbow) Comments