[Review] Rollback RX Pro v10

[Umbra Polaris]

The Good :

- Easy to use
- allow you to reverse all changes made to your system (system crashes after new soft/driver installation) and malwares issues (0-days attacks, etc...)
- Compatible with security softwares (AVs/FW/Suites)
- unlike Virtualization system-wide software (Shadow defender, etc...), you can install softs that need a reboot
- Very fast snapshot creation
- Very quick snapshot restoration
- Low on resource's usage
- ability to defragment the snapshot for gaining HDD space
- can be launched during boot time
- You can explore any snapshot as virtual drives

The Bad :

- Like any rollback system software, imaging backup soft are not compatible (Acronis, Paragon, Macrium, etc...)
- Defragmenting your system after installing RX is not recommended (Windows defrag, Puran, auslogic, etc..)
- must be installed BEFORE any virtualization system wide software.
- Not free

Overall Product Rating :

5 Stars (Excellent)

Rollback RX Pro:


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Rollback Rx is a pearl in protecting your PC, its main purpose is to save a snapshot of your current system (or selected partition) and in the case you have a system failure, infection, or just deleted something important , you just need one click to restore it as if nothing happened.

You will say " i have a Backup Image, why i should use that?"

My answer is simple :

How long you have to wait when doing a backup image of your system? 20, 30mn, 1 hour? then how long to restore it?
For me it took 10-15mn for just backup my 17.5gb system with Acronis, With Rollback, i need 1mn !

Also RX allows you to take multiple successive snapshots then delete the ones you don't need anymore.

Rollback sit on the top of your system, it create an "hidden partition" where it stocks the snapshots. It is why imaging softwares are not compatible since they don't recognize the hidden partition, and both loads drivers on boot so you may have conflicts.

Tip: If you still need an imaging backup software, i suggest you to use the boot CD version instead of the installer one (most of them allow you to create it) so you will avoid to install drivers that may conflict with RX, and the boot CD will load before RX.

Tip 2 : i highly suggest to do a cleaning of your system, defragmentation, backup image BEFORE installing RX.




now go for a tour:

Main Tab

the home tab, here you will find the basic information about RX and your system, nothing very exciting here.

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Instant Recovery

here is the place where you can restore your snapshots, it indicates the size, status, date of creation, and type of snapshot.

RX when, installed, create an "origin" snapshot called "Baseline" it will be the source of all further snapshots and it is locked from deletion by default.
On my screenshot you can observe i created a "test lab" snapshot (where i test malwares and security solutions), the snapshot is a "user" type, means it is not locked by default (but i locked it)

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Recover

Here RX allow you to just recover some files from your past snapshots, very useful when you just deleted by mistake your copy of an long time consuming made report

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Explore Snapshot

with this you can explore the content of a snapshot; it will be mounted as a virtual drive.

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Snapshot

This tab is the snapshot manager, but here you can lock/unlock snapshots and delete old ones.

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Task Scheduler

The place for automate different tasks

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Event Log

Just an event log

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Tools and Settings


there you will have the tools and setting tabs.

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Access Control

Here is just the panel when you can add a password to your snapshots.

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Baseline Manager

There you can manage the baseline (original snapshot) or create a new one.

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Snapshot Defragmenter

Here is a very useful tab, with time as any files, snapshot get fragmented, there you can defragment them (it is why i said earlier than
3rd party software (Puran, auslogic and co. are not recommended, because they will change the structure of your current system (in fact an active snapshot, and will make the next one bigger in size).

A while ago all my snapshots (saved + current) took around 8gb of space, after defragmenting them here, i regained 5gb.

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Program Settings

3 tabs here:

- Program Appearance: just one thing, you can change the key for opening RX during the boot (useful on a laptop without the "Home" key.

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- Advanced Setting : some settings to facilitate the use of RX

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- Network Setting : just to remotely control RX

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It is Finished !

For a final note:

Rollback RX is a very very useful tool that will save your life many times, if you can afford the price don't hesitate.

I rate it 5/5

[Spirit]

Hi umbra good software to review
I am currently using it and its really a awesome software which saves lot of time for guy like me who loves to install various software for fun on his pc

[Plexx]

So if I get this, it takes like snapshots correct?

Suppose I got a partition of 600GB, and 200GB are used (OS, music, files, games and installers). I can restore the current 200GB snaphot in under 30 mins?

Where are the snapshots stored?

[Spirit]

(08-05-2012 08:25 AM)Biozfear Wrote:  So if I get this, it takes like snapshots correct?

Suppose I got a partition of 600GB, and 200GB are used (OS, music, files, games and installers). I can restore the current 200GB snaphot in under 30 mins?

Where are the snapshots stored?

30 minutes?????
only 1-2 minutes
it stored on c but it never occupy that much space

[Spirit]

Its very much different with backup software.
It will revert back to snapshot in less then 1 minute
Its take snapshot absolutely correct.

Suppose you have 600 Gb hd and 200 Gb of data before you install rollback,
So it will take snapshot of 200 gb of data but that does not mean your hd is now 400 gb but its still 200 Gb + some mb.

But installing and taking 1st snapshot if you take 2nd snapshot and if you installed 4 gb data in between then you take new snapshot then the new snapshot will be of 4 gb and will be installed on c

[Plexx]

In order words, it is like window's system restore basically but a paid solution?

[InternetChicken]

Thanks Umbra Corp
nice work as always
Yes Biozfear but is faster and can boot from menu at pc startup

(08-05-2012 08:39 AM)Biozfear Wrote:  In order words, it is like window's system restore basically but a paid solution?

I have used Rollback RX on my pc with with just windows and some software installed
about 16 GB in size takes me about 1 min,
To Rollback To a snap Shot takes about 2 min

[Spirit]

(08-05-2012 08:39 AM)Biozfear Wrote:  In order words, it is like window's system restore basically but a paid solution?

no way buddy,windows System restore is crap and it leaves everything behind whereas it did;nt left anything i must say anything after change.
clean and clear system
Say if you have c,d,e,f partition and you download something on partition f after taking screenshot .
when you revert back the download software of f will not be there and even best recovery tool will not get it.

even database rules and registry are remain same of the time when you take screenshot
Why don't u try 30days trial and you will surely like it

[Umbra Polaris]

review finished + screenshots added

[Plexx]

Interesting. I will give it a try once I get Pure out of the way. 2 hours scan time for a full scan is one thing that is stopping me from completing the video...

That and AION, having over 2 hours can be difficult