COMDEX 99: Wild File Demos New GoBack for Windows NT
Wild File today showed off its newest product, which they classified as "nearing beta," GoBack for Windows NT. The GoBack product line is a computer recovery system that allows users to restore their systems from pre-crash images that it creates. The demo was quite impressive as they deleted Windows
System directories and much more, all restoring without
a hitch. Fellow exhibitors laughed at the GoBack presenter's
enthusiasm during the deletion of Windows.
aside a portion of the hard disk and writing images to
the drive without user interaction. This eliminates
the user having to stop work and create
a snapshot of the machine, and also a recent backup of data.
crashes, retrieving data that has been erased, removing
failed software installs without leaving a trace of
the software, and file recovery in the case of saving a
modified document overtop an original.
require about 10% of the drive space and would allow
the user to access about a weeks worth of backups, a
nice thing for those of us who either forget to backup, or have a tendency to tinker with our system
too much.