Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 BlackArmor Backup User Guide - Page 58

Using Try&Decide, 2 Try&Decide usage examples - installation software

Get Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 PDF manuals and user guides View all Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals

Page 58 highlights

disk defragmentation or disk error checking utilities at the same time, because this can irreparably corrupt the file system, as well as make the system disk unbootable. Seagate BlackArmor Backup will track changes until the BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone is almost full. Then the program will alert you that the time has come to make a decision on whether to apply or discard the changes made so far. If you choose to not heed the alert message, the program will automatically restart the system when the zone is full, discarding the changes in the process of rebooting. At that point, all changes will be lost. If you have chosen Discard Changes and rebooted the computer with multiple operating systems installed, you won't be able to boot other operating systems, except the one used for working in the Try&Decide mode. The second reboot will restore the original MBR and make other operating systems bootable. 7.1 Using Try&Decide Now let's see how to use this feature. First of all, you should decide for yourself which part of your system you want to protect and set the Try&Decide options correspondingly. Those options also provide other settings for the Try&Decide mode. 7.1.2. Try&Decide options You can configure Try&Decide options as required. Partition protected by T&D - specify the partition you want to protect from unauthorized changes during a Try&Decide session. By default, T&D protects Disk C, though you may choose to protect any other partition in your system. Alert settings - specify whether Try&Decide should alert you when it uses up all the space allotted for saving virtual changes and after a specified time period has passed. By default all alerts are On. 7.2 Try&Decide usage examples The Try&Decide feature can help you in a variety of ways; here are some examples: There are cases when the installation of antivirus software cripples functionality of some applications; in fact, some programs might even refuse to start after antivirus installation. The Try&Decide feature can help you to avoid such a problem. Here's how: 1. Select an antivirus program and download a trial version. 2. Turn on the Try&Decide mode. 3. Install the antivirus software. 4. Try to work with the applications installed on your computer performing your usual tasks. 5. If everything works without any snags, you can be reasonably sure that there will be no incompatibility problems and can buy the antivirus software. 6. If you encounter any problems, discard the changes in your system and try antivirus software from another vendor. The new attempt might turn out to be successful. Here's another example: You have accidentally deleted some files and then emptied the Recycle Bin. Then you have remembered that the deleted files contained important data and now you are going to try to undelete them using an undelete software program. However, sometimes you may do something wrong while trying to recover deleted files, making things 58 Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Acronis. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All Rights Reserved.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130
58
Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Acronis. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All Rights Reserved.
disk defragmentation or disk error checking utilities at the same time, because this can
irreparably corrupt the file system, as well as make the system disk unbootable.
Seagate BlackArmor Backup will track changes until the BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone is
almost full. Then the program will alert you that the time has come to make a decision on
whether to apply or discard the changes made so far. If you choose to not heed the alert
message, the program will automatically restart the system when the zone is full, discarding
the changes in the process of rebooting. At that point, all changes will be lost.
If you have chosen
Discard Changes
and
rebooted the computer with multiple operating
systems installed,
you won’t be able to boot other operating systems
, except the one used
for working in the Try&Decide mode. The second reboot will restore the original MBR and
make other operating systems bootable.
7.1 Using Try&Decide
Now let's see how to use this feature. First of all, you should decide for yourself which part
of your system you want to protect and set the Try&Decide options correspondingly. Those
options also provide other settings for the Try&Decide mode.
7.1.2.
Try&Decide options
You can configure Try&Decide options as required.
Partition protected by T&D
–
specify the partition you want to protect from
unauthorized changes during a Try&Decide session. By default, T&D protects Disk C,
though you may choose to protect any other partition in your system.
Alert settings
–
specify whether Try&Decide should alert you when it uses up all the
space allotted for saving virtual changes and after a specified time period has passed. By
default all alerts are On.
7.2 Try&Decide usage examples
The Try&Decide feature can help you in a variety of ways; here are some examples:
There are cases when the installation of antivirus software cripples functionality of some
applications; in fact, some programs might even refuse to start after antivirus installation.
The Try&Decide feature
can help you to avoid such a problem. Here’s how:
1. Select an antivirus program and download a trial version.
2. Turn on the Try&Decide mode.
3. Install the antivirus software.
4. Try to work with the applications installed on your computer performing your usual tasks.
5. If everything works without any snags, you can be reasonably sure that there will be no
incompatibility problems and can buy the antivirus software.
6. If you encounter any problems, discard the changes in your system and try antivirus
software from another vendor. The new attempt might turn out to be successful.
Here’s another example: You have accidentally deleted some files and then emptied the
Recycle Bin. Then you have remembered that the deleted files contained important data and
now you are going to try to undelete them using an undelete software program. However,
sometimes you may do something wrong while trying to recover deleted files, making things