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Does The Juzt Reboot Card Live Up To Its Name?

Posted by Cliff on from the instant-recovery-from-catastrophic-crashes? dept.

frAme57 asks: "Overclockedcafe has a review of the Juzt Reboot System/Data Recovery Card. Has anyone used one? Is it everything they say it is? It sounds like an interesting idea but a PCI card that does what tape drives and CD burners do does seem a bit...well...farfetched." The review makes the card out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, and it may be just that if it does all it claims it can. Unfortunately a few functions on this card are limited to DOS/Win32, but if it can save you from a catastrophic crash even once, it might turn out to be worth the cash. Anyone have any direct experiences with this hardware that they'd like to share?

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  1. mirror by bolind · · Score: 2

    It works for me, but I put up a quick mirror at:

    http://www.ostenfeld.dk/~bolind/juzt-reboot/eindex .htm

    It's probably just me, but for the first many minutes I just sad with a big "What does it do?!"-look on my face.

    Apparently, it uses part of the harddrive to buffer changes, which you can choose to ignore, and go back to a previous step. Kinda like a big scale undo function for OS's.

    Not sure if it's usable. The review recommends it being used in a lab environment, but labs are already networked, so wouldn'ta global "write-disk-image-from-server-once-a-week" be better? I know that's what my school does. (In the MS Windows lab, that is. I the CS lab, we run dumb Sunray 150 clients against Solaris X-servers.)

    Bo

  2. Aside from... by Tower · · Score: 3

    The horribly poor writing on the site (worse than some of those badly translated tech manuals), it lists a bunch of things in the FAQ that are sort of worrysome... It will restore Linux, but not with instant recovery mode. Oh, yeah, and "DO NOT install other partition software or hardware that is not provided by MS-DOS FDISK." Sounds harsh. It also specifies a number of specific sizes for NTFS partitions (up to and including a whopping 2200MB)... If you are running NT (even WS), you generally have more disk space than that. If you aure using IDE, don't even think about having your CD-ROM on the same cable as your HD, or your CD-ROM won't show up?!

    Seems like an interesting product, but when your website could be grammar fixed by first graders... here are some good ones:

    "To memorize your supervisor password is very important."

    "Win-NT is for the NTFS file system. Please set the partition size as follows: 800MB, 900MB, 1100MB, 1300MB, 1600MB, 1800MB, 2100MB, 2200MB." Good thing they made NT, otherwise NTFS would have gone unused... or is it that NTFS is for Win-NT?

    "This colon mark is important to avoid abnormal marks appear in Windows device manager."


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  3. HDD Sheriff by PhunkySchtuff · · Score: 2

    I've actually used (and tried - unsucesfully - to break) the HDD Sheriff and found it to be pretty impressive.
    Works fine under DOS, needs drivers for Win9x, WinNT and Win2k, not sure about other OS's.
    Basically, protect your system with it, fuck it up as much as you can (format the hard disk even) and reboot - voila! back where you were...
    -- kai

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