Rollback Rx - Task Schedule - Configuration

Scheduling Tasks in Rollback Rx

This is a second post in configuration series
Open Rollback Rx
1. Select Scheduled task in the left menu




2. Default task Scheduled during the installation process will be shown as below
3. Clicking Add button will open the Schedule Task window as shown below.
4. There are two task which can be scheduled - 1. Take Snapshot  2. Restore System.
   

5. Take  Snapshot - Options to schedule snapshots
5a. Restart - On every Restart of the computer system

5b. One Time - Taking snapshot on particular date and time

5c. Hourly - Take snapshot every hour
5d. Daily - Take snapshot daily at particular hour or automatically At first boot of the day

5e. Weekly - once a week - on particular day, hour and minute
5f: Monthly - Once a month - Particular Date of a month, hour and minute
5g. Event Driven - Take snapshot based on a event. For eg. In windows all software installer MSIEXEC.Exe You can take snapshot when MSIEXEC.EXE runs resulting in snapshot before installation. Any failed or corrupted installations can be uninstalled without the trace of new software in the system

Multiple tasks can be set to take snapshots. For eg. Daily Snapshots can be set to 'First boot of the Day', Weekly snapshot can be set to take Weekend snapshot and locked and Monthly snapshot can be set to take month-end and locked. Weekend & month-end  snapshot will be most useful for Accounting computer systems to check back-entries as reference.

6. Restore system - Schedule a task to restore system to a particular snapshot or recent snapshot on restart / log off / onetime / hourly / weekly / monthly

6a. Schedule Type options are same as Take Snapshots

6b. Rollback Settings - allows to Restore system task to rollback to either most recent snapshot or user selected snapshot.

6c. What about other snapshots - Allows you select to keep all snapshots or delete all unlocked snapshots after rollback

6d. Snapshot selection window to rollback is shown below

Restore System is most useful for public access computers like Browsing Centers, Internet access computers in educational institutes and other offices. Due to browsing habits, various download and mail link clicks these more prone to trouble thus needs most of the maintenance time. Maintenance Time means downtime and non availability of the system. To avoid system can be scheduled to restore on every log-on, thus keeping the system always available.
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