- How does PAC-FIX work?
- What is a “snapshot”?
- How many snapshots can I take with PAC-FIX?
- How much disk space is required to take those
snapshots?
- What are the benefits of PAC-FIX?
- What are the main features of PAC-FIX?
- Does PAC-FIX prevent hardware failure?
- Is PAC-FIX a replacement of backup
software?
- What Operating Systems are supported by PAC-FIX?
- Does PAC-FIX support LINUX?
- What file systems are supported by PAC-FIX?
- Can PAC-FIX be installed on multi-boot
computers?
- What is the minimum requirement for install PAC-FIX?
- What should I do before install PAC-FIX?
- What are the PAC-FIX deployment options?
- Does PAC-FIX have security access control?
- I lost the administrator password, what can I do?
- Can I disable or hide the PAC-FIX program
interface?
- Can I create a new baseline of the system?
- Can I delete old snapshots?
- How do I lock a snapshot?
- How do I unlock a snapshot?
- Do I loose the files in the current snapshot if I
restore the system to another snapshot?
- How can I uninstall PAC-FIX?
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1. How does PAC-FIX work?
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PAC-FIX provides the protection without the need for backups or
carrying duplicate images of hard drives. PAC-FIX allows users to create a “snapshot” of the entire
system and data at a specific time. Users can select a specific snapshot to
recover files from or restore the entire system to.
2. What is a “snapshot”?
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Technically speaking, a “snapshot” is a map of the hard disk sectors and
the map’s indexing system. Practically speaking, a “snapshot” is a picture
of the system and its data at a specific time.
3. How many snapshots can I take with PAC-FIX?
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PAC-FIX Professional Edition supports up to 60,000 snapshots, which is
more than anyone would ever need for effective system and data management. PAC-FIX
Standard Edition only provides one snapshot for quick and easy
system restore.
4.
How much disk space is required to take those
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Theoretically,
PAC-FIX only takes 0.07%
total hard disk space to create all the snapshots. Such requirement is the
least amount of disk space required to protect an entire system when compared
to any other software produced. However, each snapshot might contain different
amount of user data; therefore each snapshot size might differ.
5. What are the benefits of PAC-FIX?
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PAC-FIX
allows users to accomplish the following
essential tasks:
1. Recover deleted or corrupted files.
2. Restore systems to an earlier version of a file.
3. Restore systems to a clean slate after a virus attack.
4. Restore crashed systems.
5. Restore public shared systems to clean, configured
slates after each session.
6. Remove unwanted software installations.
7. Back out failed software deployment processes.
8. Fix daily user or program problems.
9. Test software products before actual deployments.
10. Complete removal of “Trojan Horse” or hacker
software.
6. What are the main features of PAC-FIX?
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1. Supports up
to 60,000 snapshots.
2. Takes less than 10 seconds to create a new snapshot.
3. Takes a complete system snapshot without rebooting the
system.
4. Offers a variety of ways to create a new snapshot
manually or automatically.
5. Recovers corrupted or deleted files from any of the
60,000 snapshots quickly and easily.
6. Recovers earlier versions of files from any of the
60,000 snapshots.
7. Restores a completely crashed system to any of the
60,000 snapshots in seconds.
8. Restores the entire system to
any of the 60,000 snapshots with data synchronization of the current snapshot.
9. Automatically restores schedule settings.
10. Offers a variety of ways to configure the system to
automatically restore to a snapshot
of your choice.
11. Provides a highly configurable program interface and
hides the complete program
interface from end users.
12. Uses dynamic disk space management and releases the
unused disk space upon
deletion of snapshots
13. Incorporates intelligent disk space monitoring,
informing users about the disk space
usage of each snapshot.
14. Features flexible and powerful access control.
15. Includes multi-boot system support.
16. Offers multi-partition protection selection.
17. Uses quick reset of system baseline.
18. Provides detailed program operation logging.
19. Supports all industry standard deployment options.
20. Features complete, hands-free, silent background
installation.
21. Incorporates configuration during installation and
customizes the program when its
installed.
7. Does PAC-FIX prevent hardware failure?
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No, PAC-FIX is a software solution. It manages all the information on
the local hard
disk. No third party media is required to run PAC-FIX. Therefore,
in the case of hardware failure, PAC-FIX is not to run.
8. Is PAC-FIX a replacement of backup
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No, PAC-FIX is not a replacement of backup software. Most backup
software products copy the backup information to a third party media, either
tape or network server. PAC-FIX does not need a third party media to
operate. It is able to protect and fix your problems locally on the hard drive.
Therefore, PAC-FIX is not operable in the case of hardware failure. The
backup of important information are still encouraged.
9. What Operating Systems are supported by PAC-FIX? [return
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PAC-FIX supports Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0
and Windows XP operating systems. (Work Stations only)
10. Does PAC-FIX support LINUX?
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No, the current version of PAC-FIX
does not support
LINUX operating system. A LINUX version is
in development process for a future release.
11. What file systems are supported by PAC-FIX? [return
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PAC-FIX supports FAT 16, FAT 32 and NTFS file systems. However, on the
NTFS file system, compression is not supported.
12. Can PAC-FIX be installed on multi-boot
computers? [return
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YES, a multi-boot computer has multiple operating
systems loaded on the same system. PAC-FIX does support multi-boot
computers. However, the installation requires extra configuration. Please
refer to the PAC-FIX deployment whitepaper for details.
13. What is the minimum requirement for install PAC-FIX? [return
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The minimum requirements to install
PAC-FIX are as
follows:
Pentium
III or Above,
128
MB RAM,
VGA
Video Display,
Microsoft
Windows operating system 98/2000/ME/NT/XP,
A
minimum 1 GB disk space available (Not all required for installation, but
recommended for optimum system performance)
14. What should I do before install PAC-FIX?
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1. Backup important data
2. Defrag the hard drive for better performance.
3. Disable anti-virus software.
4. Think about your protection strategy. (What partitions to protect,
what password to use, and etc.)
15. What are the PAC-FIX deployment options?
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PAC-FIX offers a variety of deployments ranging from individual PC
setup to mass distribution to thousands of computer stations to meet your
business needs. Please refer to the deployment whitepaper for details.
16.
Does
PAC-FIX have security access control?
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YES,
PAC-FIX offers a highly configurable
security access control feature that allows you to create user access accounts
and customize access rights for each account.
17. I lost the administrator password, what can I
do? [return
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Please contact us via our online support for
password related issues.
18. Can I disable or hide the PAC-FIX program
interface? [return
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YES, PAC-FIX is highly configurable. You can choose to hide the Subsystem
Console interface and the Windows Application interface at your will. Go to the PAC-FIX
Main Menu and select Program Settings to make the selections.
19. Can I create a new baseline of the system?
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The very first snapshot created at installation is called baseline, all the
snapshots created after are closely associated with the baseline. Therefore, if
you have updated an operating system service pack or other major changes to the
system, you may want to create a new baseline for the system. PAC-FIX allows you to quickly and easily create a new baseline for the system without
uninstalling and reinstalling of the program.
20. Can I delete old snapshots?
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YES, PAC-FIX allows you to delete old snapshots. You can delete them
manually or configure the program settings to delete the old snapshots
automatically after certain period of time. However, you can only delete
unlocked snapshots; deleting locked snapshots requires unlocking them first.
21. How do I lock a snapshot?
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You can lock the snapshot when you create it by checking the “Lock the
Snapshot” option box on the Take a New Snapshot screen. Or you can go to
Snapshot Setting in the Main Menu to select and lock the snapshots.
22. How do I unlock a snapshot?
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You can go to Snapshot Setting in the Main Menu
to select and unlock the snapshots.
23. Do I loose the files in the current snapshot if I
restore the system to another snapshot? [return
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The patent pending technology of PAC-FIX allows you preserve or
transfer files and data in the current snapshot to another snapshot during a
restore process, and therefore not lose any data during the process. You can
select to create a snapshot of the current system before restoring to a selected
snapshot on the Restore System screen. Or, you can select to restore the system
with the Advanced Data Synchronization option which allows you to manually
select the files that you want to be transferred to the restored snapshot.
24.
How can I uninstall PAC-FIX?
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You can uninstall PAC-FIX from
A). Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs.
B). Start/Programs/PAC-FIX/Uninstall.
C). PAC-FIX subsystem console by holding down the HOME key during
boot up.
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