inside the distro should be systemback ...
once you boot up the distro ..the prog is there...you should be able to easily do pretty much all you would ever want once you are inside systemback.

I don't get where and how exactly .. you are having the probs from...
I haven't experienced any of the issues you are having...
nor have I encountered any probs of this nature from others who have used the distro.

as far as lilii or uiji...
I don't bother with them ...
whenever I do usb's for a distro I usually use rufus ..or (what the hell was the name of the other one now....???....It'll come to me when I am asleep of course..)

But anyway...
If you can successfully burn the distro onto a dvd or usb...
and boot it ...
then there is no reason at all you shouldn't be able to get everthing else running smoothly from there...

If you are hoping that it comes with "auto-enabling persistence" ..or that just magically the distro does everything you need ...
sorry 'bout that...

you gotta play with systemback and use it INSIDE the once running distro...
Make your copies from systemback.
Make your persistent usb from systemback.
frankly I suggest doing pretty much all you need ...from systemback.
Definitely make your copies of the pristine distro first..
THEN fart around with those...
screw them up ...it's fine...always have more tucked away ready to use...
having various stages of work saved in multiple copies ...is a very good and prudent idea as well.

actually ...on the topic...
a few distro's come with systemback pre-installed... now...
antix does...(one of my fav's)
and a couple others...

systemback is a great prog.

I suggest mucking about with systemback on the running distro ...
to achieve what you wish ...

@ hardy..
I am sure if it is torrented it will work out fine..
I would ..but I am hosting so much now ..that I just don't know if I have the space or... uploading space left for torrenting too....
else I would torrent it.