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Summary: Disaster, not recovery
Review: This is about version 4.1, as included free in Win98 SE. I was stuck with this product while trying to work out a system transfer and discovered it does not backup user settings including network settings, password lists, and those "network" features that every individual workstation on a network has. This is intentional "sabotage" because veritas sells a very expensive network version. Note I am not talking about backing up over a network -- like that's worth ... extra [$] anyway. And beyond that this is typical inept backup software as you can read examples of in previous reviews -- typical because all backup software I've ever seen including Ghost 2000 (in SystemWorks 2000 PRO) is really really clumbsy. Ghost, however, at least allows backup and restore from DOS in Win98, 2000, and even NT, by using a boot diskette, which gives a perfect mirror, which is tolerable for home networks who can't afford automated server software -- it's manual and just move or copy the files afterwards. Keep those reviews coming.
Rating:
Summary: Disaster, not recovery
Review: This is about version 4.1, as included free in Win98 SE. I was stuck with this product while trying to work out a system transfer and discovered it does not backup user settings including network settings, password lists, and those "network" features that every individual workstation on a network has. This is intentional "sabotage" because veritas sells a very expensive network version. Note I am not talking about backing up over a network -- like that's worth ... extra [$] anyway. And beyond that this is typical inept backup software as you can read examples of in previous reviews -- typical because all backup software I've ever seen including Ghost 2000 (in SystemWorks 2000 PRO) is really really clumbsy. Ghost, however, at least allows backup and restore from DOS in Win98, 2000, and even NT, by using a boot diskette, which gives a perfect mirror, which is tolerable for home networks who can't afford automated server software -- it's manual and just move or copy the files afterwards. Keep those reviews coming.
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Summary: Avoid this product
Review: This software is a great disappointment. Here are some of the things it will *not* do.1. Won't backup over a network unless you remember to map network drives first 2. Won't make incremental backups to a directory on a hard disk (this means you can't backup your laptop to a desktop unless you do complete backups every day) 3. Won't allow you to select files to include in a backup (as opposed to exclude), such as *.jpg, for example, or files newer than a certain date. The last two options were avaiable in Norton Backup ten years ago, so there is no excuse for their exclusion in what is supposed to be a program that goes beyond the Windows 98 program. The program does not appear to distinguish between CD-R and CD-RW disks. Finally, the CD-R backups it produced were sometime unreadable, yet Veritas charge for technical support.
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Summary: Data Protection for your Valuable Computer Information
Review: VERITAS Backup Exec Desktop Edition is the solution of choice for reliable, automated Windows 98, Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 data protection. Integrated Emergency Recovery rebuilds your entire system without reinstalling the operating system or the backup software. To find a file that has been backed up, you can search by filename, location or the date backed up. Peer-to-peer network support protects data on a small network. Schedule unattended backups with an easy to use scheduling system. Backup Exec supports most tape devices, CD-R and CD-RW, DVD-RAM, Zip and Jaz drives, magneto optical, PD/CD, SuperDisk, even floppy disks, hard discs and network drives mapped as a device using the File Specification feature.
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Summary: Awkward Product shows lack of customer focus.
Review: Version 2 shows lack of customer focus. I have used the emergency recovery feature. When creating a recovery disk it asks you to find the appropriate drivers for the SCSI and Jazz drives and tells you to search your manufacturers literature! Good luck on this. I could not get an emergency disk to work with my SCSI Jazz drive, and I am a reasonably educated user and program computers as part of my job. During an emergency recovery from tape, the program stops in the middle of a 4 hour restore to wait for your input everytime it encounters a problem. Any decent program would just put this in a log file for you to see later. In the first 700 files (out of 1200) it has stopped twice. This makes unattended operation almost impossibly slow. Also You also cannot restore multiple file systems at once. Even if they fixed this in a later version, how can you trust a company this sloppy with your data?
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