To one and all, I am running into a VERY frustrating problem which I am not having any lucking find a really good answer to - which backup program, in particular with regard to disaster backups, is the one to use??? Or which work the best???
To give you what I am finding: Take Two from Roxio - with the problems I have had with getting EZ and Direct to work with other programs I have used in the past (neither nor any version would work with several scheduling and other programs I used in the past, beside update issues with their own updating software - could not find the program installed on my hard drive,) this package would probably the last I would want to use of any. Instant CD/DVD from VOB - great program BUT can NOT do a disaster backup. Hot Burn from Iomega - great program BUT, again, can NOT do a disaster backup. Nero from Ahead - can do a disaster backup and have nice control of write speed BUT seems to have problems trying to do a disaster backup of the active partition, meaning the one that windows is active from. Drive Image 2002 from PowerQuest - does a disaster backup of the active partition by either using virtual dos floppies it makes on your hard drive, or you can make real dos floppies, so it can have absolute control to do the backup image. BUT does it have burner speed control - not sure??? Ghost 2002 from Norton/Symantec - similar to Drive Image BUT seems to be able to write to less burners than Drive Image software. Backup My PC from Stomp, using Veritas technology - can do any kind of backup but you have no control of speed you burn/write the CDs at, which is getting to be a BIG problem with burners getting faster and faster but CD-R/RWs not keeping up with being certified at higher speed (40x drives are getting common but CD-Rs sure at NOT - DEFINITELY have NOT seen 12x rated CD-RWs.) Backup NOW! Deluxe from NTI (seems to have licensed Vertitas software) - seems to be very similar to Backup My PC, including does not seem like you have control of speed of CD burning. The criteria I am trying to solve is: 1) Produce a fully verifyable disaster backup of the system, to restore from Dos bootable floppies. 2) Usable for multiple versions of Windows, since I use 98 and 2K 3) Have control of the speed that CDs are written at. With what I have been finding, am wondering if such a piece of reliable software currently exists. Any sugguestions??? Ralph ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
