BACKUP MYPC 5 DELUXE BY STOMP

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• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• ASIN: B0001DYU9S
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 24, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,352 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #38 in Software > Utilities > Backup

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

BackUp MyPC is the best defense against data loss. This award-winning software allows for backups on single computers, laptops, and small networks. Protecting yourself against a hard-drive crash, a system failure, or a disaster are the main reasons why BackUp MyPC is the preferred solution. Here are a couple more reasons why you should think about protecting your data by backing it up:

• A virus can wipe out all of your data--that makes for a very bad day.
• How about a wrong keystroke and poof, your data is gone?
• We have had cases of laptop users that have turned around and the laptop has either been lost or stolen.
• Feel comfortable performing your hardware upgrades.
• BackUp MyPC gives you peace of mind, knowing you have 100-percent protection.
• Flexibility: back up to your CD-R/RW/DVD-R/RW/+R/+RW drive, tape drive, Zip drive, or even another hard drive.

Included in the box: RecordNow 6.5 and DLA.

RecordNow 6.5 is the state-of the-art CD and DVD mastering tool that takes the guesswork and complexity out of CD and DVD burning. With an all-new, task-based user interface designed by usability professionals, it's never been easier to get the most out of your CD or DVD burner. Sonic RecordNow! includes all the features needed for creating music CDs, data CDs and DVDs, exact copies, disc images, and bootable discs, and it can all be done with just a few clicks of the mouse. Just drag and drop files and folders to the bit budget and RecordNow 6.5 will choose the appropriate project for you. Yes, it's that easy.

Drive Letter Access (DLA) gives you the ability to easily drag and drop your files directly to a recordable CD or DVD disc and make the disc compatible with almost any Windows computer. Use your CD or DVD recordable media just like you would a hard drive when backing up data. Rather than pre-staging the files you want to back up and then writing them to the optical media, DLA lets you simply drag and drop your files right to the CD or DVD icon where they are processed, formatted, and burned in a single step.

BackUp MyPC Features:

• Integrated and automated scheduling allows for unattended backups
• Perform full, as well as "new and changed", incremental and differential backups
• Single PC, laptop, or small network backup
• Media spanning and compression for large backup jobs
• Compression options provide significant savings on media
• Choice of either a simple-to-use wizard or full-application interface
• Manage multiple backup jobs automatically
• Disaster recovery; create bootable CD or floppies to boot after crash (boot media type is dependant on operating system)
• Powered by Sonic, the undisputed leader in back up software

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible technical support, June 27, 2004

By 

Skibum (Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BACKUP MYPC 5 DELUXE BY STOMP (CD-ROM)

On my XP Dell laptop this product would not start. I got an error message which was conveyed to Stomp by e-mail for their advice. They responded promptly. I followed their instructions to the letter... copy all the .dll files into the main folder, and leaving the original .dll files in their original location. This did not work...same error message. (This problem must be common because it is addressed extensively in FAQ). I also uninstalled and reinstalled, etc. to no avail. I followed up with another e-mail. Their response was then that the problem was being worked on. After a couple of weeks I checked and found my request closed without my knowledge. I made a second identical request, to no avail. They just closed their file without any acknowledgement to me. Nothing... no explanation or apology... nothing. Now I have a piece of software which is useless to me. I know it works great on 98se machines, but question XP. Would appreciate help if someone knows the answer.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Automated Backup, May 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: BACKUP MYPC 5 DELUXE BY STOMP (CD-ROM)

There are wizards that guide you through backing up an entire drive, just important files, or making a "disaster recovery" backup in case your hard disk crashes and you can't boot.

Once you've defined a "backup set" that includes which files to back up and whether you want to back up all files or just changed files ("full" backup versus "incremental" or "differential" backups), you can select a set from a drop down menu and hit one button to back up. Just two steps to a frequently-run canned backup.

For example: I have two sets, one called "Photoshop Full" and another called "Photoshop Incremental." I run "Photoshop Full" once a month or so to back up all my digital photography hobby work. That takes about an hour to run. Every night, I run "Photoshop Incremental" to back up just the files I've worked on that day, which takes about 2 minutes. I just select which set I want from the drop down, load the media, and press a button. That's it!

It supports CD-R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R. These are the formats I've tried; it supports many more optical formats, plus tape drives and external hard disks.

Compression is supported, as is hardware compression if your device supports it. Many SCSI tape drives do.

Backups can be scheduled to run at pre-determined times. You can have a backup run at 2am, for example. Do make sure you load media with sufficient space before you go to bed.

Restore is also painless: you can quickly restore the latest version of any backed up file, or you can choose which version of the file you want to back up. So, if you mess up a document beyond recovery, for example, you can restore yesterday's or last month's version.

On the negative side, the backup MUST be restored with this program. It doesn't write regular files that you can just copy off the backup media back to your hard disk. And, backups can only span up to 32 pieces of media, regardless of the media capacity. That's about 150GB for DVD+RW, or 23GB for CD-R. If you have more data than that, you cannot do "whole disk" backups; you must choose smaller file sub-sets to back up.

Disaster Recovery REQUIRES a floppy disk drive. I don't have one. It won't create a bootable recovery CD, as far as I can tell.

The GUI could be a little more dressy too, but I'm nitpicking here.

No more excuses for not backing up! Set up your most frequent backups as backup sets, then enjoy two-click or scheduled, unattended backups.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Meh..., December 7, 2004

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Evan (Nanuet, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BACKUP MYPC 5 DELUXE BY STOMP (CD-ROM)

In short, speaking as a reasonably advanced user, I found Stomp to be big and clunky and not nearly as easy to use as it should be. And the price? Yikes! When I finaly let go of the fact that I had blown a bunch of bucks on it I dumped it and went to a great little freeware app called SyncBack.