CMS BounceBack Ultimate 9.2 Backup and Instant Recovery Software

by CMS Products, Inc.

Product Features

• Instant Recovery Software for Your PC
• Continuous Data Protection
• Ability to Startup Direct from Backup
• Data Security - Built-in AES-256 Encryption
• Version Control - Ability to Go Back To Point In Time Backups

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002GOADV4
• Item model number: BBCD-ULT
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 8, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,930 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #50 in Software > Utilities > Backup

Product Description

BounceBack Ultimate Instant Recovery software enables you to back up your entire PC or laptop hard drive, including the Operating System, data files, applications, pictures, video, financial documents and settings. Using CMS' patent pending Instant PC Recovery mode, you can start your PC or laptop directly from an external USB backup hard drive in the event of an operating system malfunction or even a failed hard drive.Key Benefits - Instant Recovery Software for Your PC! - Start-Up and Recover From Your External USB Storage Device - Continuous Data Protection (CDP) - Immediate Access To Your Files - Data Saved in Native File Format Creates a Bootable Drive - Ability to Startup Direct from Backup - Backup to Any USB Hard Drive, Secondary Drive or Network Drive - Data Security - Built-in AES-256 Encryption - Backup Automation Through Backup Scheduling, Auto Shut Down - Parallel Backup - Backup to Multiple Destinations - Version Control - Ability to Go Back To Point In Time Backups BounceBack Ultimate Is Better Than The Rest - Typical backup software makes the process of recovery complicated, arduous and time consuming. CMS understands the value of your time. Other backup programs require you to load CD's and navigate complicated restore processes. If you backed up using an online service, online backups are only good if you can still access the Internet. If your computer is not working what good is a backup that you can't restore? Not to mention the fact that downloading a full system restore over the Internet usually takes several hours, sometimes days. BounceBack makes recovery effortless!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Survivor From BSOD ... with BounceBack Ultimate, January 10, 2010

By 

Joe Lupino "AGuyNamedJoe" (Fishkill, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: CMS BounceBack Ultimate 9.2 Backup and Instant Recovery Software (CD-ROM)

BounceBack Ultimate with Instant PC Recovery was a super smart purchase. After I received the software, I cleaned up and optimized my PC before installing. Following installation, I immediately made a complete system backup on my external hard drive and maintained the backup with "continuous data protection". Several month later, I got the dreaded BSOD but was able to restore my system quickly and completely with the component "Rescue Disk".

BounceBack Express, Version 8, came with my External Hard Drive but the software is woefully inadequate; it allows you to backup data only, not the entire system. If you crash, and wind up with a defective drive, the full system backup, stored on the external hard drive, can still be used to operate the pc until you fix or replace the drive and restore your system on it. This purchase saved my bacon! I am actually writing this review on the pc that crashed and with the system that was saved.

Here's a tip: after you purchase the BounceBack Ultimate Version 9.1, go to the CMS website, register the software, and immediately get the free download update to Version 9.2. It contains some post production fixes. This software really works!

UPDATE: It has been one year since my review and I am still pleased with this product. I have since upgraded my software to Windows 7 and have learned that the original "rescue disk" doesn't work with this OS. I needed to purchase the new "rescue disk" for under $10 ... well worth the investment since the heart of the program works with Windows 7.

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar Performer, March 10, 2010

By 

Chuck Friel "GatorGrub" (Longwood, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: CMS BounceBack Ultimate 9.2 Backup and Instant Recovery Software (CD-ROM)

The CMS BounceBack products don't get all the techie notice they should. I have used backup software from other big name software houses and have been totally disappointed and sometimes distressed. BounceBack Ultimate performs flawlessly...and quite easily as well, producing 100% reliable backups of your valued data. I initially used the CMS BounceBack Data Transfer software product to clone or ghost my Boot drive onto a larger capacity drive. I was so impressed I tried their BounceBack Ultimate backup suite. I highly recommend CMS BounceBack products.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Give it 4.8 stars - excellent program, July 29, 2010

By 

Bill Hansen "Bill Hansen" (Ithaca NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CMS BounceBack Ultimate 9.2 Backup and Instant Recovery Software (CD-ROM)

The backup sets created with BounceBack Ultimate 9.2 are fast, accurate, and they appear in the identical format they're in on your native HD. For me, with dozens of GB of video and still image files to back up, retaining the original file formats is a wonderful thing. It allows me to go to my backup sets and see the images and text files exactly as they are on my native HD. Few other backup programs will do that.

This is a really excellent program. I'd love to give it five stars, but I'll have to withold part of a star because of some unlucky experience with the CMS email support - not the telephone support. That short story follows:

Using BounceBack, I was always able to make selective backups - "backup sets" - to my external backup HD (which is USB 2.0, by the way - so BB works just fine with USB 2.0). But scheduled backups would not run, no matter how I tried to schedule them. I spent quite a few hours on these attempts. Over a three day time period I had three email exchanges with BB support. It was obvious that the support person hadn't really read my emails, so he recommended that I do several of the things I had already done, and had told him I'd done. That was annoying and discouraging - but it's not a reason to avoid BounceBack. I probably just had bad luck. A support telephone number is provided, and I got excellent telephone support.

Telephone support was prompt, courteous, and very effective. The problem with my backup sets was blindingly simple - I did not know that the BB "Control Screen" needs to be closed (NOT just minimized !!) for the scheduled backup to run. Now that I know that, scheduled backup sets run normally.

There are two other "wrinkles" when doing backups - very small things, which aren't really problems:
(1) to do a full system backup you must have a backup drive which you're willing to format, losing any data that you have on the drive. This wasn't a problem for me, since I had purchased a new 1.5 TB external drive specifically for this purpose.
(2) when doing selective backup "sets" you must first make a new folder on your backup drive, dedicated to the backup set(s) you wish to make. This new folder must be made before you open the BB "Control screen". This is something most of us would think of without prompting, but I had to experiment a little before I discovered it.

I haven't yet done a Restore from a backup set or a system backup, but I know that all my essential files and folders are backed up, in one place, in their original file formats. There is no 100% fail safe guarantee against data loss, but this comes as pretty close. I'm very pleased with BounceBack Ultimate 9.2.