Customer Reviews

Quik Sync 3.0

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I downloaded this as a 30-day trial from Iomega's website and by the second week, bought my own copy. It does exactly what it says it will do: gives you transparent back-up of your files any time you alter or add a new one to the designated folder. I've used it several times already to recover files that would have otherwise been lost. Both times it involved a program that froze before I had saved changes to a file. QuikSync's "revisions" feature had automatically saved the earlier version of the file for me. So while I lost a few changes, I was able to recover the original. I'm using it with a Zip 250 but it will work with other drives as well. It's probably not the best way to back up your entire system, but for backing up data files automatically and unobstrusively, I think it's ideal.

Quick Sync 3.0 does just what it says: background backups of changed files in directories you specify. It has saved my data on several occasions. I have been very pleased with this product, and have used it over the last couple of years. It does not take the place of more extensive backups, but is just great for interval, completely timely backups of work.

Iomega made a huge mistake by first discontinuing this software, then not supporting it anymore. In fact you call Iomega, and you would be lucky to find anyone that even remembers of knows of this software today.

And Iomega Quick Sync 3, replaced Iomega Quick Sync 2, which had limitations of only being able to back up files from one source. Example... one partition on a hard drive. Quick Sync 3 came out and you were able to select any and all partitions within your computer, or anything connected to it, including other external hard drives.

This software backs up `file to file', NO COMPRESSION. You can back up to an external hard drive and you will see the exact files you backed up, open them, read or view them, change them, whatever you desire to do.

Personally I have not had very much luck using software that compresses files without winding up with corrupt files somewhere along the way. And I began backing up files when Iomega was pushing tape drives.

I got this software for free along with a purchased Iomega external hard drive years ago, called their HDD Drive.

The program is really easy to set up, an icon in your task bar shows you when it's running. It has a very flexible, do whatever you want schedule. Back up by day of week, by time, can even be set up to sense when a file has changed, and will immediately back that up.

One does have to do some research though on this software, and good luck with that these days, with Iomega not supporting it anymore, and no one even remembering it. Probably the best source for information is through an Iomega forum.

When I began using this software I was still using Windows 98SE and it worked great. I updated to Windows 2000, and began having issues with it. Although Iomega, (reading off some script), and other references, will tell you that it will even work on XP, Vista and 7. It didn't work on my XP system, and doubt if it will work on others...

Through a forum reply I was advised to use a later back-up program Iomega came out with called Quick Protect for the XP operating system, which I did, and that worked out very well. Very similar to Quick Sync 3, a `file to file' back up program, and just as easy to use. Iomega doesn't support that anymore either...

If I'm remembering, Iomega came out with a patch or updated driver for Windows 2000. The original software that came with the external drive would not work on the 2000 operating system.

There is no reference to which version you actually have anywhere in the software.

I am guessing that version 3.0 was the original, and what came with the external drive, and Windows 98SE was still the latest operating system out there.

I was still able to get Iomega to at least send me version 3.10 and 3.11 from their archives, and it seems like 3.10 is working on Windows 2000.

This is the most dependable, most flexible, easiest back-up software I have ever tried and used. I surely think if Iomega updated this, designating specific versions for each operating system, and put it back on the market, they would do very well with it!

I've tried a lot of backup programs but found none simpler to use and more reliable than Quiksync, and every time I try something new, I come back to Quiksync.
I can back my files up hourly if I want to and Quiksync does it quietly in the background. It has no fancy bells and whistles, it simply does what it is supposed to do, reliably and easily.
Since it backs up files (in my case to an external drive) in their native format, restoring files and folders is as simple as dragging them back to where they are supposed to go, althought you can do a full restore if you want to.
It allows to back up several versions of the file and llows you to pick the time interval. One hour works for me because I am notorious about blowing out files.
You will need a pretty big drive if you have a lot of stuff since the backups are not compressed (thankfully).
My only negative is that the software is a bit dated and ought to be brought up to date.

I was looking for a simple way to back up files and folders on a regular basis to a R/W CD. I was hoping for a product that was easy to use like Iomegaware but would work with other storage devices and on a local network. Boy did I blow it. Quicksync 3.0 was just as time consuming as drag and drop but added in some new extra complications to burn up even more of my Saturday morning. This is not anything like Iomegaware. Avoid this product if you are looking for an easy to use back up tool.