Backup Now! Deluxe

by Newtek,Inc.

Product Features

• Backup and restore files
• On-the-fly compression
• Automatic media spanning

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005RWEP
• Item model number: 422702
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,574 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Backup NOW! Deluxe Suite delivers a total solution for all your data backup needs. It is the first and only software title to provide full image backup and specific file backup exclusively for your CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW drives.

Features:

• Easy backup to CD
• Disaster recovery
• Data archive
• Scheduled backups
• On-the-fly compression
• Automatic media spanning

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must, April 14, 2002

By A Customer

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Backup Now! Deluxe (CD-ROM)

This program just saved my wife in a HUGE way. I've been using computers for quite a while, and never had a problem with lost files. This past January my wife started her masters degree, and we decided to install Backup Now. Sure enough, last Thursday my hard drive got fried. I ended up having to buy a new hard drive, but all of our data was saved on CD-ROM.

The program includes a scheduler to backup your system on a regular basis to CD-ROM. It is smart enough to only backup files that were created or changed since the last backup.

I'm running this on XP with no problems. The criticism about it not creating an XP emergency disk below is true, but the XP install disk serves that purpose. 99.9% of the value of this program is in backing up key data on a regular basis, not creating a emergency boot disk.

This kind of program is really only necessary for people who have critical data on their PC that changes regularly. If you just keep your resume and some old tax files on there, just back them up yourself whenever you think of it. If you have critical data that changes regularly, buy this program. In addition, a good anti-virus program like Norton and a program called GoBack are highly recommended.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2 thumbs up, March 16, 2002

By 

"eway1210" (Tempe, Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Backup Now! Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Six months ago I purchased Back Up Now for my ME system and have been so happy with it. The product did exactly what it said it would. I recommended it to my friend who has Windows XP and he loves the product.
Some of these other reviews sounds like they are from computer challenged people. To blame a software company for their CDRW drive having old firmware is lame. Updated firmware means that drive manufacturer encountered a problem on that drive that new firmware can fix, but it doesn't mean that the software is not compatible. Additionally, most people know that XP cannot create a bootable CD with CD-ROM drivers. They can only create bootable CD just to boot up with plain DOS. This is an OS limitation. If you can create a bootable CD with CD-ROM drivers on XP alone
then I will agree with you that the software is not compatible with XP. I have other Back Up utilities that have this same requirement due to XP's limitations. My friend uses a Boot floppy from Windows 98 to make his disaster recovery CD. If you don't have any friends with Windows 98 or ME (Hmmm, that would be rare) then you can always just create a Windows Image
backup and then use the XP boot floppy and add their own DOS drivers for their CD-ROM drive and run the restore program from DOS. I think borrowing a boot disk from a friend is much easier.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good luck getting it to restore, August 27, 2002

By 

GeekPriest (Central Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Backup Now! Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I bought this product because it claims to be able to "make an exact duplicate of your system and restore it to its prior state." After spending lots of time making a sytem image of my Windows 2000 machine with a 12 GB drive to 17 CDs, I needed to restore the machine to the same hardware, except for a new hard disk (hard disks fail, right?). It took SEVEN hours to read all the discs, and left me with a system that blue-screens (crashes) on boot saying, "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE". After sending three messages to support and waiting three days to get a response, NTI support tells me that the product is incapable of restoring an image of a Windows 2000 system to a working state. And they won't even refund the purchase price.

Look for a product that actually does what is advertised and is backed by a company with conscience. NTI fails on both counts.