- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / 95
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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There's no excuse for neglecting to create backups of your critical data. Now, Stomp's BackUp MyPC makes it even harder to find one. Its simple interface, trusty scheduling feature, and ability to work with all forms of media make it easy for backing up data to become second nature.
BackUp MyPC is built on the backup engine and interface created by Veritas, which is ubiquitous to almost anyone who's dealt with backup products (for example, BackUp MyPC is almost identical to Seagate Backup Exec, another Veritas-powered program that comes with most Seagate tape drives). But even if you've never even heard of Veritas, don't be daunted: its backup software is immensely popular for good reason. Balancing the power of a professional application with unmatched ease of use, Stomp has created a backup program for the masses.
Upon launching BackUp MyPC for the first time, users are prompted by a wizard that helps them set up scheduled, automated backups within minutes. The program sniffs out removable media devices and allows users to pick a target drive from among them. On our test PC, it recognized a CD burner, a SuperDisk drive, a floppy drive, and a SCSI tape drive without prompting.
Delving deeper into its interface, users are presented with the power to pick and choose files for backup from the contents of the host computer and from any accessible PC on a LAN. BackUp MyPC offers options to compress data to save space, to append or overwrite data on backup disks or tapes, to perform full, incremental, and/or differential backups, and more. If the terminology gets too daunting, check out the friendly, image-filled, comprehensive, 134-page manual.
We backed up and restored data using all of the media mentioned above except the floppy drive (large-format media is much more convenient for backing up large amounts of data). In each case, the process was painless. Automated backups ran right on schedule, and all of our backups proved reliable. Restore Wizard makes the task of pulling data from backup media quick and painless.
If you're not backing up your important data, you'll have no one but yourself to blame if you end up losing it. It's worth every cent to invest in a reliable backup system. With BackUp MyPC you can use any removable media device with ease. --Joel Durham, Jr.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: BackUp MyPC (CD-ROM)
This product would do an emergency recovery disk up until Windows XP Service Pack 1 was released. If that is your goal, try Norton Ghost. Stomp could be more forthcoming with this news.Product has done a nice job for me backing up my files to DVD. Product is based on Vertias backup products which are industrial strength.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Wish I could Stomp on this Software with my foot!,
By Zzyzx (Burbank, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BackUp MyPC (CD-ROM)
After my hard drive failed I really wanted to get good back up software. I read the reviews in magazines and online and they all said this was the best. Well, it isn't. Far from it. I have installed it and re-installed it about 5 times, called tech support and e-mailed them many times. Followed all their advice and changed all my configurations, hardware drivers, uninstalled other apps, tried different brands of CD-R and CD-RW etc. etc. Never could get it to work at all. I have a great coaster collection. I am very frustrated, but worst of all, I still don't have back up software! I have a Dell 4000 notebook with Windows XP, plenty of RAM and my CD-RW is "supported" by the software, but it just won't work. A waste of money AND time!! Wish I could get my money back. My time is lost forever.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Doesn't even support Dell drives!!!,
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This review is from: BackUp MyPC (CD-ROM)
The software appeared not to be able to back up across multiple CDs, which is the only reason I had bought it. I then found in the documentation a line saying that some versions don't support this option, without any way to know whether mine did or not. Customer support via e-mail responded after 72 hours, with some suggestions that were irrelevant, such as running msconfig when they had already confirmed that I have Windows 2000, for which msconfig doesn't apply. Then I checked the list of supported drives and found that the Samsung CDRW/DVD that came standard with my Dell Latitude is NOT supported. PLEASE, PLEASE check the list of supported drives BEFORE purchasing this software!!!!!
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