Comments on: Backup4all 3 Review http://www.gearfire.net/backup4all-3-review/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:50:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jeff http://www.gearfire.net/backup4all-3-review/#comment-21705 Jeff Sat, 24 May 2008 00:52:17 +0000 http://www.gearfire.net/backup4all-3-review/#comment-21705 This program is absolutely terrible and I would not recommend it to anyone. I was looking for a program that does FTP backups, and it appears that this program works very well. It does encrypt the data as well as compressing it and back it up to an FTP location. The massive the issue though, makes the software completely valueless. After running incremental backups for almost a week I noticed that the backup process was taking a lot longer than normal. After some investigation I determined that the backup program had completely forgotten all of the incremental information and was creating a completely new backup. Now there is no way to restore any of the incremental information without downloading the entire thing from the FTP server and reconstructing it with an archiving program. The first time they did this I thought that was some error on my part. Now I am quite certain that the software has a massive bug in it. Backup software is only valuable if you can restore from it, and you often don't know that until you are in dire straits. I would recommend this software can no one. This program is absolutely terrible and I would not recommend it to anyone.

I was looking for a program that does FTP backups, and it appears that this program works very well. It does encrypt the data as well as compressing it and back it up to an FTP location.

The massive the issue though, makes the software completely valueless. After running incremental backups for almost a week I noticed that the backup process was taking a lot longer than normal. After some investigation I determined that the backup program had completely forgotten all of the incremental information and was creating a completely new backup. Now there is no way to restore any of the incremental information without downloading the entire thing from the FTP server and reconstructing it with an archiving program. The first time they did this I thought that was some error on my part. Now I am quite certain that the software has a massive bug in it.

Backup software is only valuable if you can restore from it, and you often don’t know that until you are in dire straits. I would recommend this software can no one.

]]> By: Mark http://www.gearfire.net/backup4all-3-review/#comment-5543 Mark Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:31:19 +0000 http://www.gearfire.net/backup4all-3-review/#comment-5543 For another backup program please check out Safe Data Backup. With Safe Data Backup, you can backup to either a ZIP or just regular uncompressed files. You don't need Safe Data Backup to do any restoring. The scheduler in Safe Data Backup has all the flexibility you would need, as it utilizes the Windows Task Scheduler. You can learn more about Safe Data Backup here: http://www.beiley.com/data_backup/index.html Thanks, Mark For another backup program please check out Safe Data Backup. With Safe Data Backup, you can backup to either a ZIP or just regular uncompressed files. You don’t need Safe Data Backup to do any restoring. The scheduler in Safe Data Backup has all the flexibility you would need, as it utilizes the Windows Task Scheduler. You can learn more about Safe Data Backup here:

http://www.beiley.com/data_backup/index.html

Thanks,
Mark

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