LintMan
Senior member
I just bought Veritas Simple Backup and am extremely disappointed with it. I had thought that since I only wanted to do CD-R backups and didn't need to SCSI tape support or scheduled backups, I didn't need one of the more expensive versions.
But I discovered that Simple Backup gives you virtually no options or control over the backup, has a tiny window you can't resize, and worst of all, I just discovered that when it hits a CD error during a backup run, it just cancels the rest of the backup. This happened to me on the 5th CD of a backup run, and since I have no way to know what files it didn't backup, I have a bunch of wasted CD-R's, and need to redo the whole backup.
Anyway, can anyone recommend some decent backup software that isn't too expensive (ie: under $90)? I don't need any advanced features like SCSI tape support or network backups or scheduling, but I would like it to have:
- a decent user interface
- allow me to save backup sets (so I don't have to select all the files I wish to backup every time, like I do in Simple Backup)
- keep a catalog of backed up files (so it doesn't have to scan every backup CD you've made to find the file you wish to restore (again like Simple Backup forces you to do)).
(I used to have Seagate Backup Exec, which did all of the above, for my tape drive, but the tape's dead and the software doesn't support CD-R's.)
Thanks!
But I discovered that Simple Backup gives you virtually no options or control over the backup, has a tiny window you can't resize, and worst of all, I just discovered that when it hits a CD error during a backup run, it just cancels the rest of the backup. This happened to me on the 5th CD of a backup run, and since I have no way to know what files it didn't backup, I have a bunch of wasted CD-R's, and need to redo the whole backup.
Anyway, can anyone recommend some decent backup software that isn't too expensive (ie: under $90)? I don't need any advanced features like SCSI tape support or network backups or scheduling, but I would like it to have:
- a decent user interface
- allow me to save backup sets (so I don't have to select all the files I wish to backup every time, like I do in Simple Backup)
- keep a catalog of backed up files (so it doesn't have to scan every backup CD you've made to find the file you wish to restore (again like Simple Backup forces you to do)).
(I used to have Seagate Backup Exec, which did all of the above, for my tape drive, but the tape's dead and the software doesn't support CD-R's.)
Thanks!
