Backup MyPC

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Product Details

Platform : Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 95
Binding : CD-ROM
EAN : 0631625783339
Manufacturer : Global Marketing Partner - Dir Ship
Model : 78333
Product Group : Software
UPC : 631625783339

ASIN : B00006L9HV

Editorial Reviews

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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.

Amazon.ca Product Description

BackUp MyPC is an easy-to-use data protection and recovery solution for your PC or peer-to-peer network. Back up an entire hard disk drive, a few folders, or just the files that have changed since your last backup. BackUp MyPC's peer-to-peer support and flexible scheduling offer comprehensive data protection. The program even lets you schedule unattended backups using the software's advanced scheduling system. Extensive device support assures hardware compatibility for a wide range of media devices, including CD-R, CD-RW, tape, Zip and Jaz drives, and more. Disc spanning and data compression save space. An easy-to-use interface, helpful wizards, and one-button backup make BackUp MyPC a standout, perfect for first-time users and professionals alike.

Customer Reviews

Just another dissapointment (2004-06-27)

Another that claims it can do the job, i.e. backup all your files to any media.First, it still reguires a floppy to make the "disaster recovery" set that they claim will recover a computer from disaster. Here in 2004, many, if not most computers, have moved away from that antique drive.Second, they claim that you have a choice of drives, and of using compressed or uncompressed backup files. So I finally found a work around to back up to my spare external drive, but when I try for uncompressed backups, the backup file ("complete") for my computer is only 428 MB, whilst the main hard drive shows that 68GB are in use?Third, proprietary files-Why cannot the backup file be in the same format that the rest of my computer uses? I am (...) enough, that I would like to be able to read, and verify that the files are actually what they purport to be, before trusting that this software that does not seem to accomplish any of the OTHER tasks it claims, has actually backed up my pc.Then there is the contact page. Why do I need to provide them with my life story to ask a simple question,and why do they need to attempt to "check for updates" every single time I boot up? That's more like spyware, I think.In short, I WANT MY MONEY BACK!

Poorly Designed and Poor Technical Support (2004-06-19)

After backing up 16 DVDs and nearing the end I accidentally hit the eject button on the wrong drive. The program didn't ask me if that's what I meant to do--it simply ended! All tech support would say is they'd pass it to their programmers to consider in the future. Very shoddy design in my opinion. I tried to rebuild the catalog so I didn't have to redo hours of backup and after asking me to insert all 15 disks, it couldn't read the 16th--the one it shut down earlier, and so quit again. Tech support didn't even respond. I cannot get it to rename a DVD without reformatting and it insists on defaulting to its own naming system (though you can override it). Should have saved me time...instead cost me a LOT of time. I cannot recommend this program.

Be sure to thoroughly test eval copy (2004-06-05)

I, too, initially thought some reviewers might be clueless after I downloaded the eval copy and tried it with my system. I ran the disaster recovery backup, and everything was working fine with my listed-as-supported LG cd burner using cd-rw discs--until I ran out. Then I tried a cd-r and it rejected it as already having data on it that needed to be rewritten by the program blah blah. Unable to find any reference to such a problem in the documentation or online support (which to me is worse than the problem itself when evaluating new software), I decided to start over with cd-r's in case it had some problem with switching media types while a backup was in progress. It still rejected every cd-r type I had. Makes me wonder who is clueless and who is lucky.

Big problems with WinXP SP1 and with some DVD drives (2004-04-11)

Back Up My PC (BUMP) is the latest generation of a tool formerly known as Veritas Backup Exec or Backup Exec Desktop. The primary value (to me) of that entire line of tools is their ability to backup the ENTIRE C drive, and restore it onto a new hard drive after replacing a failed hard drive, without having to reinstall windows and all the applications. You just boot the system from the special restore floppies, and start the restore, and when it's done, your system is just the way it was when you backed it up. I used Backup Exec on a Win98SE box with a DAT tape drive for years, and TWICE succesfully restored my system after HD failures. (That was SO AWESOME!)

So, when I got my new WinXP box with a DVD+RW drive, I naturally wanted to continue to backup my system with software that could reliably restore it. BUMP's UI seems identical to the old Backup Exec, so I was hopeful it would be as good. So I bought a copy of BUMP and tried it.

WHAT A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. The first time I ran BUMP, it told me that BUMP cannot backup and restore the version of WinXP SP1 that I have. (How many versions of WinXP SP1 are there?) BUMP clearly is NOT going to be my PC backup solution due to this problem.

Bump did offer to backup my data files onto my DVD, and so I tried that. When it got ready to start writing to the DBD, it spat out the brand new DVD+RW disk, saying it was media incompatible with my DVD drive. Of course, other DVD software has had no trouble writing on tht same media on my drive. Apparently my DVD drive is not one supported by BUMP. A friend who also uses BUMP used it on his PC to "format" my DVD+RW media, and then BUMP was able to write to it in my PC without compatibility complaints.

So, I conclude that BUMP is not compatible with WinXP SP1 nor with my EMPREX DVD+RW drive. I'm still looking for a good PC WinXP SP1 backup solution.

Does the Job (2004-04-05)

I too give it 5 stars partially to offset a couple of seemingly clueless reviews. Otherwise would give it 4 stars due to a couple of minor interface issues.

I've been using this software, in one form or another for several years (originally Veritas, now Stomp). Have used the Stomp version on 2 PC's for past couple of years. Love it. I simply do full and partial backups to 20gb Seagate Hornet tape drives. Works great. I'm typically backing up every couple of weeks.

I have also used it to backup to CD-R discs with no problem (just takes a lot of them for 10gb worth of data).

I have a couple of minor issues with the user interface and one major issue which is an annoyance, but something I can live with. The major issue (at least as of vers 4.71) is that when marking selected files/folders to be skipped on a backup job, it is hard to quickly find the list of files/folders you unselected. For example, I have a backup that backs up everything except media files (I skip the My Music folder, and My Pictures folder). I also skip a couple of other files that always give errors (because they are in use or have invalid file names). But when I simply look at the folders in the Stomp window at a high level, it is hard to figure out which ones contain the files I which will be skipped. It would be nice if the folders that would only be partially backed up were highlighted in someway. Of course I have named the job "Full C without MP3s" so I do know what the job does. I just don't know precisely which individual files I "deselected".

One nice feature is that you can name and save your backup "jobs". I have several with names like "Full C without MP3's", "Differential C", "MP3's and Photos Only". Just start the prog, select the job you wish from the pull down list, click Backup. All of the settings and selections you made when you saved the job are used in the backup.

I have not had to do a full restore yet (knock on wood). But occassionally I go back to earlier versions of files or databases. So I have restored full folders and individual files from backup (as much as 300meg of data at one time) with nary a problem.

With a 20gb tape I go to bed and wake up to a completed backup (it probably runs about 3 hours). A Seagate 10/20gb Travan (Hornet) drive and 3 20gb Travan tapes will do it for most people. I suggest you rotate one of the tapes in and out of a safe deposit box or friend's house. (An on-site copy of your backup protects you from a hard drive failure, but not from a fire or similar disaster).

The download of a 30day free trial from the Stomp website is probably worthwhile to evaluate the software for your particular situation.

Another review speaks about the time and effort involved in backing up an 80gb drive to a DVD-RW. Worth reading if you are considering it. He seems frustrated that the software can't change the DVD for him (?!). But the point is, takes a lot of DVDs (I think they each hold about 4gb uncompressed). Of course, once you've done a complete backup, you could probably do incremental or differential backups for a while before doing another full one.

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