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Advice requested: Retrospect vs. Bounceback
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| Atreju 2007-12-31, 7:12 pm |
| Anyone have lots of experience with both able to make a
recommendation, or can anyone tell me any serious pros and/or cons
they have with either?
Looking to do full backup of 1 or possibly 2 servers to external hard
drive. I want Active Directory, System State, literally everything so
the external backup is actually bootable to the most recent state.
Prices are comparable so I am unconcerned about that. I want
reliability, ease of use, but most importantly, well-established
support quality from the company.
Any advice appreciated, thanks!
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| louise 2008-01-01, 7:15 am |
| (PeteCresswell) wrote:
> Per Atreju:
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> I'd be interested to hear from those who know if the feature sets
> are similar - specifically if BounceBack supports restoring a
> file from some other incremental backup besides the latest
> without making the user hunt through various incremental backup
> lists - i.e. if it can list all versions of a given file in one
> place so the user can pick and choose.
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> Having said that, I've been using Retrospect 6.0 for quite a few
> years and despise it.
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> I use it because it has the incremental restore feature I was
> going on about above.
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> I despise it because
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> - The UI is arcane and ill-conceived
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> - I rate Retrospect support as being somewhere between
> poor and non-exist ant.
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> - In my experience (with 6.0) the publisher, has not seen
> fit to put out bug fix releases - in spite of the product
> being, IMHO, somewhat buggier than most commercial products.
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> If somebody were to say that BounceBack has a decent UI and
> does the incremental-restore-from-one-list thing, I might
> move to it.
I'm running Retrospect 7 and have most of the same
complaints. Version 7 does have "grooming" which, at least
in theory, allows you never to be without backups because
when your backup disk is full, it selects, or allows you to
select, which snapshots to remove and which to keep.
And as the other poster mentioned, the oppty to restore
various versions of the same file is very helpful and
probably the main reason I continue to put up with the program.
I don't know BounceBack but my impression from some research
a while ago, was that it wasn't though to be nearly as
reliable as Retrospect or Acronis - or maybe even Ghost.
But this is old info and I would look for some recent reviews.
Louise
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