Nat:

I have been using a product called UltrBac in combination with Veritas
backup exec version 8.6.  Together, the two do the job and although none
have failed on me personally, I have a Gulf war buddy who had to spend a
fortune because Veriasss failed to do this or that with an SQL database.

Just my two cents,

Rog

"Nat" <nat@alias.org> wrote in message
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> Robert Patten wrote: 
>
> Robert, despite the opinions of some here, I'm pretty sure of the
following:
>
> 1. Veritas Backup Exec has "evolved" into BackupMyPc for the home user. I
> have been told by a former Stomp tech guy that basicall Veritas does all
the
> coding for Backupmypc and that Stomp basically markets it and provides
some
> tech support. Recently, though, I now see Sonic also selling it.
>
> 2. I just visited the Stomp site and their forum is no longer running.
> Perhaps they're backing away from backupmypc, I don't know.
>
> 3. WRT Dantz Retrospect Pro 6.5 I purchased it along with a Iomega REV
30gb
> usb drive, and though some people like the Dantz, I found it to be
> absolutely horrible! Its interface is not intuitive, and I don't have
enough
> hours in my life to gain enough understanding to use it. I admit that I'm
> not a software engineer... and how anyone uses that package is beyond me.
It
> baffled me. Backupmypc, otoh, copies open files, will do a complete
restore,
> including system files... I know because I had to do one when a hard drive
> crashed.
>
> 4. Backupmypc is not well supported, IMO, by Veritas. I suppose it's one
of
> their low priority projects. For example, on a Seagate/Certance drive,
> ST3401A it won't tell you, accurately that is, how much of the tape is
used
> vs. available. I complained over a period of 1 year+ to stomp and was told
> that Veritas had been notified and would "get to it" but they never did.
> OTOH, thought I wasn't able to get Retrospect to even recognize my REV
drive
> in the configure mode, Backupmypc, using the "file copy/restore" function
> seems to be working just fine.
>
> I hope some of this may be of some help to anyone interested in the old
> Backup Exec Desktop softwware, reincarnated in Backupmypc.
>
> Nat
>
>

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