wuench
Senior Member
Ok, the state of backup software seems to have taken a real turn since I last looked at it years ago. Back in the day there were one or two "go to" vendors. Now there is a bunch of software options. I have tried a few, Acronis True Image Home 10, Stompsoft's PCBackup, and NTI BackupNOW
My requirements are as follows:
AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON'T TURN THIS INTO A WINDOWS HOME SERVER DISCUSSION...
My requirements are as follows:
- Runs as a service (NTI BackupNOW doesn't)
- Handles backup failures gracefully - If a backup job fails I want it to notify and still run other jobs. I had Acronis backup my laptop every night, but if it wasn't on it just hangs there waiting for confirmation of the error, no other jobs run. (Where do the find these developers??? Elementary school?)
- Erases DVD Media automatically and reliably backs up to it- Acronis doesn't do erase, PCBackup should but errors out on my dvdrw drive. BackupNOW seems to do this well
AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON'T TURN THIS INTO A WINDOWS HOME SERVER DISCUSSION...