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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Dave Powell, MMfab <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Anybody have any experience?  Special loves or hates ?  I've been reading
> specs and user comments on several, but would like input from the list too.
>
> Priority is full image backups that will let me recover a whole system
> without reinstalling anything, working with enough USB drives so I can have
> a least 2 full backups of every machine, with at 1 offsite at all times.
>
> Ability to restore individual file from full image backups is nice but not
> vital.   (I have daily file backups of important files working with xcopy
> --
> that's good enough so I don't need new software to improve on it).
>
> Must be possible to schedule recurring jobs.
>
> Must work across a network -- copying from other PCs to external drives
> connected to my PC.  Ideally it would be controlled by my PC reaching out
> to
> read the other machines.  The free/cheap pgms I have seen so far work the
> other way round -- running on the machine being backed up and writing
> across
> the network.  I can live with that as long as I get some kind of
> notification of success or failure to my machine (perhaps an email), and my
> share passwords are not visible on the other machines.
>
> Must work with XP and Windows 7  (backing up from XP 7 & Win-7 to Win-7).
>
> Must work !  (can't pretend to work and flake out on me when I need it).
>
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