Memeo AutoBackup [Protect and Manage Your Digital Life]

List Price: $79.99 Discount Price: $24.70

Features:

• Back up photos, music and files
• Auto Backup to any device or location
• Effortlessly restore files
• Use at home, at work, and on the go
• 3 user pack (for use on up to 3 PC's)

Customer Reviews:

Fails to Restore [Posted on 2008-06-15]
It is important to notice that all the positive reviews here on Memeo Autobackup are written by people who are talking about their experience backing up files, not restoring files. On the flipside, a lot of the negative reviews are written by people who experienced the harddrive failure you are protecting against, and needed to do a restore.

I am one of those people. I just reconstructed my computer after a hard drive failure. "Thank God I backed all my data up with Memeo," I said to myself. Little did I know how very wrong I was.

What is a backup program's most important function? To restore your files when that fateful day happens. Memeo fails to do this in a serious way. When you connect your new, blank harddrive to your backup drive, Memeo attempts to restore by overwriting your backup drive with your new drive's contents.

Hard to believe? It's true. When you turn on Memeo and ask it to restore a backup to your computer, it first scans your computer and will overwrite any folders that exist on both your computer and your backup, before attempting the restore. I told myself that I must be reading the instructions incorrectly; nope, I double and triple checked. Seriously, try it yourself. Unbelieveable!!!

I'm embarrassed for this company and how shoddy this product is. If you are diligent enough to run a backup program, the last thing you want is to have the file restore fall apart on you.

Do you want to gamble your important personal files on a program that deletes them? Then buy Memeo.

Worst of the Worst!!! Is there a rating lower than 1 star? [Posted on 2008-07-22]
Memeo Autobackup simply does not work properly. It does not work as advertised. I paid full price for the full version. Backing up Outlook mail files are completely HIDDEN. Found it anyway and turned it on and it STILL DIDN'T BACK IT UP!!! Thousands of files selected for backup not backed up. Customer Support / Tech Support is the worst in the world. I had to take a whole day off of work to deal with them and them they wanted me to take a second whole day off of work because their products sucks.

A horrible waste of time [Posted on 2008-08-04]
This travesty of a backup program came bundled with the 500 GB Buffalo Drivestation Combo external HD I recently purchased. Here are the problems I encountered with it.

- took forever to make initial backup
- auto backed up temp internet files while I was browsing, so I entered an exclusion and it stopped backing them up, but the next time I launched it, it started backing them up again with the exclusion still present
- after the first couple of days it stopped backing up automatically altogether
- limited options
- eats up resources, even though it claims not to
- buggy and error-filled operations

Autobackup sounds great in theory, if only it worked half as well as they claim it does. Unfortunately, it's not worth the CD it's printed on.

If you want a great backup program, check out Syncback http://www.download.com/SyncBack/3000-2242_4-10413802.html
The initial backup took a fraction of the time that Autobackup did, lots of options, scheduled or manual backups, backs up fast, takes no time to set up, uses little resources, and best of all: ITS FREE, sorry Amazon.

Another vote for look elsewhere [Posted on 2008-08-23]
As others have said, this is the WORST backup software I have ever used. Here's my story, which sounds much like what others have experienced.

After a Vista crash the Memeo GUI appears telling me I have no backup plan (a plan was there before the crash). Upon the start of a recreation of a plan, the old plan was found on the external hard drive ... that's great, right? NO! The index had to be rebuilt, which essentially means everything is being backed up again. When I rebooted, the plan was gone completely. Memeo technical support has been no help so far, the only thing I can find in previous support requests was to start over.

Other drawbacks are the backup runs constantly, backing up on the fly. This is annoying because some files, which are not in use, are being backed up constantly. Also the balloon tips, which can't be shut off via the software appear incessantly - it was so bad I had to edit the registry to turn of balloon tips altogether.

This software is dangerous [Posted on 2008-08-29]
Why? It claims to back up a directory like Users in Vista but on checking does not do so completely. I am using the latest downloaded version. It also fails in this way on reinstall. I cannot be bothered with it any longer so have uninstalled it. I will just use EMC Retrospect which does back up when it says it has even though as somebody else has mentioned it has an interface that reminds me of 1980s computing.
If you do try this software do not be taken in by thinking that you have backed up when the software says it has done so. Try a restore to a new file or check what has been backed up and that it's what you wanted backed up!

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