Norton Save & Restore [Old Version]

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $10.00

Features:

• Automatically back up and recover everything on your computer.
• Restore from system failures
• The one-step setup wizard helps novice users to configure their systems, so backups can be done automatically and in the background transparently.
• Norton Save & Restore integrates the proven, industry-leading Norton Ghost technologies with a set-and-forget assuring experience.
• Safeguards photo and important files

Customer Reviews:

A little hard to configure but once you get it, works great [Posted on 2007-03-15]
I think they could use a little help explaining how to use their product. At first, I had too many backups created. The trick is to make sure your usb backup drive connected and powered on BEFORE you install this program. Then it comes up and makes a recommendation that is pretty much what you would want. Just adjust the times it runs and save it.
Then if you want to add to it to add other directories on the nightly backup, go in later and add them.
Also, if you have a SATA hard drive be sure to check the drivers. I sent a report to Symantec with my drivers and they sent me back a bootable iso image that works like a charm (and they responded in a couple days which surprised me). Before you trust it completely, make sure you can recover the system. Put a different hard drive in your existing pc and recover. If you dont do this, you are risking something not working. Overall, I was so happy with it I bought 4 copies and put it on my Dad's, my mother in laws, and my wifes computers. It takes WAY to long to come back from a hard drive crash. This was well worth the money.

Works well [Posted on 2007-03-18]
I had recently purchased a new PC with a 250 GB hard drive and needed a proper backup system. I purchased the Norton S&R along with a WD 250 GB external hard drive. They both meld perfectly with no installation problems or other adverse issues. It is exactly as advertised SAVE AND RESTORE (didn't even need a special backup program)

Which? Best Product [Posted on 2007-03-24]
The UK Consumer Association, WHICH?, has just given this product their best buy rank.

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Much better than Ghost! [Posted on 2007-07-04]
I have been using this product for about six months on three high performance desktops. The good news is that if you have a standard desktop from a major manufacturer or you backup to another disk on your computer, this product will backup and recover with minimum effort. However, if you backup over a network and don't have a widely supported network adapter, things can get tough. RAID support is also iffy.

I have tested the restore on all three systems and the results were great on two systems, with fast, full recoveries on empty disks. The third couldn't find the network adapter on restore, even though it backed up over it without a problem. I'm hoping a newer version will fix that.

Still compared to the old Norton Ghost, this is a much better product at a better price. It appears that Symantec has integrated the LiveState technology into Ghost as well as this product, so the only real difference is feature sets. I use LiveState on my servers and think it is an excellent product. I bought Save and Restore because LiveState licenses for desktops and laptops were only available in 10 packs, but Save and Restore appears to be the same product licensed individually. After years of frustration using Ghost, I think Symantec finally has bought the technology that they have been promising in Ghost for so long.

Bloatware [Posted on 2007-12-23]
I downloaded and tried 10 backup programs today. I am preparing for a rebuild and was looking for a backup program that would do normal backups, differential backups, and scheduled differential backups. XP backup (ntbackup) works well but I had to create a password for my Windows logon so booting up always took two steps. The only reason I installed a Norton program on my hard drive was because I am replacing the drive. Using this program reminded me why I gave up on Norton a few years ago. Why is this program so large? It doesn't really do that much. It does much less than some of the smaller programs I tried. Just the "updater" took several minutes to download and two re-boots. That wasn't an error; it just took that much time and work. I used to see the "updater" screen often when I had my last Norton product and this was not a pleasant reminder. This program is not user friendly and specifying files and folders in not intuitive. This program specializes in file "types" (photos, music, etc.) I am supposed to trust Norton to select which files I am going to back up. Yeah, right. It does not even perform differential backups. Performing a search for "differential" in help yielded no results. StorageSync works well for syncing and non-compressed files but had no scheduling capabilities. Nero seemed difficult to use, and did not spend much time with it because it changes the restored file dates to the restore date. Genie worked well but had no differential and scheduling requires a password. Acronis TrueImage also requires a password for scheduling. Handy Backup got hung up on in-use files and had no differential backup. My favorite is Cyberlink PowerBackup. TurboBackup was my second favorite. It had some extra features but PowerBackup did everything I needed and was just a little more user friendly.

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