JakeG

Dec 15th 2005 2:34PM No, it is certainly not a full-featured program. My point was, it is barely a shell of a program at all, more like an alpha than anything that should actually be released. And, even for 99 cents, it would be nice if it even approached the functionality of even the most basic comparable free software... Give away a decent basic utility, or even sell it for a couple of bucks, and you'll attract customer interest in your other, normally-priced software. Ask people to pay, even 99 cents, for this shoddy piece of work, and I'd wager you're driving future customers away, not attracting them.

Instant backup software for 99 cents (Download Squad)

Dec 14th 2005 2:56PM Saw this post, sprung for the 99 cent software mainly because I'm always looking for different options for this sort of thing. Decided I'd check this out mainly for a simple way to keep the documents on my wife's laptop backed up to our home server. Let's just say, I can see why they are giving it away for 99 cents. If I paid $30 for this software, I'd be demanding my money back. Zero configurability. Zero options for the type of syncronization to perform--so far as I can tell, it tried 1 time to clone the source directory to the newly created backup directory--once I cancelled that, it only updated a file if/when it was modified. It was impossible to determine what the program was doing at any given point, if anything at all. If you're looking for software to do what NTI Shadow could do if it was more than a skeleton of a program (2.0?? I can only imagine how pathetic 1.0 was...) you should check out SyncBack freeware as #1 mentioned, or the commandline xxcopy utility. I don't know if either is configurable to run "on the fly", but either is easy enough to set up to run at start-up, shut-down, or with the task scheduler. I use xxcopy at work to synch 300GB+ shared NTFS directories to backup servers, all by typing "xxcopy source_dir dest_dir /CLONE" and pressing enter. Losing 99 cents to this software wasn't a big deal, but NTI should be ashamed promoting software as incomplete as this at any price.