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Russell Mickler, Principal Consultant, has over 17 years of professional experience leading and managing IT organizations.
Backup Replacement for Vista
Written on April 9, 2007
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So you read my latest post and learned that Vista’s backup utility just isn’t going to cut it, and – like me – you pondered what would ever motivate Microsoft to cripple native Windows backup like this in the first place? And you had enough with pondering and you’re ready to find a better solution than the native Vista backup utility.
Here’s my recommendation: Genie-Soft Backup Manager (Home or Professional).
The professional is a great application. All of the full features in a robust backup utility you would come to expect, and, a helpful user interface. Actually, the logs of the professional version look and feel a lot like Vertias’ (Symantec’s) BackupExec. You can target file and network locations. What’s really slick are the active adaptors that can backup the *.pst contents of Outlook and the Windows registry system separately – just like the agents in BackupExec.
Take a looksee – a full-featured demo is free for 15 days and the cost, after rebate for the professional version, was only around $45.
It’s a professional program for a professional world. Would highly recommend it – now, why Microsoft crippled NTBACKUP in the first place is a discussion for another day!