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Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery—Desktop Edition Reviews

Symantec has released an excellent product to automate all your system backup and restoring tasks—a product that might well kill Windows’ System Restore! The main feature is, it
lets you create a backup of your entire hard drive, or a partition, to an image. The inbuilt scheduler automates the backup process. You can schedule a backup for any date and time. The software also lets you create new backups and only store the last, set number of updates. Backed-up disk images can be restored onto a disk or partition. You can use the Recover Files or Folders task, where only selected folders and files will be extracted to a specified destination. Mounting of the disk images as a partition without actually restoring the image to a location is also possible. The software CD can be used as a recovery disk. Network services are enabled as the CD boots. A lot more can be done through the recovery disk—everything from altering partitions to scanning your machine for viruses using an external virus definition database. Installation is so simple, it can be done by a five-year-old. And if you’re expecting a complicated interface, you’ll be relieved to see that it’s anything but. Still, an advanced mode is in place for those who want more control. A sidebar contains the task list as well as help topics. The electronic manual and the printed documentation are the same; overall, the help is comprehensive and easy to understand. Simply set the software to back up data every day when you log off, or whenever new software is installed on your PC—and never worry about losing data any more! In sum, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery is Norton Ghost with a few added features and a non-complicated interface. Regular home users will like it, though the price tag of $69 (Rs 3,100) is a bit on the higher side...

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