last giveaway of the day posted here offered me, although I rejected it during the set up, about a hundred “ask.com” registry entries to get rid of…corresponding to an “ask.com” program file folder ::): the download was nero lite. No toolbar was installed though, and the entries in the registry were no threat, but I just hate to see my system rotten with such crap.
Something you can already do in Win 7 without 3rd party software. 
And to add to that I’d probably use Comodo Time Machine as they are a more widely known company and they offer the program freely at all times and not via a “Giveaway”.
Try a search about comodo time machine and you will see it has its own issues, known company or not.
No. You don’t have the same features. It’s on-the-fly backup and not by image maker.
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I totally agree, everything has a problem sometime, but between the two I’d without question choose Comodo, they have a better reputation and a support forum, just all around to me at least a much better option of these two programs. 8)
Well, I frequent the Comodo forums and there are more than a few people who have had their PC’s turn into non booting bricks after trying Time Machine. It messes with your boot sector and inserts itself in there. The most problems have come when people uninstalled it and then could not boot up any more.
sorry what?
#! is you should always have a backup plan in place, in the event a problem with CTM occurs recovery plans should have been made which would mean less a hardware failure not booting shouldn’t be a big deal. As a whole Comodo offers a good deal for nothing, they indeed do have an overall good reputation regardless of the problems. Comodo offers a lot of different programs so sure they will have problems, think about it this way, HP/Compaq are pretty much the highest failure/repaired laptops but that is in a large part due to the fact they do a larger volume than other companies, the more products and users the more problems you are going to have, Comodo is no different. I am not staff or a fan so to speak but I certainly know more people would know of Comodo than would know of Genie backup or whatever the app mentioned was, that is/was my only point, why pay (since it was only free for that 24 hr period) for a somewhat unknown software when a free option from another is available to you… Keep in mind also that you’ll generally hear of the problems people have and not the praises, so although I haven’t a clue the statistics I am sure there are many satisfied people that use whatever program is chosen while you really only hear and read of the horror stories. If we stay focused on the exact comment then what I stated holds true, if however we start to just use a generalization of Comodo with the multitude of apps then we begin to deviate from the topic enough to comment on and refer to an overall view. I am only saying between the two Comodo is more known as a company and the fact they have a user forum like Avast does here makes support a bit easier and accessible. I truly have no interest in the back and forth about who beats who and what not, just that one is free and more known at least and the other is less known and costs, I never said it will without question work better.
I think the Genie Timeline is a bit different in that it is to work in with Windows and provide bottom-line backup suitable for all users.
It should be more lightweight (tho, it is 146mb) than is Commodo range, and less sticky, more like backup services already offered by Microsoft like the ones in Bob’s post (above). But I cannot say for sure because I let the opportunity pass this time round.
I use the built in windows backup in Windows 7 to back up all 3 systems to a 2tb external HD.
It does an excellent job. Totally hassle free and the created Image has gotten me out of more than 1 jam.
Since it works in the background, alerts me if there is a problem and has always been reliable, I see no reason
to add something else to an already bulging system. ;D
Bob, the features aren’t the same. We’re talking about individual files backup, about a timeline of changed files, not image backups. Your backup strategy is ok, just that the programs aren’t the same.
For individual files, I have Mozy.
Me too
I have mozy too but hardly ever use it. Adrive gives you 50gb of free storage space, the only drawback is that uploading and downloading is rather slow.
It’s not always about the amount of space3 but the features that are offered. Mozy allows scheduling of you backups so that it’s done
at a time convenient for you. I have Mozy scheduled to do my backups while I’m sound asleep.
After the initial backup, you’re actually only backing up any changed files.
U.S. ruling allows iPhone users to alter softwarehttp://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE66P3H820100727 http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/initialed-registers-recommendation-june-11-2010.pdf
The only thing I back up is the My Documents folder and I do that every so often on a DVD R/W with my regular burning program that came with the machine. Everything else I can get back easily. I really don’t even use Adrive much. The only things stored there are the driver files for this machine which I could also get from HP’s site and are also stored on a DVD. I don’t have any backup software other than system restore and I’ve never even used that.
Dch,
When, not if, it happens, you’ll look back at this little post and say well, maybe I should have
been doing regular backups.