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Move beyond your bundled software with one of these backup utilities.

Melissa J. Perenson

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Retrospect Professional 7 PCW Rating: PCW Rating: PCW Rating:

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1. EMC Dantz Retrospect Professional 7

Open-file backup, Disaster recovery, Price when ranked: $95

Bottom Line: Full-featured app includes licenses for two clients. Can back up over a network as easily as to an internal hard drive; but it won't back up multiple PCs concurrently.

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2. Iomega Iomega Automatic Backup Professional

Open-file backup, Disaster recovery, Native file backup, Price when ranked: $70

Bottom Line: Has useful features like folder monitoring for automated backups, disaster recovery, and multiple options for different types of backups. Works easily with network drives.

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3. Novastor NovaBACKUP Professional 7.2

Disaster recovery, Native file backup, Price when ranked: $50

Bottom Line: Includes disaster recovery. Can start other applications before or after it backs up. However, to back up open files, you must buy an upgrade--which costs more than the app itself.

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BounceBack Professional PCW Rating: 67.0PCW Rating: 67.0PCW Rating: 67.0

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4. CMS Products BounceBack Professional

Open-file backup, Disaster recovery, Native file backup, Price when ranked: $70

Bottom Line: Plain-looking utility offers native file backup, and you can install it on every PC on your network with CMS's blessing. Ability to create a bootable drive is a plus.

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5. StompSoft BackUp MyPC 6

Open-file backup, Disaster recovery, Price when ranked: $60

Bottom Line: Performs many types of backup and is easy to use. Has no problems with network drives, and can back up open files. It lacks native file backup, however.

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6. Tanagra Memeo 1.5

File monitoring, Price when ranked: $30

Bottom Line: Though this attractive utility does not perform system backups, it will monitor your files for additions or changes, and will automatically back them up as you go.

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7. NewTech InfoSystems Backup Now! 4 Deluxe

Open-file backup, Disaster recovery, Disk imaging, Price when ranked: $80

Bottom Line: Works fine as long as you back up to a local drive, but it froze for long periods when we attempted to back up to a network-attached drive. Also includes a handy imaging utility.

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8. Acronis True Image 8.0 (Download Version)

Open-file backup, Disk imaging, disaster recovery, Incremental disk imaging, Price when ranked: $50

Bottom Line: Easy-to-use disk imaging utility performs open-file backups and incremental imaging. Can archive to and restore images from a network drive.

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9. Symantec NORTON GHOST 10.0

Open-file backup, Disk imaging, disaster recovery, Incremental disk imaging, Price when ranked: $70

Bottom Line: Does everything you could ask of a disk-imaging program. Forthcoming version improves the interface, making this Ghost more friendly than its predecessors. (Preproduction, not rated)

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