Well, curl my hair and call me Harpo! For the first time in a long and often trying decade of reviewing Nero products, I can finally tout one, BackItUp & Burn, as--get this--easy to use. Not only is the program concisely and logically laid out, but it has every feature you could ask for: plain file backup, whole-drive and partition imaging, syncing, scheduling and even automatic backup mirroring one volume to another.
Nero BackItUp & Burn
Pros
Easy to use
Imaging and file backup, syncing and mirroring
Cons
Large disk footprint
Bottom Line
An affordable, comprehensive backup solution that's easy to use.
Nero BackItUp & Burn
BackItUp & Burn Review, by Jon L. Jacobi, PC World May 26, 2009
Priced at $40, BackItUp & Burn isn't best of breed at any particular backup task, but it's good at all of them and it performed nearly perfectly in my tests. The only bump in the road was a warning that the Windows OS partition I was attempting to create an image of wasn't locked. Regardless, the imaging process proceeded without incident, though I wish that the program had given me the option to consolidate the backup into one file instead of splitting it into 2GB parts. On the other hand, 2GB files are perfect for DVD, and the program takes advantage of Nero's optical expertise with support for DVD-R/RW as well as CD-R/RW and BD-R/RE.
My only gripe about BackItUp & Burn involves its hefty 304MB footprint, which is due in large part to the included CD recovery image (and the included Nero Express, Nero BurnRights, and Nero RescueAgent), but also in part to its requiring--and installing--Microsoft Installer 4.5, .Net 3.5, Microsoft Visual Studio redistributable, and Microsoft Primary Interoperability Assemblies 2005 (if you don't have them installed already). Caveat: Don't blindly click through unless you really want the Ask toolbar and a new home page (Ask.com).
BackItUp & Burn is an excellent, feature-rich application that competes well with middle-tier backup products such as NTI's Backup Now, Paragon Drive Backup Personal, and Titan Backup. And let's hope that it's a harbinger of a new Nero focus on the end-user experience. You can obtain a free trial version of BackItUp & Burn in our Downloads section.
--Jon L. Jacobi
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Average User Reviews for Nero BackItUp & Burn
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Reviewed by: JanosG
Duration of ownership: 1 Day
Strengths: Can't find any because of the experience described below.
Weaknesses: See below.
Overall: Here's my first and last experience with Nero BackItUp: having just purchased it (why not try it first? my bad and how!...), I did my first backup - files of a 10G drive. It said FIVE HOURS, and I didn't believe that, but that's what it was. After three hours I aborted because the backup took all the memory. The same job with Acronis takes less than 15 minutes, with Handy Backup, 10 - and both use minimal memory. Should have done this yesterday, on Thanksgiving, because BackItUp is the biggest turkey of them all. Now to engage in the great struggle for a refund. In NeroSpeak: Unmöglich!
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