Easy Backup - BounceBack Essential
Smart Computing - 9/1/2010
Give serious consideration to BounceBack Essential. This nifty utility, which installs on an external hard drive of your choice, clones your primary system drive and then makes the external drive bootable.
Jennifer Farwell
Smart Computing
9/1/2010
Have you ever experienced (or do you live in fear of experiencing) the calamity of hard drive failure and resulting pain of restoring everything?
If so, give serious consideration to BounceBack Essential. This nifty utility, which installs on an external hard drive of your choice, clones your primary system drive and then makes the external drive bootable.
Should your primary hard drive experience serious problems, you can boot and run from the BounceBack clone until you can resolve your primary drive issues.
BounceBack stores your files in native file formats, letting you access or restore files selectively. This gives your external drive the rare ability to act as a full system clone (a full copy of the operating system) and selective backup and restore utility in one.
BounceBack Essential is a “set it and forget it” tool. Establish the initial settings (minimal with the Essential edition: more options if you upgrade to Ultimate), and BounceBack creates your backup and updates it hourly, in the background.
Keep this in mind when you choose a hard drive: You cannot use an existing external hard drive that contains files you want to keep. BounceBack takes over your designated backup drive and reformats it, so buy a new drive or remove needed files from an existing one before you get started. CMS Products offers external drives with BounceBack software built-in.
CMS Products Releases Instant Server Recovery Solutions
TradingMarkets.com - 8/5/2010
The Instant Server Recovery solutions are powered by the BounceBack Server Edition software, which provides full server backup, including the operating system, applications and user data.
TradingMarkets.com
8/5/2010
CMS Products, a provider of data security, backup, disaster recovery and content management technologies, has released its family of Instant Server Recovery solutions and software designed for small-to-medium businesses running Microsoft's Foundation or Small Business Server operating systems.
According to a release, the solutions are tools to ensure business continuity during server hard drive failures, or catastrophic data loss. The solution consists of a two-drive desktop storage device with support for RAID 0 &1 technology available in 2TB or 4TB capacities.
"SMBs depend on their servers to do business, and even one failure can be disastrous to the bottom line," said Ken Burke, president of CMS Products. "BounceBack Server Edition creates a mirror image of the entire business server, and should the server fail, users quickly and easily can restart the server directly from the external BounceBack instant recovery device. Utilizing these instant recovery products is like having 'business continuity insurance' for an SMB, avoiding downtime, costly data loss and possibly saving the business from catastrophic consequences."
The Instant Server Recovery solutions are powered by the BounceBack Server Edition software, which provides full server backup, including the operating system, applications and user data.
CMS Products is a provider of data backup, encryption and security technology.
CMS Introduces Bootable Server Backup
Information Week - 8/4/2010
BounceBack Instant Server Recovery is designed for SMBs running Microsoft's Foundation or Small Business Server to resume business quickly in the event of a server disk failure or other disk problems.
Daniel P Dern
Information Week
8/4/2010
For businesses of any size, a server disk failure can catastrophic. The threat is even greater for smaller companies with limited IT resources; a disk failure can mean waiting hours or even days for an IT service call. In the meantime, the business grinds to a halt, losing revenue by the minute, and turning customers into former customers.
To help small businesses and others resume business quickly in the event of a server disk failure or other disk problems, CMS Products has introduced its new BounceBack Instant Server Recovery Solutions product family, based on CMS's BounceBack Server Edition software. BounceBack Instant Server Recovery is designed for small-to-midsize businesses with servers running Microsoft's Foundation or Small Business Server operating systems, to "ensure business continuity during server hard drive failures, or catastrophic data loss," according to the company.
"BounceBack Instant Server Recovery is aimed at companies with three to ten users, like one with a point-of-sale system, and no IT people on-site," says Gary Streuter, Vice President of Marketing, CMS Products. "They can reboot and get running again while waiting for an IT consultant to be available to identify and resolve the problem on the main drive. The backup, according to Streuter, clones the system drive as a bootable file-by-file copy, including the operating system, other software, settings, and data." The user then configures BounceBack to do backups on a scheduled basis, such as every evening. (Backups can also be manually triggered.)
Like with CMS' BounceBack Ultimate product for use with Windows desktop and notebook computers, in the event of a problem with the hard drive, "Your server offers to boot from an internal drive or the recovery device," says Streuter. "Select the BounceBack, and it launches." Since the backup is a file-by-file copy, if the server cannot reboot, users can access, browse and retrieve data by treating the BounceBack device as an external hard drive, says Streuter. "You can plug it into another computer and get to all the data files."
If one of the two drives is removed and a fresh one is put in, "The system will rebuilt itself onto the other drive and keep them in synch," says Streuter. This lets the removed drive be taken off-site, for added disaster recovery protection. CMS offers a kit with an additional disk caddy, plus a carrying case, for taking disks off-site.
Other features include backup support for SQL databases. According to Streuter, a backup module for Microsoft Exchange is scheduled for later this year.
BounceBack Instant Server Recovery is available now. The software-only version is MSRP $295. The hardware/software bundle, consisting of the software and a 2-bay desktop enclosure supporting RAID 0 and 1 is MSRP $599 with two 1-terabyte SATA hard drives, or $799 with two 2-terabyte SATA hard drives.
BounceBack Ultimate Doesn't Just Back Up Drives--It Mirrors Them
PC World - 5/5/2010
It's a jack of all trades that syncs, backs up files, does continuous data protection, versions, schedules, supports multiple destinations and will mirror your system drive onto an external drive.
Jon L. Jacobi
PC World
5/5/2010
BounceBack UItimate ($69, 30-day free trial) is unique in the backup software world. It's a jack of all trades that syncs, backs up files, does continuous data protection, versions, schedules, supports multiple destinations and will mirror your system drive onto an external drive. And I really mean mirror, as in an exact copy from which you may boot if your main drive fails. Ultimate also has backup sets, scheduling, multiple destinations, and versioning all of which are missing from the significantly cheaper BounceBack Essential.
Version 9.2 retains what is one of the more, err, I'll just say more colorful-looking interfaces in the industry. Don't let its appearance distract you from the serious power under the hood. I'd try to describe it, but you're far better off taking a gander for yourself. Fortunately, over the years CMS, while leaving the look intact, has gradually trimmed and condensed a rather poor workflow it into a concise, easy-to-use interface with all the options within easy reach.
My only gripe about the BounceBack Ultimate is the price. In a world of worthy $50 backup programs--or the $29 BounceBack Essential--$69 seems a tad pricey. Still, BounceBack Ultimate is unique, has worked great for me, and is simple enough to use that most users can figure it out in short order. Think of it as an easy way to add RAID 1 redundancy to your system without the hassle of digging around your PC's innards. If you need the extras mentioned up front, then BounceBack Ultimate is worth the premium. However, I'm thinking the majority of users will be fine with Essentials.
Tip: BounceBack's mirroring function requires an entire drive, so don't back up a 160GB drive to a 1TB external drive or you'll be wasting a lot of space.
BounceBack Essentials Offers Easy PC Recovery
PC World - 11/25/2009
BounceBack Essentials combines the strengths of imaging, file-based backup. It's quite possibly the best $30 backup solution on the market.
Jon L. Jacobi
PC World
11/25/2009
There's something about maintaining a complete and up-to-date copy of your entire operating system and software installation that brings you peace of mind. In that regard, CMS's BounceBack Essentials 9.1 calms your soul, and does so flawlessly with as little user intervention as possible.
Note that the software I tested bore the name BounceBack Essentials, but you'll also see BounceBack CDP or Instant PC Recovery depending on where you look (the company has a penchant for multiple labels). BounceBack Essentials is a $29 subset of the company's BounceBack Ultimate software. The Ultimate package--which offers additional features such as encryption, multiple destinations, and point-in-time recovery--costs $69. Essentials keeps only the current version of any file in one location--in effect, mirroring your main system, much like a RAID setup. Essentials requires a dedicated drive with enough room for all your data to perform its magic.
Installing BounceBack Essentials is easy, requiring only a few clicks and correctly entering a serial number. The installer leaves an icon on the Windows Desktop called BounceBack Setup which invokes the initial backup where you select a drive to back up to. After you've made your selection, the software partitions it, renders it bootable, and copies your PC's contents onto it.
Once the initial backup is finished, simply leave BounceBack running in the background and adjust the continuous data protection to taste. BounceBack can be set to save changes at anywhere from 1-minute to 60-minute intervals. While 1 minute may sound like the best option, if you're hit by spyware or some such, the short interval may allow BounceBack to copy the offending files to the backup drive before you even realize there's a problem. Under most circumstances you should leave it set to 15 minutes or more (BounceBack defaults to 60).
The BounceBack backup is actually less prone to malware than the mirrored array it mimics, as it copies the Registry only once a day unless you invoke an incremental backup manually. Since a lot of malware creates a way to launch by altering the Registry, restoring the Registry removes any entries the malware wrote (shutting off your PC by pulling the plug keeps Windows from saving the hacked Registry in the first place).
BounceBack Essentials allows you to boot from the drive it's backing up to if your main installation fails--a great feature that allows you to keep on working when you're on a deadline. When you're finished, you may restore your system wholesale--but you can also browse the backup drive to copy files off piecemeal, since the backup is file-based. The software worked perfectly, restoring my PC with a minimum of fuss.
BounceBack Essentials combines the strengths of imaging, file-based backup, and RAID mirroring, and sidesteps most of the disadvantages of these other methods. It's quite possibly the best $30 backup solution on the market.
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