[access-uk] Casper XP: A bhackup program for the rest of us?

From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 03:45:30 +0100
Maybe I've not been paying attention latently, but I don't remember seeing 
anything about Casper XP backup and restore utility here.

The idea seems very simple;  it just clones your hard disc to another hard disk 
via USB, firewire etc.  (No facility to backup to CDs.)  Seeing that things are 
rather quiet here just now, I'll paste a review below.  Any thoughts on this 
from the resident tech gurus would be interesting.
Ray

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(From PC Magazine review)

      Casper XP 2.0 
      Casper XP: The Friendly Backup Utility

      Those searching for an easy-to-use utility to back up a hard drive need 
look no further than Casper XP 2.0. Casper does an excellent job of 
demystifying the backup process, providing a simple, effective interface.


      If the name Casper conjures up the popular Norton Ghost disk-imaging 
program, the reference is intentional: Casper bears some technological 
resemblance to Ghost. But whereas the Norton offering has a host of IT-focused 
functions, Casper focuses more narrowly on disk-to-disk backup. Casper can't 
save an image to a partition on the same hard drive as the one being backed up, 
and it doesn't clone drives to a retrievable image that can be saved to optical 
media or a network drive.

      The program launches a neat-looking menu that includes all the software's 
usable options; there are no hidden settings. The first three options, Copy 
Drive, Create Drive, and Remove Drive, invoke easy-to-follow wizards.

      The Copy Drive wizard copies the contents of a drive, including partition 
and boot-record information, onto another. If you upgrade to a larger hard 
drive, the software will automatically resize the partition on the target drive 
accordingly, which is a nice touch. Of course, you can also set the size of the 
new partition on the target drive manually.

      The Create Drive wizard is the equivalent of using Windows' built-in 
drive-management console, except all the required tasks are done with minimal 
human intervention. Casper determines if there are additional hard drives 
present, and if those it finds have no data you want to keep, it will partition 
and format them. The Remove Drive wizard deletes existing partitions on hard 
drives other than the system drive.

      Casper also includes a drive browser that displays partition information 
and the health status of existing drives, as well as a utility that fixes a 
master or volume boot record in the event that either record becomes corrupt.

      The convenient Schedule Copy wizard can schedule background backups that 
occur as you work, ensuring that your drive is backed up regularly. There is no 
need to recall the last time a hard drive was copied, because the software also 
keeps a history listing every task performed, including a detailed report of 
each item. So although it's no Ghost, Casper XP may be all you need if you're 
looking for a simple, set-it-and-forget-it backup utility.
     


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