ARCserveIT Workgroup/Advanced Edition Disaster Recovery Option 6.61 Complete package

Advantages: Supports a wide range of devices and media types
Disadvantages: Limited scheduling

...the ability to do a full backup of all files on a designated day of the week and optionally to do an incremental one on the other days. I wasn't very impressed with this and felt this option seriously lacked flexibility. The only saving grace it had was that you could specify the user account and password this task would run under to ensure it completed successfully even if someone else was using the PC Finally, there is Disaster Recovery Preparation. This analyses the PC before recommending exactly what you need to do a full recovery from scratch in the case of total loss of the hard drive or a similar catastrophic failure. I tried it on a test laptop which it duly analysed before advising we needed a Windows XP Pro CD, 4 floppy disks and a blank DVD-R. All well and good but the laptop had no floppy disk drive so that was that. Unless it... Read review

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Advantages: Install manager
Disadvantages: For profies

...I'm using a clone of Red Hat and this OS is most reliable after Windows. It is alterative to Windows. It has bugs but you can correct them! The best OS for Interne Service Providers and programmers is Rad Hat 6.1! Try it only one time and you will not uninstall it never!!! Only time! There is so many software for this OS! And it is all neccesary software. RHL is very powerfull operating system! I am strongly reccomend it to you! Install it! And did you know that all programs for Linux are with open source!... Read review

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Advantages: supposed to be stable?
Disadvantages: hard to install, even harder to uninstall

...After my Windows 98 crashed completely for the third time I decided to try out Red Hat Linux 6.1 instead in hope that it would be more stable. This version of Linux comes with GUI installation utility which is great advancement as other versions were DOS-like based. GUI istallation didnt make my life easier, though. All neccessary drive partitioning makes Linux highly unfavourable among beginners and now I understood why. After hours spent installing I hoped that my problems were over but it was only beginning. At first everything worked just fine but then old-fashioned and well familiar craches started to kick-in. When I had enough and wanted to install my trusty Win98 back I could not uninstall Linux. Furthermore, because of all these partitionings my computer failed to restart at all. The only advice I can give is if you... Read review

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