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<title><![CDATA[By: vanc33]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93944</link>
<description><![CDATA[thank you for this]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:28:54 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tom]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93943</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks to both GOTD and East-Tek for making this fine product available to us for free.

My backup needs are pretty simple.  I just want a daily backup of changes I've made to the data files on my (60 GB) C: drive to my (250 GB) D: drive, then weekly, back up the D: drive to my home network's (1 TB) NAS-RAID.

I want unencrypted, uncompressed copies of my files.  The setup and operation needs to be simple and goof proof.

East-Tek fulfills my needs perfectly.  No-hassle backup of Firefox and Thunderbird is a bonus.  Not too sure how much use I'll gain from registry key and user setting backup, but I'm glad that it's there.

The program is clean, easy to set up and use, and well documented.  And from a couple of backup runs, it seems to work as advertised, doing everything I need with no hassles.

I'm particularly impressed, George, that you're visiting this forum to discuss your program with us.

Very nice job!  Once again, many thanks.

Tom]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:15:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: tatsuya321]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93942</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you miss this offer, which I did and don't care, the offer is actually still on. The link is here http://www.east-tec.com/offers/softpedia/2009/backup/register.htm . If it does not work, do not blame me and put thumbs down on this comment.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:26:49 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: AlfredScientist]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93941</link>
<description><![CDATA[In comment #51 (Steven Avery), the listed programs are for file back up. File backup is useful for incremental backup (after daily work).  I read (somewhere) that Microsoft has daily incremental backup of a few Gigabytes.

Windows NT and up has the NTbackup service (free); however, it is not perfect, because the backup files may be corrupt (even in NTFS).  In a Macintosh, when a program is installed, almost all files will reside in a single folder, and you can copy just that folder to another Mac to get the program to run.  In Windows, because of the different architecture, files are stored in different locations, so using a program to copy files/folders from one location to another (e.g hard drive) may produce a similar structure but the target drive will not boot, or the copied program will not run.

If you want to achieve 'failure-proof' your system, you may want to look into some hardware solutions, such as RAID (RAID 1 is a good start). If you can allow some down time (e.g. 3 hrs), you can look into some disaster-recovery software.  This software should be used for all PCs, to image the HD, and the images can be stored on a server or burned onto CD/DVD, to restore the system when needed.  The software is referred to as imaging software, and it will copy the HD sector-by-sector.  A free program is DriveXML (works well); commercial programs include: Norton Ghost ($69, very good; but the new Ghost has licensing issue), Acronis True Image ($40 at Fry, $25 rebate this week from Fry).  There are some Unix/Linux tools available, but they are not easy to use.

A simple solution is to do daily incremental backup, and weekly full backup.  For critical data (e.g. financial firms), off-site backup is needed.

I hope that GAOTD will offer a good imaging software soon.  Thank you.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:27:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tim O]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93940</link>
<description><![CDATA[To 66,
 This program from what I have read will back up files and folders, settings etc. I doubt that you can backup a program and reinstall to a fresh install of your OS on HDD. Also with this software I believe it is hard to back up a file per say if your using the file.( this has been pointed out above in other comments) If your going to reformat and reinstall use a image backup, ghost, paragon, acronis to name a few. Then as you install your programs make incremental backups, if things start to go wrong you can use the (image file) software or recovery disk and install a backup. The reason I say make incremental backups is because on occasion you could get a corrupt back-up.Thats with any software.I had that happen to me once. (also noted in post above).I didn't try this software so I'm not going to say good or bad, but have used similar software.Last but not least, if you back up then goto use your back up files on new format OS make sure there virus and malware free.
 Thanks GOTD and East-Tec Backup 2009..if i have stated anything wrong please correct me, i'm a average user and crummy typer.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:11:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tami Gosen]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93939</link>
<description><![CDATA[I installed and went to site and registered and no email as of yet and its been about 45 min. so if i dont get email before this is over then what I dont get to activate or what?]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:10:16 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Gary]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93938</link>
<description><![CDATA[After reading the last 67 comments, the fact that the company did not respond directly to #53 about "Consent to Use of Data" at the very least gives me pause -- enough pause to pass this product up and not take any chances.

If there's something to be fixed in their disclosures, I'll wait until it's current information that I'm agreeing to.  In other words, read disclosures and realize that the text you are agreeing to is binding - not what someone tells you outside of the product at the company.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:59:49 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Spiritwolf]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93937</link>
<description><![CDATA[BTW Always nice to see a developer that actually comes and participates in the comments and addresses legitimate issues, etc..I have more respect for developers who participate in comment discussions here.

The one thing I didn't appreciate though, was having to give out email address because I already have learned to hate even reading email due to the overwhelming deluge of advertising in it as a result of having to give out email address.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:52:26 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Spiritwolf]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93936</link>
<description><![CDATA[So will this enable me to backup programs and other files that I don't want to lose, then put them back on HDD after reinstalling OS?  My Vista laptop has developed a problem with windows explorer freezing as soon as Vista loads up and I've seen many forum discussions of others with same problem but so far not a single solution for it.  So I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that the only way to get Vista to work in normal mode again (It does work fine in Safe Mode) is to reinstall it.  Naturally stupid Toshiba laptops only have the kind of restore disk that wipes everything out and reinstalls all the original OEM garbage instead of including any of the standard tools in Vista disks such as the ability to repair an installation of Vista.

However I haven't wanted to reinstall Vista because I don't want to lose all my good GAOTD apps so I've been living with the frustrating limitations of only being able to use the Vista laptop in safe mode.

From what I'm reading, it appears today's giveaway may be able to backup things I don't want to lose, so that I can reinstall Vista and have it working in normal mode again without sacrificing all my favorite GAOTDS]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:47:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tannhaeuser]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/east-tec-backup-2009/#comment-93935</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fubar, ##25,32

<i>Neobyte/Titan/East-Tec Backup/GFI are related. Neobyte Solutions is the original company, apparently acquired by GFI, which sold backup software under the “Titan” name, and licensed it to other companies such as East-Tec (East Technologies).</i>

B.Fraser, #48
<i>What is going on, that Titan (now GFI) and East Tech both make backup programs which are not just similar, but identical in every way?</i>

Guess why?
Neobyte Solutions and East Technologies are located in the <b>same</b> Romanian city! Both of them seem to have "learned" from the Chinese, tight political friends of theirs until 1990, that cleavage of cells can be done with digital "animals" as well. Wua haahhh...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:21:06 -0400</pubDate>
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