BounceBack Ultimate review

Who gives a tosh about the windows UI guidelines. It's not that bad-looking. Seems a bit of a bad comment to make.

By lemonlainey on 25 Aug 2009

I actualy have this software and use it on machines where the user really hasn't a clue or specifically wants a 'complete' backup without hassle. After initial backup, it's a lot quicker than Acronis at updating the external image disk and is unbelievably simple to use. The GUI is a touch lairy shall we say, looks like one of those tacky downloaded media player skins but it does make the basic options easy to spot and simple for an end user.

I don't use this for professional purposes, it to me, is a backup sysem for home users therefore, I don't care about encrytion etc.

I do agree though that it's far to expensive. For home users, this should be around £20-£25. I bought it in the USA for $69 a couple of months ago so if you can get it here now for £49, the price has already started to come down. It was £99 over here.

Matt

By mfreeman1 on 27 Aug 2009

Or you can just wait for one of the sponsored efforts of things like Paragon Drive Backup that turn up now and again.

By qwertyqwerty87 on 27 Aug 2009

RAID controller compatibility

I have a customer who has been using this on a Dell Optiplex 755 for years. It backs up everything just fine.
Last week his PC failed to boot. I recovered his user data by copying it off, but every attempt to make the PC bootable again failed. So I thought I'd use BounceBack to do a full system restore. First you boot from the supplied Rescue CD and restore from your externally-attached backup device. Unfortunately this Dell has an Intel AHCI RAID controller attached to the single SATA drive. This means that BounceBack's Rescue CD will not recognise the controller and therefore will NOT restore your backup. So what's the point in allowing backups in the first place if you can't then restore them??? Sheesh I was cross.
Not only that, but if you reinstall Windows and BounceBack and then try to restore individual files from your backup device it won't let you do that either! So my poor customer has 2 years' worth of worthless BounceBack backups sitting tantalisingly on his external HD.
What's the point.

By AndyChips on 14 Apr 2010