The Bottom Line
Roxio BackOnTrack Suite is the complete media protection solution that automatically keeps your videos and TV shows safe and protects your PC from both hardware and software disasters. BackOnTrack Suite can be used to backup your important files, photos, data, movies and recorded TV programs. Keep your files safe, recover from a system crash or software failure, or backup your entire hard drive for safekeeping. An affordable all-in-one disaster recovery suite for your Windows PC. Don't worry about losing anything with Roxio BackOnTrack Suite.
Pros
- Easy to use backup utility
- Backup and Restore Hard Drive
- Restore System to Previous State after a Crash
- Backup and Restore Video Files
Cons
- Instant Restore doesn't recover deleted files
Description
- Restore your system from a crash with one click
- Preserve important files to HDD or CD/DVD/HD-DVD/BD
- Scheduled and automatic backups automatically protect new and changed files
- Supports compression and encryption
- Recovery from CD/DVD in case of hardware problems
- Comprehensive Disaster Recovery
- Instant Restore
- File Backup
Guide Review - Roxio BackOnTrack 3 Suite - Backup Software
It's a terrible feeling to lose all your data, photos, music or video files to a system crash. Hardware and software failures are a part of computing today, and a good backup utility is essential to keeping your precious data protected. That's where Roxio's BackOnTrack Suite comes in.
What I Liked About BackOnTrack
BackOnTrack offers three utilities in one package with an easy to use interface and helpful descriptions. Backup Data, Video, Photos, Music, etc. to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc or to a different Hard Drive. Disaster Recovery allows you to make an exact copy of your Hard Drive, with the ability to restore the drive image to a different Hard Drive if yours crashes. Instant Restore can restore your system state after installing new software or hardware that makes your system crash or makes it unstable. The interface will be familiar to Roxio users, but is simple enough for anyone to quickly learn, with descriptions of every choice displayed. A well thought out product essential for backing up important data, and reasonably priced.
What I Didn't Like About BackOnTrack
The only fault I could find with BackOnTrack was the way Instant Restore works. I assumed it would restore deleted files after restoring the state, but it doesn't seem to work that way. I created a text file on my test PC, and then created a restore point. I then deleted the text file. After restoring, the text file was not restored. I'm assuming instant restore will restore the system state, but does not restore deleted files. Individual files still need to be backed up in order to copy them back to the Hard Drive if there is a system crash.
What I Liked About BackOnTrack
BackOnTrack offers three utilities in one package with an easy to use interface and helpful descriptions. Backup Data, Video, Photos, Music, etc. to CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc or to a different Hard Drive. Disaster Recovery allows you to make an exact copy of your Hard Drive, with the ability to restore the drive image to a different Hard Drive if yours crashes. Instant Restore can restore your system state after installing new software or hardware that makes your system crash or makes it unstable. The interface will be familiar to Roxio users, but is simple enough for anyone to quickly learn, with descriptions of every choice displayed. A well thought out product essential for backing up important data, and reasonably priced.
What I Didn't Like About BackOnTrack
The only fault I could find with BackOnTrack was the way Instant Restore works. I assumed it would restore deleted files after restoring the state, but it doesn't seem to work that way. I created a text file on my test PC, and then created a restore point. I then deleted the text file. After restoring, the text file was not restored. I'm assuming instant restore will restore the system state, but does not restore deleted files. Individual files still need to be backed up in order to copy them back to the Hard Drive if there is a system crash.