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Norton Save & Restore 2 (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Norton from Symantec
Category: Software
Buy New: £39.99
New (5) from £39.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 485
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: 11486875
EAN: 5397011824660
ASIN: B000NVRJZ0
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Product Description
Symantec Norton Save and Restore 2.0.Main Features:Encrypts backups to help keep them secureSupport for both Windows XP and Windows VistaAutomatically monitors and optimizes backup disk spaceMakes backups on the fly, without restarting your systemMakes incremental backups to maximize space and save timeEnhanced Backup Search makes finding and recovering your data a snapTriggers backups on key events, such as new program installations or user loginsEasy Setup Wizard tells you what you need to know about back...
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 norton save& restore 2 October 18, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
o.k. I suppose BUT only if you have hours to spare. there is NO incremental backup ONLY full & complete each & every time
If you've got Vista DON'T BUY THIS!!! August 26, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I've used Norton products for years quite happily. Until now.
There are no two ways about it, this software simply doesn't work and technical support don't seem to be able to make it work.
I've not tried a restore yet. But backing up files and folders is a one off thing. Try doing an incremental backup and it just fails time after time.
Technical support gave me some XP instructions for clearing it which I was left to convert into Vista, but there was no point because it didn't work anyway.
Sorry, but I've now given up and had to accept I'll have to look elsewhere.
Not good with Vista July 28, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have used Norton Ghost versions 9 and 10 and both have given excellent results. I have recommended Ghost to a number of my customers and it has always been successful. I expected Save & Restore 2 to be just as good but also compatible with Vista, so you can imagine my disappointment when this new version seems to have so many problems.
Setting up the backups is very flexible and user friendly but the true test of backup software is how well you can restore the data when things go wrong. I have only tried this with Vista, it might work OK with XP. My PC normally has four hard drives so I took a full system backup of the Vista disk and tried to restore it in different ways.
Restoring to a single disk (tried this twice) - the restored system would not boot and had to be repaired using the Vista install disk.
Restoring whilst the PC was in the same configuration as when the backup was taken, i.e. with all four disks in place - The restored system again had to repaired using the Vista disk but Save & Restore also corrupted the XP disk and that had to be repaired using the XP install disk.
I then tried a small corruption of the backup file to see if the Norton detected this, it doesn't, but worse still it refuses to make anymore backups and just comes up with a vague error message.
I believe Symantec have rushed this product in an effort to get something out that is Vista compatible. Don't buy, wait for the next version.
Not what it says on the tin June 20, 2007
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I was duped into thinking that this product will do incremental backups to DVD, allowing you to select which files and folders you want to back up and how often. It does no such thing. The only DVD backup option is to backup ALL files of a certain type (you can't pick individual folders) and there is no incremental option. I gave up when it got to 44% with 3 more hours to run. The recovery point option already comes with HP laptops preloaded and Norton adds nothing to that. Like HP, it doesn't back up to DVD, so you have to manually copy it over once it's backed up to hard disc. Do these software developers really believe we have all day to mess around with backups? Even if they run in the background, they are disruptive, stop you from moving the laptop around and slow everything down. I used to have a simple Iomega zip drive, where I could do a quick incremental backup at the end of each day. Now, the same procedure takes hours. So don't buy this, unless you're unemployed and have all the time in the world!
Hopeless with Vista May 28, 2007
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I've bought and used Norton / Symantec products for quite a few years now. I have previously used Norton Ghost 9 and 10 quite happily for imaging and backing up my computer hard drives that use the Windows XP operating systems.
I bought this to back up my Vista Home Premium as it was listed as being 'Vista Compatible' - one of the few on the market that supposedly are. I'm afraid that I don't consider that accurate.
The software loaded ok, but on the first attempt to 'open it', it locked up saying that my nVidia OpenGL driver needed to be updated first - no evidence of that from the softwares driver checking option prior to installing the cd software.
After uninstalling, updating the nVidia driver, and then reinstalling the software it 'opened' and ran - up until it decided that it didn't like some setting and threw a wobbly.
What greatly irritates me is that both Microsoft and Symantec are major software companies, and if Vista has been in development for over five years, it might be nice if the two companies communicated with one another to ensure that 'third party' software actually worked with a new operating system.
This software may quite possibly well work with Windows XP, but I wanted software that will image and back up a hard drive running Windows Vista - after all if my PC crashes, I could end up in a real pickle if I have not got the option to back up and restore.
On the whole, I'm very disappointed as software isn't cheap and it would be nice if it worked hassle free out of the box. Try again Symantec.
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