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by annie d.

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Our company has an HP server that uses ARCserve to run backups to a DAT drive. I find the program very complex to use and train and am looking for a much simpler - and more reliable - software.
Any suggestions (with explanations or reasons for it's choice) would be most appreciated!

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by chuckles

This is what I use on my network. To me it's as easy to use as the old Colorado backup software was. Yet it has the ability to do so much more. It is very user friendly. There are a few things that I don't like. "How many clicks does it take toperform a function?" :) HA HA... Seriuosly though, I tend to get impatient and sometimes it just seems like you never stop clicking different menus to do some of the simplest of tasks. Not that it's hard, it's just that the menu commands tend to be way down deep in the sub_menus. That's probably more of me being impatient than anything else. I like things to be as simple and quick as possible. Anyway that s my suggestion.

by nics

Just a word of warning - I have encountered a conflict that appears to be between Backup Exec and Crystal Reports. You might run into problems if you plan to have both on your server. I have purchased veritas support, purchased updated verion etc, and still no joy - many hours of phone support later...............

by chuckles

Pretty much the extent of the failures I get are due to media failures rather than software or tape drive problems. It is very stable as far as I have experienced.

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