Nero BackItUp & Burn

Warum 5 Sterne? Backup sauf kleineren Festplatten wieder erstellen - funktioniert, super, wie andere BU-Programme von NERO - wenn Mann sich eingefriemelt hat OK. Fummeliger war XP, von einer 250 GB Festplatte damit auf ne 1 TB Platte zu bekommen. Aber wenn dass Festplatten Agnmet deaktiviert wird, dann läuft die Backupfunktion reibungslos. Also dises Backup-Programm kann zwar leider nicht eine 4K Festplatte runter Clustern. Das können meines wissens nach nur die Alignment-Tools der entsprechenden Festplatten-Hersteller, aber das steht ja auch nicht auf der Verpackung.

I conducted a restore of a Nero BackItUp DVD archive taken just 15 months ago to 3 DVD disks. I believe I was using the Nero suite 2013 and the restore process completed without any errors. The DVD media is quality and pristine and was in good storage. I could see all the file and folders as expected except ALL the files are corrupt. I know the file were intact at time of Backup and straight DVD burns of some of the files I can easily read. The backup was of an entire documents folder and sub folders consisting of about 9.6 GB of data in 3 DVD disks so the question is how can I run a successful restore and not get back any useful files? Is their product so useless and not fit for purpose that it detects or reports no errors in the original backup process and again no error detected in the restore process and I end up with nothing I can use. Just rubbish binary data.

I installed this on both my work PC and my home PC. On my work PC, it took over 12 hours to compress and backup a 250 gig drive. Yesterday, when I needed to recover a file, it first said it will take 2.5 hours to build the file list, then 5 minutes later, it crashed and said the backup was bad. Likewise on my home PC, it took 3 days to backup the drive, and crashed on every successive attempt to do an incremental backup.

I downloaded the update from Nero first, then created a BackItUp Image Tool from the Nero disc. I wanted to back up a small hard drive so I rebooted the PC with the Image Tool CD in the drive, as stated in the manual. After the Image Tool was loaded (its a Linux-based program) I removed the CD and inserted a blank DVD. The first DVD backed up without error. (The total backup should span across 4 DVDs). I inserted the 2nd DVD and soon received a burn failure message. Thinking that it might be the DVDs I changed to a different brand and tried again. Same sequence of events. Tried it 4 times with various brands of DVDs. Then I sent an eMail to Nero and the response was to go look at the knowledge base---so I did that. Surprise! There were several messages dating back years describing the same problem I had, and with versions from Nero10 up to and including Nero2015, without any fix from Nero. Ugh!

I bought this product just to burn DVDs for backing up my stuff, since I seem to have incredibly bad luck with back-up drives. Also I can check DVDs to see what is on them very easily. Lets just say that Im comfortable with the medium.

Nero back was provided via OEM for a new computer and worked fine, however I could not use the software on a newer computer. I purchased this older version to be able to restore files but I could not. I downloaded the latest version of the program, Version 10, and still could not restore the files. Nero is a poor backup program so I would stay away from it at all cost.

Why is all backup software garbage? Neros attempt is a real stinker too. Were greeted with wonderful cryptic error messages at every turn. Server Busy, Action cant be completed because the server is busy. They give you two choices [Switch to...] which pops up the start menu and [Retry] which does nothing. If you youre the patient type after about 5 minutes of [Retry] the Backup app will finally open. It goes down hill from here. The backups routinely fail with cpp errors. Assertion failed. Now its stuck. It thinks one of the failed backups is running and it refuses to start it, even after a reboot. Garbage. Stinky garbage.

After backup up files it makes them unreadable in any other form unless you take lots of extra time to go through each file to convert it.

Nero does not just do automatic backup; installing it also changes your audio driver, and in my case the result was scratchy audio. SO I uninstalled Nero using Windows XPs add/remove programs, and I reset the system to the last checkpoint before installing Nero. But the audio driver is still not working. Ill have to purchase and install a new sound card with new software- not that costly, but a serious drag.