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NewTech Infosystems ("NTI") is an industry leading
developer of powerful, feature-rich, and easy-to-use software for CD and DVD
recording. NTI has developed and delivered innovative recording and backup
solutions since being founded in 1993. As a pioneer in the world of CD recording
technologies and software, NTI released the world's first CD Copy software in
December of 1995. Today, NTI's CD/DVD burning engine has an installed base of 70
million users worldwide. With the debut of NTI Backup NOW! in 1998, NTI was the
first software developer credited with bringing state-of-the-art optical
recording technology to the realm of computer data backup and recovery, a field
traditionally dominated by magnetic tape technologies. In addition to CD &
DVD-Maker 7 Titanium Suite, the NTI family of products includes: NTI CD &
DVD-Maker™ Platinum, NTI Backup NOW!® Deluxe Suite, NTI DriveBackup!™,
FileCD™ and Dragon Burn™. NTI differentiates itself with superb
user-friendliness that effectively enables powerful exploration of multimedia
functionalities built on the principle of "Power with Simplicity."
Many NTI products are available in multi-lingual versions, and can be purchased
through retail and on-line outlets. NTI also offers Volume licensing and OEM
products. NTI is headquartered at: 5 Mason, Suite 150, Irvine, California
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| Even
Editors Make Lots of Backup Mistakes |
editor's comments:- July 31,
2008 - after nearly a decade using various versions of NTI Backup NOW (starting
with the W98 version) I was very disappointed this week - when I got into a hot
disaster recovery situation myself.
Having an up to date working backup
created by NTI Backup NOW version 4 on my old PC I thought my non-email
documents were safe. But they failed to be restored by version 5 which was
freshly downloaded onto a new clean PC - even though I could see the directories
on the backup media. The job counter went from zero percent to finished
immediately without restoring anything.
Luckily I had an alternative
backup route and media which resolved the problem and didn't involve NTI's
software. But I had been a regular user of that product - looking at old
archived article for example - and it was a disappointment that this
compatibility issue means I don't trust it any more.
I haven't had a
reply from tech-support yet. But the problem is less than 24 hours old as I
write this.
The moral of the story is that you need multiple backup
formats - as well as multiple media types and locations to survive from the data
point of view.
And I inadvertently have learned more than I ever
wanted to know about
corrupted
files in outlook express too. That was partly due to my ignorance of XP's
transfer wizard. I accidentally restored multiple copies of my email (as the
first restore disk didn't work - and was corrupted). So I exceeded 100,000
emails in folders that were designed for much less and made things worse
before making them better.
But the good news is that within hours of
having a trashed PC I was back in business again - despite all the problems -
which were solved in background mode without any data loss. I made a lot of
things worse before I made them better - like foolishly downloading new email
from my webmail into a full in-box - which temporarily made it disappear.
Being paranoid about losing your data is a healthy start to a disaster
recovery plan.
This point has been made many times in these pages -
if you haven't
encountered an unrecoverable error in your backup system then you probably
aren't doing enough backups.. | |
| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs? |
Editor:- I've noticed is that
the published specs of
flash SSDs change
a lot -from the time a product they are first announced, then when they're
being sampled, and later again when they are in volume production.
Sometimes
the headline numbers get better, sometimes they get worse. There are many good
reasons for this.
The product which you carefully qualified may
not be identical to the one that's going into your production line for a
variety of reasons... ...read the article | |
