"Jan Alter" <bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I happen to use Dantz Retrospect, but only because it came with the
> external Maxtor One Touch Drive. I enjoy the fact that it will make a base
> backup and then automatically make incrementals each day at a
> predetermined time. However, it's not particularly intuitive software.

That's an understatement. :-) I'm trying to get a backup solution going for
2 of my customers as well as myself at home, all to tape. With a second hand
DDS3 drive costing less than $100 these days there's probably a lot of home
users trying to do the same thing.

I've done a bit of a search in google groups and it seems that many people
want to do the same thing as me, which is to just specify what to backup and
when. I'm not interested in incremental backups, catalogs, media names etc.
All I want to do is backup the same files every night to whatever tape is in
the drive. If I leave the same tape in the drive all week that's my problem.

> SC tested 3 software products: Simple Backup, Handy Backup and Backup Now.

Thanks for the tip but it looks like none of them support tapes. Maybe they
do but there was no mention of it.

Michael