Worth the Price? - mr-slice

Get this. After 2 years, they'll hit you up for another $50. The license is only good for this period of time.

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Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 04:51 PM PDT

Worth the Price? - oliver langan

I used Synchronize Pro for several years, and it got better over time without breaking anything. It is much more powerful and configurable than SuperDuper! and some other backup software I have used, and I don't think that $100 is an unfair price.

That being said, I got tired of paying the $50 forced-upgrade cost time and time again, so I switched to SuperDuper! for a daily full-disk backup, and rsync for all other synchronization needs. As a command-line utility, rsync can be daunting to start with, but it is enormously configurable and can do basically all the things that SP does... for free. (One exception being the make-bootable-volume setting, which _is_ available in rsyncx from macosxlabs.)

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Wednesday, October 18 2006 @ 12:54 PM PDT

Worth the Price? - jspectre

if all you want to do is back up your hard drive to a bootable backup. then no. not at all. go with superduper and be happy (and richer)

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Wednesday, October 18 2006 @ 05:08 PM PDT

Worth the Price? - freevito

It's definitely worth the price if you need what it does. SyncProX has a reputation as as a bootable backup application—which is well-deserved—but that's only a small part of what it does. If that's all you want, SyncProX might be overkill for you. You'll find less costly applications that do the job, but I doubt you'll find any that do it better.

If you want to synchronize folder contents according to a vast array of user-defined parameters, do incremental backups across network volumes (via .dmg files)—and fully automate the routines into the bargain—SyncProX is the tool you need. It currently is handling all my backup and syncing tasks...automatically.

I'm still using older versions that I downloaded on older licenses on various machines. I don't need to run the latest version of the software on every machine. I'm still using a version I downloaded under my original license to run backups on a server. I could understand folks griping about the license terms if older versions just stopped working when the license under which they were downloaded and installed expired, but that's NOT that way it works. It works exactly the way the license says it works, but I guess you'd have to actually read the license to know that. Apparently, some folks have either not read the license, or not understood it.

Support has been pretty good in my experience. Sometimes it's not lightning fast, but that's the nature of the biz. I've never failed to get a specific response that directly addressed my inquiry. If a problem can't be solved in the current version of the application, the fix shows up in a subsequent version. This is an application that constantly under active, attentive development.

So, is it worth the price? For me, the question is this: "Is it worth $50 every two years to support the continuing development of an application that handles so many complex tasks elegantly, efficiently, and reliably?" That's a no-brainer. The answer is a definite "Yes". Whether it's worth it for you is something only you can decide.

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Sunday, October 22 2006 @ 02:41 PM PDT