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User Name SEReubart

Member Since 2001-07-02

Total number of Feedback Posts: 3

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BRU Server 1.2.0m (Mac OS X)

I'm sure this product is fine on UNIX systems, where everything is done via the command line and portable computers don't exist. But in a Mac environment with laptops, this thing is USELESS. I have been trying to get it to work for more than a year! It can only back up machines by IP address, so if you have anything that gets its address via DHCP--like laptops--you can't schedule a backup for it. Yes, they released a patch so that a client can inform the server of its current IP address at startup, but the server CANNOT automatically initiate a backup of that machine. There was supposed to be a fix for this released last fall, but so far, nothing. The user interface is horrible. In the main part of it, clicking on anything can accidentally change your settings so that backups for some machines are no longer scheduled. As a result I have to monitor it constantly to make sure everything has backed up correctly. While they tell you it will run on an Intel processor, they don't mention that it has to run under Rosetta.Since it's a background task that's always running, it slows down the whole computer. The company had a forum, but they recently shut it down. I think they just don't want anyone to see all of the complaints. After several weeks of trying to get it to work reliably, we asked for our money back. The president of the company talked us into waiting for the next version, which was supposed to be out soon. That was last June, almost a year ago. Even though we purchased an extended support plan, and they are supposed to respond within 48 hours, I often got no reply at all when asking questions. Recently I got an e-mail asking me to renew our support plan. I think you know what my response would be. SAVE YOUR MONEY! Unfortunately there aren't a lot of alternatives, since Retrospect seems to be sinking fast... [alert admin]

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Tuesday, May 08 2007 @ 11:39 AM PDT

Intaglio 1.6 (Mac OS X)

Thank goodness for this program!

The ONLY thing I missed about OS 9 was MacDraw. I needed a drawing program to do room layouts and furniture design drawings, and Intaglio saved the day. It's not perfect, but it's pretty close, and it gets better with each version. Highly recommended! [alert admin]

Intaglio 1.6 (Mac OS X)

Thank goodness for this program!

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