Bounceback professional powers CMS backup gear

Its ABS plus comes in flavours up to 100 gig with a standard notebook size drive. It comes with "Bounceback Professional" software, to do a full backup.

If you've done a full backup of your laptop with this device, you can simply swap out the hard drive for the one in this case, and you're up and running without having to do anything else. People who've had a notebook drive go "click-click-click" will appreciate this. So will people who value a minimum of downtime after a crash, and/or an easy method of backing up.

You can also simply restore files, or do a system recovery. Backup speeds are "up to 480 Mbp/s."

The software does not support SCSI drives, and the OS X version of the software does not support some of the interfaces that the Win version does. They do not have a Linux version, perhaps a mistake, as there are plenty of Linux users who would like to have a simple package. And although you can use Linux commands instead of their software, Linux is growing quickly and is not a market to ignore.

The ABS Mini caught my eye, being so small. However, the maximum size is 40 gig, and ships with a reduced feature set version of the backup software, good for quick data backups, not full drive backups. Nonetheless, the size is great for those who only need to have a backup of their data.

These items stirred up a bit of interest at their booth. And my interest was not because of the woman at the booth. Honest. µ

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