Filing it away - Evaluating file backup software - Part 3

For our next test we deleted the original copy of the data we just backed up and then restored it again using each of the backup packages in turn. We then ran a simple CRC check to verify that all files were present and undamaged.

Genie Timeline manages a respectable time in this test though Genie Backup and Oops perform the best. Rather surprisingly, our CRC test told us that Genie Timeline had actually missed some files in some deeply nested folders. We had waited until the program said that our files were 100% backed up, so this result is a little alarming.

Notice that there is no time given for Cobain Backup. This is because Cobain Backup does not actually support restoring files at all. Files backed up with Cobain are simply copied to another folder. This does make it easy to browse through older backups but it also makes it harder to restore files to the exact same locations they were in when the backup was taken.

For our third test, we backed up a folder containing 7.56 gigabytes of data of various types and sizes. The computer was a workstation running Windows XP Service Pack 3. Again, the CPU was a Quad Core Intel Q6600 and the backup destination was another SATA drive.

Another very slow backup speed from Genie Timeline while all the other packages clock up acceptable times.

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