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    Symantec - I hope you go bankrupt!

    Thanks again for taking a perfectly good product (Veritas Backup exec) and runining it completely
    How the flip can you manage to so completely ruin a perfectly good product?
    I've had nothing but problems with Backup exec 10d being rubbish and either breaking itself, or breaking other vital things like DFS
    I have had backup exec 10 running fine elsewhere with no problems at all. How did they manage to make it so crap when they haven't actually added anything new?
    "In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship."

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    i started my official boycott when the bought out sygate and discontinued the free firewall an started recommending there crapware
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    i started my official boycott when the bought out sygate and discontinued the free firewall an started recommending there crapware
    Which you can download from anywhere, , My personal boycott was started when I had to pay £30 to renew my license, but it never actually worked so they still owe me £30 to this date, although the only good piece of software I've liked is go-back which has saved me so many times in the past but it is about 6 years old the version I've got

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    i know downloading it is not a problem. but te fact that it is discontinued is annoying as hell becuase it was a fantasic product for home users and now there will be no updates.
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    Well lets just say I'm glad I haven't been paying for our symantec cr@p.
    Its £2500's worth of rubbish!
    "In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship."

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    I think we use BE 11 - its not all *that* bad
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    10d's a bit of a 'mare, though, I agree. We use it and performance is extremely poor, as is reliability. I've been looking at implementing CPS, but given the extent to which the basic backup has been stuffed, I'm a little leery of trusting it. Beats me how they continue to get glowing reviews - I reckon the reviewers are just scanning the product fliers and marking by the listed features...

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    Nothing really happened to the products when Veritas and Symantec merged, they were just rebranded. What exactly is wrong with BE now? It "breaking" isn't very descriptive

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    I was particularily miffed at it yesterday after it bombed out on a backup job that was then cancelled. However it forgot to switch DFS back on and for some reason DFS has to completely resynch. That was while I was waiting for someone senior's data to synch so I wasn't best pleased.
    Take a copy of 10d. Apply Sp3. Then go to the veritas update website. It detects you need to install Sp2. Their SP's, like anyone elses are cumulative.
    Take the fact that unless you change the advanced open file option from defaults, that the exchange transaction logs dont get deleted after backup if you use the Advanced open file on multiple servers.
    Those are a few of the problems that I've had with it. The Exchange thing is not even a bug FFS - its just poor design.
    Its worse than an effing EA game!
    All I can say is thank heavens none of the test restores have failed yet.
    Drivers, software, OS and firmware is up to date on this server. I'll admit that one of the other servers is well and truly screwed which is another reason I'm so annoyed at failed backups.
    Last edited by Moby-Dick; 03-04-2007 at 11:49 PM. Reason: language timmothy...
    "In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kezzer View Post
    Nothing really happened to the products when Veritas and Symantec merged, they were just rebranded. What exactly is wrong with BE now? It "breaking" isn't very descriptive
    People dont tend to be that descriptive when they are off on a rant
    "In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship."

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    I've had to deal with this crap software at 3 places of work and i still can't understand why people use it, its utter pants and i'm just glad i don't have to deal with it most of the time any more.

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    and normally I'd not agree with someone dissing a company so badly...i'd try to find something good.

    but frankly.....I can't stand them.

    Symantec ruin people's pc's and it's normally people who need HELP with pc's.

    Trying to remove anything Norton is so difficult, and it's all cpu resource hogging, internet accessing evilness.

    So I shall only stay silent on the subject.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post

    Trying to remove anything Norton is so difficult

    McAffe anyone ?
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    Zak,

    This is backup solutions not AV.

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    So why are they one of the largest software companies in the world if they make such "terrible" software?

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