But with fast and reliable hard drives dropping below $80 for 1TB of storage, doing 'incrementals' or using compression isn't worth the grief involved. Because you needed to use compression and incremental strategies to save space and minimize wear & tear on your DAT or DLT media. I will image.īut anything that backs up files in a format that isn't usable without the utility that created them is no longer welcome in my toolkit.Ĭlassic backup utilities made sense when we were using tape drives. I've had so many bad experiences with supposedly "good" and "verified" backups that I've given up on them for most purposes. All they want to do now is sell you a newer product and/or Tune-Up Utilities! If I can't "unsubscribe" I guess I'll be setting up a Sieve rule to send their junk mail to the spam folder. So I guess that this is now officially "abandonware", since they haven't updated it in 3 years, have not responded to support inquiries in 3 years, and killed off their forum.
#BACKUP DOCKSTAR PRO#
Looks like they still offer Genie BU Manager 8 Pro and Home but no updates have been released since 2009 - the last one I had installed. Their forum is down and has been for a long time now, even though the emails still come from Genie-Soft addresses.
#BACKUP DOCKSTAR PLUS#
Plus that's when I discovered that Genie-Soft is now "Genie9". Now today I received an email pushing "Tune-Up Utilities"! Which is not a Genie product BTW. I received occasional emails from Genie-Soft pushing Timeline maybe every month or three. Most GBM Pro users refused to switch because Timeline didn't offer much configurability most settings were pre-configured and not changeable. In August 2009 I found out why nothing was going on with Genie BU Manager: They had apparently been working on a new product, Genie Timeline. I finally had to stop using Genie because of the problems. Then they just stopped replying, in the forum and to support inquiries. For a while they kept stating that this would all be fixed with Genie BU Manager 9 but the ETA for that slipped out over a year. Then I started finding errors after one of their updates and I checked their forum and found that a number of users were reporting the same things there, but Genie wasn’t saying much. I used Genie Backup Manager Pro 8 for a few years.
And to think, I never even received any notification about the name or website address changes! (Their junk email still comes from the domain). I found the Genie-Soft site abandoned except for their now defunct forums, and a new site called. Anyway I found out about the name chage when I received some spam from them today and tried to go change/cancel my subscription with them - the one that once sent me info about Genie Backup Manager Pro releases. Not sure why since they don’t offer any products with that name. Genie-Soft, the developers of Genie Backup Manager, have apparently abandoned that program and have changed their name to "Genie9".
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