Why I buy this one ?
- Automatically back up and recover everything on your computer.
- Restore from system failures
- The one-step setup wizard helps novice users to configure their systems, so backups can be done automatically and in the background transparently.
- Norton Save & Restore integrates the proven, industry-leading Norton Ghost technologies with a set-and-forget assuring experience.
- Safeguards photo and important files

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What our customer's say!

"Bloatware", I downloaded and tried 10 backup programs today. I am preparing for a rebuild and was looking for a backup program that would do normal backups, differential backups, and scheduled differential backups. XP backup (ntbackup) works well but I had to create a password for my Windows logon so booting up always took two steps. The only reason I installed a Norton program on my hard drive was because I am replacing the drive. Using this program reminded me why I gave up on Norton a few years ago. Why is this program so large? It doesn't really do that much. It does much less than some of the smaller programs I tried. Just the "updater" took several minutes to download and two re-boots. That wasn't an error; it just took that much time and work. I used to see the "updater" screen often when I had my last Norton product and this was not a pleasant reminder. This program is not user friendly and specifying files and folders in not intuitive. This program specializes in file "types" (photos, music, etc.) I am supposed to trust Norton to select which files I am going to back up. Yeah, right. It does not even perform differential backups. Performing a search for "differential" in help yielded no results. StorageSync works well for syncing and non-compressed files but had no scheduling capabilities. Nero seemed difficult to use, and did not spend much time with it because it changes the restored file dates to the restore date. Genie worked well but had no differential and scheduling requires a password. Acronis TrueImage also requires a password for scheduling. Handy Backup got hung up on in-use files and had no differential backup. My favorite is Cyberlink PowerBackup. TurboBackup was my second favorite. It had some extra features but PowerBackup did everything I needed and was just a little more user friendly.

"Much better than Ghost!", I have been using this product for about six months on three high performance desktops. The good news is that if you have a standard desktop from a major manufacturer or you backup to another disk on your computer, this product will backup and recover with minimum effort. However, if you backup over a network and don't have a widely supported network adapter, things can get tough. RAID support is also iffy.

I have tested the restore on all three systems and the results were great on two systems, with fast, full recoveries on empty disks. The third couldn't find the network adapter on restore, even though it backed up over it without a problem. I'm hoping a newer version will fix that.

Still compared to the old Norton Ghost, this is a much better product at a better price. It appears that Symantec has integrated the LiveState technology into Ghost as well as this product, so the only real difference is feature sets. I use LiveState on my servers and think it is an excellent product. I bought Save and Restore because LiveState licenses for desktops and laptops were only available in 10 packs, but Save and Restore appears to be the same product licensed individually. After years of frustration using Ghost, I think Symantec finally has bought the technology that they have been promising in Ghost for so long.



"Which? Best Product", The UK Consumer Association, WHICH?, has just given this product their best buy rank.

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"Works well", I had recently purchased a new PC with a 250 GB hard drive and needed a proper backup system. I purchased the Norton S&R along with a WD 250 GB external hard drive. They both meld perfectly with no installation problems or other adverse issues. It is exactly as advertised SAVE AND RESTORE (didn't even need a special backup program)

"A little hard to configure but once you get it, works great", I think they could use a little help explaining how to use their product. At first, I had too many backups created. The trick is to make sure your usb backup drive connected and powered on BEFORE you install this program. Then it comes up and makes a recommendation that is pretty much what you would want. Just adjust the times it runs and save it.
Then if you want to add to it to add other directories on the nightly backup, go in later and add them.
Also, if you have a SATA hard drive be sure to check the drivers. I sent a report to Symantec with my drivers and they sent me back a bootable iso image that works like a charm (and they responded in a couple days which surprised me). Before you trust it completely, make sure you can recover the system. Put a different hard drive in your existing pc and recover. If you dont do this, you are risking something not working. Overall, I was so happy with it I bought 4 copies and put it on my Dad's, my mother in laws, and my wifes computers. It takes WAY to long to come back from a hard drive crash. This was well worth the money.

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"Good for drive backup, bad for files and folders backup", I installed NSR on my new windows XP pro system. After installing all software I backed up my system using NSR and it went smoothly. After that I tried to create backups for select folders which turned out to be a nightmare. It seems you can not include same file in two different backups. Backing up on DVDs is problematic. Error messages are not descriptive. There aren't any options to recover from errors. And whenever I restarted the job, it seemed to me, NSR just assumed that the files were protected by the previous run and finished without doing any work. I have spent a whole day and I haven't been successful to make it work.

"Easy to use and install Backup and Restore Software", After having used this product for several months, I offer these comments;

a. Easy to install, backup and restore files.
b. It tells you via the Status screen when the last successful backup was and advises you via a popup if the current backup job can't run and why (example: Insufficient Disk Space or External Hard Drive is turned off). You can also see this in your log.
c. Restore files is easy.
d. Backing up files is fast.
e. Comes with a Recovery Bootdisk - to be used if your windows system crashes and you need to restore your system.

The only reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5 is that it does not offer a native file backup option nor does it email you alerts when a backup failed.

Note: You should install backup software before you start to have a problem with your hard drive. Why? Backuping a 200GB+ hard drive is a lengthy disk intensive process that may push a failing hard drive to the breaking point.

Tip: If your harddrive is having problems first do a backup of your My documents folder, before creating an image backup of your entire hard drive. That way at least you have your My Documents folder available if the harddrive crashes during the initial image backup.




"S&R is a POS", After installing Norton S&R, I backed up 182GB of data from a 300GB internal C: drive to a 300GB external drive. It went well. I checked the following day and found the auto backup went well, too. Confident that all was well, I ignored it for a few days. When I checked a few days later, I found out that S&R thought my destination drive was full after 3 backups. But, Windows reports it had over 100GB free.

That's not what ticks me off the most, though. What ticks me off the most is that S&R DIDN'T TELL ME that every daily backup failed for over a week. It lulled me into thinking I was backed-up when I wasn't. I think that borders on irresponsible!

I sent an e-mail to "Support" and got none. I don't think the support tech knows what a GB is. What a dunce!

I tried to uninstall and it wouldn't give up the space it claimed on my external drive. I had to reboot in safe mode to reformat the drive.

Not only shouldn't you buy this POS, it should be outlawed!

"A realistic review.", Reading all the extremely negative reviews about Norton's Save and Restore software makes me wonder who is really writing this stuff.
I am not a fan of Symantec's software by any means, i think Norton Antivirus is one of the most bloated and useless products in the software market, but i have to differ with most of the negative reviews about Save and Restore.
For the price i paid for this software (about $10 used) here in Amazon, i was able to backup the entire C drives of my workstation and my PVR computers and save them to an offline hardrive in case of an hardisk failure. The amount of time alone i spent installing the OS and applications on both computers makes the $10 worth many times over.
Also, you can create backups of files and folders in a constant schedule, so if you have two computers connected together on a network you can have them back each other. In case of an emergency, you just boot from the Save and restore CD and either connect through the network or connect the hardrive where your backups are to the computer you are trying to restore, and a few minutes later your computer will be up and running.
The only annoying thing i found, is that Save And Restore installs an application that sits on your taskbar tray and tells you are "unprotected" if you don't have Norton's Antivirus installed. You can get rid of this by running msconfig on Windows XP, and disabling "ccApp" from the computer's startup tab on msconfig.

2007-03-15 UPDATE: I have encountered some serious problems with Norton Save and Restore version 11. First when i tried to do a copy hard drive from one bootable Windows 2003 XP partition to a new hardrive, the imaged hardisk would boot the computer, but it would log you off as soon as you logged into Windows XP. I tried getting rid of this problem using various possible fixes i found on the net, such as booting from a special CD to edit the hardrive's registry, but nothing fixed the problem.
I even tried two different target hardrives but the results were the same, so I ended up creating a bootable CD with Norton Ghost 2003, copied the bootable partition using Ghost 2003, and it worked just fine.
I also tried to restore the partition from a recent Save and Restore hardrive backup, but when i booted from the Norton Save and Restore CD, the program would not mount the hardrive with the backup files, no matter what.
As it is usual with every Symantec piece of software makes, Norton Save and Restore is FLAKY, so buy at your own risk. I would definitely not pay more than $10 for this product.

"If It's A Norton Product, How Bad Can It Be?", The answer is that it's not a bad product. It's a good product that does what it's supposed to do. After reading the other reviews here I was very hesistant to buy S&R, but it was exactly what I was looking for and I have been very happy with all of Norton's other products. My thinking was "Norton has probably sold millions of these, and chances are all the folks who are happy with the product aren't going to take the time to come here and write a review. Only the people who have had problems, which may have had something to do with their computer and little to do with S&R." So I took a chance, bought the product, and it installed and works flawlessly.