Memeo means business with new backup software

(Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET)

Backing up data is important and should be done often. But remembering and knowing how to do it is a different story.

With this in mind, Memeo--an online digital company that offers a variety of online services such as photo sharing --has released a backup solution for business users that will help keep track of backing up data. Memeo Backup Professional 4.5 is tied to an online console, from which an admin user can remotely view the status of backups of other users. This means that once it's installed on network computers, a single admin can oversee the backup status for the whole business.

The admin user can send the remote user, via e-mail, a license to download or software to install. After that the admin can view the status and then contact the user of a particular computer if something is wrong, or to make sure that the user is backing up data regularly.

Unfortunately, for now, there's not much else the admin user can do. It would be much more helpful if he or she could initiate the backup itself or make the software send a pop-up message to remind the local user to start a backup. Memeo's representatives say that this is along the lines with what the company is working on for future releases of the software.

Other than that, Memeo Backup Professional 4.5 is a standard wizard-driven backup software that offers a variety of backup options, including backing up to an FTP server and to Memeo online storage. Backup to an FTP site offers an option for you to make a personal "online" backup. It also allows for differential backups and backups to local/network folders or removable drives.

Memeo Backup Professional 4.5 works with all versions of Windows 32-bit and 64-bit and is available now for $76 per license, which is rather expensive considering the limited functionality of the online console. However as this online console feature is rather unique and if you are an existing customer of Memeo's online backup service, this software will make a good addition.

If you just want good backup software, I would strongly recommend GFI Backup Home Edition, which, apart from the online console and the tie to Memeo online storage, offers the same options and more, including the ability to back up to an FTP site. Best of all, it is yours for free.

[dwalker59x]

$76 per license for how long, forever? Per day? Per month?

[ngodong]

That includes one year from free support and upgrades, other that yes it's forever. You can use the software strictly offline too.

[kieranmullen]

Cobian Backup backs up to varios locations on or offline However it does not have a network admin interface.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Then again it is free.


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[Dustyn]

Now when you say it works with all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.... you are including XP64 too right?

[DongNgo]

Yes, according to Memeo, it should work with XP64. I've only tried it briefly with Windows XP 32-bit.

[sharmajunior]

Memeo is a piece of crap. I tried a trial version that came with a Buffalo Tech hard drive that i bought and also tried the full version after that. Then i realized how crap it was. Half of the time it would not backup...something it is suppose to do. The other half of the time it couldn't find the folder that it was supposed to back up to, its like it just forgets what it is supposed to do. A bit of alzheimers coming on perhaps.

I mean c'mon....Microsoft's SyncToy V2.0 works better than that besides not having that many features. They should concentrate first on how to make a back up software actually backup stuff and then worry about adding features.

[arjona_jones]

I think the software is pretty good.. I would strongly recommend a Spanish-language marketing check for the product name, though...

[dornquast42]

CrashPlan has a web console that allows complete remote control. Webware has mentioned it before. It's also free for personal use.

[Memeo1]

Many thanks for your review of Memeo Backup Pro, Dong. Backup Pro v.4.5 makes it easier for IT Managers to deploy online and local data backup services with its unique online Management Console. In the future, we plan to add administrator-initiated backups through the Management Console to make it even more simple.

Robert@memeo