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Iomega Rev Drives and Disks Rev Up Backups: Page 2 of 3

To measure performance, I ran a set of tests using Iometer 2003.12.16. The results were as promised, with transfer rates of 23 MB per second. The Rev was surprisingly quiet-- in fact, I kept checking the activity light to make sure the drive was still operating.

Iomega includes two apps to secure your data. The first, Norton Ghost 2003, is a custom version of the software that lets you transfer a complete image of your system to Rev media. With this version, you can create a bootable Rev disk. To back up or restore your system, you boot off the Rev drive or from the included CD. You're brought directly into the Ghost application, where you create an image of the hard disk or restore your system by writing the saved image back to your hard disk.

For ongoing user-data backup, Iomega's Automatic Backup Pro is included. Residing in the system tray, the application performs backups according to a user-defined schedule. I configured it to back up the My Documents folder every night at 10. Because the application is always running, it can monitor your files and back them up whenever they're updated, as well as save several revisions of the same file.

After completing the first backup, I deleted several files, then went through the restore procedure. Every step of the process was clear and flawless.

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