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Ocster 1-Click Backup is an app that makes backing up your Windows PC into one of the easiest jobs you can imagine. All you have to do to use it is specify what, where and when you want to back up. You...

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Although the give-away is over, I thought I would post this as an information resource for the next time one of Ocster's products is offered.

It was good and spoke well of the company that Mr Duden monitored these posts & answered questions. However, both he and his web site are remiss in not being very forthright on some of the "details" of their products.

First, 1-Click is an All-or-Nothing, one-size-fits-all application. All user control of the app have been removed to the point where it is only useful for small systems operated by minimally literate computer users. User choices are strictly limited to selecting which (logical) disk(s) to backup, the location of the backup images, how often to run the backup and how many backup generations to keep. The choices are recorded into a "plan". Only one allowed. That's it for user control. Since you are limited to a single "plan", any disk(s) not included in that plan will never get backed up. And for each entire disk, no matter how many or how few files have changed, all must be copied to the backup location. It totally ignores the differences in importance and dynamics of a disk's contents. (And it is not all that smart either: As an experiment, it happily tried to backup a 120 GB disk onto an 80 GB disk with only 20 GB of available space. Neither does it have a pause or stop button. Taskmanager kill is your only option.)

1-Click assumes that all data is alike and all should be subject to the same backup schedule. However, in reality, data is not all alike. Some files such as archives, installed executables, dictionaries and localization (language) definitions rarely change and only need to be backed up infrequently - as little as once or twice a year. Other files, such as working documents, email folders, configuration files, browser bookmarks and history, need to be backed up daily or weekly. And everything in between. Vastly different backup schedules for vastly different types of data/files. 1-Click is simply oblivious to those requirements. If your system is small enough or if you either don't know how, or don't care, to differentiate your data backup needs and you don't mind dedicating over half of your online storage capacity to backups, then 1-Click may be useful. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

"Reverse incremental" is touted as a unique and outstanding feature that ensures that the latest backup is always a full backup. It offers advantages in safety, reliability and ease of restoration. It works by always making a full backup and then propagating the differences backwards by removing identical files in the previous backup generation. However, the advantages come at a price which is never mentioned.

Since each backup requires a full backup, even for no or minimal source changes, this can result in huge amounts of unnecessary time and resource consuming disk activity. If you have a 6 TB backup set then every backup has to copy all 6 TBs. After a full backup is complete, the previous (full), backup generation is trimmed to remove identical files. This results in severe disk fragmentation which, in turn, leads to slower disk operation and increased wear and tear on the disk itself due to increased head movement. The tradeoff is not necessarily unreasonable but it is disingenuous to not mention the implications.

"Incremental" brings up the question that I asked before and was never answered: What is the criteria for "changed" files? Size and/or date stamps are not reliable criteria. Many application modify their files without changing their date stamps or size. Contrariwise, it is easy to change date stamps on otherwise identical files. For my test case of of 345 files (backed up in two runs 10 minutes apart and with no changes to any of the files' contents or properties), almost one third of them were deemed changed and were duplicated in the backup sets. That is a huge waste and is untenable.

Another application "feature' highlighted by the vendor is its background mode of operation. However, it seems that no I/O activity and as little as 5% CPU activity, is enough to prevent the program from running. Just sitting there Firefox can use 5-10% and prevent the backup from ever running. A better method would have been to just set 1-Click to run at a low priority. This also begs the question of how good a backup of an OS is if it took an hour to complete - way beyond the capability of Volume Shadow Copy Service to compensate. OS files are changing constantly and can get out of synch all too readily.

Contrary to the implications of Ocster's product comparison chart, Ocster 1-Cick Backup and Ocster Backup Pro are vastly different applications - apples and oranges. Yet the web site feature lists, the comparison chart and Mr Duden himself never mention this. In fact, the comparison chart implies that they are evolutionary cousins.

Although they are both backup apps, they are quite different. 1-Click is basically a disk/partition imaging tool. It is an all-or-nothing operation: Either the entire disk is backed up or none of it. This is only useful for small systems where the user can't be bothered with intelligent backups.

OTOH, Ocster Backup is a true back up tool offering multiple concurrent backup backup scenarios. The user has a complete spectrum of choices: from single files, folders to entire disks - each to its own schedule. IOW, the tool allows you to create multiple backup schedules utilizing a mix of offline and online media, each tailored to the importance and properties of the data to be backed up. If it weren't for its failure to reliably recognize unchanged files and its over sensitivity to execution conditions it would be a near ideal tool.

Update: In scanning through the registry I just discovered a disturbing fact: The Ocster backup products surreptitiously create new hidden, user accounts with administrator privileges on your system. That is a major no, no. Permission to install a program is NOT permission to take over one's computer and install additional user accounts. Especially without informing the user. The arrogance of application programmers to not allow users to choose an install location is bad enough but this is much worse. In my forty years of computer experience I have never seen anything as brazen as this.

There are (at least), two problems with this behavior: One is the obvious disk and registry bloat and clutter. More importantly, it creates the potential for a major security breech. These user accounts were created with administrator privileges. Administrator accounts have full reign of your system without any security protection as well as this creates a path to grant full control to any malware or hacker who gains access to the account. The Ocster background service could be run just as well under the localsystem account without necessitating a new user account.

This begs the question: Why create these accounts? I can think of one legitimate rational but the risks and suspicious installation far outweigh the minor benefit. They are not needed to create or run a service. Nor are they needed or installed by any other backup applications. Are they back doors for Ocster remote control?

Although the Ocster accounts have 15 character passwords, where are the passwords stored and how are they accessed? Are the passwords unique for each installation? Does the installer "call home" with the password? Having a known user account and a known password on a remote system is a wide open front door into that system. Very dangerous. Very suspicious. Very unnecessary.

Complete and forthright explanations are required. It will take a lot for Ocster to regain our trust.

Installation of Ocster 1-Click Back Up 2 [O1C] was a breeze! Changes made on hard disk and registry tracked using Total Uninstall is recorded in a text file re http://sh.st/YMA6

Though the installation showed 131MB disk space was required, O1C took up only 28.7MB installed, 27.5MB having all language folders deleted save the English one, which should be the only one installed since English had been chosen for installation. The folder is over half as much, ie 65MB as Nick the customer service personnel advised. I wonder if it can be further trimmed using UPX without breaking its functionality.

Backing up a Windows 7 Home Basic of 8.5G (trimmed using RT7) used 33.62MB RAM. Back-up completed from 01:14-01:25 hours--amazing--much faster than DiskGenius and DriveImage XML! The folder holding 10 .vmdk back-ups plus others used up 3.9G--over half that of the 8.5G Windows 7 Home Basic installation. DriveImage XML took up only 2.6G! DiskGenius had not been tested on this Windows installation, so no comment on sizes.

I wonder how easy, if at all possible, it would be to edit and extract contents from the back-ups, possible from image files created using Ghost and DiskGenius, not tried using DriveImage XML.

Surely, O1C is worthy of continual usage, particularly if the restoration process is as efficient as the backing up process. I will test it later when time permits.

This is the first time I am commenting on any software offered, as I am most impressed by the time and effort the CEO of Ocster takes to respond to comments/queries, and the ready offer of advice on Ocster.com. I will surely keep on using it since O1C is much less bloated--required much less real estate compared to the free EaseUS ToDo BackUp, Paragon Back Up and Recovery etc. Instered to test? Download them, respectively, from http://sh.st/Y2q3 and http://sh.st/Y2k5 They had been uploaded--fast with ever expanding storage space in TB(free!)--to 360 cloud re http://sh.st/0Atx

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Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. The SERVICE is not hidden, the PROCESS that starts with Windows is specifically coded as hidden. At least on my system. This isn't an issue for many users but some of us prefer to see exactly what's happening on our systems.

as @74 TheArtfulDodger I seem to have missed how or where to get boot medium necessary for recovering Windows partition - I couldn't find anything about it on your homepage. Other backup software I have used offers to create boot medium during install. Thanks in advance.

After reading the comments, I decided to download this to one of my laptops (win7 basic junker I use to play on when bored) Installed really easy, made a full image back up to an external drive. Then to really test it, I completely wiped the C drive and went through the process of restoring it. Every program still works, every picture and music file is there, and I even found some programs on it that I have forgotten about. Was quicker than some other back-ups I've tried, and seems to have also completely restored the registry to the original before wiping. After using it, I'm impressed and also getting this one on the main desktop. Thank you Hauke Duden for your quick and informative replies :) That was the only reason I decided to try this one out. Not very often someone from the company actually takes the time to jump on the forum and answer questions.

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I forgot to mention in my last post:
To all the commenters who have written praise and great feedback: thank you so much for that. It is great to see that our product is appreciated. I hope that you understand that I do not reply to every one of your posts - I focus on those that have questions or are critical. But your encouragement is definitely noticed and the whole team appreciates it!

@Steve Dickson: Sure, you can backup to an external disk. That is the most common setup.

@Alexm: First you need to replace the broken drive of course. Then you can start the computer using our rescue system (no need to install Windows first) and restore your backup to the blank new drive.

@Jill Shep: it is no problem to reboot during a backup. The backup will automatically resume after you reboot - but it will wait 5 minutes before it does (because during the first 5 minutes after booting so many programs start that a backup could slow things down too much.

@Subbrilliant: Please contact our support team: http://www.ocster.com/contact

@Stephen Cohen: you do not need to restore your system with the manufacturer disc. You can directly restore your backup using our rescue system.

Regarding incremental backups: you are right that normal incremental backups can be problematic. If the incremental chain gets too long then the risk gets bigger and bigger. That is why Ocster Backup actually creates REVERSE incremental backups. With these the incremental chain runs backwards, so the most recent backup is always a full backup and does not depend on anything before it. This solves all the problems of normal incremental systems - and it has additional advantages as well. For example, you can simply delete your oldest backups at any time, because nothing depends on them. You can read more about the incremental system here:
http://support-en.ocster.com/support/solutions/articles/118615

@TheArtfulDodger: Ocster Backup can create the image backup in the background while your system is running (that includes also the "C:" drive). That is one of the main design goals of our software. You do not need to boot a separate system for backing up.

I like my computer and screwing around on the internet and I've even learned some of the basics about RAM, memory, processors, etc. However, I am not savvy on the HD space required by a program like this.

Is the required 300mb hard-drive space typical, or is it much less or more than should be expected from a software such as today's GiveAway?

Also, what is the 300MB's of disk space used for? Is it for the software itself or is it for the backups that will be created by today's offer?

I am operating on an Windows 8.1 64 bit machine with 8GB DDR3 SDRAM, AMD QuadCore processor, and a 1TB hard-drive. Currently I have 867.9GB of hard drive memory available.

Thanks in advance for any knowledge you may have to share with me.

This is really great software, so I decided to click the "Like us on Facebook" button which opened my web-browser to: "http://www.ocster.com/ocster-1-click-backup/social/en ". In the top right corner of the web-page, the dropboxes were set to "America" and "English", however the Facebook portion of the website was not in English (everything else was). And there are two different things to "Like", one is the Facebook page and the other is a link to the website.

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