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To install the software put the disk in a CD ROM drive and the software installation will start. </a> <a href="disk_backup/werq">Next, select the language, then the drive type. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/disk_backup/install.gif"><img src="atruereview/disk_backup/installth.gif" alt="Vizo Paragon One Touch Backup " title="Vizo Paragon One Touch Backup " width="350" height="274" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>Once the drive is selected, the GPIO driver / program must be installed. This requires a reboot, which is kind of annoying. Once the computer is rebooted, load up the CD again and then install File Sync. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/disk_backup/install2.gif"><img src="atruereview/disk_backup/install2th.jpg" alt="Vizo Paragon One Touch Backup " title="Vizo Paragon One Touch Backup " width="350" height="254" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p align="left">File Sync is a very basic program. It looks like something that would be found on someone's personal freeware site. On the left is the folder display. Above it is the drive selector. Opening a folder, shows the files contained within, in the window below the folder listing, kind of like a Windows 3.11 setup. On the right side is the back up display. Here are the folders that are listed under the AutoBackUp\Data on the Paragon drive. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/disk_backup/vizo.gif"><img src="atruereview/disk_backup/vizoth.gif" alt="Vizo Paragon One Touch Backup " title="Vizo Paragon One Touch Backup " width="289" height="350" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p align="left">As for menus there really isn't a lot of options. One main option is the set back up time button where the software will backup on a time scheduled. To instantly start a backup, click the Execute Periodic Backup button. There are also some options that show the disk size and usage of the USB drive disk. The Action History menu allows for the history log to be viewed or turned off. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/disk_backup/vizo2.gif"><img src="atruereview/disk_backup/vizo2th.gif" alt="Vizo Paragon One Touch Backup " title="Vizo Paragon One Touch Backup " width="289" height="350" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p align="left">Dragging files or folders from the left folder list to the right side starts the backup process. To begin, the user is prompted for the type of synchronization. The options are to replace current files, synchronize files back and forth, or prompt the user to choose what to do for each file. After the first synchronization, the button on the Paragon external case can be pressed to start the data movement that was originally done through the program. Actually, any folders in the right display will be copied when the button is pressed. </p> <p align="left">Unfortunately, this program functions like it looks. It is very slow. It does a file size calculation for every synchronization on every file. Problem is it takes forever if syching folders with lots of files, like say the Documents & Settings folder or the Windows folder. In fact, I went to bed waiting for it to calculate. The next morning the files had copied, but that is a long backup for just the Documents. The actual file copies don't take very long at all, just the size calculation. The CPU utilization is also very high, 30-65%, while it is running. I tried the backup device on two systems (AMD X2 4200+ with 2GB of RAM and a Pentium 2.4 with 512 MB of RAM), both took forever to copy when a lot of files were involved. One note, CPU was way less around 15% on the AMD X2. </p> <p align="left">The next problem was that the program seemed to freeze up. It actually runs off of the USB drive, so I looked there to diagnose. In the filesync folder there are a couple different versions of file sync, I renamed the filesync.exe to something else. Then I renamed the filesync_XP.exe version to just filesync.exe. I didn't have any issues after that point with freezing, just slow.</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td width="51%"><a href="atruereview/disk_backup/vizo_paragon.php"></a> <a href="disk_backup/">Previous (Description)</a></td> <td width="49%"><div align="right"><a href="atruereview/disk_backup/vizo_paragon3.php"></a> <a href="disk_backup/werq">Next (Performance & Conclusion)</a></div></td> </tr> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id="footer" class="clr"> <div class="rk-1"> <div class="rk-2"> <div id="the-footer"> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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