Necessary, but still a pain. I had seen it in other magazines, and heard it once highly recommended by a former business associate. Besides, they offer a 60 day risk-free guarantee. He asked what my kernel version was, if I was running Slackware and had pkgtool , if I wanted the pkgtool version or the tar version, and what disk size I needed. The package comes on a single 1.44MB floppy with a nicely done spiral-bound manual, plus an addendum sheet outlining the install process for Linux.
Installation using pkgtool is quick and painless.
The file is well commented, and the process is outlined in detail in the manual. I did this, defining my Tandberg 3600 drive. The use of this file is optional. I suppose the best way to test a backup product is to backup a system, and then wipe it clean. This is not what I intended to do, but it is effectively what I ended up doing.