With up to 16.5GB of storage on each low cost, high capacity 60 minute MiniDV (or Video8/Hi8) tape, a single one hour tape can store over than three times more data than a 4.7GB DVD-R disc.

Coolatoola has updated DV Backup, their $50 Mac OS X backup software that relies a digital camcorder as the recording device. The product was recently reviewed by Imaging Resource.

DV Backup 1.3 (Standard Edition) supports these features:

� Backup, restore, verify with up to 10.9GB (SP) and 16.5GB (LP) capacity per hour of tape
� Hard drive store to keep regularly-accessed backups conveniently available
� Capability to seemlessly span backups over an unlimited number of multiple tapes
� Ability to perform selective backups and restores (with "Direct Access" for restoring)
� Ability to group regularly-used file/folder collections into named sets for convenience
� Option of incremental and compressed backups
� Full table-of-contents listing for each tape including user comments
� Unattended scheduled backups feature
� Fully automatic control of the camera including all tape positioning
� User-configurable buffer size with underrun and overrun prevention
� 8 levels of error protection/recovery, from none through to full duplication
� File/folder archive during backup, de-archive during restore
� PAL, NTSC and SECAM MiniDV, Digital8 and DVCAM devices supported
� Drag-and-drop functionality

For more information or to download the demo, visit http://coolatoola.com.