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Backup programs

2009-08-04T04:20:00.000-07:00

Backup programs are necessary for everyone. It saves all data for business men, it helps to simple home user to protect his/her precious photos or e-mails. There are so many types of backup programs: it could use local or remote backup. It could include CD, DVD, HDD, USB storage media or backup your data via FTP/SFTP protocols.

Backup to FTP and Synchronization

2009-06-29T22:33:00.000-07:00

Backup to FTP can be very useful when you are going to synchronize and backup your important information to remote server or computer. Data is the most valuable and the most delicate of all business assets. The consequence of choosing appropriate software for backup to FTP couldn’t be overestimated.

Backup to FTP software provided widely in the market and almost every program includes backup to FTP solution of different types and feature sets. An excellent example is Stellar InstaBackup a handy program for data protection and backup. This backup software runs both on single machine and in networking environment and able to make full and incremental backup, compress and encrypt reserve copies.

Backup software also enhanced with built in scheduler for task management automation and to perform backup daily, weekly, monthly or at certain period of time user selected. Key feature of Stellar InstaBackup functionality, except an ability to keep backup files on local and removable drives, is to perform online backup to FTP server or computer.

Backup software offers common features to backup comfortably. To include only file types you really want to program offers file filter. Also feature set includes confirmation emails after backup finish and many other useful features.

Backup to Zip with nnBackup

2009-04-30T00:29:00.000-07:00

nnBackup is a small and convenient utility featuring backup to zip and also capable of synching files and folders. nnBackup offers backup to zip either by means of zip or gz algorithms. nnBackup users also have this option to start a specified program after or before the actual backup begins.

nnBackup has other useful options besides the easy backup to zip feature that allow users to remove obsolete files and folders from the backup archives. nnBackup provides full support of the next backup techniques: simple copying of folders and files, backing up the data to a specified stack of folders or zip files, incremental backup (with only modified files and folders being backed up), synchronization (common one-directional and mirror synch).

The strongest nnBackup advantages are: full customizability, small memory footprint, the quickest performance on the market possible, filename masks to include or exclude certain files and folders from the backup, support for file time stamps, complete control over file size, customizable processing of deleted files and empty folders, customizable processing of errors during backup, startup parameters predefined in a text file, full logs of all backups. nnBackup can be launched from the command line or from any external.

In a word, backup to zip feature offered by nnBackup is the most acceptable and easiest way to back up data, because when you backing up data to zip, all backed up info can be easily retrieved on any computer.

HDD Backup Made Easy with East-Tec Backup

2009-03-30T03:50:00.000-07:00

It is still very common among average PC users to perform backup to HD. First of all backup to harddrive provides users with very impressive data amounts as some of the hard drives reach 1 Tb capacity and are available for considerably low price. Another advantage of backup to hdd lies in the fact that it is possible to easily organize offsite data storing with an external hard drive. All it takes is burning a backup to HD and then moving it to a secure remote location, like a bank safe.

One feature that makes East-Tec Backup stand out among all other available solutions is the great deal of attention it pays to backup to HD options. The utility allows users to backup absolutely all info on their hard drive differently. All backup routine in East-Tec Backup is handled in form of backup, restore or synch tasks. Apart from assigning a name to tasks users can also leave a detailed description for every task. This simplifies restoring of data since they know exactly what data every particular task concerns. In addition, it is also possible to organize tasks into groups.

East-Tec Backup covers almost all necessary for an average PC user functionality for successful backups. Just like only few best selling backup titles East-Tec Backup supports backup of application specific data. East-Tec automatically distributes all applications installed on the PC whose info it can backup into categories like media or text editors, so that users are always aware what sort of info they’re about to back up.

To sum it up users receive in East-Tec Backup a reliable backup utility perfectly suited for personal HDD backups.

Backup to HD with TK8 Backup

2009-02-27T03:20:00.000-08:00

This article will review another product supporting backup to HD – TK8 Backup by TK8 Software. There are two versions of this product: Standard and Professional, but both support backup to hard drive.

So, as any other backup utility the program supports automated backup of files and folders with or without sub-folders. Moreover, it supports backup of Windows Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and, of course, backup of Internet Explorer. All of this can be done with the use of backup to HD method.

Backup to hard disk can be performed as full, incremental and differential backup, but differential backup isn’t supported in the Standard version of TK8 Backup. Both versions support ZIP compression, but only Professional version supports encryption of backup copies. Most of the advanced features like working as a Windows Service, CPU priority management, file inclusion and exclusion filters by size and date, email notifications and some task manager options are also provided in Professional version only.

The interface of Standard and Professional versions is the same, quite easy to use. As in many other backup to hdd programs it is based on creation of backup tasks. All things considered, we liked the program TK8 Backup, which can be considered as a primary backup solution for backup to HD. Perhaps, there are too many limitations in Standard version, but if you don’t need these features or ready to pay extra $20 for Professional, the program will fulfill the most of your backup requirements.

Backup to DVD - AnyLive

2009-02-27T03:16:00.000-08:00

AnyLive is a program designed by Eisoo, which can operate as a backup to DVD utility. Information security and backup is the main specialization of the developer. The program offers a user-friendly interface that can be very intuitively and pleasantly used by all categories of users. It’s based on creating backup and restores tasks, which is done with the help of task creation wizard. While creating a backup tasks, a user needs to specify the source of backup (with a possibility to automatically find system data, mails and IM chats) and where to write backup data (backup to DVD can be chosen as a backup destination). There are possibilities to create a backup plan and use task confirmation. You can perform complete and incremental backups with or without compression and encryption. AnyLive can restore the system’s condition to the last point of time (restores the latest versions of all backup tasks) or it can restore specified files and folders from any point of time in the past.

There are two ways to back up to DVD: the first was mentioned before (with the use of task creation wizard) and the second is to use integrated CD/DVD burning tool, but in the second case there will only be an option to directly back up files to DVD with no automatic backup source search offered.

All things considered, Eisoo Software Inc. offers efficient and pleasant backup to DVD solution. Paying $49.95 for a single license of AnyLive may be considered too high, but it’s a good value for money for a wide audience of users.

Backup4Sure Standard - review

2008-12-01T23:13:00.000-08:00

In this article we will review the backup utility called Backup4Sure, which was developed by EtalonSoft in 2002. The main program advantages are easy-to-use interface and the presence of basic backup features. In this article we will review Backup4Sure Standard and stop on backup to CD and CDRW in particular. The program also has a Lite version, but it doesn’t support the discussed features. The other differences is support of backup to ISO image file and exclude filters – these options are also supported only by the Standard edition.

The program offers two main backup methods: backup to local and network folders and backup to CD. We would recommend using backup to CD as storing the backup data on the external storage media guarantees greater safety level then storing inside your computer. If you backup data to CD and your hard drive crashes you will still save your information, but it will be lost if its stored inside. Backup4Sure can perform your backups automatically if you set up a schedule. The other features include folders synchronization, compression of backup data, spanning disks for backup to CD and checksum error detection. However, there is no automatic backup of widespread programs like Microsoft Outlook, ICQ and Internet Explorer. There is also no availability to automatically protect your backup copy with encryption algorithms.

All things considered, the Backup4Sure Standard can satisfy your requirements if you need small and easy backup utility with backup to CD available. We were disappointed with the lack of functionality and can conclude that Backup4Sure Standard is not the most cost-effective backup solution.