Allmydata 3.1.2

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• Price: Free to try (1GB limit, single machine backup); $4.99 to buy
• Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Date added: December 14, 2008
• Total Downloads: 1,496
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET staff on April 29, 2009

Instead of backing up to an internal or external device, this program backs up important files and folders to an online storage facility. But thanks to a trial limitation and a painfully long backup process, we were left unimpressed by its performance.

Allmydata requires that you create an account to access your backed up files online. The user interface is plain, but pretty self-explanatory. A tree menu lets you check off the folders you wish to include in the backup process. For our tests, we selected to back up our Documents files. Using the Status tab we were able to watch the status of the backup session. However, a visit to the Activity Log tab revealed that despite waiting a considerable amount of time, the program was unable to successfully back up any of our files, despite them not having reached the program's 1GB trial limitation. The program does include a feature that allows you to schedule daily backups, but we couldn't imagine going through this program's long process of backing up files on a daily basis, especially considering the less than impressive results.

Help is available through the publisher's Web site as an FAQ and a support forum. But we recommend you save yourself the time and trouble, and look for a more efficient and reliable backup program.

Publisher's description

Allmydata provides secure, automated online backup for your files and documents, offering unlimited storage and backup from one machine. It acts as a virtual hard-drive on your system such that dragging and dropping files onto it sets up the backup process. No unencrypted data ever leaves your computer and only you have the passphrase to decrypt it. The system works by encoding files and splitting them into many pieces. The pieces are then redundantly distributed on our network of storage nodes in such a way that only a small percentage of the pieces must be recovered in order to fully restore a file.

Allmydata 3.1 adds a Backup client to choose files and directories to backup along with several Web enhancements including directory sharing and a full-screen video player.

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