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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 27, 2008
- Total Downloads: 220,104
- Downloads last week: 449
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 15 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 22, 2009
This free backup program lets you create and schedule backups using WinRAR. We were unable to get its promised drag-and-drop functionality to work, but it still proved to be a worthy backup program.
BackUp for WinRAR's main user interface is pretty self-explanatory, although we had to hover our mouse over a few of the toolbar commands buttons to learn their function. The program already includes a preset for backing up your registry. But creating a new preset task was not as intuitive as the rest of the program and required a visit to the Help menu. All of our questions were answered, though, so we weren't put off by this. Soon, we were off to name our preset, and select programs to run before and after the backup. The program lets you choose from three archive formats, including RAR, ZIP, and EXE. It also lets you choose the compression method, although the selections were a bit vague and ranged from Best and Fastest to Store. We also were given the option of password-protecting our backup file, which we took advantage of during the test. All was well, until we got to the File List feature, which let us add and exclude files for the backup. The program boasts its drag-and-drop functionality for adding files, but we were unable to do so. However, we were able to add our files using the Browser option.
Once we clicked OK, the program created our new preset and backed up our files according to the schedule we had created. Novice users will need to spend some time with the Help file, but the program's reliable backup performance is certainly worth the time and effort.
Publisher's description
From Acritum Software :One-click BackUp is easy-to-use file backup manager for WinRAR. The main features are: complete automation, high compression ratio, 3 archive formats (rar,zip,exe), AES 128-bit encryption, remote control from Internet or local network, dialup, error notification to the admin's e-mail, startup service, command line support, customizable appearance (skins) and, of course, and hdd/floppy/usb/cd-dvd/lan/ftp/smtp support.
Version 2.2 has many updates plus new language files.
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Version 2.2 has many updates plus new language files.
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Version: BackUp for WinRAR 2.2
"Easy to use but slightly corfusing."
Pros: Very versatile and configurable.
Cons: Too many options and the user interface could use some work.
Summary: It does what is says it will do but there are much easier programs to use that do the same thing.
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Version: BackUp for WinRAR 2.2
"Hokiest and least user-friendly software I've ever used"
Pros: I can uninstall it.
Cons: You know something's wrong when you double-click to open the program and get this message: "searching for WinRAR.exe...it may take some time, you know." It finally found it 5 mins. later and opened. You have to use Notepad to make it work.
Summary: The interface is the least user-friendly and intuitive I've ever worked with. You have to be a programmer to understand it.
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Version: BackUp for WinRAR 2.2
"Fairly easy to use and can create shortcuts"
Pros: Fairly easy to use application, lots of options for more advanced users, and it lets you create shortcuts for frequent archive/backup jobs.
Cons: The number of options might be somewhat confusing to "basic" users.
Summary: A very nice little program for automating WinRaR archive/backup jobs - particularly since it's free.
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