Handy Backup Standard 6.3

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET staff on May 29, 2009

Handy Backup Standard offers users an easy, streamlined approach to backing up important files and folders. Novice users will especially appreciate the program's easy navigation.

The program's user interface doesn't waste your time with too many details. A menu and command toolbar resides at the top of the window. Newly created tasks and their details reside in the panels below the toolbar. A wizard walks you through the process of creating a new task. We were able to quickly add the files that we wanted to backup. From there, we were able to choose the backup location, including external devices such as a USB, CD, or DVD. The program comes with both compression and encryption features. Locating the schedule feature took a little time, but once we found it, we were able to customize our backup schedules on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. The Log feature let us save logs of all of our backups for future reference, a small but important detail we appreciated.

Our only complaint with the program is that it installed icons on our Desktop without our permission. Still, novice users will find useful tips for getting started, and the built-in Help feature is sure to answer any questions. All in all, we highly recommend this program for any user interested in reliable file backup.

Publisher's description

From Novosoft :

Handy Backup is a complete, fully extensible data backup solution with the "Certified for Windows Vista" logo. The program features full and incremental backup to FTP, HDD (including all local and external drives), CD, LAN and Online, with compression, encryption and scheduling; has free presets for easy backup of Outlook (including Outlook Express and Windows Mail), Windows Registry, My Documents, Desktop, Email, Mobile Devices and other data. In addition to the core functionality, Handy Backup can be supplemented with advanced paid plug-ins: capability to back up to DVD, Blu-Ray and HD DVD, store backups securely to remote SFTP server; hot backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server database, ODBC-compatible databases (such as MySQL), Lotus Notes/Domino data and DB2 data servers.

A special Disk Image plug-in can be used to create hard disk image backup - copy of an entire PC data through creation of a drive image (snapshot). The program has multiple options, such pre- and post- actions, e-mail notifications, and backup with timestamps.

Version 6.3 is much faster and more resource-friendly and now it can perform backup tasks of 1 million files and more, with moderate PC memory consumption.

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