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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $39.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7
- Date added: January 25, 2010
- Total Downloads: 30,994
- Downloads last week: 21
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 18 votes
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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 designed for Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 or 2008/2003/2000 Server operating systems. The program features full, incremental and differential backup and can store your data to FTP, HDD (including any local and external drives), CD/DVD, LAN and Online. Options include data compression, encryption, scheduling and much more. Handy Backup has free presets for one-click selection of Outlook (including Outlook Express and Windows Mail), Windows Registry, My Documents, Desktop, emails and other data. In addition to the core functionality, Handy Backup can be supplemented with advanced paid plug-ins: backing up to secure SFTP servers, disk imaging, hot backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle databases, ODBC-compatible databases (such as MySQL), Lotus Notes/Domino data and DB2 data servers. The program has a variety of control and administration features and supports data verification, e-mail notifications, command line interface and much more. Handy Backup carries multiple logos and certifications validating its end-to-end compatibility with Microsoft technologies, IBM DB2, IBM Lotus, Oracle RDBMS and other software including "Compatible with Windows 7", "Certified for Windows Vista", "Ready for IBM Lotus", etc.
What's new in this version:
Version 6.5 supports differential backup, where the program performs binary comparison of current data with existing backups and saves only changes, on byte level.
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