Synchro Backup Professional for Windows

This software is one of the more clear-cut backup tools we've seen, but it fails to offer some fairly routine features. Synchro Backup Professional's simple interface helps users quickly browse files, folders, or drives to create backups. Users can easily schedule backup jobs at almost any interval. Impressively, this utility even backs up files that are in use. It also runs well as a service to allow backups when users are logged off.

For quick backups, this utility makes it a snap to create desktop shortcuts to backup scripts. It quickly stores backups on local drives, but can't save files to CD or through FTP. Synchro Backup Professional creates logs and sends results via e-mail, however it failed to deliver logs during our tests. Unlike some similar programs, Synchro Backup Professional doesn't offer backup file compression or encryption. All things considered, Synchro Backup Professional is a viable backup program for novices and casual users, but falls short as a tool for power users.