Review:
Handy
Backup
Version: 4.0 Build Sept 2nd
2004
Reviewer: Womble
Provided
By: Novosoft
Inc
Review
Date: October
2004
Introduction:
Handy
Backup is a small yet powerful program designed to allow people to automatically
back up their critical data to virtually any type of storage media or even to an
FTP server.
Other
features of this product allow you to synchronise files between two computers on
a network, to do full or incremental backups of individual files or entire
folders. With a number of add-ons
available for this product that will allow you to facilitate the backup of MS
Outlook, system registry and ICQ files, this is a program that will make sure
that you will never lose that valuable data again.
For anyone who has important documents on a computer that you
can't afford to lose but with a tendency not to make the backups when they
should be done, this is a program that will do everything you need it to do and
more. One factor that makes this program stand out against many other products
in this area is the ability to automate backups to different mediums as well as
to FTP servers along with the ability to compress or encrypt backups. All of
these things makes this a top notch
program.
In
Handy Backup's own words:
Handy Backup 4.0 is an easy-to-use program designed for an
automatic backup of your data to any type of storage media including CD-RW
devices and remote FTP servers. Handy Backup is intended for personal and
corporate users in a networking environment or on a single
machine.
Support for
different types of backup storage including FTP, removable media and all types
of LANS
Full CD-RW
support with disc spanning enabling user to divide a large backup set into
parts saved onto several discs
Speed
selection for CD-RW burning
Integrated
ZIP compression
128 bit
encryption support for stored data
Flexible
and powerful scheduler
Multi-threaded transfer engine that executes backups in the
background with minimum system resource
consumption
Backup of
several folders or files at a time
Activity
log in RTF format for each backup item
Option to
run backup on log on/log off
Options to
set any other program to run before/after running a backup
item;
Flexible
file selection and file masks handling
Special
plugins to backup your Outlook, ICQ and registry data (installed
separately)
MD4/MD5
password support for FTP backups
E-mail
notification about operation results
Import/export of all settings and registration
status
Windows XP
compatible user interface
Command
line interface for professional users
Next
we'll take a look at the install proccess...