Handy Backup 4.0: Backups Made Easy

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Womble
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Article posted 24 Oct 04 23:40

Introduction


 

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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…


9 Comments

intercept
Posts: 532
Posted on: 10 Jun 03 17:58
Strange, this is an old copy of ClonyXXL, v2.0.1.5 to be exact, been running this for ages? Maybe they forgot too put the new file up for download Greetz The Diplomat:g
Slamchez
Posts: 1
Posted on: 08 Dec 03 02:06
I used to love this program and never had a bad backup with it. However, I havent seen an english version of this program in quite some time, and I dont speak the author's language. Would love to use it again if I could get an english version.
Copy/Write?
Posts: 19
Posted on: 10 Jul 04 09:41
Hi if you google for it in English you get this site, the only mirror that worked for me was N. America 5 :X http://www.gameburnworld.com/dl/protections/dl_clonyxxlv2.0.1.5engger.htm
Copy/Write?
Posts: 19
Posted on: 10 Jul 04 09:48
To Put the English language on (German may be the default), click on Optionen/Tools in the right hand menu (near the bottom), then click in the English flag to choose the English language interface. Any problems email either: burngame@yahoo.com.au or Clony Maker/Programmer (we all praise you!): bxxxxj@web.de This File was downloaded from GameBurnWorld (http://www.gameburnworld.com) Have Fun! *from the read me file you get with the pack*
P00r
Posts: 150
Posted on: 25 Oct 04 03:14
I agree with the review, it's a great proggy for 30$ I tested a lot of other and I love the possibility to save under muti-zip with password, this way you can't loose the whole backup if corruption occur. :g I have bought this program a few week's ago, I am 100% satisfied with it and I recomend it! :B
RedDaemon
Posts: 33
Posted on: 25 Oct 04 07:37
sorry, copyright violation please contact me for more information
[edited by MP|3 on 26.10.2004 18:20]
markan
Posts: 2
Posted on: 25 Oct 04 10:22
sorry, copyright violation please contact me for more information
[edited by MP|3 on 26.10.2004 18:21]
guest
Posts: 15288
Posted on: 09 Jul 07 06:42
www.handybackup.net - software for backup to dvd
guest
Posts: 15288
Posted on: 29 Aug 07 10:27
Yep, I never actually worried about all this backup software, but some time ago I decided to back up my photo archive to DVD. I had a plan to test several backup utilities, and as it came to Handy Backup, I surprisingly found out that there are DIFFERENT Handy Backups in the Net. It took some time for me to figure out that the one I downloaded from handybackup.dotcom (Handy Backup 4.0) seems to be simply one of the earlier versions of HB 5.7 - the one at handybackup.net. Its interface is more complicated and its feature set is noticeably worse than those of Handy Backup 5.7 (by the way, it's available for download at numerous websites created for different languages speakers: handybackup.fr, haendybackup.de, handybackup.ru, etc. - I found this fact quite funny and cute) It can backup to dvd (http://www.handybackup.net/backup-to-dvd.shtml), and what about the other features I especially liked the ability to make online backups. Please mind this mix up, and download the newer version

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