Handy Backup 6.2.5

Handy Backup 6.2.5 is an easy-to-use backup software designed for automated backup of your computer. Handy Backup can perform full and incremental backup, synchronize files and folders; has presets to backup Outlook (including Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail), ICQ, E-mail, Windows registry, My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, as well as data and settings of other popular applications. Supports the widest range of storage media and can backup to CD-R/-RW, USB, Flash, FireWire, FTP, LAN, Hard Drive and Online.

In addition to the core functionality, Handy Backup can be supplemented with advanced plug-ins which include: 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 data, MS SQL Server database, IBMs DB2 data server, ODBC-compatible databases (such as MySQL) and Lotus Notes/Domino data. A special Disk Image function allows creating complete hard disk image backup - backup of an entire PC data through creation of a drive image (snapshot).

The program has multiple backup options, such as on-the-fly ZIP64 compression, 128-bit blowfish encryption, running other programs before and after task execution, storing backups with timestamps, and other. Comprehensible Wizard-based user interface provides easy step-by-step adjustment of backup tasks.

Handy Backup is very flexible in scheduling and administering: it can run as Windows service, supports command line interface, e-mail notification and logs generation. All users are entitled to free unlimited support via e-mail, phone or Skype. The software is proven to have superior performance and proudly carries the "Certified for Windows Vista" logo which guarantees that it satisfies all requirements of availability, reliability, security, and supportability.

Major Features:

1. Support for different types of backup storage: Handy Backup is designed to work with just about any type of storage media, including:
   • CD-R/RW and DVD media;
   • remote FTP servers;
   • local network drives;
   • ZIP, JAZ, MO;
   • HDD and floppy disks.
2. Integrated ZIP compression: You can either copy files to their destination as-is or employ built-in multi-choice ZIP compression to minimize your time online and storage space used.
3. 128 bit encryption: Secure your data and do not worry about unauthorized access any more.
4. Flexible and powerful scheduler: A versatile scheduler makes it easy to define the backup plan and run backup and recovery tasks automatically from hourly to monthly basis. At any time you can do your backup manually or modify backup schedule to fit your needs. Option to run backup process on log on/log off is provided.
5. Flexible file and folder selection criteria: An intuitive and powerful wildcards and inclusion/exclusion rules to fine-tune your backup items. Now you can easily compose each backup item by adding as many folders and individual files as you need.
6. Activity log in RTF format: All backup activities are recorded in a log file available in RTF format. In version 3.7 the FTP connection log has been added allowing the user to monitor connection to the remote FTP server.
7. Multi-threaded transfer engine: Optimized for blazing performance, Handy Backup multi-threaded transfer engine executes backups in the background with minimum system resource consumption.
8. Intuitive Explorer style user interface: You'll find Handy Backup extremely easy-to-use due to its simple Explorer-like user interface. Smart Setup Wizard and online help will guide you through all steps of creating and managing backup items.
9. Other features:
   • Backup with timestamps and versions;
   • Drag & drop interface;
   • Option to remove old files from the destination folder;
   • An ability to create a new folder at a remote FTP server;
   • Options to set any other program run before/after running your backup Item;
   • E-mail notification about operation results;
   • Restore of selected files only;
   • Possibility to perform full and incremental backup/restore;
   • Uninstall option.

Requirements: 20MB of free disk space