Handy Backup Review
The worst thing can happen is to loose all you the pictures you made in the last 2 years or all the customer information you gathered in the last 5 days. These kind of scenarios can happen to anyone and unless you create a duplicate of your data (a backup) you cannot recover it. There are many ways in which data can be accidentally destroyed:
- Hardware failure
- Software failure
- Accidents (fire, water, earth quake)
- Theft
Handy Backup from Novosoft is a solution that can help in this unfortunate situations (if is used prior to those events :) ). Unlike most other backup software out there, Handy Backup doesn’t treat your data like faceless chunks of memory. It features a complete, extensible plug-in-based system and a variety of plug-ins designed to back up settings, playlists, tweaks and preferences. New plugins care be created with basic XML knowledge.
As expected, Handy Backup can:
- Create backup, restore and synchronization tasks
- Schedule tasks (hourly, daily, monthly)
- Backup of different supports (depending on the version you have): Local Disk, FTP, SFTP, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, Online Account
- Create full or incremental backup with or without compression and encryption
IT-experts can take advantage of extended feature set including disk image backup and database backup. There are several plug-ins that can handle backup and restore of most popular DBMS including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle database, IBM DB2 Data Server, Lotus Domino/Notes environment, and a common Database Backup plug-in that can be used for any ODBC-compatible databases. Also, there is a plug-in for backing up Microsoft Exchange Server stores.
The interface is minimalistic and the application uses ~9 MB of RAM memory. Some might say that the interface is too old-style but I find it pleasant and it is really easy to access any function. However there are some language problems in the GUI – the English is not always correct.
You can see the difference between HandyBackup versions on the official website or you can download a full-featured 30-days trial by clicking the following link download Handy Backup.
| Pros | Cons |
| Slim interface | Not 100% correct English |
| Plugins | Sometime the CPU usage goes to 100% with no reason |
| Support for database backup | No support for stack backups/versioning – maybe in a future version? |
| Final grade: 9/10 | |
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Oct 26th, 2009