Handy Backup is a complete automatic backup solution for your operating system. Can perform full, incremental and differential backup, synchronize folders locally or via LAN or FTP.

It has presets to backup Outlook (including Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail), instant messengers data, 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, DVD, Blu-ray, HD DVD, USB, Flash, FireWire, FTP, SFTP, LAN network, 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 SFTP servers, hot backup and recovery of Microsoft Exchange Server data, MS SQL Server database backup, IBM's DB2 data server backup, Oracle database backup, as well as backing up 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 including on-the-fly ZIP64 compression, 128-bit blowfish encryption, running other programs before and after task execution, back up with timestamps, and other.

Comprehensible Wizard-based 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 logging.

Here are some key features of "Handy Backup":

· Selective data backup. Back up folders and individual files with file mask filtering (allows to back up only photos, music files, videos, etc.)
· Free plug-ins. There are presets and plug-ins designed to facilitate My Documents backup, Windows registry backup, Outlook backup, etc.
· Variety of supported storage media. Backup to DVD, CD, any local or external HDDs, network drives, remote FTP servers
· Backup options. Enable backup compression, encryption, verification and other options for most convenient and smooth backups
· Flexible backup scheduling. Perform all backup and synchronization tasks on a regular basis by assigning a schedule
· Run backup as Windows service. This option allows performing absolutely inconspicuous backups, not requiring the user to be logged in

Requirements:

· 25MB of free disk space
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The new 6.5 version of Handy Backup (released on January 12, 2010) features differential backup. Differential backup is a technology based on binary comparison of data with existing backup, when each task execution saves only new files and changes on modified files. If you are backing up large amounts of data, such as disk images or databases, you can greatly reduce data storage costs. For enterprises, this feature allows achieving near continuous protection of business data at minimal costs!