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Review: Backup Platinum



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Backup PlatinumWhen you’re looking for a good backup program, you want a lot of features, options, and you want it to be easy to use. Backup Platinum is a backup utility that lets you save an exact copy of your critical data to your hard drive, USB drive, CD-R/W or DVD±R/RW media, FTP server, or LAN(Local Area Network). If needed, you can even synchronize your data with a remote FTP site and transfer files in both directions.

Backup Platinum will let you compress your files separately, or compress your data into a single zip file. If you’re storing your backup to DVD, the program will automatically split large files to make sure your data fits. If you feel the need to protect your data you can encrypt your files with 128 bit Blowfish encryption included in the program.

Backup Platinum Screenshot

The program makes use of “wizards” which makes the whole process easier. As soon as you launch the program, a wizard will ask you if you’re going to be performing a backup or synchronization. It then takes you step by step through the backup process. This should prove extremely useful to people who are looking to backup their data without having to go through the tedious process of learning the application.

You can schedule your backups to run whenever you want. You can even set different times for different files and folders. If you want to have backups that occur regularly, all you have to do is to set the operation to repeat everyday or every week. You can even set the application to run as a service on Win NT/2000/XP systems so that it’s independent from the currently logged-in user.

Conclusion
Backup Platinum is a powerful yet easy to use backup utility that will protect your important data in a fast and efficient way. If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download the fully funtional trial version that’s good for 30 days.

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2 Responses to “Review: Backup Platinum

  • 1
    Alex
    August 28th, 2007 15:25

    Hi,

    I’m a control freak personally, I rarely use those software type of backups because I don’t trust them very much.
    Besides, I’m the kind of guy that knows exactly where all my files are, and I havea standard procedure to backup to dvd manually everything I want.
    Tips on successful file management :
    1. Put all your work/business related files into “My Documents”. Do not scatter them outside. Same applies to music, videos, photos - keep them where they should be.
    2. Keep a note that software settings (such as Illustrator pallette, or filetype settings that are customized for you) can be transferred via the Windows Files and Settings Transfer wizard. Use that and save just all application settings.
    3. As for Outlook, you can simply copy the entire Microsoft Outlook data file, which contains all your mail account, calendar, contact, memo, task related infos as well as all emails/attachments. No need to export/import anything, just copy the whole damn datafile. Outlook.pst is the usual name, and if you have lots of data you may see archive.pst as well.

  • 2
    Brown Baron
    August 28th, 2007 19:26

    @Alex:
    Those are pretty good tips, thanks!


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