Review on Handy Backup, a great piece of software!
I work in a game-developing company which doesn’t consist of the most organized people in the world :) Sometimes we have up to ten people (or even more) working on one code and because of this a lot of different file versions appear. To combine the result from many parts, you have to search through all of them and copy certain blocks of text or multimedia. This is quite a troublesome task, since you can easily miss a piece of code or a picture. And a situation when somebody decides to sum up the results and accidentally deletes data that was meant for the final version is quite probable.
We have been using Handy Backup for awhile now, and can say that it’s a very fine product. It has numerous pluses and very small number of minuses. I'm a professional, and I've been using different backup software for more than ten years. I did a long search to find a tool to replace our company’s former backup software (which stopped being improved and supported by its developers) and decided to switch to Handy Backup. Handy Backup is very stable, easy to set up and works better than any other utility I've tried. It is resource friendly: we’ve set it to run as Windows service, and it stays absolutely unnoticed without slowing down our systems at all.
It really shines when backing up to a remote ftp server and supports data compression and encryption. There is only one thing that I found insufficiently considered in this program. It can do image-based backup (physical copying of hard disk’s data sector by sector), that works quite well and successfully backs up everything, but boot records. So if you want to clone your hard drive for some reason, you will need further configuration for your destination hard drive to make it bootable. But since this is not something we do every week, Handy Backup perfectly suits all our needs.
Unlike many applications that perform complex operations, Handy Backup can be set up very easily, requiring no prior studying of help files. It is very user friendly, and has no set time limit for support: once you’ve registered, you can e-mail their techs with whatever question, and they won’t demand any kind of subscription. Overall, Handy Backup has a great balance between functionality, convenience and price.
Author: Andrew on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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