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Handy Backup 6.1

Tower of Hanoi



Tower of Hanoi is a backup rotation schedule, based on the Tower of Hanoi puzzle. Handy Backup is an easy backup program, but it does not yet support the Tower of Hanoi rotation schedule.

The Tower of Hanoi puzzle created by Edouardo Lucas, a French mathematician, in 1883. The game consists of three pegs with a number of discs placed on one of them. Each disc is of its own size and the smaller discs are placed on the larger ones. The task is to move the discs to another peg moving only one disc at a time and only placing a smaller disc on a larger one.

In the Tower of Hanoi backup rotation schedule every disc is a backup media set, and every move is a day of a backup. In this case, the earlier a backup media set is used, the more often it is used throughout the backup process. Each additional backup set, added to the backup rotation schedule, is used when the previous ones are not used, doubles the backup history by keeping an older version of data when it is not used.

The Tower of Hanoi rotaion schedule allows having a longer backup history, when compared with the Grandfather-father-son rotation schedule.

See also Grandfather-father-son, Backup rotation schedule.


Data to Back Up:

File Backup - back up individual files and folders stored in local, LAN and FTP locations
Email Messages Backup - back up e-mail box directly from your mail server
Image Backup - perform complete hard disk image backup with all data and operating system
Email MS Exchange Backup - back up and restore Microsoft Exchange Server stores
Lotus Notes Backup - back up Lotus Notes without stopping the service
ODBC Database Backup - protect your databases by regular backups

Backup Destination:

Backup to LAN, Local and External Drives - store your backups at any drives visible in Windows Explorer
Backup to FTP - offsite backup to remote FTP server provides maximum reliability
Backup to SFTP - transfer sensitive data to a remote server via secure SFTP protocol
Backup to CD-R/CD-RW - burn your backups to optical disks with multi-drive spanning and verification options
Backup to DVD/HD DVD/Blu-Ray - record important data to DVD disks using the integrated burning tool
Handy Backup Online - store backups at Novosoft Online Backup Service instead of third-party providers