Handy Backup Home Standard - automatic files backup software for Windows

With Handy Backup Home Standard you can easily:

• Back up any files and folders: your music, video, photos, My Documents, as well as messages, contacts, settings of your email client (Outlook, The Bat!) and your web mailbox
• Back up data to any removable disks, network drives, remote servers (FTP, SFTP), etc.
• Back up PC on a regular basis by setting a schedule and making the program perform backups without your intervention

It's so simple you indicate what to back up, where to back up to, when to back up, and Handy Backup will protect your data at once!

Handy Backup Features

1. Full, Incremental, Differential and Mirror Backups. Handy Backup supports all types of backup: full backup (always copies all data), incremental backup (copies changes since the previous run), differential backup (copies changes since Full backup) and mirror backup (syncs two locations). You can choose any type you like, depending on your needs.
2. Backup Scheduler. Flexible scheduling engine allows you to run backups automatically, on a regular basis. You can back up every day, or on particular days of month, each week, or any other custom period. It is also possible to prompt Handy Backup to run the missed schedules.
3. Multiple Options. ZIP backup compression engine allows users to compress backup files before copying them to storage, to save time space. All in all there are 10 levels of compression.
4. Numerous Plug-ins. Handy Backup can back up folders, files, emails, settings, programs, preferences, websites, and much more:

• Backup files, folders and FTP locations
• Back up LAN shares
• Back up Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, The Bat!, Mozilla Thunderbird backup and other messengers, with all e-mails, calendars and address book.
• Email Backup via POP3 protocol allows backing up mail directly from the mail server, which can be used for Yahoo Email backup, Adelphia Email backup, etc.
• Backup of My Documents folder, Favorites and Desktop - explicit presets allow you to protect most frequently accessed data with just one mouse click.
• Special Windows Registry Backup plug-in lets you back up the entire system registry, or select specific keys you need.
• ICQ backup, Yahoo Messenger backup, AOL Instant Messengers backup, Skype backup - there are numerous plug-ins to back up popular applications with all preferences, received and shared files, profiles, skins and other settings
• You can back up Firefox with all settings, bookmarks, history, plug-ins, etc.
• ACDSee backup, Adobe Photoshop backup - a range of plug-ins enable you to back up settings of most popular graphics editors.
• Media player plug-ins: Winamp backup, Windows Media Player backup - allow you to save all settings, visualizations, skins and playlists.
• Plug-ins for popular utilities (Total Commander backup, WinRAR backup, WinZip backup and other).
• You can also backup website by copying its source files to local storage via FTP protocol.

5. Flexible Data Selection You can easily back up photos, videos or music by applying different masks to the backup data. For example you can select to back up only office documents (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf), media files (.avi, .mpeg, .wmv), pictures (.jpg, .giff, .psd), etc.
6. You can exclude temporal, system and other types of files. Some system files and folders are not permitted to be moved or copied, and are accessed only by Windows. You can prompt Handy Backup to exclude such files from the backup set. Open files can be excluded as well.
7. You can save your data to various storage devices:

• Backup to HDD of any type, including local backup drives, USB backup HDDs and other.
• Backup to CD discs with spanning and verification
• You can record backup to DVD discs, as well as Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs without any third party software. The program lets you select speed of recording, automatic erasing, verification, and much more.
• Backup to network to protect important files from accidental deletion
• Backup to FTP servers you can back up to remote FTP locations and work with your files anywhere you go. There is MD4/MD5 password support for FTP backups. Besides, there is an option to create new folders at a remote FTP server.
• Backup to FireWire, Flash and other external drives
• Backup to ZIP, JAZ, MO, floppy disks

8. Handy Backup is integrated with a Remote Backup Service that allows you to back up your most critical data to our online backup server and access them via any web browser at any time from any location.
9. Self-Restorable Backup Sets. You can perform automatic restore of backup data on a flexible schedule. Besides, you can restore backup data to any machine regardless of whether Handy Backup is installed on it or not.
10. Selective Restoration of Data. You can perform selective restoration of a backup. This is much quicker and doesn’t require you to have enough disk space for the entire backup set.
11. Synchronization of Files and Folders. The program allows you to sync data between servers, desktops, notebooks, LANs, ZIP disks, secondary hard disks, etc.
12. Managing open files. There is an option to skip files that are open at the moment of backup to avoid loss of file integrity.
13. E-mail notifications. You can receive notification about operation results, and always have up-to-date information about all tasks and errors.
14. Backup with timestamps allows creating multiple versions of backup files and store them together with dates of creation. So you can purge old backups and restore files to the state they were at a particular point in time.
15. Option to run other programs before/after your tasks you can schedule your task to run before or after a selected program.
16. Option to run backup on log on/log off allows users to launch backup, synchronization and restore tasks after they log on or off so tasks can be executed without user's supervision.
17. Comprehensive step-by-step Wizard takes you through all steps of backup, restore and synchronization tasks creation giving you useful tips upon each aspect of backup, restore and synchronization.
18. Tray agent displays the status of current operation, and allows running your tasks through the right-click.
19. Drag & drop interface for quicker operation through the program interface and in the Windows environment allows you to easily manage data and tasks.
20. Command line interface for professional users allows performing most important actions such as execute task, stop task etc without opening the application.
21. 128-bit Encryption can be applied to all of your backup data to protect them from possible risks during the transfer and storage. The encrypted data can not be intercepted during the transfer and can not be deciphered even by the most notorious hackers.
22. Multi-threaded transfer engine c executes backups in the background with minimum system resource consumption. Thus Handy Backup runs invisibly in the background not disturbing the performance of other programs.
23. Support Auto updates the program regularly checks for updates and notifies you if there are any updates available.
24. All backup activities are recorded in log file - by viewing the log file, your stay informed about all executed tasks and task statuses, as well as errors. In fact, all Handy Backup proceedings are recorded in the log so you always know what caused a particular problem.
25. Run as Windows service - this feature allows you to launch Handy Backup as Windows service and execute scheduled tasks even if no user is logged on.