Product Overview

Handy Backup Disaster Recovery is a product of Handy Backup™ family that lets you back up and restore data independently of your main operating system. If your computer fails, you can instantly load from a recovery flash drive and restore your data either to the original hard drive, or to a different place.

Bootable Disaster Recovery

The main idea behind Handy Backup Disaster Recovery is to enable users to perform system recovery by loading from a recovery drive and treating their primary HDD as a "cold" external media. The recovery drive includes the following software:

• Knoppix - a free Debian Linux-based operating system
• Java Runtime Environment - a computer environment implementing Java Virtual Machine
• Handy Backup Java - an implementation of Handy Backup in Java
• Handy Backup Web Access - a web-based interface that allows creating and running Handy Backup tasks via a browser
• Mozilla Firefox - a free open source web browser

Technical Support and Updates

All registered users of Handy Backup are entitled to free support by e-mail, phone or Skype. If you experience any problems, or have any questions about our software, please don’t hesitate to ask for assistance or send your feedback at support@handybackup.net.

Handy Backup is constantly updated and improved. To stay informed of the latest updates, please watch the product website at http://www.handybackup.net, or follow Handy Backup on Twitter.

Multiplatform Backup Solution

Handy Backup Disaster Recovery is a branch of Novosoft's Handy Backup Java project, which aims at creating a platform-independent backup solution that can run on all systems supporting the Java software, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris and other.

Extensibility

Designed with extensibility in mind, Handy Backup Disaster Recovery shares all concepts and techniques employed in the original Handy Backup (Windows version).

It has a similar task-based, plug-in-driven architecture, where all backup and restore operations are initiated by creating and running the respective tasks.

The program is compatible with image-based backups created in Windows, but not with tasks (as of the first release in August, 2010).

Licensing Information

You can use Handy Backup Disaster Recovery to back up data of a single PC, i.e. backups won't run on other computers. Restore tasks are available regardless of the system.

For details, please see Registration in the User Manual.