Product Overview

Handy Backup is the best-in-class, award winning data protection solution for individuals as well as corporate users, providing easy, comprehensive and cost effective backup and recovery of critical data.

Ease of use

An intuitive, user-friendly interface simplifies data protection and recovery procedures for users of all levels. In addition, Handy Backup contains an excellent task-oriented help system. Help files offer clear, step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting tips. The language is easy to understand and the help information is well organized so the answers can be found fast.

Universality

Handy Backup is designed to backup all types of data, which are searched automatically, never asking you to point out the data location. The user has to do as little as to specify the data to be backed up and the program will do the rest.

The application works with most types of storage devices including external or internal hard drives, removable media, CD/DVD disks, as well as local networks and remote servers, which allows users to retrieve their data anytime anywhere.

Backup tasks can be scheduled and run automatically on both one-off and regular basis. To fit users' needs the schedule can be easily modified. The program keeps users informed via e-mail as to how the backup process is going and if it is complete yet.

Supplementary data handling tools

The use of Zip compression allows to considerably reduce both storage space and online time while running a backup to a remote server. The user can modify both the type of compression parameters and the level of compression.

To protect data from unauthorized access, strong 128-bit blowfish encryption algorithm is used. This is one of the most advanced Internet backup encryption methods. Files, encrypted with Handy Backup, will never be decrypted without a unique password and Handy Backup.

To keep files and folders, included into a backup copy, identical to their sources, Handy Backup provides a synchronization feature. Synchronization can be performed between all known storage devices, remote servers, within LANs etc.

Online backup

To solve the problem of personal online storage space, users can take advantage of Handy Backup Online Service. This service allows archiving files of any format to the Internet servers, located in a secured shelter fully protected against natural and technological disasters, as well as against any unforeseen events.

Enriched functionality

Additional upgrades considerably enlarge the functionality of the program. The Backup to DVD feature allows saving large amounts of data to a single disk; Secure FTP (SFTP) support ensures full protection of backed up data while transferring them; Windows service mode provides the opportunity to completely automate backup operations and run them without any human intervention. All the upgrades are available to the owners of the base version on the product website: http://www.handybackup.net.

Multilanguage support

Starting with version 5.4 Handy Backup supports not only English but other languages. In the future the number of languages provided by default will be increased. In addition, users are encouraged to create their own language interfaces. This was made possible due to the appearance of the new language configuration system that now relies on xml-files including all texts displayed in the program. These files are easy to modify, so computer users of all levels could make particular translations of Handy Backup using Notepad or any other text editor. To learn how to translate Handy Backup, see How to create different language versions of Handy Backup.

Always up-to-date

Novosoft developers constantly work on improving Handy Backup software to make it an ideal tool for trouble-free backups. We always take into consideration users' recommendations to find out if any improvements and modifications are needed.

Watch the product website at http://www.handybackup.net for updates!