When installed, you can create backup jobs for Genie Backup Manager Home. When creating this you can choose anything from a single folder, file type, or even whole drives. The backup process is done in a clear step-by-step way, starting with basic info, where to back up, what, your settings and the schedule.

Jobs you create can be saved and repeated, so the scheduler is really useful. With the full version you can create an online account to have your backups stored safely on secure servers. This way whatever happens to your PC, you files will be safe.

Genie Backup Manager Home is a powerful and quite complex application, but the backup process is well designed, so anyone can use it. The application includes tours and explanations, although simply following the step-by-step backup process is easy enough for new users.

If you're looking for a complete backup solution, Genie Backup Manager Home is a secure and relatively simple application and a good choice.

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The program can save backup copies either locally on an external drive, on a networked drive, online and to CD, DVD or Blu-ray. It also supports backup scheduling and integrity checking, and features a clean up wizard that helps you to get rid of junk files. Other handy features in Langmeier Backup are a tool to calculate disk space and the ability to shut down the computer automatically after backup.

Using Langmeier Backup is piece of cake. The backup setup wizard walks you through the whole process step by step: data to backup, location to save it and type of backup: full or incremental – which only saves changes since the last time you run Langmeier Backup. Files can also be encrypted for an extra layer of security, and zipped to minimize the file size.

We'll never get tired of reminding you how important backup copies are. And now with tools like Langmeier Backup, backing up is faster and easier than ever and laziness is no longer an excuse!

Langmeier Backup is a great tool to cover all backup needs: fast, easy to use and with a few extra features.

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Now you do it with Backup Photo.

The backup process is very easy, as Backup Photo uses a wizard to guide you through the steps. You can choose the folders manually or let the program do it for you, although this usually takes much longer.

On the upside, the program has support for a large variety of picture formats, including PSD and camera RAW files.

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After installation you have to restart your system, and once done, Autosave Essentials will immediately start working. You can interrupt this to set up the program to back up what you want and where. The interface is really user friendly and attractive, ideal for novice users who might worry about doing the wrong thing!

At first, there are three back up configurations ready to go - for music, photos and office documents. You can easily set up more back up profiles, with whatever destinations you like, from an external hard drive or USB key to a network drive or FTP server destinations. Backups can be scheduled periodically or continuously.

This is very much aimed at people with little computer knowledge, and more advanced users may find it a little shallow. After installation on our system, for some reason it deleted our wallpaper in Vista, which is annoying!

As a simple way to keep files backed up and safe, Autosave Essentials fits the bill perfectly.

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TotalRecovery Pro allows you to keep your files securely and regularly backed up (thanks to backup scheduling and the ability to save files to an external FTP), an essential step in protecting yourself in the event of a catastrophic computer virus or breakdown.

TotalRecovery Pro lets you create a CD or USB backups in case of emergency, as well as Windows restore points, so you can restore lost system settings. You can also create a virtual disk image from your physical drive for testing in a virtual machine.

TotalRecovery is compatible with most storage devices, including internal and external disks, USB sticks and SSD devices, Firewire (IEEE 1394), network drives NAS, iSCSI and iPSAN, CDR/RW and DVD + -R/RW, FTP servers.

TotalRecovery Pro - simple, comprehensive backup and restoring.

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VersionBackUp is a program that does just this, creating zipped backups of your information so that you can then save or upload them to an external location for safekeeping. VersionBackUp allows you to create new backups, archive them to other locations, manage existing back-ups, and modify ones you have already defined. All of these actions are managed through the VersionBackUp interface, although it has to be admitted that one of the program's major problems lies here - the translation of the program isn't great and makes things a bit difficult to understand.

Using VersionBackUp is simple. You tell the program what you want to make a backup of and it creates a file which you then transfer to an external location for safekeeping. VersionBackUp has a huge variety of configuration options, although at times you'll need to pay close attention to figure them out. Among the program's features are the ability to schedule backups, force inclusions and exclusions, password-protect, automatically delete old backups and upload to an FTP. VersionBackUp then uses a tool, included in the program, called BackUp Browser to navigate and manage existing backups.

VersionBackUp is extremely detailed and intuitive. Considerable effort has been made to make users' lives as easy as possible, with a backup wizard and multiple little tools that will make it as easy as possible to backup your information, such as automatically splitting large files and retrying if it cannot access data the first time around. The translation is understandable with a bit of effort, but at times it is hard to know if you have actually understood the instructions correctly. If you can overcome this problem, however, VersionBackUp is a great tool for both advanced and novice users.

Translation aside, VersionBackUp is an easy-to-use and efficient backup tool.

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To use CyberLink PowerBackup you only need to follow four simple steps. The first one is obviously selecting the data you want to back up – either folders and files, or application data. Then you need to pick a destination to store that information, including removable media such as DVD and blu-ray discs.

The third step in CyberLink PowerBackup is choosing a backup method from full (which backs up all selected files and folders), differential (which only backs up those files that have been added or modified since the last full backup) and incremental (which backs up files and folders that have been modified since the last incremental backup).

Once you’ve configured all the options you can hit the Back Up Now button to finally start the process, or add it to the Scheduler function in CyberLink PowerBackup so that the copies are done automatically.

CyberLink PowerBackup features other common options in backup software, such as password protection and the ability to ZIP backups so that they take up less space. No other advanced options, though.

CyberLink PowerBackup may not be a very sophisticated backup program, but it’s easy to use and does what it says on the tin.

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