Handy Backup is an easy-to-use yet powerful backup program designed for Windows 9x/NT/2000/Me/XP. It makes an automatic backup of your critical data virtually to any type of storage media: hard or network drive, CD-R/W, FTP or LAN. Special plugins are provided to facilitate the backup of ICQ and MS Outlook data. Strong file encryption and multichoice zip compression on the fly as well as many other useful features will protect your valuable data. All backup activities are notified into a log file. Detailed online help is available.

Handy Backup Features:

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1. Support for different types of backup storage

Handy Backup 3.9 is designed to work with just about any type of storage media, including:

• CD-R/CD-RW media;
• remote FTP servers;
• local network drives;
• ZIP, JAZ, MO;
• HDD and floppy disks.

2. Integrated ZIP compression

You can either copy files to their destination as-is or employ built-in multi-choice ZIP compression to minimize your time online and storage space used.

3. 128 bit encryption

Offer 128-bit encryption support, which is now the highest level of protection used in Internet communications. Secure your data and do not worry about unauthorized access any more.

4. Flexible and powerful scheduler

A versatile scheduler makes it easy to define the backup plan and run backup and recovery tasks automatically from hourly to monthly basis. At any time you can do your backup manually or modify backup schedule to fit your needs. Option to run backup process on log on/log off is provided.

5. Flexible file and folder selection criteria

An intuitive and powerful wildcards and inclusion/exclusion rules to fine-tune your backup items. Now you can easily compose each backup item by adding as many folders and individual files as you need.

6. Activity log in RTF format

All backup activities are recorded in a log file available in RTF format. In version 3.7 the FTP connection log has been added allowing the user to monitor connection to the remote FTP server.

7. Multi-threaded transfer engine

Optimized for blazing performance, Handy Backup multi-threaded transfer engine executes backups in the background with minimum system resource consumption.

8. Activity log in RTF format

You'll find Handy Backup 3.9 extremely easy-to-use due to its simple Explorer-like user interface. Smart Setup Wizard and online help will guide you through all steps of creating and managing backup items.

9. Other features

• Backup with timestamps and versions;
• Drag & drop interface;
• Option to remove old files from the destination folder;
• An ability to create a new folder at a remote FTP server;
• Options to set any other program run before/after running your backup Item;
• E-mail notification about operation results;
• Restore of selected files only;
• Possibility to perform full and incremental backup/restore;
• Uninstall option.