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Handy Backup™ is an easy-to-use program designed for an automatic backup of your critical data virtually to any type of storage media including CD-RW devices and remote FTP servers. You can use Handy Backup to make a reserve copy of any valuable data on your system. Special addons are provided to facilitate the backup of MS Outlook, system registry and ICQ files. Restoring is as easy as clicking a button, but you can also use a number of advanced options. The program can be also used to synchronize files between two computers on a network.

Handy Backup is designed for MS Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP. Strong file encryption and multi-choice zip compression on the fly, as well as many other useful features, will protect your valuable data. All backup activities are recorded in a log file. Detailed online help is available.

If you are looking for a simple yet powerful backup solution for your business or for your personal needs in a networking environment or on a single machine, you have just found it. Download the 30-day trial version and see for yourself. You may purchase Handy Backup from our e-commerce provider RegNow.

Handy Backup is priced competitively at only $30 for a single user license. We provide flexible discount program for volume purchase orders. See Order section for more information. If you happen to have a problem or a question, free support is always available.

Scott Swedorski, founder of TUCOWS "This is a far superior product to anything I have seen out there. I could find no faults with it and I enjoyed using it quite a bit. I am actually going to consider using this application now for some of my own personal needs. Your Website is very well laid out and you provide an exhaustive amount of information for the user to read. Definitely a good value for the price."

All registered users of version 3.x can upgrade to 4.0 free of charge.

Data Backup

Handy Backup 4.0 is an easy-to-use program designed for an automatic backup of your data to any type of storage media including CD-RW devices and remote FTP servers. Handy Backup is intended for personal and corporate users in a networking environment or on a single machine.

Features

Handy Backup 4.0 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.

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For CD-RW devices an automatic media rotation is provided, which prompts the user when a disc is full and needs to be replaced.
Note: If this option is disabled on your system (grayed out in the Handy Backup Wizard), you may need to download ASPI drivers DLL from Adaptec, Inc. You can find it here.

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.

128 bit encryption

We offer you 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.

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.

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.

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.

Multi-threaded transfer engine

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

Intuitive Explorer style user interface

You'll find Handy Backup 4.0 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.

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.

 

Backup Software Download

Handy Backup 4.0 evaluation version is provided with 30-day trial period. During this time you will be able to try all its features and decide if you really like our product and want to buy it.

We will also provide technical support and assistance for you should you have any problems with our software or any questions/suggestions.

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Handy Backup Plugins

You can enhance the functionality of Handy Backup by adding plugins to it. The Outlook Plugin is designed to facilitate the process of backing up MS Outlook and Outlook Express data;
Registry Plugin will allow you to work with registry keys just like you do with files and folders;
ICQ Plugin will help you backup ICQ contacts, settings and history. You can download 30-day trial versions of these plugins below.

System requirements

Handy Backup 4.0 is not a resource-consuming utility.
All you need to start Handy Backup 4.0 is:

• Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP;
• Approximately 2MB of free disk space.

You don't need to be connected to the Internet, unless you want to keep your data on a remote FTP-server.

License Policy

Handy Backup is a copyrighted and licensed software, so please read the Handy Backup License Agreement carefully. Your use of Handy Backup indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions set forth in that Agreement. If you do not agree to those terms and conditions, you may not install, or use Handy Backup.

Order

You can buy Handy Backup 4.0 by filling the RegNow online purchase form. The prices are all quoted in US Dollars.

Units From	Up to	Price Per Unit
		Handy Backup 4.0
1	9	$30.00
10	24	$27.00
25	49	$24.00
50	Unlimited	$22.00

For more information on volume pricing licenses please contact us at vikont@novosoft.us.

Registration Process

Once you've purchased Handy Backup 4.0 and received your registration key, you need to register your copy of the program. Please follow the instructions below:

1. Run the program.
2. Go to the Help menu.
3. Select "Enter your serial number…".
4. Enter the registration key provided to you.
5. Press a button to register online or via email.

If you purchased any of Handy Backup plugins or our full-featured bundle, we will also send to you registration keys for your plugins. Go to the File | Plugins… menu to register them. If you experience any problems during the registration process, please, contact us at support@handybackup.com. We will be happy to assist you with the registration.

Software Reviews

Handy Backup, by Novosoft, Inc., is a nicely engineered piece of software. Its designed to backup all of your important data and it does that job very well. The program has a number of useful and also interesting features, like the use of plug-ins. I found Handy Backup to be very easy-to-use and feel that even novice users would do well with it. It can backup to drives on your network, your FTP site, as well as to CDs. And, it can span CDs so your backups aren't limited. So, if you've been looking for a program for backing up your data, give Handy Backup a try! I think you'll like it -- I did!
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The segment ran on February 5 at 7:45pm on CNN Headline News. Janice Chen was interviewed talking about backup software. Handy Backup 3.9 was featured.
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I feel I can award this program the CDFreaks Safe Buy award. This award shows that this product does exactly what it says on the box and will not fail in providing you with working backups of your files to whatever medium you choose.
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Everyone knows they're supposed to back up data on a regular basis, but it's such a Herculean task that we tend to put it off. Enter Handy Backup, a nifty, easy-to-use utility that employs a helpful wizard to guide you through the usually painful backup process.
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Like flossing, backing up data is something most people know they should do but don't--even though myriad computer problems can deprive you of years of work, e-mail, family photos, and more. Handy Backup packages this all-too-technical-sounding task into a very nice interface, which can best be described as friendly without being patronizing ... A nice interface and complete set of options make this one of the best backup utilities we've seen.
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But that's not all folks, it comes with a plethora of nifty tools; think of this product as the Swiss-army knife of backups ... This program is definitely worth the $30 and it even has plugins available for an extra cost that will backup your Outlook, ICQ, and Registry files!
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Handy Backup is one of those rare utilities that delivers an outstanding feature set for a relatively low cost, and the 30-day fully functional trial version gives users plenty of time to test its power.
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If you're not currently backing up your data start now or if you don't like your current backup program give Handy Backup a try; you won't find a better engineered program that suits both novices and experts.
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All in all Handy Backup is a very useful title to have in your software arsenal - it combines ease of use with versatility to produce a really flexible package. Handy Backup is certainly a force to be reckoned with and it most certainly gets our thumbs up. Well Done.
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Handy Backup appears to be a fully developed application that rivals some of those high-end backup programs. But why spend hundreds of dollars for time consuming, tedious or hard to learn programs when Handy Backup is just so “Handy!” I have, and highly recommend this for home or business use if you are looking for something powerful yet easy-to-use.
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Highly Recommended - A straightforward backup program with a simplicity that will appeal to many users.
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VNUnet Choice - Handy Backup provides an extremely easy way of backing up data, whether on a one-off basis or at regular intervals.
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