Backup4all 4 BETA Released

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Backup4all is a backup utility that allows you to easily backup to any local or network drive, backup to FTP (with support for SSL encryption, proxy server, passive mode), backup to CD/DVD, or other removable media (such as USB drives).

This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

What's new in Backup4all 4 BETA:

Completely rewritten to allow backing up large number of files and folders with moderate resource usage
Option to compress and encrypt files individually when using mirror backup
NTFS permissions and alternate streams are now copied in mirror backups
Backup can now be paused/resumed/stopped
Backup/Restore/Test/Cleanup history
Automatic updates
Back up empty folders
Added startup window with shortcuts to main operations
New Views: Backup and Brief
New option to lock program interface
Possibility to set memory usage for backing up
New option to allow adding predefined filters
MSI setup for automatic deployment

Download: Backup4all 4 BETA | 9.5MB (Shareware)
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(1 reply) #1 Cyber Dog on 18 Aug 2008 - 14:48

The 3.x series of Backup4all was a fantastic product. Hopefully this new version will continue this tradition. Good to see it's still under active development, I'll certainly buy the new version if it's as good as the old. The only feature I'd really like to see is stronger compression, probably 7-zip to remain open format.

#1.1 Softland on 19 Aug 2008 - 07:01

Glad you like Backup4all. As for the compression, right now we're using standard zip compression and it comes with different levels of compression (from normal to best compression). The reason we haven't switched to 7zip is the fact that they're not supported by Windows (which can open zip files up to 2 gb) without having 7zip installed. If this will be supported we'll switch in the future.

#2 +Sethos on 18 Aug 2008 - 19:07

Sounds like a great piece of software!

(1 reply) #3 ]SK[ on 19 Aug 2008 - 08:50

Certainly does. Very user friendly with the prices too.
Is it possible to backup and restore 'Previous Versions...' like in Windows?
If using FTP will it know if a file hasn't changed and therefore skip the file?

*Edit*

Ah...

Version Tracking
Backup4all is a backup software that offers a unique mode to track file versions. You can selectively restore any previous version of a backed up file directly from the main window.

*Edit* #2

I just went and ordered the Pro version of this. You should maybe highlight that customers will be given version 4 if they order version 3 from this point onwards.

Last edited by ]SK[ on 19 Aug 2008 - 15:26

#3.1 Softland on 20 Aug 2008 - 11:15

Thank you. Actually there's a 3 month grace period so users that purchased in June would get the free upgrade too.

#4 cga on 20 Aug 2008 - 14:18

Hands down the best backup software, at least among the affordable ones.

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