WinBackup 2.00
WinBackup 2.00, by Uniblue Systems, is another addition to the crowded environment of data backup/recovery software packages. The producers claim that:-
WinBackup 2.0 Standard (is) the fastest backup and recovery software on the market (which) allows you to secure all your valuable data within minutes.
Aimed firmly at the home and small office user base, WinBackup features a familiar, easy-to-use Graphical User Interface to make sure that both amateurs and professionals alike can find there way around it and use it to backup their most valuable data. It also features shortcuts to over a hundred of the more popular applications allowing the user to quickly and easily backup email, address books, digital images, etc, all at the click of a button.
It also introduces "new advanced compression technologies" allowing the user to save more data to a variety of different storage media such as :-
- Hard Drives
Network
Zip/Jazz/REV drives
CD-R/RW
DVD-R/RW +/-
Portable drives (Firewire and USB)
- Intel Pentium D 2.80 GHz
Intel D945GTP Motherboard
Gigabyte DVD Writer IDE Drive
2 X Western Digital Raptor 36 GB SATA Hard Drive with 4 equal partitions of 17 GB
Windows XP Professional SP2 on Partition 1 (System Drive)
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition on Partition 2
Western Digital 80 GB External Drive (USB 2.00)
A Trial Version of WinBackup 2.00 Standard was downloaded for this review
Setup
Setup was very straightforward and no problems were encountered.
There are 3 Versions of WinBackup 2.00 available, Standard, Professional and Server. Standard is the option that most home users would use as it's purpose is to create a quick and reliable backup.
The Professional edition has some features that are not available in the Standard Version. In this version, one is able to run command line scripts before and after running a backup. This is available from the Actions section of the
