Handy Backup
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| Original author(s) | Novosoft, LLC |
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| Stable release | 7.20
/ December 25, 2018 |
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| Operating system | Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 or later, Windows Home Server 2011, Ubuntu 14.04 or Ubuntu 16.04 |
| Platform | IA-32 and x86-64 |
| Size | ≈250 MB |
| Available in | English, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Brasilian, Sweden, Dutch and other |
| Type | Data protection and backup software |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | Official website |
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Handy Backup is the program for data backup, recovery and synchronization, created by Novosoft, LLC[1]. The program supports standalone and network operations, depending from an edition.
Purpose[edit]
Handy Backup is positioned by its developers as "commercial backup software primarily designed for the needs of small business, SoHo and individual users".
History and versions[edit]
Short history[edit]
- January, 2002: Handy Backup 3.0
In 2007, the PCMag criticized Handy Backup 3.9 for its “mediocrity” and inconvenience[2].
- August, 2003: Handy Backup 4.0 — introduces new plug-ins for ICQ, Registry and MS Outlook
- July, 2004: Handy Backup 4.5 — updating some crucial plug-ins
- Early 2005 — a "DVD edition" 4.6 is available, with same functions and plug-ins as before
- November, 2005: The big maintenance update for Handy Backup 4.6 (including 64-bit internal ZIP compression)
- February, 2006 — introducing Handy Backup 5 and its own online backup storage
- January, 2008: The last version of Handy Backup 5
- March, 2008: Stable edition of Handy Backup 6[3] introduces FTPS, SFTP, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes and generic Database backup plug-ins
- April, 2009: Handy Backup 6.2 has dedicated server plug-ins for MS SQL Server, IBM DB2 and Oracle.
From the version 6, this software divides to different editions: for home users, for advanced (professional) users and for network operations. Novosoft firstly gives the specific names for these editions (Standard, Professional and Server).
- November, 2011: The current Handy Backup 7 enters service, with many dedicated plug-ins for SQL databases, virtual machines and cloud storage services.
Current versions[edit]
Now the actual main version is Handy Backup 7, and Novosoft also supports a previous version, Handy Backup 6.
Editions[edit]
Standalone editions are designed for using for one machine.
- Standard
- Professional
- Small Server (now called Small Business)[4]
Network editions are designed for centralized network operations.
- Network
- Server Network
This is also a free edition called Free for Cloud, which supports only clouds as backup storage.
Architecture[edit]
The key concept of the program architecture is a task, a complete set of instructions to make particular backup, recovery or synchronization job [5]
This utility has a GUI to create and control tasks.
For accessing different data types and storage methods, the program utilizes plug-ins. These plug-ins are the parts of the program, not standalone utilities. The two groups of plug-ins are data sources and storage plug-ins. The program can back up and restore data with any plug-in, but can use only storage plug-ins to keep backups or to synchronize content.
References[edit]
- ↑ Fen Montaigne. "Russia Rising". National Geographic.
- ↑ Jonathan Roubini. "Handy Backup 3.9 - Review 2007". PCMag.com.
- ↑ Kyle. "Handy Backup Review". PCauthorities.com.
- ↑ "25 Best Small Business Apps for 2012". PCMag.com.
- ↑ Jon L. Jacobi (2013-02-19). "Review: Handy Backup is plain, powerful and easy to use". PCworld.com.
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