Genie Backup Manager 8
Jul 16, 2007
Backup & restore important data
Platform : Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Type: time limited demo
Manufacturer: Genie Soft Corporation
Size: 18MB
Rating: 
Verdict:
Excellent professional-level backup manager
Backups can be fun. Okay, no, we made that up: backing up your PC will always
be dull, that's just one of the fundamentals of computing. Install Genie Backup
Manager and you can at least get the whole process completed at the fastest
possible speed, though. And there are a few surprising touches along the way.
Take the way you define a backup job, for instance. The Genie Backup Manager
wizard provides sensible default options for everything, so you don't even have
to type a backup name: just keep clicking Next and that's usually enough.
Selecting exactly what to back up is straightforward, too. Genie Backup
Manager displays a tree of common features that you might want to save, like
your Outlook or Outlook Express mailboxes and settings, your favourites,
contacts, the Registry and more. Just check a box and they'll be added to the
backup job.
The program makes it just as easy to save the contents of the My Photos or My
Music folders. And Genie Backup Manager can also scan your folders for other
images, audio or video files, letting you add the whole lot with another click.
(Of course if this isn't enough then you can also specify individual files and
folders to be backed up.)
There's a good choice of backup types, too: normal, incremental, mirror and
differential. Your backup files can be compressed to save time,
password-protected with up to 256-bit AES encryption, and be made
self-restorable (executable files that restore their own data whether Genie
Backup Manager is installed or not). The backup may be saved locally, to a
network drive or using Genies own subscription-based online service, and a
scheduler ensures your job runs automatically once it's been set up.