Hard drive of your computer stores a lot of files with your valuable information. Bad things sometimes happen - and hard drives do crash. Such things tend to occur when they are least expected.
So the best protection is to back up your data regularly. And this is where Get Backup comes helpful! All you need to do is to restore your data if an emergency occurs.
Sophisticated filters and on-the-fly compression allow to minimize the size of the backup, saving only the essential data.
Get Backup is a native Mac OS X backup software utility. This program is a simple and efficient tool for creating personal backups, suitable for both beginners and pros. It gracefully combines the simple and elegant user interface with powerful backup capabilities, such as automatic backups according to your schedule.
Get Backup is flexible enough: you can reduce the backup archive size using compression tools, restore it on any computer as it utilizes tar technology, much more.
Get Backup will help you to:
· Backup your precious data and restore it on any computer.
· Insure yourself against data loss.
· Automate the backup creation process.
· Set up the backup process once and it will care for your data.
Here are some key features of "Get Backup":
General:
· Create full, versioned and incremental backups.
· Backup to any mounted device/drive, including FireWire, USB, ATA, SCSI, CD and DVD devices or network volumes.
· Tar-compatible backup archives allow to extract backup files on any computer, even without Get Backup installed.
· Ability to launch as "System Administrator" allows to back up system files and any account.
· The ability to backup hidden files.
· Brief and detailed logging of all program actions.
· Streamlined native Mac OS X user interface.
Reduce the Backup Archive Size:
· Backup compression reduces the size of resulting backup archives by 10-60%.
· Support for multi-volume backups.
· Segment large files using multi-volume backups.
· Powerful exclusive filters, including regex-based filename patterns, let you optimize the backup size.
Automate Backup Process:
· Flexible schedule allows to fully automate the backup process (daily, weekly or monthly).
· Efficient backup management.
· Separate schedule for each backup project, based on its specifics.
Restore Data:
· Restore files back to their original place, or to a location of your choice.
· Restore files with their original permissions.
· Preservation of resource forks allows to save additional parameters of your files and folders, so the restored files will have the same look and arrangements as the original ones.
· Preservation of HFS file types and creators.
Requirements:
· 15 MB of free space for the application
· Some available extra disk space for temporary files if you plan to write backups on CDs or DVDs. The extra hard disk space equals to the size of one CD or DVD, plus about 30 - 300 MB for resource forks and auxiliary files
Limitations:
· 30 days trial period.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added an Automount option for network volumes in synchronization projects;
· Fixed the problem with schedule settings being lost when the source or destination of a synchronization project becomes unavailable;
· Fixed the problem with selecting a backup destination containing non-ASCII symbols.
