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PowerBackup 2.5 — the Safe Way to Protect Your Valuable Data

PowerBackup adds a simple but relatively flexible backup option for DVD Suite users. PowerBackup allows you to backup data into compressed files and store them on a hard drive or burn them directly to DVD. It will support Blu-ray as a destination as well, offering 50 GB of storage space now that the cost of Blu-ray writers is coming down.  Hopefully the cost of BD media will drop soon.  For repetitive backup functions, these backups can be stored as jobs and recalled.

Here again we find, step-by-step procedure, selecting output options and backup methods as we go. These jobs can describe which files to back up, filter files by file extension, apply one of three levels of compression to the resulting backup file, and even apply password protection to the backup file. Jobs can be appended or overwritten automatically, and the backups can be immediately verified upon completion.

Backups can use one of three methods: full, differential, and incremental.  Once all the options are chosen the backup job begins immediately.

Additional power is delivered by the ability to schedule these jobs for execution, an important option to keep data backed up when one is "too busy" to get it done. Upon creating a job, clicking on the Scheduler icon will allow users to select a job to run, and then walk them step-by-step through setting the frequency and time of the backup.  

We opened “PowerStarter” and then under “Copy & Backup” select “Back up your PC”, opening the PowerBackup program for the step-by-step process.  Below we see “step 1” where we will select our source.  We will back up several folders selecting an external HDD as our destination.

Once our source files and folders are selected we move on to “step 2”

At step 2 (Destination) we chose our external HDD.  Moving to step 3 we will decide on a method of backup.

Since this is our first backup we went with a “full backup”

At step 4 we see the summary of our back up; satisfied with our choices we click on the “backup now” button and the procedure starts.

Once completed we see this window:

OK, let’s check our destination:

Let’s do a restore with this backup to round out our test with PowerBackup.

We will open “PowerStarter” and then under “Copy & Backup” select “Restore your PC”, opening the PowerBackup program for the step-by-step process.  Below we see “step 1” where we will select our backup file to restore. 

Moving to step 2 where we select a destination to restore to; we chose the original locations.

At step 3 we will select our method of restore.

Next we go to the final step and accomplish our restore.

A check of our folders proves the restore went flawlessly.

Let’s move along and take a closer look at PowerDVD next.

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