Helpful Backup Skilled evaluation: Strong backup with cloud assist (and kinks)

What are Helpful Backup’s options?

Mainly, Helpful Backup is an amiable-looking utility that may carry out file backup, file sync, in addition to disk imaging. That’s positively upper-tier with regards to capabilities. However there are some foibles which I’ll focus on beneath.

Many of the choices you discover in different packages are current: restore, compression, encryption (256-bit AES is max), scheduling as granular as a minute (underneath “customized”), actions/packages that could be executed earlier than and after backups, and even upon inserting a drive.

Helpful Backup’s finest trick, in my e book, is supporting on-line storage providers as each sources and locations in a backup job. Many backup packages solely allow you to add information to a service and restore it. I used to be capable of sync a folder from Dropbox to OneDrive with ease. Candy.

Different supported on-line storage providers embody Amazon S3, S3 compatibles, Google Drive (native solely), OneDrive for Enterprise, Dropbox for Enterprise, Yandex Disk, Mail.ru Hotbox and Icebox, VK Cloud, Backblaze, and Field. 4Shared can be supported, however for some motive is underneath the “Sources/Different” slightly than “Sources/Cloud” heading.

Helpful Backup additionally helps community areas, WebDAV, and FTP/FTPS/SFTP. Mainly, for those who can retailer information on it, Helpful Backup helps it.

What are Helpful Backups foibles?

First off, Helpful Backup have to be run as Administrator for imaging to perform accurately, however isn’t put in as such. To allow admin privileges completely, right-click on the Helpful Backup desktop icon, choose Properties, Open the file location, right-click on HandyBackup8.exe, and on the Compatibility tab, examine the “Run this program as administrator” field. Merely checking this selection on the desktop icon didn’t work for me.