Powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use backup programs to protect your valuable data. You can make backups that are readable directly from Windows Explorer, or the "Open File" option in your favorite program! Very handy to quickly check something on a backup. This also lets you use backups to copy files to different computers, without installing the backup program everywhere. Backup To DVD/CD adapts automatically when you add, rename, move or delete folders and files on your hard drive. This means you don't have to remember to fix your backup after reorganizing or adding things on your hard drive!
Backups Readable From Windows Explorer
You can make backups that are readable directly from Windows Explorer, or the "Open File" option in your favorite program! Very handy to quickly check something on a backup. This also lets you use backups to copy files to different computers, without installing the backup program everywhere.
Adapts Automatically When You Reorganize Folders and Files
Backup To DVD/CD adapts automatically when you add, rename, move or delete folders and files on your hard drive. This means you don't have to remember to fix your backup after reorganizing or adding things on your hard drive!
Very Flexible Folder and File Selection
Most backup programs have only basic point-and-click selection to pick what to back up. We also have wildcard name matching, include and exclude filtering, specification inheritance by subfolders, and several Wizard-based searches to find the data you need to back up.
Re-Check Old Backups For Reliability
Most backup programs give you only one chance to verify that your backup is actually usable - when you make it. Too bad if you discover a year later it's useless. Maybe you bought a new DVD/CD drive and it won't read the backup disc, or your kid scratched the media. Our program lets you re-check an old backup whenever you like, so you know it will work when you need it.
Backup AND Synchronize
Unlike our competitors, Backup To DVD/CD is actually two programs in one: It's a traditional backup program, and it's also a folder/file synchronization program. Synchronization reconciles folders on two computers that should have identical copies of the same files, and automatically updates old or missing files in either location. This lets you work on the same files on different computers, using synchronization to copy your work around as needed without you having to remember which files you modified where.
Here are brief summaries of the most important features of the software. Unless otherwise stated, both Backup To DVD/CD and Backup Made Simple include all these features.
Standard Backups And Synchronization
The program can operate in two modes: Make a backup, and synchronize folders. When you use it in regular (backup) mode, it copies all the folders and files you select to the backup. When you use it in synchronize mode, it synchronizes the contents of all the selected folders and files with copies on another hard drive or another computer. Synchronize mode is especially useful if you work on several computers and need to move things between computers so you can work on them wherever you happen to be.
Backup Plan Wizard
The program comes with our Backup Plan Wizard to help you determine which folders and files you need to back up, and tell the program what to do with them. The Wizard will also build a set of standard backup plans for you to start with if you wish.
DVD/CD Writer Wizard
Our DVD/CD Writer Wizard will help you get started using your DVD/CD writer with the software. This will test your drive to make sure it works with the backup software.
Back Up To Nearly Any Device
The program can write backups to any device with a writable Windows file system, not just DVD and CD writers. This includes folders on a hard drive, 3.5" diskettes, removable media devices like Zip drives, and portable devices like USB hard drives.
Select Folders And Files To Backup
Select the folders and files you want to back up with an easy to understand dialog showing the folders on your hard disk. You browse through the folders, and click buttons to tell the program to back up folders or not. When you decide to back up a folder (or not), that decision also applies to all subfolders of that folder unless you say otherwise for individual folders.
Unless you say otherwise, if a folder is backed up all files in it will be backed up. You can, however, say to back up ONLY particular files, or all files EXCEPT particular files, and combinations of these conditions. You have complete control over what is backed up.
You can back up any data on any drive letter visible in Windows Explorer, not just your own hard disk. If you are using a network you can back up data stored elsewhere on the network, or even data stored on other devices such as CD-ROM drives or floppy diskettes. To back up over a network you will need to map the "shares" on the other computers to drive letters on your computer.
Back Up Windows Registry
You can include your Windows registry in the backup.
Save Backup Instructions In Backup Plan
Since you have such flexibility in specifying what to backup, naturally you like to be able to save all these instructions for when you want to make the same backup again later. The program saves this information in a backup plan, which is stored in a bunch of small files which reside in the folders for which you e given instructions. The instructions for a particular folder are always stored in the plan file in that folder.
Adapts Automatically When Folders Are Reorganized Or Renamed
Storing the backup instructions in the folder to which they apply has another benefit - If the folder is renamed or moved, the instructions adapt automatically. This is because the instructions don actually give the name of the folder they apply to - they always apply to the folder where they are found. This idea carries even further - if a new folder is created, it automatically inherits any backup instructions specified for its closest parent folder, and if you delete a folder any instructions in it are cleanly removed as well. All this means that your backups continue to save what you want no matter how you reorganize your hard disk.
Uses As Many Backup Discs As Needed
The program will use as many DVD, CD, floppy, Zip or Jaz discs as necessary to hold your backup. When a disc becomes full, it will ask you to remove the old one and insert a new one. If a file will not fit entirely in the remaining space on a disc it will save the entire file on the next disc, unless your backup plan specifies to save such files using the "special" format described below.
Restart An Interrupted Backup
If you interrupt a backup when it asks for a new backup disc, you can resume that backup later whenever you like. This is very useful for large backups requiring many discs.
No Proprietary File Format To Restore From
Unless you say otherwise, Backup To DVD/CD does not use a proprietary file format to save the backup in. The folder heirarchy which was backed up is reproduced exactly on the backup disc(s), and all the files backed up are in the same folders as they are on your hard disk.
The big advantage to this is you can work with files on the backup directly on the backup disc, instead of having to restore them first. In most cases you can open documents and other files directly from the disc using the same program you would to open them from your hard disk, just using t

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