Most people simply forget to make a backup or are not willing to spend time on it. IdleBackup can make the backup, once setup, in an unused moment of your computer. As an alternative, you can manually start a backup at the end of a computer session, and after this IdleBackup can automaticaly shutdown the computer when it finished.
Features of IdleBackup
- Easy to use backup program also suited for non-advanced users
- Easy restore, select directories and/or files to restore
- Incremental backup, selected directories and files are copied to a set backup path (1:1). The first backup is a full backup, then each next backup will copy only changed files, no files are deleted (if option "Synchronize backup" is set to off)
- Option "Synchronize backup" can remove unused files, so only files that are also present on the source hard-disk are kept. See backup description
- Manual or Automatic backup (with a set interval time) during idle time of the computer
- In Automatic mode Idlebackup will work invisibly in the background, and only if idle (no keys,mouse actions detected). Status is visible by icon color in sytem tray
- After a manually started backup, you can select to shutdown Windows
- Can also copy large files > 2Gb
- Backup mail data of Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express (see site idlebackup.nl, usage examples)
- Backup medium = hard-disk/usb-stick/usb-drive or network
- Normal windows installation/deinstallation
- With backup option 3 (computer name in backup path) suited for making backups from multiple computers to one external storage (USB-hard-disk
