Fabs AutoBackup is a small portable an easy to use backup application. It allows you to backup and restore your personal data. It can also be used to transfert your files and settings from a PC to another. It allows users to choose what to back up from their Windows system (documents, music, videos, emails, browser settings) with simple check boxes and paths fields. After the format, Fab’s AutoBackup can restore all the files back to where they should be.
Fab’s AutoBackup 3 is not a V2 update. Its been entirely rewritten and improved ergonomically to provide ease of use but with a maximum of compatibility with Windows XP, Vista and 7. The program allows to backup, restore, transfert (backup on one machine, restore to another) :
- Shared Documents folder
- My Documents folder (without My Pictures, My Music and My Videos folders which are backed-up separately).
- My Pictures folder
- My Music folder
- My Videos folder
- User’s Windows Desktop
- Desktop’s wallpaper
- Quick launch toolbar
- Windows Internet Explorer favorites
- Windows Internet Explorer main start page
- Firefox settings : bookmarks, extensions (tested with AdBlock Plus and LogMeIn plug-in)…
- Google Chrome profile
- Apple Safari profile
- Opera (Web browser and email client)
- Outlook Express messages and settings (mail accounts, rules…)
- IncrediMail messages and settings
- Windows Mail (or Windows Live Mail) messages and settings
- Windows Address book, used by outlook Express or Windows Mail
- Microsoft Office Outlook PST/OST files (messages, address book and calendar are stored in)
- Outlook.nk2 file (contains the A field history)
- Microsoft Office activation files (XP/2003/2007)
- Windows Vista’s calendar
- Mozilla Thunderbird messages and settings
- Modem parameters (rasphone.pbk file), except credentials
- Windows Live Messenger (Note : Windows Live ID is not restored but files are).
- Skype data and settings
- System fonts (useful if you installed fonts unbundled with Windows or your software)
- User defined additional files
- User defined additional folders