If you are using computers or data for a while by now you might have understood how important to have backup of all the files and important data. Contrary to what many believe, Viruses and Software corruption is the least form of data loss. The most occurrences of data loss are due to hardware failure and human error. [Source: Cost of Lost data through Backup History]
As taking a backup periodically is so crucial, its important to have some good backup software which will automate all the backup procedures either in external hard drive, USB, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, FTP, LAN etc. To know more about the importance of backup you can read my series of posts on doing a backup in Windows XP and Vista, backup the blog, backup important mails and in Outlook.
Backup Platinum is one of the good professional backup software and they are offering a free give away of 3 full version licenses of Professional Backup Platinum to Lyte Byte readers. Each license is priced at a one time payment of $67 and all that you have to do is drop a comment on this post to be eligible for consideration of random selection.
Features of Backup Platinum:
Here are some key features of backup platinum which tells why its better than many of its counterpart.
Range of support from CD to Blu Ray: Backup Platinum offers a wide range of external backup mode from CDR, CDRW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, BD-R or BD-RE. Blu Ray disks have become the modern storage media as they offer about 50Gb storage in a regular disk. You can also use backup platinum as the burning software to write the media. Also large size files and backup can be split into different disks seamlessly.
Use it as a Sync Software with External Disk, LAN and FTP: You can also use Backup Platinum as the synchronizing software to sync data with either LAN or FTP. It also supports secure FTP using SSL.
Secure with ZIP or 128-bit Blowfish Encryption: Even when you are sending data with an unsecure FTP, the data can be protected with a password protected ZIP or even much secure 128-bit Blowfish Encryption or you can do both! It also helps to create ZIP files on the fly and creates self-extracting executable files.
Backup of Open Files: Many important files might be used continuously and its hard to backup these files with a regular backup methods. But Backup Platinum uses Volume Shadow Copy Services to backup all important files and its completely restorable without disturbing the working of the system.
Other notable features:
- Flexible and yet powerful scheduler
- Run in service mode in all windows
- Command line interface
- Backup registry keys
- Run backup on logon/logoff
- MD4/MD5 Password Authentication
- Email Notifications about backup
- Create logs of backups
It has so much more and you can read it from Backup Platinum features.
Here are some of the process screen shots with Backup Platinum
You can either setup a Backup or Synchronization
Different items that can be backed up apart from folders, files and registry keys.
Backup to a CD, DVD or Blu-Ray Disc
Backup to an external hard disk or Backup Folder in your computer.
Synchronizing files, folders and different data formats between different storage medium.
Set Email Notifications about backup.
Whether you are running a small business of your own or just having your personal data, this software would be of great use to make sure all your data is safe. Many good backup software comes with a monthly price tag with online storage, but this comes with just a one time fee of $67.
Just drop a comment if you would like to participate in the free give away. We already have three licenses for the professional edition. In the mean time, you can download the 30-day trial of full version. To increase your chances of winning mention how or where you would use this software. Winners would be declared next week same time.
Update: Winner have been announced.
Looks like a real handy tool. Would be great to have a copy of it!
A great backup software is mostly needed by people like me to do occasional backups!
wow…i like these free offers…for myself and my readers too…do i stand a chance?
Joel,
I’m in the contest.
Yes please, do count me in. I’d love to be included in the giveaway
Looks like a good application for backup. Like to have a copy ……….
Thanks to all for participating…do let your friends know about this…
Looks good…count me in too
Count me in the contest too!
I’ll use it to backup my school projects and assignments. I would never want to lose my important files.
Please enter my name in the drawing for the platinum backup software.
Thank you Denny
I would love to have this so please put me in the mix.
Thank you,
Lynn
that s great, i would love to have a copy of this.but i think im not so lucky…
please send me copy
My wife and I run a web design business from home and have all the project documents shared via DropBox between our laptops and a desktop computer. But, having a reliable backup software such as this would make us definitely sleep easy knowing our work won’t just vanish one day. Cheers!
Hi Joel!
I’d would like to have this backup software, that I would use to backup my data from work laptop on to work desktop. Basically I would backup to a folder that would be synced with my live mesh, enabling me access to all data from the cloud
Cheers!
Thanks for showcasing this backup product. It is important to have current and reliable backups as usually most people start thinking of backups when they actually need to use them to restore their data. I am interested in the FTP backup option as hosting is very inexpensive nowadays and best practices require an off-site backup in addition to local backups in case of fire, flood, lightning or even theft.
I will be glad to report my findings on the FTP backup feature if I get to win one of the licenses.
Regards,
Vladi
http://www.vivesystems.com
@Vla Nayde, I am glad you liked the product but we already had our winners announced last week. You may get the software from Backup Platinum, they may have some other offers.