Reviews of FBackup

1. 
   bigalgeorge

   Reviewing 4.2.150 (Jul 31, 2009)

   o Easy and non-invasive installation.
   o very tidy and simple interface
   o smart interface eg advanced and basic modes of backup.
   o backups and restore work as desired
   o a huge advantage of this program is it offers shadow backup
   o gave it a 4 originally because it failed on large destination with error 'There is not enough space on the disk' , but have downgraded because it does not do differential or incremental backups which IMHO are a prerequisite.
2. 
   elitegangsta

   Reviewing 4.2.144 (Jul 3, 2009)

   SO far works from what I've tested here in my shop. Appears to run great, solid, fast, small footprint, so far I love it to all the commercial alternatives. Also beats out NT Backup 10 fold in my opinion!
3. 
   bobad

   Reviewing 4.2.143 (Jun 29, 2009)

   Nice backup program. Seems kind of large. It's very annoying that it doesn't start to the tray. Who wants a big window popping up in your face every time you turn on your computer? It doesn't even minimize correctly to the tray. It leaves the icon on the task bar. Fix that problem, and I would actually dump Cobian Backup and use FBackup. It would also be considerate and professional of the developer to post a change log.
4. 
   Pfurri

   Reviewing 4.1.136 (Apr 29, 2009)

   Just great and even more than just a backup tool !!! Very good job, go on guys !
5. 
   BlackDragon64

   Reviewing 4.1.131 (Mar 25, 2009)

   Does what it does very well. Just DON'T expect the same amount of power and bells-n-whistles of its big brother Backup4All. But for doinf simple backup to a ZIP file or doing what it calls "mirroring" it does the job well.
   I used it to mirror some important files to another location, went well.
   You DO have to config the choices JUST RIGHT tho.
   Has BASIC scheduling ability.

Discuss FBackup

1. Jul 30, 2009 - 8:39 PM
   bobad

   Softland,
   
   Have you considered an option to start FBackup minimized to the tray?
   
   I ask that because a backup program should start with Windows. Every time I start or re-start Windows, I have to minimize FBackup. It does get tedious!
   
   Thank you!
2. Jul 1, 2009 - 3:35 AM
   softland

   Now it lists changes in build 143 too. The changelog on the website is modified only after the build propagates on the main mirror site(s), that's why the delay. However, the "Check for updates" option in FBackup itself always show the latest changelog until you update it, so before updating you can see if you need to do so or not.
3. Jun 30, 2009 - 8:53 PM
   M^3

   From the forum on their website, though it doesn't list .143
   
   FBackup 4.2 build 140 was released. This new version contains several important changes, update is recommended.
   
   What's changed in FBackup 4.2.140:
   
   * New: Added Unicode filename support (files with non-standard characters can be easily backed up now)
   * New: FBackup is now compatible with 64-bit operating systems too
   * Update: Added "Select columns" option in the right-click menu of the Scheduler window (and 2 additional columns)
   * Update: Added a new button for "Ignore all" during restore
   * Update: Sources can be modified now even after selecting a Predefined Backup job (this way a backup job can be used as a "template" for future backup jobs)
   
   You can download the new version here: FBackup 4.2.140 (the download page still shows version 4.1 because download.com takes a while to update, so use the above mentioned direct link to download the newest version).
   Posted 2 weeks ago #
   
   In FBackup 4.2.141 and 4.2.142 several access violation errors were fixed.