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Backup & Restore Your Data With Backup Folder Sync

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Backup Folder Sync is a backup & restore application that mirrors your selected folders. You can save the backups to a local folder, external drive, USB stick, network share or mapped drive, and restore them to the any folder, including the original one. The application allows you to save your backup selections as jobs, so you don’t have to select the folders each time you are making a backup of some particular folders. A detailed report listing each file and folder being affected is also created during a backup for your later review. When you re-do your backups, only those files are copied that have been added or modified. If any folders are deleted in the source, these items will also be deleted from the backup destination folder so you don’t have any old items when restoring your backup. Read More

AppExtarctor Restores Individual Apps & SMS/MMS From ROM Manager Backups

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One reason for Android gathering such a huge fan base is perhaps the easy and comprehensive backup/restore functionality it offers. There is a wide range of apps available in Android Market that let you backup and restore your apps without any issues. Although Titanium Backup is the must go-for Android backup and batch-restore application, some users like ROM Manager to backup and restore their complete system/ROM. It's no hidden fact that users who fancy rooting and modding their devices, tend to try various ROMs and kernels, and very frequently. Most of theses ROMs come with a pre-requisite to completely wipe and reset system and user data. ROM Manager, created to help ROM flashers and downloaders, provides a facility to backup your current ROM along with all user data via ClockworkMod Recovery. This backup is made in the form of a zip file and can be reinstalled via recovery whenever need arises, but it will restore everything! So how do you get back individual items like messages, MMS etc? Hit the jump to find out. Read More

Perform Full, Incremental, Differential & Stack Backup With GFI Backup

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GFI is a well-known brand in the world of network security and IT solutions, and has come up with brilliant network solutions over the past few years including GFI EndPointSecurity, GFI LAN Guard, GFI Mail Security, VIPER antivirus and more. Normally, most GFI applications are paid; however, recently they have released a free version for one of their applications known as GFI BackUp. Although the paid version provides more backup and restore options (including support for Hyper V, VMware and SQL Server), the free version is nevertheless good enough to be used as an alternative to native Windows Backup utility. The reason one might find GFI backup to be a good alternative is because it is “arguably” more flexible and can be used to backup data for which Windows backup might give errors. Read More

Analyze Mac Time Machine Error Logs With TM Error Logger

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Time Machine is to Mac OS X, what System Restore is to Windows. Time Machine is an built-in feature of Mac OS X which lets users create regular backups of their Mac including, system files, pictures, music, documents and all other important user folders. Using Time Machine, you can bring the previous Mac OS X state back without having to manually find and revert the changes made to the system. If you use Time Machine to create backups daily, you may know that it often fails to recover all the data back. In such a case, it become quite tedious to identify the root cause of the problem which Time Machine faced during the restore process. TM Error Logger is small Mac app that solves this very problem. It is designed to show current and previous Time Machine error logs, so you can analyze the issues Time Machine encountered during the process. Read More

MySQLBackupFTP: Create, Schedule & Zip MySQL Database Backups

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You may know that DBMS (Database Management System) backup tools offer a limited set of options to backup databases. That’s the reason why database managers rely on third-party, powerful database backup solutions which can automate the process of backing up all the system and non-system databases at convenient location. Take phpmyadmin as an instance, you may choose its Export tool to create backup of your database, but what if you want to create database backups on regular basis, or after every major update? Since it becomes tedious to manually pick output format followed by compression mode from Export tab to create backups, you may need a database backup automater like MySQLBackupFTP (a.k.a MySQLBF) to automatically perform the database backup operations. Read More

Root Uninstaller: Freeze, Backup, Restore & Batch Uninstall Android Apps

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Root Uninstaller is a comprehensive app manager for rooted Android devices that lets you view, backup (APKs only, no data), restore, freeze and uninstall system as well as user apps. Apart from letting users perform the aforementioned functions, Root Uninstaller supports quite a few handy additional features such as the advanced application filter and APK file viewer/installer. With Root Uninstaller, you can directly launch installed apps on your device, visit their Market links and launch their info screens (to clear app cache and defaults, for instacne). In addition, Root Uninstaller also supports uninstalling user apps in batch. Read More

How To Use Titanium Backup For Android [Complete Guide]

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Titanium Backup is the ultimate app of choice for every avid Android user with a rooted device. This app is your answer to the most frequently asked question coming from Android users who just rooted their device - “How do I backup my apps when moving to a custom ROM?”. Titanium Backup will not only backup your apps, but their data as well. This means, that by backing up a game, you can back up your progress in the game as well. If you’re really into music, Shazam, for example, can be backed up with all the tags intact. Of course, Titanium Backup does allow you to restore, otherwise, what’s the point? But that's not all the app has to offer. Titanium Backup actually boasts a variety of feature rich options that most of us do not even bother looking into. For a complete look into one of the best Backup & Restore tools ever made for Android, read on! Read More

WPV App Data Backup – Save WP7 App Data & Restore It After Flashing

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Windows Phone 7 has just started to come of age and custom ROMs have started to roll out recently. The biggest reason which keeps people from flashing a ROM they really like is the fear of losing all their data during the process. Even if your pictures, music and messages are safe after updating, you will still lose all that progress you made on Angry Birds or all the map data you had cached to your device. Now you don’t need to worry about all that. WPV App Data Backup allows you to save the data of all applications on your device to your computer and restore it later with only a few clicks. Of course it is extremely easy to restore your purchases and other Zune data, but in-app data is the thing that gets affected the most each time your Windows Phone is wiped. This data is what the Homebrew aims to save. Read More

Pepper – Backup & Sync Visual Studio 2010 Settings File (vssettings)

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Visual Studio Settings file (.vssettings) contains a whole lot of configurations and details regarding the current setup and layout of Visual Studio. Unlike other software IDEs, Visual Studio is flexible enough to let users easily modify and replace default settings files with custom one to quickly apply required configurations. Many users share vssettings file with other team members before starting a new project to ensure that everything from setup, layout to projects and debug configurations will remain same across all the systems throughout the software development phases. Although Visual Studio 2010 lets user change vssettings default path and specify team settings file, it doesn’t have an option to directly backup current vssettings file to import it on other Visual Studio 2010 configured systems. Pepper is a small yet powerful add-in for Visual Studio 2010 which provides a simple solution for this very problem. Read More

FlagSync – Sync iTunes With Portable Media Player, Backup Data On FTP / USB

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Job-based synchronization and backup utilities are generally hard to configure as users often require setting up options to schedule sync/backup operations and one-way or two-way incremental and decremented modes before specifying source and target locations to run jobs. If you want to create and run sync jobs without having to configure such complex options, try out FlagSync. Read More

Now Manage Multiple Dropbox, Google Docs, Box.net Accounts With Joukuu Plus [Giveaway]

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A while back, we covered Joukuu which brings the utility of managing 3 widely used cloud storage services, namely, Dropbox, Google Docs, and Box.net on desktop. Back then, we reviewed the Lite version which was in beta testing phase and had a lot of account management related issues. Now the product is finally out of beta, providing stable and relatively more responsive environment to manage your uploads. The Lite version is mainly targeted toward those who have a single account on supported services and don't want extra features other than basic file management, including, add and remove files and folders, backup files, move files between added services via drag & drop. Read More

Differential Disk And File Backups With EaseUS Todo Backup Free v3.0

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EaseUS Todo Backup is a famous backup tool with both  free and paid versions. We reviewed some great features before, such as, backing up system partitions and entire operating system, and complete hard drive. Todo Backup has recently been updated with even better features; version 3.0 brings differential disk and file backup utility, as well as, one-click system backup and restore support. Read More

Add Multiple Sync Jobs To Run Them At Once With Folder Replica

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Folder Replica is a job-based file synchronization utility that lets you create a list of sync jobs for different folders and locations and process them in one go. Folder Replica provides 3 sync modes; Backup Advanced (from Folder A to B), Folder Sync (Union of A and B folder data), and Copy Missing files (from A to B) along with a complementary mode to Delete Duplicates in B (target folder). For user’s convenience, the interface is divided into 2 panes, representing folder A and B sections, respectively. Just like any other backup utility, it provides you with a preview of sync job results before actually executing them. This enables you to check out all those files and folders which will be affected by the sync operations. Additionally, it allows you to schedule sync/backup jobs on specified days of week. You can mention the time of day to automatically run scheduled sync jobs and enable logging to find the problems it may face while performing the data synchronization operations. Read More

Create Online Backup Of Sound Editing Workstation Projects With Gobler

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The professional sound editing workstation project folder normally takes around 500 MB of disk space and in some cases, project files can take up disk space in gigabytes. Therefore, it’s a not a good idea of using cloud service which doesn’t allow uploading more than 2GB or 5GB of data and compels you to go for paid plans to get more storage space. If you don’t want to fork out on creating music production project backups, we have the best alternative of paid data sync services for you. Gobler is a cloud based data storage service which gives 25 GB of free space to music producers, publishers, composer, professional sound engineers, etc. Gobler has been specifically designed for anyone who works on hefty sound related projects and wants to create backup of project files in real-time. It natively supports all the widely popular sound editing suites including, Neundo, GarageBand, Logic, ProTools, Ableton Live, Cubase, Reaper, Digital Performer, Record, Reason, and Studio One. Read More

Cloud Turtle Is File Explorer For Amazon S3, Nirvanix And Timeline Cloud Files

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Cloud backup services like Amazon S3, Nirvanix and Timeline Cloud provide data backup for SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), as well as for individuals. While applications like Leo Backup, etc., provide a desktop solution for managing an Amazon S3 account from your desktop, such application are limited to the management of one cloud backup service only. Cloud Turtle is a desktop client for paid backup services such as Amazon S3, Nirvanix and Timeline Cloud services, letting you manage multiple accounts and perform data uploading and downloading tasks. It provides all the common and unique features of respective cloud services under one interface. For example, Amazon S3 users can upload, download data, delete objects and buckets, set bucket policies, and so on. Whereas, with Nirvanix you can upload, download and delete files and folders, create, delete and edit users from your master account, stream music and videos, view your documents in Google Docs, etc. Similarly, Timeline Cloud users can use Cloud Turtle to access and manage encrypted files from their Timeline Cloud accounts. Read More

Perform Advanced Backup Jobs Of rsync With GUI Based Grsync

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rysnc is an open source CLI based advance backup solution which is particularly developed for advance users who need to quickly define the backup/file synchronization parameters in order to change the backup plan without having to set each backup/sync option from start. If you’ve been looking for GUI based alternative of rsync which provides all the advance backup options, check out Grsync after the jump. Read More

QtdSync Is GUI For rsync; Schedule Backup To Local Path Or SSH Server

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QtdSync is a portable backup application with scheduling options to backup data to a local or remote location. It is actually a GUI for rsync which functions in two modes; Differentiell (which only backups changes) and Synchronize Only (which saves the backup folder with updates of the newest version only). You can create multiple backup sets and restore them later at your convenience. QtdSync works on both Windows and Linux based operating systems, but Windows users get additional features like folder binding, configuration of multiple virtual folders and drag/drop support. Read More

Backup And Restore Data Between Computers And External Media

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Backit Down is a portable and open source application which allows backing up data on external media which can then be restored on multiple computers. It provides synchronization of folders or files between different computers and storage devices from created projects with specified data. Each project contains custom configurations which make it easy to create multiple projects with precise settings for backing up data which can be restored on one or more computers via BackitDown. Read More

MyCube Vault – Backup Data From Facebook, Picasa And Google Contacts

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Recently there seems to be a lot of emphasis on backing up data from online accounts. Perhaps the Gmail data loss issue has raised a few flags for cloud service users. We saw such a service from Google known as Google Takeout. MyCube Vault is an open source application which provides similar functionality for backing up data from Facebook, Picasa and Google Contacts. This alpha project is emphasizing on providing a single click method of not just importing data directly from the aforementioned, but also allows scheduling periodic data backup. Read More

Backup Firefox Profiles With A Single Click Using Batckup Firefox

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Firefox users who love to tweak with installed extensions, add-ons, and other browser settings, can’t afford to lose Firefox Profile folder while porting data from one system to another. Firefox Profile folder contains everything from browsing history, add-ons, cache, to bookmarks, etc., and can be backed up and restored easily with previously featured MozBackup. However, if you don’t want to select the Firefox profile elements prior to creating profile backups, you can use a simple batch script, called Batckup Firefox. It runs in Windows Command Line Interpreter (CMD), allowing you to create backup at defined location with a single keystroke. You wont have to manually set the way profile backups are to be created. Just specify the location and it will start backing up all Firefox profiles. Read More