VersionBackup Master is a advanced file backup systems, creating backup copies from your changed files each day.

Compared to other backup programs, it has a considerably increased functionality. Each backup is saved in a separate data channel corresponding to the calendar date. Using the file path, file name and the date, the separate file versions can be found and recovered very easily. This is valid even if the backups have been archived on a CD, on a DVD or as online backups in the internet.

Other backup software is restricted to the creation of backup copies. Functions to manage the existing backup stock usually are missing. The backup files will be overwritten each time, when a new backup version of a file is created. This way, the generally used backup software provides only the last copied backup for recovery. Older backup versions are not present yet.

VersionBackup Master does not have these disadvantages. Here, the once created backups will continue existing. They will be managed as different versions.

In the clearly arranged dialog pages, you can configure VersionBackup to make it work for you exactly to your requirements.

Doing this, you will be assisted by wizards.

For each configuration field, you can get additional information by clicking the help button.

Many system administrators, who take care about a special level of security and availability of their backups, are creating a Full Backup each day. This is sensible, if they use the common backup software, because there is no support to manage the different backups. But a Full Backup each day waists a lot of storage space.
If you use VersionBackup, you will keep the overview even with a more sophisticated storage structure than a daily Full Backup. VersionBackup is able to reconstruct each of the daily stored intermediate states of your files, even if they have to be collected from different Incremental Backups. Using Incremental Backups will reduce your storage space requirements significantly. Only occasionally, a Full Backup should be done (approx. all 20 to 40 days). Even this is done automatically by VersionBackup according to your configuration.
(See also: Backup Procedures provided by VersionBackup)

If you want to recover a special version of the files, you will be assisted by VersionBackup’s special Backup-Browser. There you can select not only the file path and file name, but also the calendar date of the version, you like to have. This unusual feature provides you a direct and clearly arranged access to the development course on your computer.

The Backup-Browser shows you in detail, which versions are available from which files. To recover a file or a complete directory, you only have to click on the desired date. No matter, whether this version has been stored in a Full Backup or an Incremental Backup, VersionBackup will get this file version from the Backup Archive and will copy it to the desired location.

The Backup-Browser shows you the directory- and file structure, independently from the present state. You see an outline of the data from the last weeks or months or another calendar interval in the past, according to your settings. Even deleted directories or files are visible. And if you need something from the past, the button “Recover” will restore it.

The daily backup creation works automatically, without any user assistance. This is possible, because the primary backups will be stored on a permanently accessible disk. In general, this disk is the hard disk of your computer. But if you use VersionBackup Master in connection to a computer network, this disk can be a drive on any other computer, which is permanently ready.

Furthermore, with VersionBackup you can archive the primary backups on an external media. For instance, you can store the data to a CD ROM or a DVD every two weeks or send them to the Inernet. This increases security, because the data then will be stored on different media or addionally at your Internet Provider. If you like, you can configure VersionBackup to delete the backups on the primary disk, if they have been written to the external archive. We suggest using Single Write CDs or DVDs. This way, you get a Backup Archive, which keeps everything for an unlimited time, without big storage requirements for your hard disk.

It is important, that VersionBackup supports even the Recovery from external media. Their content will be displayed in the Backup-Browser together with the primary backups. The recovery will use the external media or the FTP server as well as the primary disk.

Then perhaps you are interested in the page Why VersionBackup?

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