Bvckup2

Site: https://www.bvckup2.com/

Country: Switzerland.

Purpose: Backup tool
Price: Freeware for a beta 100% working version, 20USD for lifetime maintenance upgrades

I've been using backup tools since early 2000, when the amount and size of pics, videos, and overall personal data skyrocketed. Until recently, I used Karen's Replicator, a proven freeware tool that kept my backups fine. But over the years, it got kind of slow when scanning for changes in huge chunks of files and development stopped after Karen unfortunately passed away. It was a woman coder in a world of male supremacy, and she was a damn good one.

So a few months back, I went hunting for a new backup tool, and I was prepared to pay for it.

I found bvckup2, which has a free beta, and a 20 USD lifetime maintenance, and I've been using it ever since.

IT WORKS. NO FAILS. NO CRASHES. NO MISSING FILES. ALL INFO PROVIDED.

Bvckup2 is lightning FAST. It's easy to setup, and you can configure a lot of parameters, but its major advantage is how fast it is, when it is scanning, and when it is DELTA copying. Files are scanned for changes and only MODIFIED PARTS of the file are copied over, unless otherwise selected.

I've got about 1TB of backup data, it is scanned in about 30 secs, and then I watch it copy the few changes and then, a few secs later, it's all over. 1 TB of data !!!

- You can start it manually, you can monitor file changes and backup in real time, or you can schedule precise times. This real-time thing is amazing.

- You can copy everything, but exceptions, or you can start with an empty list, and fill it accordingly.

- You can detect changes the slow way, rescanning destination on every run, or use what they called "destination snapshot",

- When possible, shadow copy is used, so you can even copy files that are in use (NT files in the %USERPROFILE% folder come to mind).

- You can delete backup copies, you can archive them, or keep them, so it's a kind of incremental backup

- You can set source/destinations as network drives or cloud drives, it works flawlessly.

- The log data is quite detailed and provided on screen, so you can open more and more detail to see exactly what was done, when, how.

- Finally, the backup is readable, it's a sync, so you can use your destination files, there are no indexes, database, or hidden files with stuff on your destination. Nothing. It's a pure "copy", with the addional "undeleted" data from the destination, if you chose to keep it.

- GUI is spartan, swiss style, but I like it. no funny bunnies.

- It can't get any easier, you set set it and forget it.

So if you need a backup tool for you, for your kids computers, you want to backup your stuff to a cloud drive, or whatever, go for Bvckup2. You can't miss it.