![]() More info re: licensing change (emphasis added and a few typos corrected):įrom the dev, Alex Pankratov: "There are two types of updates - milestone (feature) releases and maintenance (bugfix) releases. By my understanding, if you go to buy and you see that the Purchase page lists a "Basic" license option, you've missed the boat and the newer licensing terms are already in effect. Also, sounds like ( potentially disadvantageous) licensing changes are imminent, so for anyone wanting to purchase the program, right now may be the best time to do so. *long post warning*-TL DR Settings are portable, but licensing is per-machine and explicitly NOT. Thanks, webfork and Midas, for your posts about Bvckup 2-I've been using the free old beta for several years now, but you and the info reproduced below finally convinced me now is the time to buy it. I was surprised by the price (currently 20 USD) and could make the case that the program will pay for itself in the overall life of your backup device, especially if you use a flash/SSD. ![]() ![]() I haven't tested the commercial version, but being self-contained is baked right in and sounds like the dev had this plan early on and plans to keep it, I'd be surprised if the current process listed for the old beta didn't work on the commercial version. Also this is the first changelog I've read in some time that was actually somewhat pleasant to read and didn't just come off as a shopping list. What’s interesting is how those are laid out: Not as tabs, but in a folding accordion layout which I haven’t seen on any other Windows utility.So this program is commercial software (save for the unsupported, somewhat old beta we have listed in the database) but I did want to point out there are a fair number of significant changes and nice extra features over the past year. Each set shows when it was last run, how big it is, and whether or not they were any errors. The interface is built like a set of nesting Russian dolls: On the surface, you get a list of your backup sets. Backups can also run according to a schedule, and you can even have sets that run only when you manually trigger them. You can create multiple backup sets for different collections of files, some watching for file changes in real-time and others waiting for you to plug in an external drive. It knows that’s not your target drive, and won’t fill it with your files.īvckup 2 can watch for changes in real time. This works regardless of the drive letter-and if you connect some other drive and Windows assigns it with F: (or whatever the “usual” drive letter is for that external drive), Bvckup 2 won’t be fooled. This way, every time you plug in that particular USB drive, Bvckup 2 detects it and starts backing up to it. Instead, Bvckup 2 can track external storage devices according to their unique ID. This usually works, unless Windows decides to assign some other drive letter next time you plug in the drive. So with a batch script or a simpler backup program, you’d just aim at F: and hope for the best. Say you have an external USB drive that you want to backup to: Most of the time, Windows assigns it the letter F: when you plug it in. The log is built right into the window, so you don’t have to hunt for it.īvckup 2 is smart about external drives. Backing up a 7GB VM file to an external USB3 hard drive takes mere seconds, because Bvckup 2 copies only the parts of the files that are different between source and destination. It doesn’t back up to the cloud, it doesn’t do file versioning a-la Time Machine, and it won’t compress your files. Bvckup 2 is a powerful backup utility that has the pedal-to-the-metal mindset of a command-line tool, but comes with a beautifully functional graphical user interface.īvckup 2 sports a no-nonsense, informative interface that still feels stylish.īackup is a simple affair, really: Pick a source folder, a destination folder, and your files are copied from the former to the latter for safekeeping. So coming across a frugally-written app that feels like the software equivalent of a tightly wound coil is a novelty. Developers aren’t afraid to use that power, whether or not they really need it. Copious amounts of RAM, a fast processor, and a capacious hard drive.
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