Backup Platinum Review

January 28, 2008

Recently, I made a switch from my old Compaq R4010 laptop to a spankin’ new HP DV3000. While my sleek new laptop is worth a pretty penny, the data I housed on my old Compaq is worth its weight in gold. So when the time came to backup and synchronize my priceless office documents, music, videos, and pictures, Backup Platinum came along at just the right time.

Backing up and restoring data is certainly not rocket science, but it can certainly be intimidating and tedious to backup and restore huge chunks of data. With software that manages the process, it’s much easier to manage the entire process of seamlessly transitioning between computers. Backup Platinum 3.0 was my ticket to a smooth transition between my computers, and today we’ll be looking at what makes this nifty utility tick.

Backup Platinum is priced at $67 for the full version, and you can test drive the software for free for a 30 day period. At $67 Backup Platinum is a bit pricy, but is much more versatile than the regular backup software built into Windows. The software is also relatively small at 2.4mb and makes for a quick download. The installation is equally smooth and effortless.

One of the neat things about Backup Platinum is that it employs a ‘wizard’ approach towards backing up data. This really takes any guess work out of the process, and creates a very user friendly interface.

You can set schedule for the backup process and this is a automated process. Backup Platinum offers compression features that save disk space and is also equipped with a secure 128k blowfish encryption algorithm to prevent data misuse from prying eyes.

A fair number of options are presented to backup to, including local drive, LAN, CD writing device or a remote FTP server and even you can removable media backup to DVD.

Backup Platinum also features disk spanning and can split up larger file chunks across multiple disks.

Summarized Features:

Main features of Backup Platinum

• Full CD-RW and DVD support with disc spanning
• Backup and synchronize with LAN and FTP
• Integrated ZIP compression
• 128-bit encryption with Blowfish
• Flexible and powerful scheduler

Conclusion - Backup Platinum is worth the money in my opinion, as your data is priceless at the end of the day. I’d much rather pay $67 and know my data is secure, than stand to lose my memorable pictures, videos and valuable office data to a hard drive crash or power failure. Try out Backup Platinum and do let me know how it works for you.

*Disclaimer: This post is an honest representation of editorial review. It is a sp0nsored review*

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