SmartBackup 2.5

SmartBackup 2.5 offers you an ideal application designed for lightweight daily backups.

Major Benefits:

• Be smart - backup different
• • No matter if you want to create full bootable backups or just set up a few important items for a small efficient network backup - If you are looking for a fast and straightforward solution, SmartBackup is perfect for you. Choose a local folder, your external harddisk, ipod, network share or even WebDAV as your target and never lose your files again.
• Straightforward setup
• • Select a target for your backup, add the Items you want to be save and click Sync. Done. Although of course nobody will stop you from discovering the power to use Spotlights Saved Searches to define smart backup items or exclusions.
• SmartBackup knows where to find your files
• • You do not have to know where Mail, iCal, iWeb etc. store their files. SmartBackup knows it for you and offers several useful presets.
• Backup or exclusion defined by Spotlight
• • With SmartBackup you can use Spotlights "Saved Searches" as backup items. That way files found by that searches can be backed up or excluded. Telling SmartBackup to "backup all files changed during the last week", "backup only purchased music out of the iTunes library" or "exclude all files with a red label", is just one click.
• Backup to Harddisks or Network
• • SmartBackup supports backing up to any kind of harddisk, partition or network sharepoint. It is usable with your external harddisk, iPod, USB stick, iDisk, AFP, NFS, SMB, WebDAV, Airport Extreme or other network disks.
• SmartBackup Engine - optimitzed to the core
• • SmartBackup uses its own optimized sync engine to determine which items have changed since your last backup. During each backup only those items are copied. SmartBackups sync engine also handles preserving of MacOSX specific metadata or archiving of changed or deleted files for you in a fast an efficient way.
• Smart archiving
• • SmartBackup archives deleted or changed files in an archive folder. That way the backup stays clean and changed or deleted files are neatly kept in an archive where they are stored sorted by date and time of their removal.
• Just in case - one click restore
• • SmartBackup stores all your files as they are inside the backup, including your backup configuration. You can take out individual files anytime. In case of emergency, when everything is lost, just download SmartBackup again, reselect your backup folder and restore your files with one click.
• Easy automation with iCal or Automator
• • Scheduling your single backup can be done by just setting SmartBackup to autopilot and launch it using iCal. If more sophisticated tasks are required, like mounting sharepoints before backup, you can include SmartBackup easily in Automator workflows using the included Automator Action.
• Pro flexibility: headless mode
• • Some people need to do that Unix stuff. Like running backups via ssh or cron. SmartBackup allows you run backups from the commandline as well.

Major Features:

1. Easy to use interface
2. Powerful built-in sync engine
3. Bootable backups
4. Archiving of changed/deleted files
5. Backup presets
6. Backup/exclude saved searches
7. Multiple backup sets
8. Metadata/permission preservation
9. Automation with iCal or Automator
10. Commandline mode
11. Preserves labels, custom icons
12. Handles multiple backup sets
13. One-click restore
14. Included automator action
15. Headless (commandline) mode

Enhancements:

• Snow Leopard support
• 64 Bit
• Performance optimisation
• Updated Automator action

Requirements:

• Intel or PPC Mac
• MacOSX 10.5 or 10.6