File Backup Magic

A Backup Article Contributed by M. Larose

File Backup Magic

This information is for those with more than a simple understanding of computers and file systems and familiar with file backup and wanting some specific and detailed software to assist in your file backup program. The software product being discussed is Backup Magic. This software is a file copy utility and is not intended for full system backup. A full system backup would, of course, include system files and this file backup software is not intended for such a large process.

Instead, sans lots of options, Backup Magic software focuses on new or modified files and copies those files only for your backup file process.

Backup Magic File Features

Backup Magic touts itself as an easy and fast daily file backup solution. It allows for incremental and mirrored backup modes. Once you have a full backup of the files you want to protect, the next file backup can be an incremental one. An incremental file backup will copy only those files that have changed, been altered, or are brand new. All files changes are tracked by timestamp or archive bit.

With Backup Magic software the user has the opportunity to include or exclude files and folders before the backup takes place. The best part of the software design is the fact that it does not use proprietary file formatting. This makes file recovery easy and fast because you can very simply restore files by copying them back to the location of your choice. Proprietary file formatting usually requires a software process to be run in order to unlock the formatting.

Additional Backup File Magic

Backup Magic software assists the user with a console that allows for scheduled backup performances. Automatic file backup capability allows the administrator to backup workstations and desktops so the employee does not need to be responsible for such tasks. The scheduled system keeps the company backup plan in place and running smoothly without needing to turn it over to employees that neither have the time or know-how to complete such tasks. The risk of an uninformed person performing critical file backup is removed.

To ease the process and storage requirements of a file backup system, Backup Magic gives the administrator the opportunity to create a separate file backup set for each user. The user will never see this file nor will they ever need to know how to complete the process.

What Backup Magic File Backup is Not Designed to Do

Backup Magic is a utility for file backup. It is not a full system backup product and it is not able to copy neither key files that the operating system uses nor does it copy boot sectors. Backup Magic is strictly a file backup utility that focuses on

Backup Magic is meant to copy data files such as images, databases, documents, music, or presentation files. It does not track storage availability nor does it compress files so when a disk is full there is no prompting for the next disk. Instead an error occurs. You can see that the product has a specific purpose and is not meant for every file backup procedure around.