Get Backup for Mac: Features and Review
Read the review of backup software from Mac - Get Backup from BeLight Software. Know about the features of this software and see what all it can offer to you as a backup solution to safeguard all your data and applications.
This time BeLight Software is ready with their backup tool for Mac users with a title Get Backup for Mac which is available both in free and paid (pro) versions. You get almost all the basic features with the free version that any Mac users will be looking for. Right from the ability to create a full and versioned backup, it has included the most useful utilities like excluding, synchronizing files and folders and creating bootable clones of a startup drive. Get Backup for Mac is a well-designed software in which it has comprised a very organised menu and a handful of useful features that make it a really good tool for the file and system backups. The menu is aptly designed with a decent graphical interface clearly indicating the main buttons. The Technical support is available through a Help drop-down menu and there is a link to the Web site of the developer too. The application makes it all easy for the users to create backups of the file folders and also includes options for the documents, images, videos and music. If you are looking for more traditional backups, there is an option available in the menu to select the clone drives, which lists down the available hard disks and asks you to choose a correct destination. The drag-and-drop menu can be used for the different folders to be synchronised with each other.Key Features
Secure Backups
Get backup for Mac creates backups by using the drag-and-drop templates for Documents, Mail, Address Book, iTunes and iPhoto. You are free to choose between a full, incremental or versioned backup and also encrypt them by using Blowfish, AES-128, or AES-256. The only thing you need to do is to simply set up an automated schedule for your backup and select an external disk, a network volume or CD and DVD to archive your files and let the software store your data safe. Later on you can restore archives on any computer you wish without even having to install the Get Backup software.Bootable Backups through Cloning
With the Get Backup for Mac migrating to a new disk has become much faster and easier. With the cloning features in place, you can easily clone your hard drive and get a backup disk which can be booted up at any point of time. Even if your Mac disk fails, it can be taken out and replaced with the clone disk without spending any time. The other option is that you can wait for a new disk, and boot it up using the cloned one as an external drive.Keep Folders in Sync
Now speed up the Synchronizing process of your files and folders on your Mac with the help of another computer or a mounted drive using the latest and smart sync features of Get Backup. Along with the backing up of files, the sync projects can be scheduled to be performed at a fixed time on any slot of the day, and thus Get Backup will take up the task for you.
Pros
Get Backup is an Easy to Use backup tool that is really useful because of its Customizable schedules and you can have three types of Backups to suit your purpose.
Cons
The one short coming of Get Backup which was found is that it was unable to schedule the backups more than once per day unless you select and schedule the task everyday.Wrap Up
Definitely Get Backup can be a great substitute to the Time machine. This app offers a good number of useful options. Get Backup stood up to the expectations during the testing and so it can be chosen as one of the best backup tools for the Mac that can be availed without any cost.
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