Download Backuptozip 1.3

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BackupToZip is a simple backup program that mainatins a compressed mirror.

BackupToZip is a simple backup program. It maintains acompressed mirror of a set of files in a single large ZIPfile. You can then copy this ZIP file to DVD, flash drive,hard disk or CD for backup. Unlike a compression utility,such as WinZIP, if you delete files, the next time you runBackupToZip it will automatically delete those deleted filesfrom the backup archive. It will also automatically updatechanged or add new files as needed.To restore, you would use a conventional ZIP tool such asWinZIP to fetch replacements for the damaged files from thearchive.BackupToZip is much faster than recreating the archive fromscratch each time with WinZIP. It also avoids the usualproblem of gradually accumulating more and more junk in yourbackup archive files that have long been deleted from your actualfiles. With an ordinary archiving utility, come time torestore, you have to manually sort through the accumulatedchaff.AdvantagesThe final DVD is a perfectly standard DVD. You do not need any specialutilty to browse it or copy files off it, other than an archiver such asWinZip, or the archiver built into Windows. The DVD can also be read onother operating systems without special software, so you can transfer youdata to a totally different computer. Nearly all other backup programsuse a propietary DVD format that only their software can read.You can use the free BackupToZip with a simple free DVD burning programsuch as Nero Lite. Most other backup programs, even ones that do nocompression, charge you. Using BackupToZip is completely free, other thanthe cost of blank DVDs or CDs.As a side effect, BackupToZip maintains a hot backup, a compressed mirrorof your data files on hard disk. You can recover almost instantly fromdata loss using this this hot backup, much faster than fetching files fromDVD.

Changes on the new version:
use UTF-8 filename encoding to permit awkward characters in file names.

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