
There is a trial available for Windows XP and higher, although not for other platforms. Genie Backup Manager promises “effortless protection for all your files,” and can be configured in three steps. There's also a server edition available which offers optional support for virtual machines, SQL, and Microsoft Exchange, as well as being HIPAA compliant. Home users are charged for an annual subscription for a single PC, which offers protection against data loss, ransomware, and hardware failure. Also, the backup can be performed with AES 256-bit encryption for extra security. The standout feature of NovaBackup PC is the security offered, as the software runs locally to send the data to a local media drive, and does not connect to the internet. However, it does at least include any upgrades to the program, and also supports backup to cloud providers (including OneDrive and Dropbox). For modest users this will suffice, but it falls short when it comes to the interface, support for platforms other than Windows and Linux, and more advanced tasks. Pretty much the only thing it doesn’t do is make full system images.NovaBackup is a solid backup solution available as a subscription, and ideal for the essential backup task of making a copy of your computer’s hard drive on local media. You can also encrypt backups to keep them secure, create desktop shortcuts for one-click backups and compress backups to save storage space. It can also back up very specific things, such as only files with specific attributes such as age, size and other options.


Personal Backup can manage multiple, unlimited backup sets, run automatically – daily, weekly or in response to specific events such as logging on or shutting down – or on demand. Personal Backup includes some very powerful features indeed including PbStarter, which stores backups under a separate user account to protect against ransomware TbBackup for saving and restoring Thunderbird email files support for Windows’ advanced Volume Shadow Copies feature and support for a wide range of destinations including networked drives and FTP servers.
