Yadis Backup: Free Real Time Backup Tool With Versioning, Scheduling, And Offline Backup

Posted by dkszone on February 19, 2010

There are many backup solutions available, both offline and online, such as AutoVer, a powerful auto versioning and backup program, Back4Sure, a handy portable tool, and Free MozyHome, an online backup solution. If you don’t want to have any extra software, you can even use your own Gmail account as an online backup drive.

However, most of these tools perform either manual or scheduled backups. Which means there is a big chance of you forgetting to perform the backup or create schedules for it. This is when you need a real time backup tool, one that performs the backup immediately upon any changes to your data.

Yadis Backup, a free backup tool, lets you create backups in the form of tasks. You can create several tasks, each of which having source and destination folders, filters (include and exclude masks) for selection of files to be backed up. Tasks can belong to groups, for easy organization.

Yadis does all the backup automatically whenever the source files are changed. You can also schedule the backup tasks, if you like. The best part is that Yadis does not require the destination folders to be available when you make changes to the source files. For instance, if your destination folder is a network drive, Yadis will perform the backup once the drive comes back online.

Yadis has a very simple, and highly intuitive user interface. A very good backup solution for both basic as well as power users.