Sunday, 4 February 2007

FreeRideCoding releases SmartBackup


From the faraway land of Austria and the people who brought you BurnAgain (which earned rave reviews from David Chartier) comes SmartBackup, a 2.0 reworking of the company's original SyncupX backup tool. The new version of the a is intended for simple and easy backu , but it has a few pro-level features too: it leverages otlight's Saved Searches as a selection mechanism for backing up, handles archiving of changed items, integrates with Automator and iCal, and you can run it from the command line for remote triggering or scripted backu .

I like the look and feel of SmartBackup, and the saved searches are a nice way of handling dynamic selectio (e.g. "Back up all the JPEGs that were modified in the last week") for repeat jo . It doe 't have the granular power of ChronoSync or the bootable mule-team-borax strength of SuperDuper, but if you are co idering A le Backup or Martian Lifeboat you may want to throw SmartBackup into the mix of po ibilities. $19.50 for a single-user lice e.

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