When it comes to backing up all the contents from your hard drive, selecting the right back-up software for your needs is quite a difficult task considering the fact that there are plenty of them in the market, both free and commercial products. Though some of them offer the most sophisticated features, others may only offer basic copy and paste features and just making fools out of unaware users. If bad luck favors you, you might end up wasting your money for software whose features can be performed using built-in windows utilities. With Genie Timeline back-up software, you’ll have the most flexible and reliable means of backing up your files.

Regarding the user interface, features are well-organized in such a way that users can quickly find and use each tool available. It comes with a very user friendly graphical user interface, concise and easy to understand.

Probably the biggest advantage of this program against its competitors is the advance features the program offers. There are 12 file categories the program supports; office files, music videos, images and other miscellaneous files. It can also back up your connected portable devices such as cellphones, iPads, etc.

File compression, encryption and password protection is also useful for large data backup and protecting backup files from being accessed by unauthorized users. You can save some disk space by compressing your backup files.

Next is the Smart Mode and Turbo Mode option for backing up your data. These features are available after the program generates the preliminary backup. With Turbo Mode, backing up occurs at full speed, though eats up lots of computer resources. Smart Mode on the other hand is a smarter option for backing up as full speed back up occurs only when computer resources are inactive. However, either way proves that data backup is incredibly fast.

The program also creates a folder referred to as “no backup zone” – everything that is in this folder is not included in the backup files. Save temporary files here to save space when backing up data. Also the program connects to windows explorer allowing you to have browsing access to other backup files created.

Lastly, disaster recovery rounds up the features of this backup software. With disaster recovery, you have the power to backup your entire system if something happen like sudden power interruption. You can easily go back to the previous state where the disaster happened. Also under this feature, you can create a disaster recovery startup disc on your USB flash drives or on CDs/DVDs.

Genie Timeline is recommended for users who need a strong backup tool installed on their computers.

It is available in a professional and home version from Genie-Soft

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