Simple Backup

Overview

Simple Backup is a program that performs scheduled backups of your files. The primary goal of this software is to keep the archive size small and easily managed. The software is written in C# using Windows Presentation Foundation.

 

Home Screen

The home screen lists the "backup sets" you've created and allows you to edit them or create a new one.

 

Archive Viewer

Clicking on the "View Files" button from the home screen allows you to view the files of an archive and restore or delete them. Every file will have at least one version, seen here as the clock icon with a file date. You can restore or delete entire folders, or a single version of a file. The "Version Select" radio buttons determine which version of a file is checked when you check a folder or a file. "Newest" would be useful when restoring files, while the other three options would be usefull when deleting old versions of the file to reduce the archive size.

 

Creating or Editing Backups

Creating a backup set is as simple as choosing a location for the archive and selecting files or folders to backup.

You can also schedule the backup to run automatically. Here is an example schedule that runs once a week. You can also schedule daily or monthly backups.

When adding a folder to the backup set it's easy to ignore certain file types.

 

Performing a Backup

When you manually run a backup or one is automatically started the following window will appear.

 

Future Enhancements

Simple Backup is still in beta however some new features that will be implemented include encryption, compression, cloud backups, and only keeping a specified number of file versions.

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