Posted by Feniks

Regularly saving and backing up your data is something that should come natural. If you’re lucky enough to have gotten your hands on Leopard, you can easily use Mac’s very own Time Machine feature. Other users will need to look for an external solution. iBackup is a simple program with a Finder like interface which will cater to basic users.

Backups are called profiles in iBackup and you can create as many as you wish, adding, deleting or editing them. The program also allows you to create smart lists to sift through your data. While you can manually backup, the best is to create a schedule so you don’t ever have to worry about it. On the whole, iBackup performs fairly quickly and the interface makes it easy to see what you’ve added to each profile.

However the application suffers a few drawbacks. First of all, there really isn’t any incremental backup and you need to recreate a profile to add new items to it. This also means that the log file won’t show what new files have been added to a backup. Restoring a drive works fine, but iBackup clearly lacks a feature to only restore individual items.

iBackup is a simple backup solution, for people looking for something basic and easy to use

Review by Cyril Roger