Today's topic is BackItUp, another substitute solution from SOFTOTEC. We've already reviewed their ASIS Backup. "ASIS" operates on a very low organization level that allows you to construct exact substitute copies of your disc volumes with wholly the operating systems and software installed. While this method lets you restore everything after a disc or organization crash without re-installing Windows and other software, it is time-consuming and requires a re-boot to finish. You will probably not apply it more often than once per month. But, what about the documents, e-mail messages and other files that you create or invite between two finish substitute sessions? They can be befuddled on a disc crash, virus attack, etc. You need a tight and uncomplicated substitute plan that you can commit on a schedule to construct daily backups of your folders containing important documents, pictures and e-mail messages. BackItUp is exactly the solution. Question: What makes it so tight? Answer: Incremental mode of operation. Instead of funding up the same files files every day, it adds only files that were created or updated since the last substitute session. Normally, this method speeds-up the substitute treat by hundreds of times. Unlike standard Windows substitute utilities and some other old substitute programs that go incremental backups, BackItUp does not create split archives containing raw and updated files. It updates the same archive. So, this does not require additional space on your disc. The plan supports ZIP compressing and is compatible with the 64-bit ZIP format. There is always a tradeoff between the resulting archive size and the compressing speed. You can choose from several compressing modes. I'd intimate that you create split "tasks" (the plan allows you to create multiple profiles called "substitute tasks") for your documents and your binary files (images, archived software, etc.) Choose the Maximum compressing for your documents and the Fastest compressing for the binaries.