RAM usage at all stages is also respectable, with the program never really jumping beyond 80MB occupied at any one time.Īnd once you’re done with backing up your essential data, Iperius also features a restore function in case you’d like to put it all back. I should also mention that my test machine is a six-year old laptop with a dual core Pentium CPU, so results should generally improve with your machine’s youth. With that said, the speed is pretty promising. Backing up around 390GB of images, music files and documents on my media drive took around six hours to complete, and this is over USB 2.0.
Luckily, Iperius seems to be run extremely well.Īfter running a number of backups on my work machine, it performed solidly throughout. It’s all good and well dowsing your program with options, but its only really beneficial if the program actually functions adequately. Nevertheless, the free version provides a number of other options at least, including zip compression, scheduling, email notifications and the choice to run a program before or after backup. You’ll probably find that there are many deactivated features in the free version, but you won’t really need any of them immediately. If this doesn’t quite float your boat, you can also add files from FTP servers (useful for fetching Linux distros), Oracle and MySQL server files, although these features are exclusive to the paid version. So if you fancy preserving your music collection and your music collection alone, the program lets you pick and choose specific folders and files to include. It allows for more than just one strain of backup. “Home” houses all the essential backup goodies, allowing the user create what Iperius calls “Backup Jobs.” Essentially, these are multiple backup sequences detailing location, included files and folders and a number of other variables. The latter tabs aren’t of much importance, but the first two are particularly interesting.
There are large icons and easy to read menu tabs dotting its top level bars, labelled: “Home, Restore, Tools, About.” There’s no menu bar at all, which will probably have a few Windows XP users in a panic. It’s laid out like a white table cloth with just the necessary crockery and cutlery. It’s as straight forward as can be.Īnd so is the interface.
There aren’t any annoying issues with bundled bloatware. Windows 10’s backup system isn’t the most detailed, but Iperius does boast a few more bits and bobs. But often, a third party program has all that a savvy user could really need.Īt least that’s true from looking at Iperius Backup for the first time. While many OSes feature native backup programs, like Windows Backup or Mac OS X’s Time Machine, usually these are fairly thin and lack the essential knobs and buttons that particular users require.
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