{"id":14273,"date":"2011-02-16T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2011\/02\/16\/review-and-contest-uranium-backup\/"},"modified":"2011-02-16T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T00:00:14","slug":"review-and-contest-uranium-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2011\/02\/16\/review-and-contest-uranium-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Review and contest Uranium backup"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time:<\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Uranium Backup<\/a> is a powerful and versatile software for backup solutions on Windows (XP \/ Server 2003 – 2008 \/ Vista – 7 32 and 64 bit).<\/p>\n

We all know how much is important own data security and this very good software can help us by offering a reliable solution without thinking about software and hardware “disasters”.<\/p>\n

The software is multilingual and available in different versions: <\/p>\n

free:<\/strong> backup with local disk and network direct copy or zip compression, on external disks (USB\/Firewire\/SATA), etc…<\/p>\n

base:<\/strong> over features of free versions it offers disaster recovery, it means full disc images; backup via FTP and e-mail, creation of zip files with size of over 4gb, sync with files deletion, it can be executed as Windows service, autoupdate feature<\/p>\n

pro:<\/strong> it offers features of base versions + specific features, the Pro tape<\/strong> version offer support to various tapes, the Pro Burn<\/strong> version offer support of CD\/DVD\/HD-DVD and Blu-Ray burning, the Pro SQL<\/strong> version offer the feature to backup S SQL Server databases, the Pro Shadow<\/strong> version can copy blocked files with Volume Shadow Copy and allows also copies of running virtual machines on the fly<\/p>\n

gold:<\/strong> the full version, it includes all features of other versions<\/p>\n

Here my feedback about the program, actually at version 8:<\/p>\n

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The program show a nice and clean interface.<\/p>\n

To set a new backup you must define a new backup set<\/em>. once you gave a name and description, sub-elements will be automatically created:<\/p>\n

xxx.bks: it’s the configuration file, clicking on it you can see backup statistics<\/p>\n

items and destinations: here you can define files and folders to be backup and destination folder scheduling: you can program to start the backup on a specific date \/ time<\/p>\n

options: here you can find general backup options about destination folder, hidden and system files, blocked\/in use files; options about direct copy, zip compression (compression level, encryption with password), options for ftp transfers, tape backup, burning, running of other processes (start programs before and after backup set)<\/p>\n

log: you can read logs generated by backup sets<\/p>\n

mail report: you can tell to generate a report that will sent to a specific mail address<\/p>\n

Once defined all these backup set options you can immediately run it, you can continue your work \/ web surfing etc… during execution as the process is very light for the system; at the end you can see the results.<\/p>\n

From Tools<\/em> menu you can restore from tape, restore from CD\/DVD\/HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, restore of SQL Server database. There are also a useful built-in ftp client, .zip decryption feature, backup running through Windows service, general options, autoupdate feature; you can see log and configuration files.<\/p>\n

I finish this review saying that i find the software very useful both for desktop and server environments (with the scheduling feature, ftp and network drives support, NAS server and tapes, synchronization).<\/p>\n

The free version is enough to make a simple backup, if you want to benefit of all nice and great features you should use base or pro or gold versions.<\/p>\n

A big thanks to FreeSoft S.r.l. that exclusively offers to Simo blog readers 3 Gold licenses fully free<\/strong>, so you can use all program’s features!<\/p>\n

How to obtain them?<\/p>\n

You can join the contest following that:<\/p>\n

WHO CAN JOIN:
\nanyone that has a blog, a Twitter account or a Facebook account<\/p>\n

CONTEST TERMS:
\nthe contest start from now and will end the 28 February 2011<\/p>\n

HOW TO JOIN:<\/p>\n

– who has a blog can write an article with link to this review\/contest and at least the words “Simo blog”<\/p>\n

– who has a Twitter account can write a tweet with link to this review\/contest and at least the words “Simo blog” or simply retweeting this article<\/p>\n

– who has a public Facebook profile\/page can write a post with link to this review\/contest and at least the words “Simo blog” or simply can click Like button<\/p>\n

Finally leave a comment with your data (valid e-mail address) reporting the link of your own blog post, or the address of your own Twitter account to verify the tweet or the address of your own Facebook profile\/page to verify the related post.<\/p>\n

I remember that the comment must be unique for who has a blog + associated Facebook profile\/page and\/or associated Twitter account, you just must use only one of these “channels”.<\/p>\n

The 3 winners will be randomly extracted at the end of the contest (names will be associated to progressive numbers then extracted via Random.org<\/a>) and will be contacted by e-mail obtaining a Gold license of Uranium Backup.<\/p>\n

In case of not reaching at least 3 valid users comments the contest will doesn’t consider the expiration and will continue until reaching it.<\/p>\n

So good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading time:<\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Review and contest Uranium backup – win 3 Gold licenses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-14273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-free"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Software<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Software<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["free<\/a>"],"unlinked":["free<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 16 years ago","modified":"Updated 16 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 16, 2011","modified":"Updated on February 16, 2011"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 16, 2011 1:00 am","modified":"Updated on February 16, 2011 1:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}