WinZip as a backup tool

Just bought the "pro" version

[trillianjedi]

Well I stumped up the $50 and bought WinZIP Pro, attracted by it's backup via FTP feature.

I have to say it's pretty darn good. Very easy to configure via the Wizard. You give it a selection of folders to backup, select whether or not you want it incremental, put in FTP details and set a schedule. At the appropriate time it will ZIP the lot up and FTP it to your place of choice.

I now have it backing up my main Windows machine to one of my web servers via FTP at 3am every morning.

I recommend it. If you've used WinZIP before, you will find the user interface for the backup procedures etc quite familiar.

TJ

[bill]

Interesting. I've been doing something similar using the WinZIP command line to run from batch files. I then have my FTP software scheduled to upload while I slumber. You say WinZIP does this all on its own now? Might be worth a look to simplify things.

[trillianjedi]

You say WinZIP does this all on its own now?

WinZIP Pro.

I used to have the same setup as you - scripted ZIP and FTP. This has simplified things and certainly makes it easier to add additional files and folders to the backup.

Just click the FTP button in the Job Wizard, enable FTP uploads, fill in a few fields to tell WinZip where to send the file, and you're done. Whenever your job runs, the resulting Zip file will be automatically sent to your server using FTP.

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