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Automatic Backup a free for commercial or personal use backup software that automatically or unsupervised will save your important data. From the beginning, the idea of backup software solution for computers was a key element in the life of IT/technical professionals, now unwatched backup gained importance as the volume of data grew , and users forget to backup computers. Automatic Backup or just ABS, created as a simple and automatic app; written in VB.NET with the main objective to be small and portable while incorporating the most common features. Featured on PC Utilities magazine coverdisc
History
Automatic Backup or ABS was originally released in 2006. The idea was to create a full furnished Backup Solution written in VB.NET with the smallest package possible, with a form factor of a portable application .
The original released version 1.0.0 was published in 2006 at free download sites Download.com, the same year received several updates to the version 1.2.0. The project got noticeable this year as it got to be in the first page of the Google,Yahoo with the "Automatic Backup" key word search. The project expects to gain momentum possible interest and attract more developers.
ABS 2.5.1 ranked 4th place at BrotherSoft base in Title, Short description and windows app for free Backup Solution (29/09/12)
See matrix comparison between ABS 1.2.0 and and with Sauver Personal Edition

Features
Automatic Backup supports USB, LAN Shared resource/folder, FTP, compression (Zip, encryption (including Rijndael, RSA-Rijndael), incremental. The software is portable, which means can be executed from a USB memory, may also be installed as an application.
Extended Features
Incremental(only backup what's new) Backup(local drives, USB, Shared drives, FTP). Zip Backup and reduce the size of the copy. Encryption (Military 256bits encryption Rijndael NOT just a standard DES).Time-Machine (ABS will keep up to 10 versions of the same file). Restore (Zip, FTP and local/remote share folders). Schedule (hourly, daily, monthly and yearly). Sync Folders (both-ways, only source, only destination). Live Update. Software will check every 45 days at start up. Advance configurations (only IT/Advance users). Automatic Launch a backup when the last USB drive used for backup is inserted. Uniquely Identify USB drive even if the attached letter is different.
ABS, allows users to configure and schedule regular backup routines, for instance an incremental backup every night (which backs-up files changed since the last full/incremental backup).
Internet Backup Guides
There are millions of good and simple guides to backup. here some
* Simple Guide to data Backups by VitalComputerRepair
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