Uranium Backup is intended to protect your data from accidental losses, such as those caused by viruses, power failures, and hardware malfunction, by creating backups of the selected files. Additionally, it lets you encrypt and protect the copies with passwords.
The program has quite a straightforward interface, but it is certainly not appropriate for inexpert users. It works by creating backup sets, which store information about what to replicate, where to store the copies and when to do it. Many of these parameters are completed by default but you also need to enter specific data. Unluckily, some of the captions in the interface were not translated from Italian.
The tool supports various types of sources, including standard files or folders, SQL server, Exchange Mailboxes, Hyper-V virtual machines and FTP downloads, among others. As a destination, you can use local folders, FTP servers, various types of discs, and even some Cloud storage services. In this regard, the program is characterized by its support of tape backups, which no many similar tools can do.
Since you would not want to forget to do necessary backups, it is great that the program allows scheduling them to run at a given frequency or specific time. Moreover, you can create rules as to when to copy or overwrite a file in case there is already an instance in the target location. Similarly, you can make decisions related to file size, modification date, and even contents.
As backing files regularly can devour storage space, it is good that the Uranium Backup can zip the resulting files as well as automatically erase old files. Besides, the program lets you audit all events, which let you know, for example, when a particular operation was not successfully completed. In this respect, it is also good that you can set the tool to send you reports via email to facilitate remote management. Finally, the software can help you restore data from any of the backup types described above.
In conclusion, Uranium Backup is quite light and customizable. It has most of the features you can find in similar software. Moreover, it allows saving backups on tape. The product is available in various licenses. Uranium Backup Free can be used at no cost, but with multiple limitations. Additionally, there are Uranium Cloud Explorer, Uranium Backup Base, Uranium Backup Pro Tape, Uranium Backup Pro DB, Uranium Backup Pro Shadow, Uranium Backup Pro Virtual and Uranium Backup Pro Gold. It is a good idea to explore their functionalities before deciding to buy one of them.
v9.2.2.5920 [Jun 5, 2016]
New features
Added support to USilio
Fixed bugs
Fixed a bug of the incremental / differential backup with the exclusion of subfolders
Fixed a bug with the access credential of network destinations
Fixed a bug preventing the configuration of a Drive Image backup with a network destination
Other minor bug fixes
