“Automatic backup copies while your PC is idle”

Who said your PC is useless when you're away from it? You can now have making backup copies for you!

IdleBackup is especially created for this purpose: it controls the processor level of usage and takes advantage of those idle moments when the CPU is not working in order to create backup copies of your most important documents.

The program enables you to set a given period of time between backups (which surprisingly can only bet set in seconds and with your mouse – no keyboard allowed) but the automated process won't start if the computer is being used. There's also the possibility to manually start the backup copy.

The first backup will be a full copy, but the rest of them will be incremental which means that only those files which have been changed will be added to the backup. Copies can be saved to any other local folder or a networked drive. Apart from setting the period of time and the source and target folders, there are no other options to configure copies.

This is quite a simple backup copy program, but still it makes good use of those times when your computer is not in use.

Languages:

English

OS requirements for IdleBackup:

OS: Win2000/XP/Vista

Pros

Takes advantage of idle CPU time
Supports networked drives

Cons

No extra options to configure backups such as filters or schedule tools

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From the publisher of IdleBackup

IdleBackup creates backup copies of your documents when you're not using your computer. The task can be automatically repeated according to a certain lapse of time but you can also create them manually, simply by choosing the files to be backed up and the target location.

See what this program features for you:

1-1 copy (mirror backup)
Incremental backup: the first backup is a full backup, then each next backup will copy only changed files:
Manual or Automatic backup (at a set interval time) during idle time of the computer
Can also copy files larger than 2Gb.
Backup mail data of Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express