Nero BackItUp and Burn

Nero’s BackItUp and Burn product promises not only to deliver backup software, both local and online, but also disk imaging, synchronization and deleted file recovery tools plus Nero Express - an optical disc authoring tool for CDs and DVDs.

It sounds enticing and it’s very easy to use. It’ll scan your computer for pictures, videos, documents and other important files, suggest likely candidate drives as targets then instigate an incremental backup regime for you. Naturally, you can specify individual folders and files, and there are plenty of advanced features here. Scheduling options include being able to back up only when your system has been idling for a certain period, and they can be triggered when a specific device has been plugged in, too.

You can swap between incremental, differential and update backup types depending on the amount of space you, have it send email notifications when jobs are complete, back up to network drives or FTP and control CPU priority. There’s a drive imaging tool as well and the Sync tool allows you to keep two folders synchronized.

However, the online backup option is less than tempting. 1GB of space is available for free for the first three months, but thereafter it costs £70 (exc. VAT) per year for just 25GB of space, which is far too expensive.

The biggest disappointment is the online backup option, but elsewhere its balance of ease-of-use to advanced options is finely tuned. On the whole, it combines simplicity with more advanced backup features, and is easily worth the asking price.

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