We all keep valuable digital data in our computers hard drives. We don’t only keep our business or private files and email, but also other data items with a deep sentimental value such as pictures, movies etc’. In order to prevent any data loss, you should perform periodic backups of your most important files and folders. into a portable USB drive, a DVD, an online data storage or other server or computer in your network.

Backup Platinum is a tool you can definitely use for managing you backup activities. It allows you to backup to DVD, to a network folder or to an FTP location. It has a nice set of features that add value to those offered by the somewhat counter intuitive Windows backup utility like:

1. The ability to automatically compress your backup files.
2. The ability to encrypt your backup files using bluefish.
3. The ability to burn your backup files to a CD or DVD.
4. The ability to synchronize your backups, so you can perform speedy incremental backups.
5. A powerful and intuitive scheduler that allows you to orchestrate your backups and make sure you keep them up to date.
6. An intuitive user interface, that will help you to get started in minutes.

After giving Backup Platinum a test drive, i found all features except the backup to a network location working satisfactorily. After researching it a bit, i found that the problem with the network location was caused due to a disk space shortage issue. I did some clean up over the network folder and re-started the backup job which ended successfully.

Backup Platinum runs on Windows, and can be purchased for 67$ a piece (discounts are available for larger quantities).