Idlebackup (freeware)

Automatically backup in idle time
Most people simply forget to make a backup or are not willing to spend time on it.
Idlebackup can make the backup, once setup, in an unused moment (idle) of your computer.
That is where the first part of the name 'Idle' comes from.
Most other programs can only be started manually or at a set time which is very inflexible.
Idlebackup will make the backup in an unused moment of your computer, if set to automatic mode.

Manual backup and shutdown
With Idlebackup it is possible to start a backup manually and let Idlebackup switch off the
computer when the backup is ready. To do so, press the Shutdown button after you have started
the manual backup.

Synchronize backup
Synchronize backup is not often found in freeware backup programs. It may be used incidentally
or continuously to clean up the hard-disk with directories and files not found anymore on the
source file.

Easy browsing through backup set
Since the backup consist of a one to one copy (mirror) of the source, you can easily
browse through the backup set with My computer, explorer or the built in explore. This is
however only possible with 'Mirror' type backup  set. For the other type 'Full' and 'Sequential'
you have to use an external ZIP program.

Sequential backup
Besides Full backup, which updates the ZIP-file each time it is started, there is Sequential backup.
This also called Version backup. Everything is copied to a new zip file with a timestamp.
In this way you have all files that belong to each other from a certain point in time.
For example you can make each day a backup of your database. So you could roll back the situation
of the database to a few days back in time.
The program can also delete automatically zip files that are older then a set number of days.