Thread: Second Copy 7

SECOND COPY 7 IS A SIMPLE AND ELE¬gant backup program with a friend¬ly interface, fully automated opera¬tions, an option to preserve multi¬ple versions your files, and enough options to keep tech-savvy users happy. If you search the Internet, you'll find that a lot of other people like it, too, and earlier ver¬sions of Second Copy have been reliably back¬ing up files for more than ten years. If you're new to Second Copy, you may be bothered, as I was initially, by a few puzzling quirks, but once I got used to them, I liked almost everything I tried in Second Copy 7.

The program comes in a 2MB download that's thimble-sized compared with most other software-and installs quickly. Using a wizard, I created a backup "Profile" that would back up the My Documents folder on my system every time I modified a file, and also preserve two prior versions of each file.



The only small complication was that I needed to specify two different directories for the backups of the current version of the file and for the backups of the prior versions. I could have specified that Second Copy make its backups every few minutes or hours or days, but I preferred the option to make backups as soon as I saved a new version of the file.
Second Copy is smalJ, flexible and reliable.

That's all I ask from a file backup program and I don't think you need much more. However, I would have liked to have a secure FTP support. Overall, the backup should be as straightforward and simple as possible, and Second Copy comes close to that.