Protect Desktop was among the fastest performers among backup software, coming in second only to Acronis True Image 2. My backup of the main hard drive volume (4. GB of data) on a Surface Pro 3 to a Western Digital My Passport Essential took 2. Protect, compared with 3. Paragon Backup & Recovery, 1. Acronis True Image 2. NTI Backup Now.

• Pros User-friendly interface. Continuous backup. Drive migration. Fast folder backup. Creates startup rescue USB drives and discs. • Cons Slow full disk image backup. Recovery USB creator doesn't work with Windows 10 systems.

• Bottom Line NTI Backup Now 6's interface is improved, and it can protect your PC's folders and files, including system files, but it falls short of the competition when it comes to usability and speed of some operations. NTI has been in the game since 1995, so the company has expertise when it comes to protecting data. Its Backup Now product packs a punch, with an improved interface and the fastest performance on our folder and file speed test by a significant margin. In addition to continuous folder and file backup, the software offers full-drive backup and restore, encryption, and other tools. But it still trails some of the competition in usability, and its full-disk backup was quite slow in my testing.

Pricing and Starting Up To try out a fully functional free version of NTI Backup Now 6 for 30 days, you need to fill out your name and email, but you don't need to enter credit card credentials, thankfully. The list price is $69.99, but with discounts you usually pay half that. The 115MB download took over 8 minutes on a very fast Internet connection, which suggests that NTI's servers aren't the fastest. After choosing one of the three available languages (English, French, and Spanish) and agreeing to the license, you have to restart your computer to complete installation. The software runs on all versions of Windows from Vista to, as well as on Windows Server 2008 and 2012. I tested on a and an. As with some other backup apps, every time you launch the NTI Backup Now application, you need to OK a Windows User Account Control dialog, since the program is digging into security-sensitive areas of your system.

Interface The program's interface is attractive and friendly, with big buttons for Backup, Restore, and Migrate—a far cry from 's complicated interface. Choosing Backup pops open a window offering equally clear sub-choices: File Based Backup, Drive Based Backup, Continuous Backup, and NTI Cloud Backup. The latter makes Backup Now function as an. After you choose File, a window shows your system's folder tree structure in a My Folders tab, with another tab for My Profile, which lists common file types, such as Documents, Music, Pictures, and so on. NTI installs a system tray icon with simple choices of opening the backup window, stopping backup processing, showing help, and quitting. Restoring Tap the main interface's Restore button, and a small dialog gives you choices of File Based Restore, Drive Based Restore, and NTI Cloud Restore. Simply check the backup job or drive to restore from and pick what you're looking for from a folder tree.

Komiksi fnaf chitatj na russkom. You can also search by filename to find what you want to restore, but you need to enter the exact filename or correct file type and wildcard characters to successfully use it. After selecting files, a clear step in the Restore wizard lets you choose whether to restore them to their original location or a new one. The next options are also helpful: you can tell the program to never replace an existing file, to only replace if the backup has a newer date, or to always replace. A new destination will inherit whatever folder structure the original had. So, when I restored to the Backup folder, I saw Users, Username, and Desktop sub-directories created.

One thing in the interface that I'm not crazy about is that Backup jobs and Restore jobs appear in the same list, with nothing to differentiate them. Also, it takes a long time after clicking in a check box to see the drive contents display in the lower panel where you select folders and files for restoration. Selecting among previous file versions is different than in many backup programs: Instead of seeing multiple versions for a single file, you pick a date and time from a dropdown to get to the version you want. The problem with this is that each time you change the time or date, the folder tree reloads from scratch, rather than staying on the folder you selected previously. Full disk-image backup was a different story: In my test creating a full-disk backup from a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 with 63GB of files to an external USB 3 drive, NTI took 2 hours and 4 minutes, compared with Acronis True Image 2016's 7 minutes and 19 seconds and Paragon's 12 minutes and 57 seconds. Helpfully, NTI saves a log file that tells you each of its steps; this makes it easy to determine how long a backup took.