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After inserting the free product/activation key, somehow it will not accept it, but sends you to their website to and expects you to purchase a new key, after many attempts, I gave up and got rid of the software. A complete waste of time.
Agree with @jmac – a complete waste of time.
Today, Nov. 26, 2025, I received the registration number and when I tried to register this backup program I could NOT.
The BS reason is that this serial has been used too many times already.
So……this offer here is a complete BS and a failure.
What a waste of time.Today, Nov. 26, 2025, I received the registration number and when I tried to register this backup program I could NOT.
The BS reason is that this serial has been used too many times already.
So……this offer here is a complete BS and a failure.
What a waste of time.[ @Ashraf] Why are both the descriptions on the giveaway page for editions OTHER THAN THE LITE EDITION? That is incredibly deceptive! see compare-editions web page The lite edition offered here does NOT include cloud backup destinations, amongst other restrictions.
Your false claim:
“The genius of Backup4all Lite is its support for off-site and cloud destinations. By backing up your critical data to services like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, Dropbox, or Azure, you create a separation between your local machine (the target of a ransomware attack) and your recoverable data. If WannaCry locks down your C: drive, the encrypted copies safely stored in the cloud remain untouched and ready for immediate restoration.”
That is a blatant lie the lite edition does not include cloud destinations according to the comparison matrix!
It also is supposed to support Vista and Server 2008 not just Windows 7 and above. See backup4all product page.[@TK] When Ashraf installed the trial setup before the giveaway was active the installer lets you select the edition you want to trial, either he selected Professional edition which is the ONLY edition to have cloud destination support instead of choosing the Lite edition trial which is the one the giveaway is for or he didn’t install anything and just made it all up from the Pro marketing hype on softland website and chose to ignore pagees like the comparison matrix.
In all fairness, the program did register without problem after a couple steps, but when I tried to use the same serial number on a second computer, that’s where the too many licenses error came up. Had to use a second email for the wife to get the program registered on her computer.
My problem after running the program may be more from my ignorance, but have always used clones, not backups. Still stuck mentally in the days when a backup saved your pictures and documents but nothing else.
So with a full backup capability, we supposedly have a compressed image that could be used in a complete hard drive melt down. After running a full backup on a stock win 11 Dell, laptop, the program verified that the backup was complete with the fine print warning that about 2000 files were skipped. I threw this scenario to AI and got back what I had suspected. It’s a crap shoot as to whether the image will work depending on what was skipped. Was it critical system files, some documents, software activation files?
For me, not worth the risk of having to find out the backup is useless when needed. I’ll stick to the old school trusty clone method for now. Thanks for the offering though. I don’t know whether the ignored files were a flaw in the program or something fragile in the backup process no matter what software you are using.
