Ocster Backup Pro 8 was designed from the ground up to be very easy to use and still offer all the advanced features that power users want in a backup software. It can work fully automatic in the background and supports image backup, file backup and online backup. It offers a lot of flexible options where it makes sense, but everything is well explained and easy to understand.
Ocster Backup Pro 8 includes a unique new technology called Infinite Reverse Incremental Backup. It enables it to create much smaller image backups than other backup solutions, using approximately 50 % less space!
Main Benefits
- Image Backup, File Backup and Online Backup (Online Backup is optional)
- 50% smaller image backup (Infinite Reverse Incremental Image Backup)
- Versioning
- Automatic Pausing (does not disturb your normal work)
- Flexible scheduling (daily, weekly, monthly, as well as more complex schedules)
- Automatic shutdown after backup (optional)
- Prevent sleep mode during backup (optional)
- Image backup data is stored in standard VMDK files (VMware disk files)
- Bootable/Rescue CD/DVD/USB for restoring in emergencies
- 1:1 File Copy mode
- Detailed backup reports (can also be sent via email)
- Pause and Resume at any time (even after reboot)
- Network backup
- Backup on external hard disks
- Incremental Backup
- Encryption (AES, …)
- Compression (LZMA/7-Zip, Zlib, …)
- Open File Backup
- And much more
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Reviews for Ocster Backup Pro 8
Installation was easy enough. It imaged 96 gigs in 36 minutes. The recovery disk required me to download about half a gig iso file(linux). When I started my PC with it, it took a long time to start, much longer than Reflect and Acronis. I didn’t try the actual re-imaging process.
great software for backup
nice program
great software
best software
It is very good.
better than other backup software. easier to use
Verison Business 6 is better than this version.
nice software… easy to use
Ocster Backup Pro 8 is a mild tool in an equally mild package. It does what it says on the box – backing up. You can back up anything, from mere files to complete hard drives or your system image. This sounds like something I would love to try out.
Download and installation
The Ocster Backup Pro 8 installation package is small enough. At a mere 26Mbs, the skeptics will already begin doubting the capabilities of this backup program. Installing is easy, you just double click on the installation file and agree to the terms and conditions. This will run everything to the end, flawlessly.
Launching the program the very first time prompts you to upgrade to a the latest software version that has a better interface and cloud backup capabilities. Though a catchy advertising catch, it beats the logic of taking me through the free download and immediately telling me to pay and upgrade to something better. Why not let me use this for a day or two before the message?
That aside, every other part of the installation runs true. You will have to submit a registration email and click a confirmation email to activate the software.
User interface
The user interface is simple and welcoming. Anyone can find his or her way around this. There interface is stripped down into a bare create, restore manage and view backups options. Even though this could be all you will ever do when creating backups, I find this similar to what you could do with the native backup and restore functionality you find on your favorite operating system – even if you are running Linux.
Upper menu strip, on the other hand, isn’t any welcoming. Though it add some power to the entire app, for instance language, automatic pausing and a couple of information file, I painfully noted that most of these options launch a web browser, meaning that they will never work if you don’t have an active internet connection.
Smart backup pause feature
This is by far the most useful thing in this app. Backups are quite the resource hungry processes. Anything that adapts the speed and hold on resources depending on how much you are using your computer will let you create smooth backups without affecting your current machine performance.
Backup options
With Ocster Backup Pro 8, you can backup either an entire drive, partition, hard disk or system (Image backup). With this option, you can always restore the entire system whenever things go wrong. This will however take time. A 200GB partition took 40 minutes to run on my Core i7 16GB computer. Be aware that the defragmentation level, used space size and processing power of your machine will affect the back up speeds.
Baking up selected files and folders is faster and simpler.
All the backups can either go into a DVD disc, a flash disk or an external drive. Restoring from the image would be as simple as using the restore option on the app.
Oscar Backup Pro 8 is perfect if you don’t want to waste time using the native backup and restore procedure available on any OS. It is also a good option to anyone who doesn’t his or her files lying around in some cloud storage platform. If you are looking for something else, you’d better stick to Dropbox, Google Drive or Skydrive.
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