QuickShadow Backup

QuickShadow Backup is a desktop software tool designed to help you back up the contents of a folder to another, as well as to synchronize two different directories with as little effort as possible.

The application is wrapped in a simple, clean and straightforward interface. Even though it comes with a wide range of advanced features and may seem difficult at first sight, it becomes easier to handle after getting accustomed to the settings.

Once you have selected the source and destination folders, you can start to configure its settings. Files can be protected by moving them to a location that requires a username and password you have previously assigned to password-protect that directory.

QuickShadow Backup gives you the possibility to exclude various items from the backup list if they contain specific patterns in the file's name or extension (e.g. LOG, TMP, LCK, EDB, VPU, VDM). You can use the Windows backup exclusions list as well. If you are not sure what to leave out or keep, the help section provides you with complete information.

More than that, you can set the program to create logs each time it backs up or synchronizes something, on failed and deferred tasks, only on failures, or never.

Upon running the tool, you can set it to start minimized to the system tray, search for changes and copy the updates, and perform a synchronization.

You can allow the application to keep up to 20 old versions of the backed up files, but you should be careful when using this feature because holding on to more than 10 versions might affect your computer's performance. It lets you schedule automatic synchronization tasks for every day, week, or on a specific day of the month.

We haven't encountered errors during our evaluation. The overall performance of the computer was not affected, due to the low usage of CPU and memory.

QuickShadow Backup proves to be a reliable and useful tool that enables you to back up and synchronize your files with little effort.