Richlyn Backup

It’s always a good idea to have an extra copy of stuff somewhere on an external drive, or even your local disk, just in case something happens to the original. Chances are you forget to perform this operation as often as you need, but if you want to avoid this situation, specialized applications like Richlyn Backup are the tool to turn to for help.

Considering it’s a backup utility, portability plays an important role in overall practicality, allowing you to keep it stored, and run it directly from a thumb drive, so backup is performed to an external drive with little effort. Another advantage of portability is that the target PC’s registries are not modified, so neither is the overall health status.

The main window might leave you a little confused at first, especially since there’s only one field you can modify, and that’s for the folder where all backup operations are performed. Luckily, a prompt shows up to let you know what needs to be done, in case you put the process in motion before it’s fully configured.

However, it’s best to halt the process as soon as the main window shows up, because the built-in scheduler attempts to back everything up in roughly 20 seconds. Then, you can go ahead and access the settings menu in order to specify the target folder, and several process-related options.

Dragging folders over the target area isn’t an option, but using the browse dialog isn’t that difficult either. File filters can be configured so only those files of great importance are backed up. There’s also the option to ignore filters and have everything backed up.

As mentioned above, the process automatically starts after a few seconds when running the application. The timer can’t be configured, but this helps automate the process, especially since all configuration options, and folders you set are saved.

Richlyn Backup manages to live up to expectations, providing a straightforward, efficient, and fast way to back up files and folders. Configuring target and destination folders is not a great issue, with the automated scheduler minimizing your effort to the initial configuration process.