HDD backup with Active Backup Expert

Active Backup Expert is a program which is the most efficiently used as a backup to HD utility. The feature that will probably help you with this routine is a friendly filter, which lets you easily include or exclude files of specific types. For example, the folder may contain many different types of files, while you need to back up only photos. In this case, the filter will allow you to easily find and select them. Another helpful feature for backup to HD is the backup screen, which shows all your previous backups and their exact location.

The program supports full, incremental and differential backups, but, unfortunately, there is no hard drive image backup. What we also didn’t like is that there is no support of registry backup, address book backup, favorites backup and email backup.

Instead of showing reports on complete backups, Active Backup Expert allows saving your own comments on each backup job, which can be considered as advantage or disadvantage by different kinds of users. The program keeps a log of backup warnings, but you may spend some time searching for it.

All things considered, interface and the whole program is usable for backup to hard drive, but requires some time for adjusting.

If your primary requirement is backing up files and folders and you are looking for a simple backup to HD solution, Active Backup Expert may be your choice. The program is not expensive and offers all the needed features for backup to hard drive and some unique ones in addition.