Windows 10 / 11v1.0.0

Backup Assistant

Any folder, any destination, and every copy read back to prove it worked.

Cloud sync is not a backup. OneDrive, Dropbox and iCloud keep a mirror of one blessed folder, and a mirror reproduces your mistakes faithfully: delete a file, or let something corrupt it, and the copy updates to match within seconds. They also decide where your data may live, how much of it you may keep, and what that costs every month.

Backup Assistant does the plain version instead. Point it at any folder anywhere on the machine — not a special folder it created, not one buried in your user profile — and send it wherever you want it: an external drive, a NAS, a mapped network path, a second internal disk. No account, no subscription, no per-gigabyte pricing, and nothing uploaded anywhere you did not choose.

Then it does the part most backup software skips. It reads the copy back and checks it against the original, and a run that could not verify is reported as a failure rather than quietly marked green.

See it running

First backup1:34

A narrated screen recording of the app, trimmed to the steps. Folder names that are not part of the demo are blurred. It plays from this site rather than from YouTube, so watching it reports nothing to anyone.

What it looks like

Step one of Create a Backup: a choice between backing up a whole folder or picking individual files, with the folder option selected and nothing chosen yet. — Pick what to protectStep 1

Step two of Create a Backup: choosing where the backup is saved, a summary line reading Folder 0 files, and the Start Backup button. — Pick where it goesStep 2

The Backup Assistant window showing a green tick and the message that your files are backed up, with the date it last ran. — Read back and confirmedVerified

What it does

Any folder. Any destination.

Back up a whole folder or hand-pick individual files, and write them wherever you like — external drive, NAS, mapped network path, another internal disk. Nothing has to be moved inside a special synced folder first in order to be protected.

Verified, not assumed

Every file is hashed after it is written and compared against the source. Most backup software tells you it succeeded. This one checks, and reports a run that did not verify as the failure it is.

Versions, not a mirror

Previous versions are kept for as long as you choose, so a file you corrupted on Tuesday can come back as it was on Monday. Sync would have overwritten Monday within seconds of the damage.

Runs on a schedule, or when you say so

Hourly, daily or weekly, in the background, whether or not anyone is signed in. Or press the button and watch it run.

Ordinary files in ordinary folders

The backup is not an archive format only this app can read. Browse it in Explorer, drag files out by hand, restore without installing anything. If this app vanished tomorrow, your backup would still open.

It tells you when something failed

A clear log of what ran, what changed and what failed, with an optional email when a scheduled run does not complete. Silence is the most dangerous thing backup software can do, so this one does not go quiet.

What it needs to run

Windows 10 (build 19045) or Windows 11
About 80 MB of disk space, plus room for the backups themselves
Somewhere to write to: external drive, NAS, network path or second disk