--- description: Learn how Handy Backup can help your business. GetApp provides users in South Africa with the most detailed information on software tools, prices and features. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/getapp/og_logo-94fd2a03a6c7a0e54fc0c9e21a1c0ce9.png title: Handy Backup Reviews, Prices & Ratings | GetApp South Africa 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Business Continuity Software](/directory/272/business-continuity/software) > [Handy Backup](/software/121607/handy-backup) # Handy Backup Canonical: https://www.getapp.za.com/software/121607/handy-backup Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/121607/handy-backup?page=2) > Handy Backup is an automatic backup and recovery solution designed to help individuals and businesses automate the processes for server backup, restoration, activity logging, data encryption, and more. It lets users control backup operations by specifying them into various differential backup types. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 26 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 26 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Novosoft - **Founded**: 1992 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$39,00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Handy Backup Standard: $39 Handy Backup Professional: $89 Handy Backup Small Business: $249 Handy Backup Server Network: $448 - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - API - Automatic Backup - Backup Log - Backup Scheduling - Backup and Recovery - Bare-Metal Restore - Compression - Differential Backup - Disaster Recovery - Disk Cloning - Encryption - Image Deployment - Incremental Backup - Monitoring - Multiple Format Support - Real-Time Monitoring - Real-Time Reporting - Reporting & Statistics - Search/Filter - Secure Data Storage ## Integrations (4 total) - Dropbox Business - Google Drive - OneDrive - ownCloud ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Business Continuity Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/272/business-continuity/software) ## Related Categories - [Business Continuity Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/272/business-continuity/software) - [Server Backup Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/1123/server-backup/software) - [Disk Cloning & Imaging Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/1451/disk-imaging/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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I own 3 licences for my 3 different computer locations. It has saved my butt more than once. There is a small glitch with version 8 and one drive, but I'm certain it will get fixed. This is part of my personal "Essentials" software that I keep for new computer set ups, or re-installations. ----- ### "Support seems to be non-existent" — 4.0/5 > **Mark** | *10 July 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10 > > **Pros**: The actual backup works very well. I like the way you can read the backed up files. > > **Cons**: I have been sending questions to their support and sales mailboxes for months now with not even a reply. I am having trouble with the email notification and have asked at least 6 times with no reply. I have used the email as well as the website comments section, with no result from either. Makes me think they are not supporting their product. > > Overall the backups themselves are running well but as described, the support questions I have sent have resulted in NO REPLY. ----- ### "Handy Backup 7" — 3.0/5 > **Robert** | *10 April 2019* | Business Supplies & Equipment | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy enough t o set up but leaving it to do the same job time after time, I find I could not trust it 100 % > > **Cons**: Sometimes it copies more than set up for and leaving it to do the same job time after time. I could not trust it 100 % > > At present we use serveral Handy Backup 7 around the company. We use these to back up files each night and keep these for three copies. Sometimes it will copy more that three copies, which is a problem I have, this may be the way I have set them up but I don't know. ----- ### "Using Handy Backup both at home and at work" — 5.0/5 > **Tom** | *22 March 2019* | Semiconductors | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: A simple backup was very easy to set up. I recently bought a 1 TB portable hard drive, so I could back up files from the laptop I use at work and have copies of my daily work that I hadn't checked into a git repo yet. I like that the files are stored the same as they are on the host computer. I used a backup program in the past that always zipped everything, and it was more difficult to restore files, or even see what your backup looked like. (Handy Backup has the option to zip too, but I won't be using it.) > > **Cons**: The advanced backup types are a little hard to understand (mixed incremental and mixed differential). Some examples of what the backup types end up looking like on your machine would be nice. Also, I didn't realize that I could only use the software on one machine -- lots of software today allows use on both home and work computers. So I bought one copy, and then found out I had to buy another -- at full price. If it was clearer I needed to buy two copies at the beginning, I could have used the multiple discount. > > Because I didn't understand the incremental backups with versioning properly, I ended up starting to fill up the 1 TB external drive pretty fast. So I ended up reformatting it (faster than deleting hundreds of thousands of files) and starting over with one of the simpler schemes. ----- ### "Handy Backup user for years" — 5.0/5 > **Tim** | *03 April 2019* | Computer Networking | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Handy Backup has always served an essential need for me in terms of disaster recovery. While most of my data is stored on Network Attached Storage that is mirrored for redundancy in the event of a disk failure, mirroring does not prevent me from losing a file through inadvertent deletion. Handy Backup has always been my backup software of choice to make a copy of my critical NAS files to local storage in the event of deletion. > > **Cons**: I would appreciate additional alerting since I never review my log files. I set it and forget it and just assume it's working. It would be nice to receive an alert if a backup failed. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/121607/handy-backup?page=2) ## Links - [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/121607/handy-backup) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-MX | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | ----- ## Structured Data