Get KeepSafe for $8.95 - Holiday Special
Sunday, December 21, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
If you ever worry about losing your data from a corrupted document, or from a power outage, KeepSafe is the ideal solution for real-time data backup. KeepSafe has an easy to use interface and setup wizard, which will get your data protected in no time. You can select which types of documents to backup, and there are a wide variety of options for maintaining those backups.
To see a more detailed review, check out one of my walkthroughs.
KeepSafe is normally $30, but Stardock has a special holiday promotion going on where you can get KeepSafe for just $8.95.
Use coupon code KEEPSAFE-2008 at checkout.
Link: KeepSafe
Reply #2 Monday, December 22, 2008 12:01 AM
That sounds cool, and excellent price, well worth it, but I'm curious as to how it would backup something in realtime, if your power supply conks out due to lightening, yes, this has happened to me 3 times, I mean, it gets hit, and everything turns off, no time for anything 
Reply #3 Monday, December 22, 2008 6:19 AM
Tailsgirl, I'm assuming the idea is that Keepsafe will take back-up copies of monitored file types at pre-set regular intervals.. Meaning that when the lightning hits and your computer's power goes down, you might only lose the last 5 minutes of work instead of say the last twenty minutes since you saved it last, by restoring the Keepsafe back-up record of that file.
(Correct me please If I'm wrong Stardock people 
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Reply #4 Monday, December 22, 2008 6:37 AM
Ahh I thought it might do that, it's a great idea, and I wish I'd had this app a few years ago, I lost a crap load during one particular storm, and.. another time it was my fault, I spilled a beer on my keyboard, soaked right through to the m/board, and killed it.. ahh.. hehe 
Reply #6 Monday, December 22, 2008 9:51 AM
Well apart from the fact that backups are not made based on any time interval.
They are made when you save so the old version can be recovered if you have overwritten the old file with a damaged file, or realise you actually wanted the version you were working on at 10pm last night etc.
Reply #7 Monday, December 22, 2008 10:04 AM
So, this means that the person working on the document (say) or whatever has to pause every so often and "save"...how's that "Realtime" or how do you define "Realtime"?
Will it backup *.odt documents (I use Open Office 3)? The screen shots show other file types but not .odt.
Not trying to be difficult, but I'm really just not understanding what's being offered. Why not Norton's Ghost 14 ?
Reply #8 Monday, December 22, 2008 10:30 AM
They are made when you save so the old version can be recovered if you have overwritten the old file with a damaged file, or realise you actually wanted the version you were working on at 10pm last night etc.
So, this means that the person working on the document (say) or whatever has to pause every so often and "save"...how's that "Realtime" or how do you define "Realtime"?
Will it backup *.odt documents (I use Open Office 3)? The screen shots show other file types but not .odt.
Not trying to be difficult, but I'm really just not understanding what's being offered. Why not Norton's Ghost 14 ?
Norton Ghost is really a whole 'nother kettle of fish entirely. Keepsafe is more likened less to a backup utility, and more to a versioning utility, with the handy side effect of being able to back up too. It's realtime in that you don't need to run it to work, it Just Does. And you're just seeing the initial configuration wizard. I don't have it installed, but if I remember rightly it actually lets you monitor whatever the heck you want, once you get past that wizard. (Also, if you save your ODTs to your documents folder, then you're covered by the top checkbox in that wizard - "Keep copies of any file I save to the 'My Documents' folder").
Reply #9 Monday, December 22, 2008 10:32 AM
Thanx, Kyanar. So it does pre-timed incremental back-ups. Thanx!
Reply #10 Monday, December 22, 2008 11:17 AM
Being able to go back and find a version of a documetn 18 (or whatever) versions ago can be a life saver. And yes, you can incluse or exclude any file types or directories.
What I did when I first got Keepsafe is open each file in the directories I was monitoring and saved each file to have a baseline. Worked like a charm.
Reply #11 Monday, December 22, 2008 11:48 AM
What I did when I first got Keepsafe is open each file in the directories I was monitoring and saved each file to have a baseline. Worked like a charm.
If I could only understand what he wrote. Sigh. Didn't backup your spellchecker did it, Zu? 
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Reply #1 Monday, December 22, 2008 12:01 AM
Awesome app. has saved my ass more than once.
Too bad I already bought it.