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Handy Backup

Automatic backup & recovery software for computers & servers

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Handy Backup - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: August 2025

Handy Backup overview

What is Handy Backup?

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. Handy Backup lets users control backup operations by specifying them into full, incremental, mixed incremental, differential, and mixed differential backup types.

Key features of Handy Backup include disk cloning, bare-metal restore, backup scheduling, disaster recovery, and image deployment. Using FTP/FTPS/SFTP protocols, teams can back up files and databases to reduce downtime in case of server disasters. Plus, it comes with plug-ins for backing up tables of various databases including FoxPro, Access, Firebird, Sybase, and more.

Handy Backup enables businesses to receive notifications about completed tasks and operation results. Users can also manage data backup using numerous cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, OwnCloud, Backblaze, Amazon S3, OneDrive, and OneDrive for Business. Handy Backup can be deployed on Windows Server 2008 (R2), 2012 (R2), and 2016 or MS Windows 7/8/10 and Vista.

Starting price

39flat rate

Alternatives

with better value for money

Handy Backup’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

4.3

(26)

Handy Backup reviews

Overall rating

4.3

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend8.45/10

Rating distribution

Pros

“I like the fact that it does mirror backups instead of image, because I want the ability to restore individual files at time instead of a complete restore.”

Stephen M.

Retired

“I love that I don't have to babysit it while it runs. This was by far the best software I found for making local backups of webmail accounts for my clients before migrating email providers.”

Eric L.

Owner

“Handy seems to be doing a good job, and backups are occurring on schedule, and restore of data has been fine.”

Jeff I.

IT Director

Cons

“I was getting a lot of errors because of naming convention issues so I was looking at thousands of errors. Maybe somehow categories if it's the same error, then mention how many times it happened.”

Charles K.

VP Sales/Engineering

“I stopped using software and Handy Backup has refused my request for a refund. The product was never used yet still no refund.”

Edwin T.

owner

“Takes the stress out of migrations knowing I have a local copy of customers emails incase something goes wrong.”

Eric L.

Owner

Who uses Handy Backup?

Based on 26 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Information Technology and Services

Computer Networking

Food & Beverages

Internet

Others

Use cases

- Not enough reviews

Handy Backup's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Handy Backup users:

Encryption

0.0

(0)

Compression

0.0

(0)

Bare-Metal restore

0.0

(0)

Disaster recovery

0.0

(0)

Backup scheduling

4.0

(1)

Backup log

3.0

(1)

All Handy Backup features

Features rating:

4.1

(26)

API

(0)

Automatic backup

(0)

Backup and recovery

(0)

Differential backup

(0)

Disk cloning

(0)

Image deployment

(0)

Incremental backup

4.0

(1)

Monitoring

(0)

Multiple format support

(0)

Real-Time monitoring

(0)

Real-Time reporting

(0)

Reporting & statistics

(0)

Search/Filter

(0)

Secure data storage

(0)

Server monitoring

(0)

VM backup

(0)

Handy Backup alternatives

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4.3

(26)

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One-time payment

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.3

Features

4.1

Value for Money

4.0

Customer Support

3.3

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard

4.6

(409)

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Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

Features

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IDrive

4.6

(1.1K)

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No pricing info

Free trial

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication

4.8

(454)

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No pricing info

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

Features

Value for Money

Customer Support

Handy Backup pricing

Value for money rating:

4.0

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan

Free trial

Subscription

Handy Backup Standard 8

One-time payment

Features included:

Backup- Documents
Cloud Backups- Google Drive
Dropbox and Box
E-Mails and Settings of Your Favorite Applications
Onedrive
Pictures

Handy Backup Professional 8

One-time payment

Features included:

Advanced Security Options
Cloud Backups- Amazon S3
Disaster Recovery Module
Disk Imaging
Dropbox
Google Drive
System Backup

Handy Backup Small Business 8

249

One-time payment

Features included:

Backup- MS Exchange
Clouds
Ext. Drives
HDD
MS SQL
Mysql
Oracle
Postgresql and More
SFTP
Supported Storages- S

Handy Backup Server Network 8

448

One-time payment

Features included:

Backup Software for- Files
Folder
HDD Images
MS Exchange
MS SQL
Mysql
Oracle
Postgresql

User opinions about Handy Backup price and value

Value for money rating:

4.0

(26)

To see what individual users think of Handy Backup's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“I like the fact that it does mirror backups instead of image, because I want the ability to restore individual files at time instead of a complete restore.”

Stephen M.

Retired

“I love that I don't have to babysit it while it runs. This was by far the best software I found for making local backups of webmail accounts for my clients before migrating email providers.”

Eric L.

Owner