WINZIP 11 BETA BACKUPS

For some of us, new fancy, makes the coffee as well as does the backup software doesn't help what we are trying to accomplish. I fell into the Beta 11 version by accident when purchasing a license for a client. Normally I ignore betas as I have work to get done and I have enough problems with flakly software without resorting to beta headaches. This turned out to be different.

I didn't send WinZIP a list of wants but someone did:

1) Let me choose folders and files.
2) Let me encrypt the archive.
3) Let me specify a destination and date tag it.
4) Let WinZIP decide what compression algorithm decide which gets the best compression on a file by file basis and don't bother me with the details.
5) Let WinZIP FTP the file to a remote location when done.
6) Let WinZIP email me the compressed or uncompressed log of what happened.

For those of use doing remote, drop dead, when the system and the backs have been destroyed type backups, WOW! Stop the databases, copy them and bring them back on-line. WinZIP backs up the copies and delivers the file to the offsite server and emails you the results good or bad.

At the offsite server, create a script that deletes ZIPs older than your drop-dead retention time of 1 week, 1 month, etc. Viola'.

WINZIP 11 Beta