IdleBackup: Backup your files when you're not doing anything else

So you want to perform regular backups of all your important files, but you don't want to leave your computer on all night to run your backup software of choice. IdleBackup will copy your files to any hard drive, folder, or network drive only when your computer is idle.

You can set IdleBackup to run only when your system has been idle for a set number of minutes. And you can choose what idle means. By default, IdleBackup will start if you haven't touched the mouse or keyboard and when the CPU activity is low. But you can skip the CPU check and just monitor the mouse and keyboard activity, which makes it more likely that IdleBackup will spring into action when you leave the room for a few minutes.

The backup utility is pretty simple. You can choose the files and folders to backup, and that's about it. IdleBackup will perform incremental backups. But there's no restore feature, so you'll have to manually copy your files back to your PC manually if you need to recover them.

[via CyberNet]

Tags: backup, freeware, idlebackup