iBackup is a simple to use backup/restore utility for scheduled backups of files, folders, applications and your system preferences like the dock, deskop picture, time settings, firewall, bluetooth and system applications like AddressBook, Mail, Stickies, iChat, iTunes and more.

iBackup lets you edit these preferences settings and add your own.

Note: iBackup is free for personal use only!

Here are some key features of "iBackup":

Easy to use:
· Look and feel like the Finder in column view

Profiles / Backup sets:
· iBackup is able to handle different sets of backups, they are called profiles in iBackup
· Make, edit and delete as many profiles as you need
· Set different options for every profile

Scheduled backups:
· Tell iBackup to run scheduled backups daily or weekly of the selected profiles

More features:
· Smart Folders
· Tell iBackup to connect to a server (afp or smb)
· Run a script before and/or after a backup
· Add the current date to the backup folder name
· Set a maximum of backup folder in the specified path
· Use archives: make cpio, cpgz or zipped backups
· Run backups with administrator privileges
· Every profile has its own settings

Plugins:
· iBackup use plugins (xml files) to backup system and application preferences
· System Preferences: Address Book, Automator, Dashboard, DVD Player, Fonts, Garage Band, iCal, iChat, iMovie, iPhoto, iPod, iSync, iTunes, iWork, Keychains, Mail, Phones, Printers, Safari, Stickies, System Preferences, Widgets, ...
· Application Preferences: Adium, Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Apple Works, Battle for Wesnoth, Camino, Chess, ClamXav, Cyberduck, Filemaker, Firefox, Gimp, Google Earth, Graphic Converter, iBackup, iCab3, iClock, iSnip, JBidWatcher, MacJournal, Max, Microsoft Office 2004, MPEGStreamclip, MPlayer OSX, NeoOffice, NeoOffieJ, NetNewsWire, Nvu, Opera, OSXnews, QuickTime 7, RealPlayer, Senuti, Skype, Smultron, SNES9x, Stuffit, svnX, Taco HTML Edit, TextMate, Thunderbird, Vienna, VLC, ...

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New: monthly scheduled backups
· Improvement: scheduler is now based on UNIX and not using AppleScript commands to avoid issues with different date format settings
· Improvement: scheduled hours and minutes can be entered in the fields directly, steppers removed
· Improvement: removed that iBackup asks to choose a folder for the restore profile
· Improvement: connecting to server can be cancelled
· Bug fixed: mail includes log file as attachment
· Bug fixed: connection to server issue fixed