I still used it to back up my PCs to my NAS boxes. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the granddaddy of remote file access protocols. There’s even has a fully functional FTP client on board that opens up a remote directory and a local one, then lets you copy back and forth. Iperius’s imaging is powerful and uses the common VHD container format so you can mount the images without the program using Windows or VM software. VHD files are mountable by Windows and various virtual machines (VirtualBox, VMware, etc.) programs, so you’re not reliant upon Iperius to browse them. It performs plain file copies (really a one-way sync), copies files to Zip containers, and images drive and partitions to friendly.

There’s little in the way of backup that Iperius can’t do. It’s easy once you understand the concept, and the flexibility is worth the learning curve, but the process would be much easier to understand if all the destinations were defined in the sameplace. If you want the latter copied to the same destinations as the file copies, you must select the “copy to backup job destinations” option in the imaging and FTP dialogs. Destinations for files copies are defined in the destinations pane of the tabbed dialog that steps you through creating a backup job, while destinations for imaging and FTP are done in separate dialogs.