How do you use Timeline

I’m an Architect, and I use Autocad and 3DSMAX and my office is small, we are 8 people, with a very simple and basic network setup. I needed a backup to backup our AutoCAD and 3dsmax files. I tried many backup software, most of them are very complicated, but I managed to read the help and run it. After a while you discover lots of problems, for example, I installed Acronis on all of our 8 AutoCAD drawing computers and scheduled the backup to run daily at 8 pm, sometimes we work late so it will start backup and really interrupt our work!!! which is so annoying and not acceptable, other times, it misses the backup schedule time, next time I come to the office it asks me to backup and again it will interrupt my work. I tried their continuous backup also, it hanged my machine and really disrupted my work which I hated, it also really causes problems with Diskeeper which I also use.

I Auto save AutoCAD every 10 minutes so the file is changed frequently. I tired other backup software but they keep taking snap shots of the file every time (10 min’s), and later I discovered they take the whole file every time, my NAS backup location got filled quickly, was not acceptable

Then I installed Genie Timeline 2.0. I have been using it for a month now, it’s perfect, easy to install, 3 steps, never ever have to worry about scheduling or missing a schedule or a shut down computer, etc. I never have to worry about overwriting my AutoCAD accidently (I can easily use Windows explore to go back in time and copy/paste it.) It also backs up changed sections of the file, not the whole file every time I save! In the backup destination I can find any file easily, it preserves the name and supports ZIP Compression. From time to time, i go manually and delete the unwanted files from the backup, like when we finish a project and want to keep only the golden master drawing

And the best thing is it runs silently in the background. I never felt any decrease in my system’s performance. I also discovered one cool feature, which is Games/Movies Mode, sometimes when we do a huge big animation using 3dsmax, and we are watching it, I don’t want the backup to interrupt the movie play which is cool.

It’s perfect for us; simple. Most architects here don’t know anything about computers so Genie Timeline doesn’t require any knowledge or maintenance. It also won’t require me to pay lots of money for a computer IT guy to manage my backups.

Great work guys, keep it fast and simple

Kurt Bracewell

I am an accountant, I use financial programs like Quicken, Quick books and Accounting CS. I can’t afford losing any of my clients bills or financial profiles so when I used Genie Timeline it gave me a peace of mind as I don’t need to be a computer genius to figure out where Quicken and other financial programs are hiding my profile; Timeline automatically located it for me when it first installed. And I don’t have to worry about remembering to backup my financial files especially during the tax season where things become hectic.

I love reports and Timeline gives me reports about my backup status and files types included in the backup, this is one great feature! Thank you for developing an amazing program.

R.Dash

Very interesting question.

I work mainly writing articles and reviews about games and softwares, on several sites and blogs I own.

I frequently need to create/update images, files and several types of data. This data represents “my work”, and is very important to me.

To lost this stuff is something unthinkable to me. I can’t express my happyness in use a tool like Genie Timeline, which works in real time and are always in the backgrouns, monitoring all I do/create/edit on my PC.

Last week I wrongly edited a database with very sensitive data, and was fantastic to use the Genie Timeline Explorer to “back in time” and recover the correct version of my DB.

From now on, I can’t live without the security Genie Timeline provides me. It’s a fantastic tool, and if we remember that this software includes the Disaster Recovery feature, all we have to do is to work forgetting all fears that something bad happens.

If so, all we have to do is to start Genie Disaster Recovery. Congrats to all Genie-Sort team for this work. This is the reason you appears in first place when we search on Google by “backup software”.

I am a software developer myself and I am working on Mac OS X as well as on Windows. Ever since the invention of Time Machine on the Mac I wanted to have something similar on Windows. After a long period of carefully evaluating different products I decided that Genie Timeline is simply the best.

Although I am using a source code repository to keep versioned files on a central server, there always exist local changes between commits to the repository. Every once a while I need to look up local changes or recover “accidental” deletions. Timeline is perfect for this.

On top of this, fatal system crashes always happen at the worst possible moments. Reinstalling the dozens of applications I am dealing with every day, and – worse – rebuilding all their settings manually, can easily take some days of work. To protect from this disaster the Disaster Recovery should be mandatory for every production machine.

My original decision was for Timeline 1.0 and it already fulfilled all my requirements. Timeline 2.0 is even better.