Software Oasis Backup Utility - Bare Minimum Backup

basic user interface. The functionality it contains is available in many freeware or shareware products that don't have its drawbacks. I recommend shopping around with the trial versions of other applications and then deciding what is a good value for you.

1. Main Window: You can add and remove folders and files to back up and set a countdown delay.
2. Setting window: You choose if you make a direct copy of the files, or a zip copy of the files. The zip file suggests it supports removeable media but it's unclear what happens differently. I would guess it would split the backup across multiple disks. You can also password protect the zip files.
3. Schedule: You choose when you want Software Oasis Backup Utility to run.

One third of the UI is taken up by the product logo and the publisher's address, which seems odd.

Bad quality control: there are at least two spelling mistakes in the UI.

The UI fails badly when run on multi monitors as it tries to center dialogs in the wrong part of the screen.

It doesn't appear to support network drives unless you map the drive to a drive letter. Home networks are getting more and more common and are a common place to store backups. 

Software Oasis Backup Utility has many of the features you would expect of any backup software such as:

• Scheduling at any time of day on any day(s) of the week you choose.
• Option to run when windows starts. I really appreciate that it asks for this permission rather than making it the automatic default.
• Support for Zip files including multipart and passwords. 

Features Software Oasis Backup Utility lacks include:

• Ability to exclude folders. Often you do not want an entire tree and it's nice to say take all of c:\documents but not c:\documents\videos.
• Network support.
• Ability to run under Windows Vista. It's unclear if Vista is supposed to be supported. The application installs and runs with no errors but throws an error about not being able to find the file when you start the backup. The backup then seems to proceed. This seems odd for an application as simple as this. The publishers page does not list Vista as an option.

• Network support.
• Vista Support.
• Incremental backups.