Looking for a free application that will automatically save backups of your important documents which you can retrieve if something goes horribly wrong with your term paper, business report, or terribly important letter to your friend in Nigeria who has a proposition for you?
DocShield will scan a folder for changed files at regular intervals and save copies to an archive. If you want to restore a previous version, just right click on the file in the DocShield interface and select View to get a list of earlier versions. You can open old copies of your document or save them as new files.
DocShield is a free Windows application. You can pay for a license, but the licensed version doesn't add any functionality, just a license number. In many ways, DocShield works just like
FileHamster, a similar app we covered last year. But DocShield does a few things FileHamster won't, like backing up files to an FTP site. There's also a DocShield USB utility which lets you carry a portable version of your backups on a USB flash drive.
[via
Freeware Genius]
