When comparing Handy Backup vs DriveImage XML, the Slant community recommends DriveImage XML for most people. In the question“What are the best backup programs for Windows?” DriveImage XML is ranked 13th while Handy Backup is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose DriveImage XML is:
Can backup while the drive is in use.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Backup for ODBC Databases
The Professional edition is capable to backup and restore database tables with the help of ODBC drivers
Pro Backup to all popular clouds
The Professional edition is capable to save copies of data to all popular clouds such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Drive, OneDrive and OneDrive.
Pro System backup and recovery
The Professional edition can save an image of any drive as a VHD file. Users can restore this image later, or attach this VHD file as a virtual drive and browse its content, or even run it as a complete image of a VirtualBox machine.
Pro Reliable
Reliability, one of the essential qualities of a backup tool.
Pro Hot images
Can backup while the drive is in use.
Pro Run from CD
Can run from a live CD, useful when your system disk has crashed.
Pro Copy drive to drive
Pro Compact
Less than 2 Mb in size.
Cons
Con UI looks dated
The user interface looks dated.
