Prosoft Engineering, Inc. specializes in creating professional quality software designed to be easily used by both novice and expert users. Prosoft started out as an engineering services company doing contract work with many of Apple's key developers including Disney, Epson, HP, Intuit, Iomega, Microsoft, Sony, TDK and VST. Recently, the company announced the availability of Data Backup 3.

    Greg Brewer, CEO of Prosoft Engineering, stated: "We are excited that companies like Apple are raising the awareness of backups and are hopeful that it will encourage more people to establish a safe daily backup regimen. We are happy to be able to offer a flexible solution that gives novice users a simple, automated, safe backup solution while not overlooking the expert users who need comprehensive backup control and features. Everyone will find Data Backup 3 to be a valuable tool, and best of all, just like the original version 3 years ago, Data Backup 3 has ease-of-use built right in"

    The program is a powerful utility that allows you to backup, restore and synchronize your valuable data with minimal effort. Whether you are a new computer user or a seasoned professional, Data Backup 3 offers the right amount of power, flexibility and ease-of-use to help protect your files fast.

Among the new features of the program we can find:

 - Fast Start feature skips scanning and speeds up backups dramatically.
 - New user interface.
 - Built-in backup sets to quickly backup your iTunes or iPhoto files, other important data or your entire system.
 - Backup to CDs and DVDs, automatically spanning on multiple disks.
 - Automatically wake from sleep to backup.
 - Go “back in time” and see your files and directories, as they were when your backups happened.
 - Automatically power off after your backup completes.

Some of the schedule changes are:

 - Each backup set can only have one schedule. Add or remove events from the schedule as needed. If you are upgrading and had multiple schedules for a single backup set these will be merged into a single schedule. Backup options has been changed to a tabbed panel. Rules are now on their own tab.
 - Can wake from sleep or shutdown to execute backups.
 - Scripts and other executables can now be run both before and after a backup executes. See the manual for information on environment variables and other details.
 - Full and Incremental backups now use an inventory file to keep track of which files have been backed up. The HFS+ backup date is no longer used.
 - Deleted files are now tracked in full and incremental backups to provide full fidelity restores.
 - Meta data - ACL's and extended attributes are now copied where possible.
 - Restore - Restore now supports restoring directly into a volume root or folder without creating a new folder.


    Data Backup 3 will be available for purchase online at www.prosoftengineering.com and at Apple Stores, Fry’s Electronics, ClubMac, MacMall, Other World Computing, MacConnection, Amazon.com and other Mac software retailers. More information and International partners may be found at www.prosofteng.com/about_us/distributors.php and at the company web site.