Tell it what to back up
Drop in your Documents folder, your Pictures, the whole C: drive — anything that matters. Live size estimation while you choose, so you'll know up front if it fits.
Get started
Here's the whole flow from clicking the download to recovering a file. Skim it once — it's short.
The philosophy: setting up a backup is three
steps. Restoring a file is three steps. If you can count to three,
you can use Backspace.
Set up your first backup
Tell it where the safe copy lives
Backups can go anywhere: an external drive plugged into the same machine, a folder on your NAS, or a cloud account you already pay for. The wizard shows the destinations you already set up; if you haven't yet, click "Or set up a new destination…" and we'll walk you through it.
Adding a local destination external drive / NAS folder
The simple path. Pick "External drive" or "Local folder" from the Type dropdown, point us at the path, decide whether to encrypt — no OAuth, no API keys, no tokens. If it's a USB drive that's sometimes unplugged, give us the expected drive letter and volume label so we skip the run cleanly on days it's not connected.
Adding a cloud destination Dropbox · OneDrive · Google Drive · S3
Same starting point — click "Or set up a new destination…" and pick your cloud. We open the provider's sign-in page; you copy back a token; we verify it works before anything writes. For Dropbox we use the app-scoped OAuth flow — the app only ever sees its own sub-folder inside your Dropbox, never the rest of your files. Tokens stay on your machine, encrypted at rest; the cloud provider never sees your data in the clear.
Tell it when to run
Sensible defaults: nightly at 8 PM, with a retention pyramid (keep daily snapshots for 7 days, weekly for 30, monthly for 90, yearly for 365). Customize freely. One more click and your first backup is running.
That's it. Watch it work.
Live progress bar while the first run uploads. After that, the schedule takes over — your machine runs backups when you told it to, and nothing else.
Day-to-day, this is what you see
All your backups, one screen. Healthy runs get a quiet green dot; anything that needs attention surfaces at the top of the list.
When you need a file back
Pick a backup and a moment in time
Click Restore files on any backup, or go to the Restore tab. Choose which backup, then which revision — yesterday's, last week's, a year ago.
Tick the files you want back
Browse the snapshot. Filter by filename if it's a big repository. Tick checkboxes. The bottom strip shows the file count and total size as you select, so you know how big the restore will be before it starts.
Choose where they land. Click Restore.
Default is back to where the files originally came from. Or pick a different folder if you'd rather not overwrite anything. Parallel downloads with per-file retry — one slow file doesn't block the rest. Done.
Or just peek — no restore needed
Sometimes you only need to look at an old snapshot, not pull it down. Every backup card has two shortcuts for that.
Browse a snapshot inline
Click Browse snapshot on any backup. Walk the folder tree, filter by filename, see file sizes and timestamps — no wizard, no download. Use it to confirm "is the file I'm thinking of actually in this backup?" before committing to a restore.
Mount a snapshot as a read-only drive
Click Mount and the snapshot appears as a regular folder in Windows Explorer. Open files with your usual apps, diff against your working copy, drag-and-drop individual files out — anything you'd do with a normal folder. The mount is read-only so you can't accidentally corrupt the snapshot. Unmount from the same button (or just close the app and the mount cleans up).
