Brownback is a Windows backup utility built around a simple idea: your backup should be reliable, understandable, and safe. Protect your files with intelligent versioning, verification, live activity monitoring, and detailed reporting.
Brownback is designed to protect against interrupted copies, accidental overwrites, silent changes, and the uncertainty of wondering whether your backup is actually working.
When a file changes, Brownback can preserve the previous destination copy as a timestamped version before the new file replaces it.
Files are written safely to a temporary file, optionally verified with SHA-256, and only then moved into place—helping prevent half-written backups.
Layered comparison uses file size, optional quick sampling, and full hashing when necessary to balance performance with correctness.
Recognizes cloud-only files and lets you choose whether to skip them or hydrate them for backup.
Stay in control during long jobs. Completed files remain valid, temporary files are cleaned up, and a later run can safely continue.
Human-readable logs, CSV run summaries, and optional per-file JSON reports make it easy to understand exactly what happened.
Live per-file activity, progress, elapsed time, throughput, ETA, and status indicators make it obvious that Brownback is working.
Estimate destination space before copying and optionally warn when a backup drive falls below your chosen free-space threshold.
Validate your configuration and use Dry Run to see what Brownback intends to copy, version, or skip—without changing your files.
Brownback's atomic copy process is designed so an interrupted write doesn't leave a partially copied file masquerading as a valid backup.
The website will become the home for Brownback downloads, release information, documentation, and updates. Development is underway—check back soon.
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