Genie Timeline
Offers continuous, automatic backup for music, videos, photos, and documents with settable frequency, backup resumption, system recovery, space-saving, restore points, lightweight operation, easy setup, turbo mode, and support for local, external, or network drives.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Features
Windows Explorer Extension- Time-machine
Tags
- File Backup
- Backup and Restore
- continuous-data-protection
Genie Timeline News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
POX added Genie Timeline as alternative to Parachute Backup- Danilo_Venom updated Genie Timeline
Ramon302 added Genie Timeline as alternative to Crow Backup
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What is Genie Timeline?
Genie Timeline is a Windows backup software providing continuous, automatic backup of various files including music, videos, photos, and documents. It requires minimal user input, backing up files from your computer, external drives, or network drives. The software autonomously safeguards new and modified files, allows users to set their backup frequency, resumes backup after pauses or disconnections, and removes unnecessary files to save space.
The user-friendly interface includes a three-step backup setup process and a protection level indicator. It allows users to restore files from any point in the backup timeline and view the timeline by new, modified, and deleted files.
Genie Timeline features seamless system recovery to protect against hardware failures, crashes, and viruses. It creates automatic system backups and provides an easy recovery wizard. Despite its extensive features, it remains fast and lightweight, operating silently in the background without causing slowdowns or interruptions. It includes a Turbo mode to accelerate backup speed when the computer is idle and saves space by only duplicating files once.
Genie Timeline information
Developed by
Genie9 LTD Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $40 and $250 + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
45 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
I've been trialling the latest version (Genie Timeline Professional 10), and must say that I am very impressed. I am using it as a Windows File History replacement, and use Macrium Reflect for nightly system images.
Michael
Genie Timeline is Slow, the slowest of all the backup apps I have tried, but it's easy to use and promesses full system backups, but when you try to create the ISO so called "Disaster Recovery" into a USBdrive, you discover it is only bootable with old BIOS support, not UEFI, and since my computer don't even support legacy boot, it becomes useless. Basically making it only fit for file backups, and for that there's better tools and even free like Restic as an example!
I just started using Genie Timeline Home 10. It seems it will let you just back up just the Windows OS, or the desktop, though you have more standard options as well, but I haven't quite seen that.. perhaps I'm mixing options, though extra stuff can be deleted. You have the option to compress files, pause/resume. The Timeline Genie is somewhat intrusive, and I'm not sure how to shut it off yet.. I put a usb drive in and Timeline shows automatically in the file set. Also the pop-up alert if it's been a while from backing that I'm not sure if I can shut off.
I've been trialling Genie Timeline Professional 10 and I'm very disappointed with it. Having a couple of issues that make it unusable. I've contacted their support twice and have had no response. The issues are as follows... 1) It tells me my backup drive is full when it isn't 2) When I pause a backup it fails to resume - it either crashes or gets stuck trying to resume the backup. Very poor indeed. This is definetly NOT an alternative to the awesome Timemachine!
. As a back up, Genie Timeline, has many useful features. It's clean, easy to use and once installed and quick instructions selected, takes care of itself without additional user attention. I liked that, Set it and forget it.
Unfortunately, this nice program has a 'MAJOR' shortcoming, and 'must have', for a back up program to be considered, 'Ready for Prime Time', and that is, it does not synchronize backup's.
As a result, I do not recommend, till it does include a sync feature.
For an alternative, I've been test driving several other [Backup & Sync] programs, and ran across one named: Created Synchronicity, that looks promising; backs up and synchronizes. My only disappointment is, that it only offers 'incremental' , rather than 'differential' syn's, which are much less prone to errors. To overcome this shortcoming, I will admit, it does make fast 'mirror' backups with ease, and till I find something better [free or paid], I'll be using it to back up and synchronize my files. - 03Dec2013[XPsp2] .
This is the old version, i've recently upgraded to Genie timeline 2012 great new features! specially the metro user interface
Recently had a serious problem with win2008 SBS and Genie timeline, have been trying to resolve this problem (software was crashing in the middle of backup) for a weeks. Support from genie was terrible, we been chasing them every day...eventually, after month of silly games with genie we have moved to another backup solution.