Austin, TX, January 15, 2008: Mac users spend a great deal of time creating and editing files, installing applications, and maintaining their Macs. But unexpected mishaps can delete files or corrupt their Mac OS X installations. To protect users against such data loss, Intego releases Personal Backup X5, which helps users back up their files, create bootable backups, and synchronize folders or volumes. Intego is presenting and selling Personal Backup X5 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, from January 15-18, at booth S-2426 of the Moscone Center.

Personal Backup X5 is the versatile backup program for Mac, offering backups, bootable backups and synchronizations. Personal Backup X5 protects Mac users from disasters by backing up files regularly. Users can create custom scripts to meet their precise needs, and Personal Backup X5 ensures that backup copies of their files are always available. The program's automated scripts ensure that users always have up-to-date backups.

Personal Backup X5 can back up important files to any hard disk, network volume or optical disc. The program can also create bootable backups of entire Macs, so users can get back to work quickly in case of system problems. And Personal Backup X5 can synchronize folders or volumes, to ensure that each one contains the same files.

"One of the biggest security risks is losing important files," said Laurent Marteau, CEO of Intego. "People have irreplaceable personal files, confidential business data, and all their photos, music and movies on their Macs. When disaster strikes, the best insurance is a full backup. We've added many new features to Personal Backup X5 so it provides even more versatile and flexible backup features for Mac."

Personal Backup X5 continues to provide a full range of backup features, and adds new functions to make the program even more flexible and efficient. Among the program's new features are a new format for multiple backups, using hard links to save disk space; script preview, to see which files will be copied before running scripts; the ability to run other scripts, applications, AppleScripts and more before and after running backup scripts; improved restoration, exceptions and scheduling; the ability to wake up remote computers to mount volumes for backups; the ability to wake up the Mac running scripts to execute backups at any time; and more.

Personal Backup X5 is the most versatile backup program for Mac. Its key features include:

• New user interface
• Previews scripts before running them
• Runs scripts, applications, AppleScripts and more before and after script execution
• Multiple schedules possible for any script
• Network volumes can be mounted when needed
• Personal Backup can wake up a Mac to run scripts
• Improved Dashboard widget to launch and monitor scripts
• Full or incremental backups
• Fast, reliable restorations
• Bootable backups can be made of the startup volume
• Data synchronization of folders or volumes
• Backs up to all types of volumes, such as hard drives (HFS/HFS+/UFS), AppleShare servers, Windows shares (samba), NFS servers, iDisks, iPods...
• Automatic mount and dismount of network volumes
• Backup statistics display with graphs
• Backups can be made to multiple disks
• Exception lists to choose what not to back up
• Data copied in its original format allows immediate recovery in case of accidental loss
• Scripts can run in the background

System Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or higher (Tiger and Leopard).

Pricing and Availability:

Personal Backup X5 is available now. For pricing and upgrade information, see www.intego.com.

About Intego
Intego develops and sells desktop Internet security and privacy software for Macintosh.

Intego provides the widest range of software to protect users and their Macs from the dangers of the Internet. Intego's multilingual software and support repeatedly receives awards from Mac magazines, and protects more than one million users in over 60 countries. Intego has headquarters in the USA, France and Japan.

As the dangers of the Internet grow, Intego is hard at work, developing new software to protect users and their Macs from the latest security and privacy threats.

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