our review (continued)
I could then use a tree control to pick any folder that I wanted. I picked a folder with about 500MBs of data to backup and then clicked finish and Memopal went to work. I noticed right away that it wasn’t backing up what I told it to do. 
I left clicked on the tray icon and I was able to get back to the configuration dialog and choose the folder again. This time it seemed to stick and Memopal went to work on the new folder of files. It also seemed to continue on the files that it automatically chose which appeared to be a lot of document type files (word & PDF docs). I like the client’s in progress view. It shows every file that is part of the backup and the progress of each file. The log is a running log and is always shown whenever you open the client. There’s not a concept of scheduled backups or events because every file backed up is done immediately and just shows up in the log. You can select any file in the log to see all the specifics of that file including the path, size, status, etc.
The Memopal client is probably the simplest client application that I’ve tried. In the left channel there are three big buttons: “Search”, “Browse” and “Control Panel”. 
If you click on “Search” then a web browser is brought up with a simple interface similar to Google’s search page. There’s a single line text box with a search button. I tried to search for *.txt to find all of the text files that I had backed up. It turns out that I didn’t have any so I decided to create a test.txt and save it to the folder that I had designated to be backed up. I wasn’t sure if I needed to do anything else, so I just searched again. It found it immediately. I checked the log and Memopal backed up the file as soon as I saved it. I was impressed. I decided to make a simple change to the file on my local drive and see how long it would take Memopal to back up the new version. After I made the change I searched again and the new version was there along with the old version. It was nearly real-time. Even more impressive. In the search area of Memopal there are links for images, music, word, excel and powerpoint files for quick searches. 
This is by far the most impressive search functionality of any online backup provider that I’ve tried. The real-time backup is also impressive. There are other solutions that do this, but Memopal does it by default and it’s the only way. There are no scheduled backups, rather every new file is backed up immediately. No tedious configuration—it’s so simple.
One area that might be a bit confusing at first is the way that you restore folders or several files at once. If you want one file restored you can simply browse the web interface or search for the file. Once you find it you click on it and an immediate download is initiated. This works great for a few files, but if you want to restore 100s of files this isn’t practical. Memopal supports WebDAV which effectively looks like a network drive from your client. You can navigate your files from the file explorer and copy and paste folders and files to a local drive (restore) or you can delete files from the WebDAV interface which would delete the file permanently. Just deleting a file locally won’t delete the file that Memopal has backed up. This is a good thing in case you accidentally delete a file and want to get it back.
Overall, I’m very impressed with Memopal and found myself saying “that’s cool” an awful lot while I was evaluating this service. They bring an innovative approach to online backup and I really like this solution.