Best free backup software
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bwilhite wrote:
For Windows...what would you recommend?
if you must go with free... I use http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm[^] but there are much better commercial tools. For the price, nothing beats DriveIimageXML that I have found.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
modified on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:48 PM
El Corazon wrote:
For the price, nothing beats DIX that I have found.
Doesn't that sorta violate the kid sister rule? :rolleyes:
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Free? You value your data so little? Ok: Xcopy from a batch file started by windows task scheduler. (hopefully copying to a removable storage device taken offsite daily)
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
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I would recommend getting the best and not the cheapest, a backup failure can ruin your career. My vote is with Acronis Server Imager
MrPlankton
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El Corazon wrote:
For the price, nothing beats DIX that I have found.
Doesn't that sorta violate the kid sister rule? :rolleyes:
you know who you are... ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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you know who you are... ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Hey, I'm 21...that's really the only excuse I've got...other than "I'm male." :-O
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I would recommend getting the best and not the cheapest, a backup failure can ruin your career. My vote is with Acronis Server Imager
MrPlankton
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If you're going to start from 'free' look at Windows Backup in the Accessories, System Tools folder. Perfectly capable of backing up files but does not support compression when backing up disk-to-disk. If you have XP Home rather than Professional, Windows Backup is not installed by default nor installable from Add/Remove Windows Components, but is present on the Windows CD.
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Hey, I'm 21...that's really the only excuse I've got...other than "I'm male." :-O
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Free? You value your data so little? Ok: Xcopy from a batch file started by windows task scheduler. (hopefully copying to a removable storage device taken offsite daily)
When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.
If the *copy route, then RoboCopy: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en[^] Part of Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools but robocopy works on any Windows. (My first post; that link better look right)
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Hopefully a Windows developer takes inspiration from Time Machine on Mac OS X and builds a Windows clone. It really is the best backup software I have ever used. The best bit about it is I rarely knowingly use it. It just sits in the background backing up and never interferes. I reckon a Windows developer would make some good money building a Time Machine clone.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
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if you want to stick with free backups then i would recommend to additionally use a free online backup service like mozy (2 GB free) https://mozy.com/[^] :-D
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if you want to stick with free backups then i would recommend to additionally use a free online backup service like mozy (2 GB free) https://mozy.com/[^] :-D
a nice list of free backup programs with recommendations can be found here: http://techsupportalert.com[^] ;)
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The backup utility included with XP is good, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308422. Also, free online backups are available from BT digital vault, http://bt.com/digitalvault/ (1GB free) and http://www.mozy.com/ (MozyHome Free - 2GB free). Amazon S3 isn't free but very cheap, http://www.amazon.com/s3/. You can use http://www.jungledisk.com/ which is free, to perform your online backup to your s3 space. I like online backup. Remarkably, I'm not backing anything up at present. I suppose I should address this anomaly, I've heard that hard drives can fail.:~
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did you check this program? http://www.z-dbackup.de/download.html it is in german, but has great functions. There is a freeware-version that makes backups up to 4 GB. The professional versions starts at 25€ (~ 30$). Greetings from Germany Andreas
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I know I'll probably get flamed for this - but I've found the built-in NTBACKUP utility works just fine. Backs up anything important and recovery always works. What more do you need? -CB :D