Best free backup software

[Member 96]

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)

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[bwilhite]

Checking that one out now.

[bwilhite]

Evidently I do, since that's what I asked for :^) .

[MrPlankton]

I would recommend getting the best and not the cheapest, a backup failure can ruin your career. My vote is with Acronis Server Imager

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[El Corazon]

you know who you are... ;P

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[David Stone]

Hey, I'm 21...that's really the only excuse I've got...other than "I'm male." :-O

[bwilhite]

Thank you kindly for the advice... :) This is not for business use at all and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what features I'll need. So I'm mainly looking for a starting point.

[Ravi Bhavnani]

If you're looking for something simple and extremely free, check out EZBackup[^]. /ravi

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[Mike Dimmick]

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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[Lost User]

*Elaine sighs* ;P

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[holdsop]

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)

[Paul Watson]

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.

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[matheharry]

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

[matheharry]

a nice list of free backup programs with recommendations can be found here: http://techsupportalert.com[^] ;)

[bryanmajury]

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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[AGieg]

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

[Wambach]

Try typing ntbackup /? from a command line and see if it will help.

[TorstenH]

There is a MS Powertoy called SyncToy. Simple and easy to use. It simply copys/syncs data from a to b - quiet easy for backing up working data to a NAS or so. regards Torsten

[ClockMeister]

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

[bwilhite]

Amazingly yes they do ;P , and even more than one at the same time can do so (that's why I'm here). It's really crappy when you lose the phone numbers for all your college buddies that are scattered here and there. I found mozy yesterday and I'm taking that for a spin as well as Cobian.