Best free backup software
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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
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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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
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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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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.
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Depending upon just how much you wish to backup, many data compression utilites can simply be set to add/update mode. Some, like 7Zip, are free. Hybridize the command-line file with an appropriate call your compression application and you've got an easy backup system. One advantage: if you use a common compression format, you don't need any special tools to restore your files in that time-of-need. [Modification] Here's a sample command line -
7z u archive.zip *.docupdates *.doc files to archive archive.zip."The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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I agree. We use it at my work, it is very very easy to use and works (I've had to restore from a backup several times and no problems). We've tried scheduling backup tasks to run automatically and save to a network share, that has been hit and miss (we have an older version though so it could have been worked out), but a local backup drive has been no problem.
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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
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
I think Windows Home server probably meets your description. With it you can have up to 10 home computers backed up to daily, weekly, and monthly restore points, all done automatically. Also, the claim is complete restoration of the entire system effortlessly upon a system failure that requires rebuilding the machine. I own it and so far haven't had to use that feature but have used the restore-a-file feature several times - it's like being at work but not just having backups available for server stored files - you always know you have a backup up of any file on any machine you have in the house. It acts as a NAS, has IIS 6 running on it too for your web serving pleasure. This part allows retrieving or storing a file on the server from anwhere you have internet access. Ok, I didn't mean for this to sound like an advertisement, just sharing this info as I think for developers with a multi-PC household, you could find this useful. I felt that my developer system - a 2003 Dell that is loaded to the hilt with IDE's and numerous other software development tools would be a real loss if any of the hard drives crapped out. Kent
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I think Windows Home server probably meets your description. With it you can have up to 10 home computers backed up to daily, weekly, and monthly restore points, all done automatically. Also, the claim is complete restoration of the entire system effortlessly upon a system failure that requires rebuilding the machine. I own it and so far haven't had to use that feature but have used the restore-a-file feature several times - it's like being at work but not just having backups available for server stored files - you always know you have a backup up of any file on any machine you have in the house. It acts as a NAS, has IIS 6 running on it too for your web serving pleasure. This part allows retrieving or storing a file on the server from anwhere you have internet access. Ok, I didn't mean for this to sound like an advertisement, just sharing this info as I think for developers with a multi-PC household, you could find this useful. I felt that my developer system - a 2003 Dell that is loaded to the hilt with IDE's and numerous other software development tools would be a real loss if any of the hard drives crapped out. Kent
I haven't used Windows Home Server. It does look good but it is also a hardware solution where Time Machine is a software solution and works with either your internal HDs or external HDs (or with a bit of tweaking, with your network drives as I have it.) Nice to have Windows Home Server but it would also be nice if the software bit could be loaded onto existing Windows machines and let them use existing NAS or external HDs.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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I haven't used Windows Home Server. It does look good but it is also a hardware solution where Time Machine is a software solution and works with either your internal HDs or external HDs (or with a bit of tweaking, with your network drives as I have it.) Nice to have Windows Home Server but it would also be nice if the software bit could be loaded onto existing Windows machines and let them use existing NAS or external HDs.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Yes, it is a hardware + software solution. The nice thing is that you can repurpose an older PC sitting around though as it doesn't require much horsepower to do it's job. No monitor is needed, just the box once you have it set up. The server software is based on MS's small business server so it's windows server 2003-like. You can RDC to it and install software and use it like you might any PC except that you have a slight risk of bogging it down then with additional processes and you could otherwise affect the normal operation of it I guess to. Oh, and for those interested, the OEM system builder version is about $175. Kent
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Yes, it is a hardware + software solution. The nice thing is that you can repurpose an older PC sitting around though as it doesn't require much horsepower to do it's job. No monitor is needed, just the box once you have it set up. The server software is based on MS's small business server so it's windows server 2003-like. You can RDC to it and install software and use it like you might any PC except that you have a slight risk of bogging it down then with additional processes and you could otherwise affect the normal operation of it I guess to. Oh, and for those interested, the OEM system builder version is about $175. Kent
Can I install it as an application on my existing Windows XP OS? I'd be interested to try it but not willing to use a whole box/vm for a server OS.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Can I install it as an application on my existing Windows XP OS? I'd be interested to try it but not willing to use a whole box/vm for a server OS.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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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 a simple backup, I don't have a recommendation. If you want enterprise scale server/client backup for Windows/*nix clients, BACULA. I had it set up in a few hours and it backs up all my servers wonderfully. I'm going to start using it for clients (Documents and Settings folders) too. You can backup to any media including a hard drive. I have it doing full/diff/incr and I can to point-in-time restores. It is very comperable to the expensive Legato Networker. It's roots are *nix but there is a windows version. Google: bacula