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Title: Free backup software Post by: jimmy_onions on Thursday, January 7, 2010, 17:26:48 Any of you clever techies recommend a decent free downloadable piece of backup software (I recently acquired a new external hard drive)?
Min requirements are: Idiot proof and simple to use. Back up of files obviously, but system back up for use in cases of emergency (e.g. pc re build) would be nice as well. Cheers all... Title: Re: Free backup software Post by: Simon Pieman on Thursday, January 7, 2010, 19:21:23 Do you want a backup of the entire hard drive?
Title: Re: Free backup software Post by: jimmy_onions on Thursday, January 7, 2010, 20:47:22 Ideally, yes.
Title: Re: Free backup software Post by: Simon Pieman on Thursday, January 7, 2010, 21:13:17 Couple of ones I use:
Syncback - You can backup or sync drives, folders or specific files by setting up rules (it's easy to do this). The thing I like is when you sync 2 drives/folders it will only update files which have changed if you setup the option to do this. http://download.cnet.com/SyncBack-Freeware/3000-2242_4-10413802.html?tag=mncol Easeus Partition Master Home Edition - Not a backup tool as such but a great partition manager, which also allows you to copy partitions or drives easily. http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html?tag=mncol Title: Re: Free backup software Post by: jimmy_onions on Thursday, January 7, 2010, 21:36:03 Thanks si, will try them out.
Title: Re: Free backup software Post by: Sippo on Thursday, January 7, 2010, 22:29:06 Or could you use robocopy. Simple cmd file will do the job.
Title: Re: Free backup software Post by: jonny72 on Thursday, January 7, 2010, 23:27:03 but system back up for use in cases of emergency (e.g. pc re build) would be nice as well. To do that you need something that creates an image of the hard drive, a full backup of a drive isn't the same thing. Not sure about Windows, but Carbon Copy Cloner does it all for a Mac. |