Free Backup software

[Spinal]

My housemate is looking for a free backup utility; he has a spare TB hard drive and want it to makle a copy of all his docs, etc incrementally whenever it's plugged in (or weekly or something automated)

Short of recomenting a Symantec product... does anyone know of a free util?

Thanks,
M.

 

[moonloops]

My housemate is looking for a free backup utility; he has a spare TB hard drive and want it to makle a copy of all his docs, etc incrementally whenever it's plugged in (or weekly or something automated)

Short of recomenting a Symantec product... does anyone know of a free util?

Thanks,
M.

I use dropbox to backup to the internet and copy files across multiple PC's.

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE4ODgyMjI5

It's free for up to 2gb


Otherwise try alwayssync - again free for a certain amount of copying

 

[davidjpowell]

Mozy does a free service well I think. The latest version allows you to back up to a local drive also.

 

[moonloops]

Mozy does a free service well I think. The latest version allows you to back up to a local drive also.

Is Mozy any faster now - I got it free with an external drive and it was painfully slow as I think the backup servers were in USA?

 

[davidjpowell]

I don't really know. It takes a few days to backup initially, and then only backs-up incrementaly. It's always finished my server by morning, which is ok for me.

 

[Spinal]

I used to use Mozy - problem is, the servers are in the states; so if you have client data on your machine you're violating the DPA by "exporting" it outside the EU...

but that's besides the point

He's just bought a TB drive, and Windows Vista backup he doesn't like as it zips everything into a compressed folder... and is now manually copying files over...

Short of setting up rsync manually, any programs?

M>

 

[moonloops]

I used to use Mozy - problem is, the servers are in the states; so if you have client data on your machine you're violating the DPA by "exporting" it outside the EU...

but that's besides the point

He's just bought a TB drive, and Windows Vista backup he doesn't like as it zips everything into a compressed folder... and is now manually copying files over...

Short of setting up rsync manually, any programs?

M>

Allway Sync: Free File Synchronization, Backup, Data Replication, PC Sync Software, Freeware, File Sync, Data Synchronization Software

 

[Spinal]

Ended up download Cobian... trying that now - if that fails, I'll try Allway and let you know.

If that too doesn't work, I was thinking I could share his home folder on the network, and back up his files from one of my unix boxes and a simple cron job....

Thanks

M.

 

[whitenemesis]

Another vote for Dropbox..

 

[iscaboy]

Download details: SyncToy 2.1

 

[Geezer]

I use Comodo - works for me. :bannana:

PC Backup - Archive and Recover Data with Backup Software | Comodo

 

[Beetnik]

Mozy now has servers in Europe.

 

[anotherPerson]

Download details: SyncToy 2.1

I would vote for this too.

 

[Spinal]

Good old microsoft! SyncToy works a charm!

Beetnik: With Mozy (at least on my machine) I can't tell it to use only the EU servers... it decides what servers to use. I would not risk putting my client data on a server on the cloud without some pretty robust contracts in place...

M.

 

[John_geek]

My housemate is looking for a free backup utility; he has a spare TB hard drive and want it to makle a copy of all his docs, etc incrementally whenever it's plugged in (or weekly or something automated)

Short of recomenting a Symantec product... does anyone know of a free utility?

Handy Backup can do it well. I have used several backup programs for years, and I recommend Handy Backup, it's easy and reliable backup software.

Handy Backup - free backup utility
Handy Backup - free trial backup software

 

[dickchailey]

Allway Sync for me, Maintains a copy of each file NOT a single backup file and works fine with windows scheduled tasks. I even paid for the Pro key as I was so pleased with the product. You do not need the application to find and restore a file.