Recommend me a backup program

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I need a backup program that has the following:

-Is free
-Windows 8 compatible
-Can run on a schedule
-When it does a backup it only updates the files that were changed (doesn't do the entire backup from scratch)

Any help would be appreciated.
 
In my industry, I use Genie9 Pro as standard.

No hiccups, stay away from Timeline... Only problems were with version 8 when they took too long to adapt to server 2012, caused frustration when migrations were due.

Pro brochure:

http://www.genie9.com/PDFs/Timeline_Professional_Comparisons/Genie_TimelinePro_vs_GBMPro.pdf

Home brochure:

http://www.genie9.com/PDFs/Timeline_Home_Comparisons/Genie_TimelineHome_vs_GBMHome.pdf

We have utilised the server edition successfully in enterprise environments with no problems and recovery is an ease.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
In my industry, I use Genie9 Pro as standard.

No hiccups, stay away from Timeline... Only problems were with version 8 when they took too long to adapt to server 2012, caused frustration when migrations were due.

Pro brochure:

http://www.genie9.com/PDFs/Timeline_Professional_Comparisons/Genie_TimelinePro_vs_GBMPro.pdf

Home brochure:

http://www.genie9.com/PDFs/Timeline_Home_Comparisons/Genie_TimelineHome_vs_GBMHome.pdf

We have utilised the server edition successfully in enterprise environments with no problems and recovery is an ease.
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Thanks but I require a free program as stated above.
 
tcofran said:
works for me. only backs up changes. using it for ages

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
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Thanks will give it a try.

Fulcrum29 said:
Sorry man, I only scanned your post.

You can try Comodo Backup, http://backup.comodo.com/backup-features.php

It does have a “Gratis” edition… Please note, previously I tested this, it were troublesome… It is two editions later so give it a shot.

One of my clients uses this, http://www.cobiansoft.com/cbnew.htm, for personal use and they are happy with it…
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Thanks will give them a try.
 
Toucan is pretty good http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan but it doesn't do scheduling natively but you can set up a Windows Scheduled task to run a .bat file the executes your backup job form the command line. (Easier than it sounds and works pretty well)

I also played with Areca backup http://www.areca-backup.org/ which may be more what you had in mind but I haven't really used it much myself.

Both are free open source. Not sure how they stand on Windows 8
 
I use iDrive to backup my SVN repo's, photos, whatever. It is a cloud solution though (don't believe in local backup).
 
GFI Backup

* Free
* Can schedule to run monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, by the minute also only on certain days and on startup or shutdown or etc..
* Can set login detail
* Can set it to run missed tasks, to wake computer for backup, to recheck every xx minutes if unable to perform backup
* Can create a desktop shortcut for each backup task
* Can do incremental or diferential backups
* Can use zip for compression or no compression
* Can create self extracting zip's
* Can set compression level
* Can split archive size i.e. split large backups into say 650Mb (CD) sizes
* Can use AES 256 bit encryption or simple Zip password
* Can group tasks
* Can set level of detail i.e. only alert on errors or alert on completion etc...
* Can run tasks before and after
* Can do shadow backup i.e. backup files that are in use


Guess that is enough....


Been using it for about a year now to mirror some folders to Dropbox as well as to do backups to external hard drive as well as to flash drive

tested many and this was/is the best I have found. Easy and simple to use and it just works
 
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