Free, effeective network backup software for win32: Find me a program?

JohnR

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I need a program that will:

* connect to a network location, with a username and password other than that of the logged in Windows user

* copy (or, better, sync, but copy is good) all files from a list of locations to this network location.

* do this automatically, on a schedule, without requiring user intervention[1]

* work on Windows XP, without installing or configuring a pseudo-unix environment like Cygwin.

* be either free, or a relatively cheap one-time purchase for licenses. No on-going fees allowed.

* have a license that allows business/corporate use.


Anyone got a line on anything that meets these requirements? Windows Backup, the built-in software, actually does all of this EXCEPT reliably making the network connection. If the username and password of the logged-in user match the user/pass to connect to the share exactly, Windows will reliably make the connection. If not, it will most often send the current user's credentials, not the user/pass it's set up to send, and that means the entire backup fails.


[1]: If it can be programmed into a one-click icon, Windows Task Scheduler will do this for me. Still, all the configuration needs to be set up so that the single command is all that's necessary.
 
Cobian.
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Free, open source, for windows.

Basic information:

Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload).

Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup is not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a "Scheduler for security copies".

Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption.
 
Gotta love the writer's attitude:
Q: AddAware reports libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll to be spyware.

A: Yeah, right , and my grandma is a bicycle.​

I'll have to check it out and see how it works. Thanks a lot.
 
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