What free backup utilities do you use?

[thecomputerguy]

List the program and some basic features and why ...

I been using ez back it up recently, its extremely simple which is a pro and a con, but I'm a little uneasy with it given its simplicity and I'm looking for an alternative.

 

[ljtechservices]

msbackup where applicable

 

[iisjman07]

cobian backup works well and is open source

 

[thecomputerguy]

I'm talking mostly in an xp environment where ntbackup is primitive and not user friendly to check for backup success or failure. MS backup was greatly improved with vista and 7.

 

[ATS]

If the machine has a Western Digital, or Seagate drive I use Acronis WD/Seagate. Basically Acronis True Image but just the basic, backup / restore functionality. Otherwise I'll use Easus Todo backup.

 

[MobileTechie]

FBackup seems to work pretty well. It has VSS, will backup to network locations and has normal or mirror options.

 

[nagidar]

BackUp

I use Macrium Reflect...free...easy..all you need

 

[paristotle]

Gfi backup, great features and good compression
and Syncback Lite for simple backup

 

[MobileTechie]

I've gone off GFI backup since I noticed it stores the entire path of the original files in the backup location and so runs into path length problems pretty frequently.

 

[techroc]

cobian backup works well and is open source

Thanks for the input, open source rocks

 

[hext]

FBackup seems to work pretty well. It has VSS, will backup to network locations and has normal or mirror options.

Thanks for this, Just installing on a test server...looks good!

 

[PDXMicro]

I am extremely surprised that no one said Robocopy Why not use what's already provided for you in the operating system? A simple batch file, add it to the task scheduler, and you're good to go

 

[Knightsman]

I am extremely surprised that no one said Robocopy Why not use what's already provided for you in the operating system? A simple batch file, add it to the task scheduler, and you're good to go

Whoa...im playing with this tonight!

 

[veedar]

Also Clonezilla is good for making disk images. It's free open source.

 

[Cybjun]

FBackup seems to work pretty well. It has VSS, will backup to network locations and has normal or mirror options.

Ditto, works fantastic with my personal system to my NAS, much better then WDanywhere that was included with my NAS.