Backup Software

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:09 pm

Anyone have any recommendations for decent backup software for Windows? Looking to backup several full directories or files to a windows share or to a server via SSH/SCP etc. Google yields too much shareware, so I figured I'd ask.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:17 pm

Maybe task scheduler and a batch file?

For copying to a network drive, that'd be REALLY easy.

"backupmyshit.bat

copy C:\whatever X:\backup\whatever%date%"

Or something to that effect.

h4tred · Post by **h4tred** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:08 am

Google yields too much shareware, so I figured I'd ask.

What sort of shareware may I ask? Like, names of the backup software, size of the downloads.....

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:20 am

Windows does come with a back-up client...

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:05 am

funkyass wrote:Windows does come with a back-up client...

Until vista, then its business and ultimate editions I think.

Gil_Hamilton's advice is perfectly valid, and simple to setup and use. I had a friend in a neighboring hotel use this for the nightly backups of their database to 2 or 3 computers both on-site and off.

There are others. Wikipedia maintains a list of backup software and sorts it by open-source and proprietary.

Bent · Post by **Bent** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:13 pm

Have you checked out Cobian Backup? It is pretty good for a freeware backup. Also, you could try a free online backup (2 gigs only with a free account) at www.idrive.com

I use both of these at work and I'm quite happy with them.