Backup Software For Win32?

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What software are you guys using for making backups? Just the regular built-in OS copying or something a little more sophisticated?

Actually, I’ve been searching for a thread (which was a couple of years old) where someone’s harddrive crashed and IIRC vV (it could have been someone else though) mentioned to always make backups and also mentioned some good freeware software I think.

Anyway, I can’t find that thread, but it planted the idea to finally get a harddrive exclusively for backups. I also bought a trayless mobile rack, so that you can just slide in the backup-HD into the front when the computer is powered off, start the computer, do the backup, power it off again, and out the backup-HD goes.

I’m not looking for any superadvanced regarding software, just something more practical than the Windows copy-stuff.

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SyncToy 2.1 - most likely the only really good software microsoft ever brought out :)

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Sorry for thread hijack… Sepix, long time no see man! I used to hang out on vsnares forum a LOT :)

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I use rdiff-backup for my linux setup and it seems that is also for windows a good choice.
Maybe? ;)

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I’m using PureSync here.

http://www.jumpingbytes.com/en/puresync/index.html

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I use Cobian backup, automatic backup tool free for personal use

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This one looks pretty neat too. Does it also support syncing instead of only copying? If i delete folders / files or rename them at the source, will it propagate to the backup properly?

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Thanks for all the suggestions. :)

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simply ntbackup. For my off-site backups i use Allwaysync or simply dropbox.
If you don’t mind dragging and dropping into your web-browser, you can try Microsoft’s Live Skydrive… you have 25 GB online free storage.

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“SyncBack Freeware” for me, automatic sync certain folders to ftp.

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It probably isn’t on windows, but you never know…

I use “Time Machine”. Simple, but effective.

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I use Paragon which I bought a few years ago, its really awesome, and has saved me a couple of times!
Problably my best spent bucks together with Renoise.

Its worth investing in some really good backup software.

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driveimage xml for whole drives backup…
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/DriveImage-XML/DriveImageXML.html

mlon

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Cobian Backup is not a synchronizer like for example Dropbox: it is only used to create backup tasks which will run on a schedule basis.

it can send backups via FTP or e-mail though