Hello,
I haven't tried Cobian (but thank you for mentioning it).
To make backups on a local client without setting up a server and with
the possibility to browse the backup archives using an GUI, I used Areca
Backup:
http://areca.sourceforge.net/
It's open source, has a nice built in browser to look at your archives,
does compression and encryption and does offer other features like
email-summarys, merge of archives etc.
While not OpenSource you might also be interested in SyncBackSE
http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbse.html
But as mentioned by someone else, this is somewhat offtopic.
If you want to enjoy this helpful community, I guess you 'have to'
install BackupPC (maybe in a virtual machine?) :-)
I've tried several backup-programs that had to be installed on
desktop-pcs to make backups to an external harddrive and it was always a
pain. Not only you have lots of configuration, but its much more
complicated to view the logs and get a picture if all clients have been
backed up etc.
So _if_ you have more than one pc, you might want to check out BackupPC
- my first BackupPC-Server was a Pentium III with 800 Mhz and 512 MB RAM.
Good Luck.
- Kurt
Chris Baker wrote:
> I use Cobian on a lot of machines here. Most often, I have it back up to a
> Winzip archive. In this case, my "restore function" is the WinZip program.
>
> It doesn't seem to handle compression of large backups that well. For those,
> I simply back up the files without compressing them. In this case, my
> "restore function" is Windows Explorer.
>
> The new "folders" are most likely Winzip archives. You can set the number of
> backups you want kept in the software.
>
> Cobian also has excellent support, considering its free. You go to the
> Cobian message board, and Cobian himself comes on there every couple days. I
> personally don't know how he finds the time for all this. The key fact is
> that he does.
>
> Give Cobian Backup a chance.
>
> Chris Baker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> systems administrator
> Intera Inc. -- 512-425-2006
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>
> I have been looking for some free backup software to back up my music and
> photos to an external hard drive and maybe DVD's. I have tried Cobian but
> dont know if I like it since it has no restore function. Have read
> somethings about winbackup and was also told to try comodo backup. Any one
> have any experience with these. Also When I tried Cobian I set it to
> incremmental backup. It worked but I see it makes a new folder everytime a
> backup is made. Is there a way or a program that will just back up and
> replace the file that has changed into the same folder?
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