Re: [BackupPC-users] free backup software
Hi there, maybe you should try this one (free for any purpose, but not opensource) : http://www.syncexp.com/wp/ It seems to work great. Hope this help. - Alexandre BLANC Responsable SI - Ingénierie systèmes et réseaux IT Manager - Information Systems Network Manager Archiv'Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mob : 06 72 133 811 Le dimanche 03 août 2008 à 20:55 -0400, drew64 a écrit : 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? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] free backup software
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? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] free backup software
drew64 wrote: 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? I guess rsync would do it. It's like a copy tool that only transfers the changes and it can work both locally and over network connections. It is a command line tool though. I don't know what OS you're running, but there are also some rsync GUI frondends out there I believe. BackupPC also supports rsync as a backend, but it might be overkill for just backing up a single machine. Also take a look at rdiff-backup if you want to keep multiple versions of files. BackupPC also supports rsync as a backend, but setting up a BackupPC server for just one machine might be overkill maybe. It will work though and its web interface is very handy for restoring files. Nils Breunese. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] free backup software
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of drew64 Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 7:55 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] free backup software 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? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] free backup software
Hi, drew64 wrote on 2008-08-03 20:55:13 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] free backup software]: I have been looking for some free backup software [...] I have tried Cobian [...] winbackup [...] comodo backup. Any one have any experience with these. is that a question? This is a technical mailing list on the usage of the BackupPC software. Questions about other software are off-topic here. While questions like Is BackupPC suitable for the job? or maybe even Is BackupPC better suited than Cobian/winbackup/comodo backup? would be reasonable, Is there a way [for Cobian backup] or a program that will just back up and replace the file that has changed into the same folder? is not. As Nils already stated, BackupPC would be suitable for what you basically want to do, but may be considered overkill. In particular, it does *not* give you a simple copy of your file tree(s). You get a backup history (of configurable extent) without the penalty of consuming space for identical copies of files. Regards, Holger - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] free backup software
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of drew64 Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 7:55 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] free backup software 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? +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http
