Free Backup Programs
Being an IT Director in an Educational Environment, we are always looking for alternative solutions that save money and programs for the end user. Here is ten of the top backup programs. This lineup includes backup solutions for MAC, Linux and Windows users.
Recommended for: IT Pros-Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
NASBackup was designed to replace tape backups. The easy to use interface allows the end user or IT professional to backup data as a full, compressed or incremental backup.
Recommended for: IT Pros
Restore Backup Live is designed for IT professionals (approx. 400+mb) download. Restore Backup works on the Enterprise (Large Network) Level.
Recommended for: IT Pros-Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
This software was around along time before the latest vampire fade. An excellent program that can be used in a complex network environment, Bacula also can be used on a single computer.
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Home Users and System Admins may like a simple form of backups. With JaBack, the program backs up your important files and folders. The backup set it creates is created in standard ZIP format. This allows flexibility in restoring the data using any zip software. This 22 mb download allows for scheduling, emailing, FTPing while backing up your files. JaBack is an excellent program for MAC, Windows or Linux
Recommended for: MAC users
If you need to backup your MAC, Mathusalem is a good little program we recently installed on our MAC in the classroom. Although this program is no longer updated, this small program works excellent for MAC users. (<2mb).
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
BackupPC is another excellent program that can be used to backup any of your computers to another disk or computer.
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Cobain Backup allows for the encryption of your backed up files. This program is another excellent program to backup your files that allows you to backup locally or remotely.
Recommended for: IT Pros – Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Bonkey is one of the most powerful backup programs. Allowing you to backup to Amazon S3, locally, remotely or across a network, Bonkey is one of the most powerful free programs available. (Supports encryption, sql and many other backups)
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Areca’s open source solution allows you to backup your computer and marks your files with versions allow you to see different files and to restore only the one’s you need.
Recommended for: IT Pros – Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Home Users
Comodo backup is a great home user backup solution. Comodo’s interface is easy to use and offers dozens of features.
Don’t forget to check out this file synchronization tool at WhatsOnMyPC.
i wrote my own to backup a website at work.archives and copies the webroot of the site to a network share that backs up to tape. also takes database backups and does the same thing. logs everything. written in bash. the power of linux lies within one’s own knowledge, not the pieces of software written by other people
Jon Ward
Saturday, February 13, 2010 9:08 pm at 9:08 pm
such as:
#!/bin/bash
OF=/var/sqlbck-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz
tar -cZf $OF /home/theraven/
simple bash we use on our server
SMallard
Saturday, February 13, 2010 11:32 pm at 11:32 pm
There is another option to backup data to cloud storage powered by Amazon S3. Check out CloudBerry Backup http://cloudberrydrive.com/ . It is one time fee and the rest what you pay for Amazon S3
cloudberryman
Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:59 am at 5:59 am
And I forgot to tell, CloudBerry Backup is free for students and education.
cloudberryman
Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:01 am at 6:01 am
Great list that you have compiled here… Should be no reason that a person cannot backup their PC when there are many FREE software options available.
Rick
Ramblinrick
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:10 am at 8:10 am