helpme0k Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 As you probably know, Windows Vista Home / Premium only allows you to automatically backup certain file extensions. You have to buy a more expensive version of Vista to choose folders to automatically backup. I did a google search for backup programs. I found a lot of free ones. Some were with Java. (I don't want to have to install and constantly patch java's security problems on the several computers that I want to install this on. What backup programs do you use? Do you know of any open source / free utilities that allow you to make automatic backups or very user friendly that can just one click backup stuff? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 File Backup Backup4Win / Backup4WinXP FBackup Partition Backup/Restore Disk Copy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digivore Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I had great success with Idlebackup in XP. Backing up to a 1TB External USB Hard Drive. Has good functionality, and if it is important to you, it will only do it's backing up when the computer has been idle for X minutes. Another one to look at is Cobian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helpme0k Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Thanks for the help! Very much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiyed14 Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 SyncBack SE. They have a free version (might have to do some digging on their site) and a $20 version, which is absolulty worth it and the license covers 5 computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messsy Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Also i used to use Acronis a lot, very good imaging tool as well as other features :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gEEEk Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 SyncBack with the option to keep two folders identical! :) /gEEEk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 If you want real dirt cheap way where you don't need to download/install anything I used to use Windows briefcases (built into Windows and still do actually) before I got Acronis to sync stuff to an external drive. Sort of works but gets very slow with video files and doesnt work with Access databases too well for some reason. I still use it for syncing up with my UFD between my two computers so I always got access to work related files :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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