There are many potential culprits that can ruin your important
files and data. From viruses and software bugs, to hardware failure or human
error — these are just a few things you need to watch out for. Having to lose
your personal photos, music library, important files and documents, can cause
anyone a handful of headaches. This is why it is very important to religiously
back up your important files and data. It won't do anyone any good to put off
backing up your files and data, only to regret not doing so after the computer
crashed or the hard drive failed. Below are some of the best free file-based
backup software that you can use to secure your files and data:
COMODO Backup
COMODO Backup is a free backup software that is capable of
automatically backing up your files and data from an entire drive into
individual files. It can back up registry files, specific registry entries,
files and folders, email accounts, browser data, partitions, IM conversations,
etc. It can even back up an entire disk like a system drive. COMODO Backup
offers full backup, incremental, and differential as well as Shadow Copy. You
can also select the backup format (CBU file, simple copy, ZIP file, ISO file,
self-extracting CBU file, and file sync). Furthermore, depending on the file
type of the backed up data, you can specify if it is to be spliced into smaller
pieces, compressed, and/or password protected.
With COMODO Backup, you can store your backed up data to a local
or external drive, CD/DVD, network folder, FTP server, or sent to someone as an
email. COMODO Backup's scheduling option allows you to backup your important
files and data at precise locations, manually, at logon, once, daily, weekly,
monthly, when idle, or every so many minutes.
On the negative side, COMODO Backup's interface does not allow
you to view the backup versions side by side to easily compare them.
AOMEI Backupper Standard
AOMEI Backupper Standard is a free backup software that is
capable of backing up files and folders, hard drives, system drive, and
partitions. It also allows you to clone a partition or an entire disk to
another drive. AOMEI Backupper Standard offers full backup, incremental
backup, and differential backup. It supports custom compression level, custom
or predetermined splices, encryption with a password, and exact backup (copies
used and unused space) or an intelligent sector backup (just backs up used
space).
With AOMEI Backupper Standard, all backed up files are held in
one single file that can be saved to a local or external drive, or to a shared
network folder. You can schedule the back up to run once, every day, week, or
month, as well as at a continual interval throughout the day. Its
advanced settings allow you to do a full, incremental,
or differential backup.
The downside of using AOMEI Backupper Standard is it does not
allow you to pause a backup in progress.
EaseUS Todo Backup
EaseUS Todo Backup allows you to automatically back up files and
folders, entire disk, system drive, and partitions. It even allows you to back
up Android devices. Its restore function offers the easiest way to retrieve
backed up data by mounting the backup image as a virtual hard drive.
All backed up files created from EaseUS Todo Backup build a
single file in PBD format that can be saved to a local or external drive, or to
a shared network folder. In addition, it allows full or incremental backups,
which can be scheduled once or daily. Furthermore, it has an option to limit
the backup speed and priority to reduce the impact on your system performance.
The downsides of using EaseUS Todo Backup are its lack of
encryption, large file setup (130 MB), no differential backup, and only get a
Linux-based disc (not Windows PE).
Cobian Backup
Cobian Backup is another free backup software that offers full,
differential, and incremental backups to and from local disk, FTP server,
network share, external drive, or a manual location. It also supports automatic
removal of empty folders from a backup and utilizing Volume Shadow Copy. In
addition, you can set up Cobian Backup to compress and encrypt a backup, split
backup into smaller sections, and schedule to run a back up once, on startup, daily,
weekly, monthly, yearly, or on a timer that runs every so many minutes.
Furthermore, it allows you to select a backup priority, run back up as a
different user, send failed/success logs to one or more email addresses, and
define advanced filtering options to include/exclude data from a backup.
The only downside to this software is its lack of restore
options, so you can only browse the backup folder and pull out the files you
want to take.
FileFort Backup
FileFort Backup is a free, easy to use backup software capable
of backing up files to a cloud storage service, FTP server, and other
locations. It allows you to back up files to a BKZ file, self-extracting EXE
file, ZIP file, or a regular mirror backup that only copies the files to the
destination. FileFort Backup supports full backup, historical backup, and
incremental backup from a local drive, external drive, or network folder. In
addition, it allows password protection and encryption using MEO encryption.
Its schedule option allows you to run back up daily or weekly.
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