Tom's Guide: Backup Your PC With These Free Programs
Check out Tom's Guide's latest story on data backup programs.
Backing up your data isn't exactly a thrilling task, but it's definitely a necessary one. Though boring, protecting your data from harm is actually very easy, and there is a wealth of programs that will help you do it. Heck, some of them you just need to input a few settings and it'll run itself. Still, it can be hard to know which program is right for you. After all, the casual user and power user have very different needs. Check out Tom's Guide's 'Save Your Data: Backup with These Free Programs,' for a full round-up of the best backup tools.
Keeping a backup of your data can often feel like an unnecessary chore...until disaster strikes and you lose years of work, pictures, or media due to hardware failure or a system crash. your precious data need not be overly complex or expensive, and you certainly won't begrudge the effort if disaster strikes. Here are 11 great and free tools for safeguarding your electronic treasures. Whether you're a power-user that needs to protect your data or a casual surfer looking for some extra peace of mind, there's a program in here to suit your needs.Save Your Data: Backup with These Free Programs
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bison88 Backing up is easy, restoring can often be a PITA. Make a plan to test the backup every X amount of backups otherwise they are useless.Reply -
egilbe I periodically use windows backup to create an image of my drive. It sees to work, although it's slow.Reply -
apache_lives robocopy -- its built into windows (just not XP) just make a batch telling it what to include/skipReply
even has features like inter-packet gap to stop network/internet lag and a lot more
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apache_lives digiexBuild a NAS with RAID10.Reply
this is about SOFTWARE to backup TO devices, not the devices themselves -
egilbe 9425854 said:Build a NAS with RAID10.
I hope you were joking. Raid 0 is not backup and it's more prone to drive failure. -
_Cosmin_ apache_livesthis is about SOFTWARE to backup TO devices, not the devices themselvesReply
FreeNAS is a software.... i know, i use it ! -
_Cosmin_ egilbeI hope you were joking. Raid 0 is not backup and it's more prone to drive failure.Reply
RAID10 is not RAID0... read again ! -
_Cosmin_ So, the news on tomshardware is that on tomsguide there is a new post... REALLY ?Reply
STOP DOING THAT - JANE !