How to make backups (at home, preferably for free)?

AlexP112232012-07-01 17:45:08

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AlexP11223, 2012-07-01 17:45:08

I'm looking for something for periodic (once a day and / or week) creating backups of the Windows 7 system partition. Preferably with compression of the resulting image.
Maybe I google badly, but I just can’t find anything free (or with a reasonable price, and not a couple of hundred $) for home use and at the same time convenient, and not, for example, in the form of just a boot disk (EaseUS).

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AlexP11223, 2017-10-30
@AlexP11223

I used the honestly bought and upgraded Acronis a couple of times for several years, as a result, by the 2017 version, it completely rolled down and stopped even starting. And some time before that, at any launch of the Explorer, some of its plug-ins wildly ate memory (+ wrote gigabytes of logs).
Switched to Arq for file backup (to another drive and Backblaze B2) + free version of Macrium for system disk image.

Akson87, 2012-07-01
@Akson87

And unless the standard screw backup does not do it?

Zoom_spb, 2012-07-01
@Zoom_spb

robocopy.exe =) use it, a lot of articles on how to use it, a very handy thing, and built-in

Zoom_spb, 2012-07-01
@Zoom_spb

oops, missed it, sorry

Alexander Kolodko, 2012-07-01
@designiac

Cobian Backup

Alexander, 2012-07-01
@disc

Try GFI BackUp Free . I discovered it not long ago, the free version is enough for my needs.

Antelle, 2012-07-01
@Antelle

I use comodo . Able to make incremental backups, encrypt, archive, upload to ftp or nas, limit backup process resources, run on schedule.

oia, 2012-07-01
@oia

FBackup FBackup is a free program for both personal and commercial use.

Vlad Zhivotnev, 2012-07-01
@inkvizitor68sl

I used Acronis for these purposes in the shaggy years - a killer feature that is easy to restore (if only the mbr on the partition was alive). You can buy it for a kiloruble, but in general, torrents will help you. Just download the older version.

stepio, 2012-07-01
@stepio

I once used this:
ru.norton.com/ghost/
I made a full backup of the C drive, which I simply deployed from the image in case of infection attacks.
At that time I didn’t think about licenses, but now you can buy it - less than $50
But the pleasure of installing a clean, customized Windows in 7 minutes is something :)

Nikolai Turnaviotov, 2012-07-01
@foxmuldercp

Apparently you haven't learned how to use it. I have a bunch of 2008r2 servers and a bunch of win7. Everyone is backed up by a regular backup of seven on a non-system partition on a schedule, and it hasn’t failed yet, and can only fail if the screw with the archive on the workstation dies.

MrCleaner, 2012-07-02
@MrCleaner

For more than 10 years, I have been using the free console nnbackup to back up files under Windows Read an article
about it System images, disk copies are the best Acronis option

karenishe, 2012-07-02
@karenishe

More than once I came across WD external hard drives with a built-in backup utility. In my opinion, a good option, except for the purchase of hard.

Mikhail Tchervonnko, 2015-01-30
@RusMikle

I think this will suit you (I wrote, if desired, the possibilities can be expanded)). And for compression, you can use a compressed folder on ntfs of course.

Mikhail Zhilin, 2015-07-09
@Merdue

Acronis! There is a free version that makes backups and does not know how to copy entire discs, but everything is for 3000r.!!!