What file storage backup tools do you have?

Question

Backup

Interested in free backup tools (windows tools are also suitable). I do this with the help of the robocopy utility on a schedule and it seems that it is already obsolete... Maybe there is something fundamentally more reliable and interesting?

Answer 1

windows means is also suitable

Shadow copies (previous versions of files are not disabled) and standard archiving.
"Moral" ... how much in this word ... mixed ... well, all sorts of shit.
Works? Does it work well? Are there any requests? Were there any problems? If not - kill it! Let at least one "marketer" die of hunger!

Answer 2

windows means is also suitable

NTBackup

Answer 3

There is an excellent built-in tool - Windows Backup. Or wbadmin.exe

Answer 4

bacula

Answer 5

I use MirrorFolder ( $40) for several years. The costs paid off like never before, when suddenly the disk "flew out"!

Major Features

1. Simple, intuitive and easy user interface (UI) program to setup and manage mirror folders. Optionally integrates with Windows Explorer for setting up of mirror through property page of a folder.
   
2. Works on "Setup and Forget" principle, i.e., once you setup mirror(s) for a folder/drive, synchronization/mirroring will be done automatically in the background saving your valuable time.
   
3. Runs as a service in the background using very little system resources, e.g., CPU time, memory, etc., for mirroring and synchronization.
   
4. Supports mirroring/synchronization of a folder/drive to multiple destinations each with different options.
   
5. Supports mirroring entire system drive to another internal drive in RAID-1 mode so that you may boot from the mirror drive without any lose of data in case the source drive fails.
   
6. Supports mirroring/synchronization on all kinds of drives, e.g., fixed local drives, network drives on LAN/VPN, removable USB/eSATA drives, etc. Synchronization from network drive to local/network drive is supported with limited options.
   
7. Supports mirroring exclusively opened files in real-time mirroring (RAID-1 type) mode. Copying opened files in other synchronizing modes is done using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service APIs.
   
8. Built-in scheduler for automatic synchronization and archiving of mirror folders at specified time interval, or at specified times.
   
9. Supports automatic synchronization of mirror folders at idle time, system startup, shutdown, logon, logoff, or when a removable/network drive is connected.
   
10. Option to perform multiple synchronizations in separate threads with different priority. Option is available to perform multi-threaded synchronization on multi core/CPU systems.
    
11. Supports bi-directional synchronization option.
    
12. Supports use of NTFS Change Journals data for fast synchronization of folders containing very large number of files.
    
13. Supports copying of NTFS alternate named streams, file permissions, extended attributes, sparse files, encrypted files, reparse point, symbolic link, etc.
    
14. Mirrors files at byte level in real-time mirroring (RAID-1 type) mode by default. Option to copy files differentially at block level in other synchronization modes.
    
15. Supports extensive filtering options for both source and destination folders to include/exclude certain sub-folders and file types respectively.
    
16. Supports archiving of older and deleted versions of files from the mirror folder in a series of standard ZIP files into a third location, i.e., outside source and mirror folders.
    
17. Supports limiting disk/network bandwidth and CPU priority used during background synchronization.
    
18. Option to send email notification on error/warning, and successful synchronization/archive operation.
    
19. Optionally supports replication of file delete operation in all synchronization and mirroring modes.
    
20. Easy user interface to find and restore files from multiple destination folders and ZIP files to a target folder at a chosen point of time.
    
21. Easy user interface to compare file contents two folders byte-by-bye.
    
22. Extensive logging of automatic/real-time synchronization, RAID-1 mirroring, archiving of mirror folders, and warning and errors.
    
23. Supports importing and exporting of settings and logs in standard XML file format.
    
24. Supports command line options to install the software, and setup mirrors on large number of destination computers automatically.
    
25. Uses Unicode internally so that it can handle file/folder name in any languages supported by Windows.
    
26. Multi-language user interface. Currently available languages are English, German, French, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese and Korean.
    

Answer 6

Bareos

Answer 7

At home from the free one I have been using cobian backup for a long time.

Answer 8

office/server under 100 machines
tried a lot of things (and used not a couple of days), cobian too .
Identified shortcomings during the exp. moved on to the next one.
FileFreeSync https://freefilesync.org/ for 3 years already, satisfied. features are sawn regularly. Russian is ok

Answer 9

if there are more than one server. www.urbackup.org