In this article we return to talk about backup procedures, a topic too often underestimated and ignored by many especially because it is sometimes a very long and tedious process. However, computers connected to the Internet today are subject to a bombardment of data, both incoming and outgoing, which significantly increases the risk of ruining the integrity of a PC and the stability of its operating system.
If the best backup software is Acronis True Image which is paid for, we see here the best free and free programs that allow you to perform backups automatically and incrementally.
Not only backups in the sense of saving the entire disk but also in the sense of saving certain types of files or the contents of selected folders.
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Typical questions of a backup program that guide the process are:
Where to make the copy (the destination) "> AOMEI Backuper is a great program that allows you to backup all data with a single click, quickly and easily, including system files and installed programs without interrupting the work on the computer.
A super-flexible program that can perform backups automatically, at regular intervals, every day or on certain days of the week.
You can backup hard drives, MBR, external disk, USB stick and other storage devices recognized by Windows.
If you prefer, you can only back up a partition or volume and not the entire disk.
The program is also multifunctional, it allows you to migrate Windows to another disk, to create image files of backups, to restore files deleted by viruses or accidentally.
2) Easus Backup is one of the most popular backup software in the world, free for personal use in all its professional functions.
It can fully protect the system from system crashes and recover deleted or corrupt files after a problem.
Among the most important extras, there is the intelligent backup system that checks the specified folders and backs up what has changed. backup encryption and saving of Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive or Dropbox archives.
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3) Macrium Reflect, in free version, is the third best (equal) program for backups on Windows, simple to use, with many tools for experts such as differential imaging, compression, scheduler, conversion to VHD, Windows PE recovery disk.
4) Duplicati is a very modern free and open source backup program, among the best also in 2017, with automatic and incremental backup functions, also capable of working by saving backups in cloud spaces.
Backups can be scheduled and organized at certain time intervals and are then automatically performed on the computer, even incrementally, i.e. saving only what has been added or modified.
5) MiniTool ShadowMaker is a full backup program that allows you to backup the entire system or a particular drive at a time and restore the backup when required.
The backups can be scheduled and automatic, they can be incremental and you can also clone the disk or create a WinPE boot disk for emergencies.
6) Veeam Endpoint Backup is a great free and automatic backup program, very easy to use, to save all your PC, laptop or server data to an external disk or NAS drive.
In the case of breakage of the main disk or problems of any nature, automatic recovery allows you to get everything back as before without having to do any configuration or reinstallation.
7) Iperius Backup is a great Italian program that can also be downloaded in the free version, with basic functions that should be enough for most users.
It supports periodically scheduled and scheduled incremental backup of selected folders and files, to save compressed copies even on external disks in automatic mode.
8) Fbackup, a very simple software to create the protected copy of your files.
FBackup is able to make the backup copy on any medium, USB, CD, DVD or on a network resource such as an external server or an online remote storage service.
The backup can be compressed or exact copying of the files can be done without any compression.
The interface is very simple to understand and use and guides the user to create their own customized backup process.
9) Paragon Backup is a Windows based PC disaster recovery tool that combines all backup and recovery techniques to meet the needs of the most demanding users.
It can be considered the most powerful free backup tool available today.
10) Cobian Backup allows you to set up an automatic backup, even incremental, (time of day, week, etc.) of some folders of your choice, which, if desired, can be combined in a single compacted zip file.
Cobian Backup automatically creates reserve copies of all the data deemed important, avoiding the long repetitive operations typical of backup operations.
After downloading and installing it you will have to wait a while to make a full backup of the hard disk.
After this operation it will be possible to set a time interval within which Cobian will make an incremental backup, that is, it will automatically make a copy of only the files that have been modified or added during that period of time.
11) Dfinc backup is a freeware backup program designed to make differential and incremental files directly on archives compressed in zip files.
12) Syncback is another freeware program for backing up and restoring files in Windows that can also synchronize files and schedule scheduled backups.
13) GFI Backup is a free program, which only requires an email to be inserted before downloading.
Although the software is free, it shows a very nice and very functional graphical interface that makes it at the level of professional programs.
Thanks to a wizard, that is a guided procedure, to use it is very easy and every feature of the program can be set and configured in a personalized way with the usual questions related to this kind of programs.
The Restore function is the one used to restore the contents of a previous file backup.
GFI is the program I used to write the guide on how to backup the settings and configurations of the programs.
Among the free software for Windows backup and recovery that copy the entire disk, not individual files or folders, some programs are excellent for cloning a disk and creating mirror backup images covered in another article.
If you do not want to use fixed media (external hard drives or USB sticks), you can opt for online backup and save the files on the internet .
