I use Cobian on a lot of machines here. Most often, I have it back up to a Winzip archive. In this case, my "restore function" is the WinZip program.
It doesn't seem to handle compression of large backups that well. For those, I simply back up the files without compressing them. In this case, my "restore function" is Windows Explorer. The new "folders" are most likely Winzip archives. You can set the number of backups you want kept in the software. Cobian also has excellent support, considering its free. You go to the Cobian message board, and Cobian himself comes on there every couple days. I personally don't know how he finds the time for all this. The key fact is that he does. Give Cobian Backup a chance. Chris Baker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] systems administrator Intera Inc. -- 512-425-2006 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of drew64 Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 7:55 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] free backup software I have been looking for some free backup software to back up my music and photos to an external hard drive and maybe DVD's. I have tried Cobian but dont know if I like it since it has no restore function. Have read somethings about winbackup and was also told to try comodo backup. Any one have any experience with these. Also When I tried Cobian I set it to incremmental backup. It worked but I see it makes a new folder everytime a backup is made. Is there a way or a program that will just back up and replace the file that has changed into the same folder? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
