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Next to antivirus protection, regular backups may be the single most important measure you should take to protect your PC, your data, and yourself, yet studies consistently show it's the preventative measure PC users neglect most. There is simply no excuse for not backing up your system, especially when you consider the following facts: (1) You have a lot of money invested in your hardware and software; (2) Your PC most likely contains files, records, and archives that are important to your life and well-being; (3) something is certain to go wrong; and (4) backups are easy, especially with excellent free backup utilities like FBackup around to do all the work for you. You can schedule regular backups, of course, but you can also choose full or partial backups, levels of compression, drive mirroring, backups of specific folders or files, and much more. It creates standard ZIP files that you can access with any compression utility.
FBackup is based on Backup4all, Softland's flagship product and a powerful backup solution. However, for most users, the freeware utility is more than enough. With a simple two-part interface and a wizard that explains each step, it's about as user friendly as backup utilities get. You can choose either an external device (recommended) or a network location to store your backup.
FBackup is free, and it's ready for Windows 7. It makes regular backups painless, and it produces high-quality backups that will help you recover your system quickly when, not if, something unpleasant occurs.
Publisher's Description
From Softland:
FBackup is freeware backup program for Windows. FBackup protects your important files and folders from partial or total loss by automating backup tasks, password protecting and compressing it to save storage space. Using FBackup you can easily backup to any local or network drive or to external drives (such as USB drives). FBackup can backup open or locked files and it can perform full and mirror backups (backup type that does not compress the files). When defining a backup you can also set file filters and schedule the backup for automatic execution. You can run predefined backups, such as My Documents, My Pictures or Outlook Express and load backup plug-in that will back up the settings and data of specific applications. FBackup has ZIP64 support (can create backups over 2 GB) and creates standard zip files, meaning that you can access it with any zip compatible utility. FBackup also allows you to password protect your backup. FBackup tests the backup files automatically to ensure the backup is safe and correctly executed (uses CRC32).
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"Good backup software, with some quirks to keep in mind."
Version: FBackup 4.8.289
Pros
The "full" backup automatically makes a neat archive in a single, non-proprietary zip file.
The "mirror" backup automatically copies folders and files, and offers the option of whether or not to delete files from the backup if they've been deleted from the source.
Both types of backup provide the same, convenient filtering options (e.g. backup only certain types of files) for backups to the same four backup locations (i.e. local hard drive, external hard drive, removable media, or network drive).
Much better than the old Seagate Manager software I've been using!Cons
Although each archive file in a series of "full" backups is named with a serial number, only the most recent one is kept. There's no option to keep one or more previous archive files.
A filtered "mirror" backup includes a lot of junk: empty subfolders that never included any backup files.Summary
Two backup types to choose from:
A "full" backup archives a complete, new snapshot in a
standard, non-proprietary, zip file; and deletes the previous
snapshot. The new archive is built from the ground up--with
a new copy of every file in the backup. For example, this is
a good choice for backing up a large number of document files
that regularly grows and shrinks (when you don't want to keep
any temporary documents in the backup archive).
A "mirror" backup copies folders, subfolders and files
uncompressed to the destination drive. If only one file has
changed, it only copies that one file. If a file has been
deleted, you have the option of whether or not to keep it in
the backup. For example, this is a good choice for backing up
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"Best backup I've used and it's truly free!"
Version: FBackup 4.8.289
Pros
After years of frustration using Windows' various versions of task schedulers and Xcopy batch files, I'm extremely pleased to find fBackup. I encountered no problems with any network or target drive access. The option for mirror backup eliminates any issues with proprietary compressed files and makes the backup copies readily available on the target drive. The scheduler has worked as intended which I certainly can't say about the Windows' scheduler. I'm very grateful to the developers.
Cons
After a week using fBackup, I have found no "cons".
Summary
The best thing I can say is, this just works!
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