- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: May 25, 2009
- Total Downloads: 2,051
- Downloads last week: 80
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 7 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on November 03, 2009
Do you regularly back up your data, files, records, pictures, and other stuff on your computer? The stuff your life basically depends on? Didn't think so. Very few PC owners even bother to take advantage of Windows' fairly simple built-in backup utility, to the despair of technical support around the world. With Windows 7 new on the scene, it's a good time to back up your system, and to start scheduling regular backups, too. GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition 3.0 can help you overcome your Fear of Backups. It's easy to use; it effectively backs up your system; and, best of all, it's free, as in "no money," as in "no excuses." You can bet that replacing lost software will cost a lot more than that.
GFI Backup's text-heavy main dialog box is divided into four large buttons marked Backup, My Tasks, Restore, and Sync, each with extensive explanations of their respective functions. The tools themselves open in much more conventional (and familiar) tabbed Windows dialogs. Online help is available at the product's Web site and via Twitter. It gives you lots of options for creating backups, but its Wizard-driven interface makes it all easy. You can schedule regular backups, too, which is a wise move. GFI Backup does its job as well as expensive software, but it's free.
GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition 3.0 works in Windows 7. It installs desktop icons without asking and leaves behind folders after it's uninstalled, but those are backup records you may want to keep.
Publisher's description
From GFI Software :GFI Backup is a completely free, easy-to-use and complete solution, designed for secure backups of all your important documents, pictures, and more. Suitable for beginners and experienced users alike, this tool allows you to back up all your documents, photos, music, emails and programs, via a simple but smart wizard-driven interface. Using GFI Backup, you can back up your data to virtually any storage device, including local and external disk drives, LAN, CD/DVD, removable devices, remote FTP servers, etc. Restoring your data can be done in minutes, using the common ZIP format, allowing you also to split and span the archive over multiple hard-drives. This freeware backup solution includes the Sync Task feature, which enables you to synchronize folders from different media. GFI Backup can also be configured to send error or warning notification emails and summary reports for each finished backup task.
What's new in this version:
Some minor bug fixes
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 7 votes
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Version: GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition 3.0
Pros: Easy Set up, Took no time to configure. Once backups set up works great on its own
Cons: Have not found any as of yet
Summary: Simple, easy, free
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Version: GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition 3.0
"Works Really Well, Simple Learning Curve"
Pros: Once I figured out what all the options were, I was able to set up various complex automated or manual backup, sequential archiving, and synchronization jobs with ease. My particular favorite option is encrypted backup to FTP, for offsite redundancy.
Cons: Took a few tries to figure out the various settings, but after creating my first successful job, I could do the rest in just a minute or two. AES 256 encryption is cool, but I might have liked a few more options.
Summary: This is the best freeware backup suite I've ever used, and equal to -or better than - two of the paid backup suites I've used in the past. It's great being able to synch up files between hard drives, backup files onsite or offsite, stack backups by... read more >>
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Version: GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition 3.0
"Not a thriller, just plain vanilla"
Pros: A straightforward, flexible program that backs up my "essentials" on a memory stick - which is exactly what I was looking for. It may be "plain vanilla", but that's my favorite flavor ice cream, so ...
Cons: Doesn't lack anything that I require.
Summary: Another of those journeyman programs that does the job without being flashy - and is certainly offered at the right price - free!
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Version: GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition 3.0
Pros: Doesn't require a floppy disc (like Windows backup does).Backups up without compressing files so they are not accessible.
Cons: None so far
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition 3.0
"by far, the best freeware backup software"
Pros: The ability to schedule backups at any time convenient to you, you can practically set it once, and forget it. there is a huge feature set that is absolutely amazing - all features only normally found in commercial software
Cons: no hardisk cloning ability which could have been pretty handy
Summary: its simply and incredible software that compares even better than some commercial software
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