Pros
As most reviews have said, this is a mighty powerful backup tool. That it is both free AND ad free is incredible
Cons
My only complaint is it doesn't make restoring from a full with multiple incremental backups easy One of my critical uses of Cobian is to backup my flash drives, which are easy to loose or smash. I make routine incremental backups. Cobian's incremental fn is great and intuitive. But Cobian doesn't give you any help to easily restore everything. My goal: use my full backup and the set of incremental backups to create a new flash drive that is a complete copy of the flash drive as it was when I last did an incremental (same directory structure, original time stamps, etc). The concept: first retrieve the full backup, and then go through the incremental backups from oldest to newest. Every time you come across a newer version of a file, replace the older version of each file previously copied onto the new flash drive. The Cobian help file is silent on this; manual is the only way (I think). A wizard to do a straightforward restore is very much needed.
Summary
Great software, great price (free), but needs to help restore from a full plus set of incrementals.
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Pros
Almost every option Ive wanted from other backup software this thing has already.!
Easy enough to setup.
It works .!! (yeah some backup software doesnt work)
obviously a programmer with attention to detail made this.
The functions help make it more reliable, like the taskbar icon is a different color and flashes if the backup had any errors, options to set cpu priority, options to run as another user so you dont need to see any notifications if you want.
Small memory usage, 9.6mb on my system.
Cons
none so far.
Summary
I cant say enough, its the best free backup software Ive seen. After using 5 and testing about 10
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Pros
Easy to setup, free, very solid and works every time.
I had another free program that also has a paid version, but it kept missing backups for some unknown reason, so I looked for another free programs and found this one, I had it for some time now and it never missed a beat, I had it backup on Sundays only and let the other program do my daily backup, but after a while, I discovered to my horror that the other program was not backing up properly, that was when I needed one backed up file and was no were to be found, luckily it was on this backup, so I have now dumped the other program and is using this one full time. It also does shadow copy which is very important in my case.
Cons
None so far, its been rock solid.
Summary
This is a highly recommended backup program that has many features other paid backups don't have, its free and does the job well.
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Pros
None - appears to be a virus.
Cons
BitDefender attempts to block access to the page as a reported attack page, and when attempting to download the setup file for submission to VirusTotal Firefox also attempted to block it as containing a virus. I overrode both blocks to download the file and upload to VirusTotal but have not attempted to run it. I will delete the file after writing this review.
Summary
I cannot recommend this based upon my experience outlined in the "Cons".
Download CNET staff - please check this file and download location ASAP. Thank you.
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Reply by macxx351 on December 5, 2016
I downloaded this Saturday evening late, just saved to my desktop, did not yet install. Sunday morning early someone registered into my PayPal Account from Moscow (as told to me by PayPal) and made a fraudulent purchase. Coincidence that this software originates in the Ukraine? I think not. I quickly deleted the exe file without opening it and changed all my important passwords.
Reply by TomInVa on April 10, 2016
My system is highly protected with 3 different scanners and I have never been infected with any malware or viruses, so that said. I downloaded and installed the program with no issues, no malware or viruses detected. You may be getting false/positives from those "free" scanners.
Pros
Easy to install, configure and use. Absolutely reliable. Can't believe it's free.
Cons
There are no cons.
Summary
Worth every penny and more...wait...it's free. This is a program that I've used for years.
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