Definitive Best Back-up Software 2015

[nabz0r Veteran]

Welcome to the Best Backup Software 2015 official thread. Use this as a reference for researching back-up software.

 

The previous years thread can be found here - Best Backup Software 2014

 

If your choice of Paid Antivirus is not listed, please choose Other and specify in the comments.

My vote goes to Acronis.

[simonlang]

clonezilla or redo backup.

[Max Norris]

Acronis Backup Server for Windows (voted TrueImage, same company anyway), Clonezilla for Unix/Linux.

[MorganX]

Macrium Reflect for personal system imaging.

File History & One Drive for personal data backup.

Microsoft Data Protection Manager in the enterprise.

[Gotenks98]

Why no Windows File History as an option?

[Max Norris]

Why no Windows File History as an option?

Just my opinion anyway - it's a handy way to back up personal files and such, but it's not a "proper" backup solution, that is if my hard drive suddenly gets suicidal and jumps out of the PC in front of a bus and needs replacing, I wouldn't be able to recover the operating system from it. I'd use it in conjunction with a full backup image, sure, multiple means of a backup is good but not as the only backup.. unless you don't mind reinstalling everything again. Not me, Windows gets installed once and done.. the next time I do a full install is on a new system or a major update, never again otherwise. Gotta have that image backup that recovers everything.

[MightyJordan]

Other voter here; my vote goes to Create Synchronicity. It's free, fast and very lightweight. I use it to mirror backup (if I modify or delete something in the source folder, the backup gets updated when the sync's run) my music, videos, pictures and documents, but you can also do incremental (new and modified files are copied left-to-right, nothing gets deleted), two-way incremental (same as incremental, but works both ways), and strict mirror backups (reverts files modified on the right).

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

 

I voted for 2BrightSparks' SyncBack, but also like RoboCopy (filename: ROBOCOPY.EXE) command in Windows, as well as NovaStor's NovaBack for its tape drive support.  Different tools for different kinds of backup jobs.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

[Dmitry G]

For personal, I would say TimeMachine does a pretty good job. For servers, it would have to be Veeam but it only works on Virtual servers (Hyper-V and ESXi).

[binaryzero]

I use Veeam and Backup Exec.

[cork1958]

Only one's I've ever used have been Acronis and Easeus and I'd have to choose Acronis between the two.

 

Don't usually even bother with backups as I have nothing on any of my 7 Windows computers worth saving. If a hard drive was to die or something similar, I'd just get a new hard drive and reinstall Windows all fresh.

[Dmitry G]

I use Acronis for cloning hard drives, as it works really well. Otherwise I try and stay away from it.

[+LogicalApex MVC]

Veeam End Point Backup should be added to the list. Great backup client and free as well.

[Copernic Reporter]

Bvckup 2

[+BudMan MVC]

So if looking to backup to cloud services check out cloudberry desktop backup - support for all of them including Amazon glacier which is cheapest option at .01 per gig this where I backup all my home video for dr

[LaP]

For personal use (free) i like AOMEI Backupper and FreeFileSync.

[Shiranui]

Syncovery

[Dan_Dan]

bup on my Linux machine, arq on Mac, bvckup 2 on Windows

 

Arq shipped a Windows version recently and I've been meaning to give it a try. Has anyone used it? Opinions?

[technord]

major lol at BackupExec and DPM (worst backup software ever made)

 

Commvault Simpana /thread ;-)

[xrobwx71]

Macrium Reflect free for home and Macrium Reflect Server for work.

[nekrosoft13]

what backup options are available to backup to network?

[T3X4S]

I use Veeam and Backup Exec.

OMG - A company I used to work for used those.

When I started it was Backup Exec 2010, trying to retreive data from 10 year old, improperly written, tapes.
Then I switched to Backup Exec 2012 for current backup jobs - it was all OK.
I hated the tape machine, hated the old tapes
When we moved from P2V servers, we implemented Veeam - and everything became much more hands off.
No longer used tape, and things started getting a little better - then I quit
 

[binaryzero]

At my new job, we use StorageCraft ShadowProtect for client backups, and I think our own internal backups as well (I don't manage our internal network). 

Seems alright. 

[Yogurth]

Bvckup 2

This is the most user friendly backup software I have ever encountered. UI is fantastic. Did I mentioned that is only ~ 2 mb in size?

Edited October 27, 2015 by Yogurth