Definitive Best Backup Software 2009

[Barney T. Administrators]

An updated "Best Backup Software" poll for 2009. Please use this as a reference when researching backup utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.

Please choose one app or N/A per category when voting.

Happy Voting!

[(Spork)]

hmmm been looking for a good backup software this should be good

[stevember]

hmmm been looking for a good backup software this should be good

+1

[hadouken]

Robocopy with a batch script for Vista.

Syncback SE for XP, or maybe Windows backup if I can't use Syncback.

(Y)

[Lt-DavidW]

SyncBack. Does everything I need in one click.

[Sir Topham Hatt]

I just use Windows Explorer.

I select the files I want to back up, right click and hold over them all, drag them to my external drive and choose "Copy Here". When it's finished, I unplug the external :)

Windows Explorer is my choice :)

[Denholm]

Toucan, with NAS - on Windows.

Time Machine, with NAS - on Mac.

[Lee G. Veteran]

Acronis TrueImage

[lars77]

Genie Backup Manager has been working well for me.

[BlueFlame]

Acronis TrueImage

[Draken]

SyncBack. Does everything I need in one click.

thanks for that info, now I'm using it for my company :)

[Thirtythree]

Acronis by far.

[Sam]

SyncBack for normal backups, Acronis for imaging an OS.

[judithscott]

SyncBack is working well for me

[Redestium]

SyncBack SE.

[Kivstev]

StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the best and I've tried a bunch of those listed.

I'd bet that people only think they have good backup software until the try to do an actual restore. That is when they fail. ShadowProtect rules but does not work with Win7 as of yet.

[william1111]

Dmailer Backup is the best.

Nothing beats the automatic backup feature no more scheduled backups yeah.

Try it you'll agree

http://www.dmailer.com/web/index.php/telec...t/dmailerBackup

[Dzontra_Volta]

I just use Windows Explorer.

I select the files I want to back up, right click and hold over them all, drag them to my external drive and choose "Copy Here". When it's finished, I unplug the external :)

Windows Explorer is my choice :)

LOOOOOL..

My vote was for acronis. simple & fast.

[BigItup]

I think there should be 2 categories. Because when someone reccommends a good backup programme like syncback - i dont know if they mean for backing up some files or whether its also good for backing up the whole system or a harddisk partition.

Myself i am looking for advice on what is a good programme to back up a partition. So that i can install windows and then back up the whole thing.

[White Cuban]

i second bigltup, i need a backup liveCD for whole system.

[GreenMartian]

Syncback for data. TrueImage for, well, images of whole system :)

[Doli]

Windows Backup does everything for me. If I need a file thats not in shadow copy then I just attach the backup file (.vhd) in "Computer Management" to its own drive and I can search for the file.

[Pikey]

Microsoft's SyncToy works quite well enough for me .. although it's not specifically a backup tool!

[slinky333]

Microsoft's SyncToy works quite well enough for me .. although it's not specifically a backup tool!

I also use SyncToy as a backup tool too, in fact, I developed a companion tool to it to automatically

sync-up pairs on an interval. More info here: Synctoy Agent

[Knad]

I know it is not strictly a backup solution, but I find LiveMesh to be very good. Just runs in the background putting important coursework into the cloud.

[Dane]

I didn't want to make a new topic so I figured I'd ask here.

What backup software (free) could I use to backup folders to my external hard drive automatically, like it runs and backs up the folder every so often, like maybe sync it up two or three times a day. Anything?