VersionBackup - freeware PC
backup softwareLast month, Ernesto sent me an email describing his search for a good
backup tool for his PC. I haven't tried it myself but I thought his trials
were worthy of inclusion here.
Abridged quote from Ernesto's letter:
My new PC (two weeks old) did not include the MS Backup program
on the main disk drive.
I bought it in one of the stores of a big Department Store
Company in Spain.This company sells its own brand of computers, and loads
them with Windows XP Home edition (XP HE). They did not provide me with
the XP CD (where I expected to found the Backup program, in the
"Valueadded" folder).
As my new computer lacked the Backup program I did a two day
search for freeware backup programs (in Internet). I found several
programs; there were two of them that I thought were the most appropriate
for me:
-- SyncBack
-- VersionBackup
-- SyncBack
-- VersionBackup
The VersionBackup program seems to fit quite well what I was
looking for ...
So far I can tell you that, with my brand of computer and my
brand of disc drives, the Full Backup is done at a speed of 250 MB/minute,
and my daily Incremental Backup requires 30 or 40 seconds (I use my PC
just for fun, Internet surfing, e-mail, no work at all... and almost
nothing else).
Thanks very much for writing Ernesto, good luck with your new
PC.
Quote from the website - (Note: the "VersionBackup Master" program is
not free)
VersionBackup and VersionBackup Master are advanced file backup
systems, createing backup copies from your changed files each day. But
compared to other backup programs, they have a considerably increased
functionality:
Other backup software is restricted to the creation of backup
copies. Functions to manage the existing backup stock usually are missing.
The backup files will be overwritten each time, when a new backup version
of a file is created. This way, the generally used backup software
provides only the last copied backup for recovery. Older backup versions
are not yet present.
VersionBackup and VersionBackup Master do not have these
disadvantages. Here, the once created backups will continue
existing.