Which is the best PC backup and recovery software?

[keleypedro80]

Hello
Can anyone please advice me on which PC backup software to use?
I am using CloudBacko backup software.

Has anyone had any experience with this?
Thanks

 

[stevech]

Hello
Can anyone please advice me on which PC backup software to use?
I am using CloudBacko backup software.

Has anyone had any experience with this?
Thanks

no. I've used Acronis for many years. Has its quirks but it's reliable. Be sure you consider and use disk clone as well as backup. Drives are cheap. Clone is fast. When you need the clone, just boot it.

I use SecondCopy form Centered Systems to watch and copy VIP folders. Excellent.

Beyond 5GB, CloudBacko seems very expensive for the consumer.
iDrive and OpenDrive are good, affordable, esp. OpenDrive's custom plan.
but I don't put personal/sensitive data on these cloud systems.



I use my NAS time-backup which keeps the last n months of VIP folders on a separate volume in the NAS. Saved my buns many times - usually due to my error.

 

[Ronv42]

I use multiple backup processes. For the modern windows PC's I use the new native backup option to send their local files to a share on my server. On the server I run crashplan and back everything up to their service. I have found windows 8 backup of settings works great with a Microsoft account. You still have to restore desktop applications since they are not covered in the restore.

I have used disk imaging like Acronis Tue Image here with Windows 7 and XP. Restoring is really easy to bring a system back as long as you have the storage on your NAS and or server.

 

[htismaqe]

For Windows disk imaging, I use DriveImageXML. I do regular images on multiple machines and I've actually restored images (make sure to ALWAYS test your backups! If you can't restore them, they're useless.) not only to like hardware but to disparate hardware. DriveImageXML holds up well against a lot of commercial packages and it is free.

For Windows file backups, I use a tool called FreeFileSync. It's available on SourceForge and is actively supported. I have Windows user folders (documents, pictures, etc.) setup in "mirror" mode between the PC and NAS, so if a user adds, changes, or deletes a file locally on the machine, FFS instantly copies that information to the NAS if the NAS is online. If the machine is offline (e.g. a traveling laptop), all changes are done locally and mirrored as soon as the machine is back online with the NAS again.

For Mac, I use Time Machine and I also use FreeFileSync as well.

For the NAS, I use the built-in backup software (QNAP Backup Station) to a USB device.