Ok, after having probably reinstalled my PC around 10 times in the past 30 days, i’m now back to a setup i feel comfortable with. I’m now back to running Windows 10 LTSC and have only what i need installed. Since i plan on running this for a while, i’d like to set up a backup again.
Some time back i had Veeam Endpoint on my PC, which does what i need and nothing more. Since it’s been some time though, i thought i’d ask if there is anything better out there by now.
I’d need something that allows Drive level selection (folder exclusion is not needed, but i’d take it), Full-Incremental Backups to keep storage needed to a minimum, Browsable Backups with the ability to restore either individual files or my whole PC. Backup Targets can be local disk or SMB Shares. Ideally, all of this free and in a no nonsense Interface.
I don’t need fine controll over what to backup or when to do it. Just a once per day Backup i can restore files and my PC from. Also offsite backup and cloud sync or such is all not needed in my case. It would be great if it had an option to handle Backups when the PC was off. So either do them later, or do a backup before shutdown or such.
What do you recommend?
That’s the “classic” shadow copys, isn’t it? Like Macs Timemachine. I used that in Windows 7. I’ll make sure to enable this.
This doesn’t allow full restore of the machine though. Or am i wrong?
Yes the integrated backup allows you to restore from boot device, it can even help you create one.
I personally still use MyBackupPC on my linux server and accessing windows through the Samba/Windows Share.
This is pretty old, but still practical when using plenty of small servers.
Today I would use SyncThing and snapshots/MyBackupPC for differential.
Built in windows backup–personal file coverage
Built in system restore–apps installed as well as user profiles and system files coverage
Both tools are able to be mapped to network location(usb hdd plugged into routers usb port if router allows or old win95 win 98 win xp etc machine with public hdd or folder share)
I know you asked for free but if maybe you would be ready to spend 20$, Bvckup 2 is the way to go. It’s the one use, very easy to use and super good UI and is always updated by the developers to fix bugs.
Well thanks for all the replies. I highly appreciate it. I guess i’ll just be going with the build-in Backup solutions then. Less clutter on the PC is always a good thing.
Personally my view is a backup is something I am going to need so I pay for it. Im on spider oak over 3 linux boxes and have tested its recall with no problems what so ever.
Duplicati. Free, handles onsite or offsite copies automatically and easily. Compresses, de-duplicates, multiple backup strategies or devise you own. Works very well for me to be honest.
Personally I use Gs Richcopy 360 , it has all what I need , it is quick , simple but not free .
If you asking for free one , I would recommend Duplicati , it is somewhat similar to that one
Want to follow this. I have two servers one I added disks to for a copy of my media that’s on my main server. I’m hoping to use possibly rsync on as a scheduled task, but don’t know if this will apply to windows machines. For those I had had great success using the windows tools to do a image backup for the OS and do a backup of the data as well with the windows 8 backup restore tool on a schedule.
I also had the OS on a smaller faster drive and all the other media was linked to separate drives I could import (IE the Downloads, Photos, Videos folders etc). This way even if windows died off I had all the programs, games and media on other drives that weren’t effected if windows needed to be reset.
Just finished setting up an Rsync back up task on my TrueNAS server to back up to my Netgear ReadyNAS. Could achieve this with most NAS combinations. My PC, laptop and mobile devices sync important files to TrueNAS using Nextcloud.