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  • BackBlaze

  • Online backup for $5 month unlimited space. Backblaze backup encrypts and uploads all your data – no questions asked. No picking files. No digging through folders. Your data is backed up online to our datacenters, so nothing can touch it. Restore from the web or get a DVD or USB drive sent via FedEx. Files change and Backblaze backs them up. By default, Backblaze simply backs up all the time so you dont have to remember. But if you wish, you can schedule Backblaze to backup at a convenient time or only when you click "Backup Now". Unlike Carbonite, Backblaze also backs up external USB and Firewire drives. »

    tags: backup-and-restore encrypted-sync internet-backup offsite-backup online-backup
  • Duplicati

  • Duplicati is the only portable backup program, able to send backups in encrypted form to another computer or SkyDrive using one of several methods (WebDAV, FTP, SFTP/SCP/SSH, Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, USB disk, Windows network share). Time scheduler e.g. for auto-backups every 3rd Monday on 10 a.m.German, Danish, English, French, Portugese. Can also be startet from command-line. Support for snapshots via VSS and LVM: Backup of open files. Duplicati is a rewrite of Duplicity/ftplicity, written for Windows (in managed C# .NET). It also runs on Linux using the Mono framework.The lastest portable version in all 5 languages can be downloaded as a zip file from https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/releases »

    tags: Portable automatic-backup backup-and-restore backup-folders backup-open-files
  • CrashPlan

  • CrashPlan lets you automatically back up your hard drive to another computer. The program offers secure cloud storage, in addition to local backups, and continuous, minute-by-minute backup. All backed-up files are encrypted.

    tags: aes-encryption automatic-backup backup-and-restore encrypted-backup file-versioning
  • SyncBack

  • SyncBack is a backup and file synchronization software that allows backing up and synchronizing files to the same or different drives, to different media (CD, DVD, Flash, zip), or to a remote server.There are three versions of SyncBack available: SyncBack Freeware, SyncBackSE (shareware) or SyncBackPro (shareware).

    tags: auto-file-deletion.no backup-and-restore file-synchronization file-transfer-protocol folder-sync
  • BackBlaze

  • Online backup for $5 month unlimited space. Backblaze backup encrypts and uploads all your data – no questions asked. No picking files. No digging through folders. Your data is backed up online to our datacenters, so nothing can touch it. Restore from the web or get a DVD or USB drive sent via FedEx. Files change and Backblaze backs them up. By default, Backblaze simply backs up all the time so you dont have to remember. But if you wish, you can schedule Backblaze to backup at a convenient time or only when you click "Backup Now". Unlike Carbonite, Backblaze also backs up external USB and Firewire drives. »

    tags: backup-and-restore encrypted-sync internet-backup offsite-backup online-backup
  • Areca Backup

  • Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups. It also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.

    tags: Discontinued backup-and-restore command-line compressed-backup delta-backup
  • Copywhiz

  • Copywhiz enhances your file copy experience in Windows. It offers more flexibility when copying and backing up files by letting you choose which type of files to copy & which to ignore.

    tags: backup-and-restore backup-apps copy-and-paste copy-manager file-copy
  • Carbonite

  • Unlimited online backup for one flat fee. Free trial, no credit card required. Secure and encrypted for your privacy. Easy, on-demand restore. Securely backup your photos, emails, financial documents, music and more over internet.

    tags: automatic-backup backup-and-restore online-backup
  • Back4Sure

  • Back4Sure is a feature-rich backup solution for typical backup use. No VSS Volume Shadow Copy function for open files. The program can make a backup to hard-disk, USB drive or network and can also be compressed using high or low compression settings to a ZIP or 7-zip file of various compression levels, as well as encrypted for security.

    tags: Portable backup-and-restore backup-profiles command-line command-line-interface
  • FBackup

  • FBackup is a free backup software for both personal and commercial use. It protects your important data by backing it up automatically to any USB/Firewire device, local or network location. The backed up data can be either compressed (using standard zip compression) or an exact copy of the original files. —but the killer feature is support for plugins that tell the backup application exactly which files to backup—an extremely useful feature for easily backing up hard-to-find files like the profile folders for browser software without resorting to manually finding each location from deep within »

    tags: backup-and-restore backup-open-files compressed-backup extensible mirror-backup
  • Comodo Online Backup

  • Comodo Backup is an excellent backup utility from the creators of Comodo Firewall. It’s free, easy to use and has everything you might need. You can easily backup your local files and folders to anywhere on your computer, network, DVD / CD or even FTP server. Plus it can be set to run automatically at specified time intervals.

    tags: backup-and-restore differential-backup encrypted-backup ftp-backup incremental-backup
  • Backup4all

  • Backup4all, backup software that performs incremental backup, differential, full and mirror backup to DVD, DVD-RW, CD, CD-RW, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, Dual layer drives, USB, network and backup to FTP. Backs-up open files, encrypts backups, sends backup notifications, schedules backups or can be used as a server backup software.

    tags: backup-and-restore backup-open-files differential-backup encrypted-backup ftp-backup
  • Bonkey

  • Despite a name that conjures up comedic visions, Bonkey the Backup Monkey is a serious backup program with tremendous potential. Not that it isnt good now; The program is easy to use, puts all the relevant options at your fingertips and backs up to multiple locations--including ftp or sftp locations, across the network, local folders and even SQL databases and Amazons S3 online backup service. Files are either zipped into an archive or copied as is so you can browse them using Windows Explorer.

    tags: backup-and-restore compressed-backup encrypted-backup file-synchronization ftp-backup
  • Backup Maker

  • BackUp Maker is the professional solution for creation of data-backups. The ease of use as well as the range of functions enable you to create backup tasks for saving files and folders with a lack of time.

    tags: backup-and-restore encrypted-backup ftp-backup schedule-backup
  • lsyncd

  • Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or blockdevices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

    tags: file-sharing folder-sync