Free backup software

Backup should be essential to those who spend a lot of time on computer or use the computer for storing important personal or business dealings. By backing up, if your computer crashes or has virus infection, you can still get your files back easily on backup disks or other safe places where you choose to back up your data.

Backup software is important for every user, since computers are so unpredictable, you may never know what will happen to your personal files. There are so many backup software choices for users. Here I will recommend several free ones for you.

EaseUS Todo Backup Free

Are your system, photos, music and financial data protected? EaseUS Todo Backup Free is potent FREE backup software providing system backup & restore, hard disk or partition backup & restore, disk clone to protect your system and disk. It can back up whole PC, including the operating system plus your data, applications, settings and everything!

Meanwhile, EaseUS Todo Backup Free is useful if you want to replace the older smaller hard disk by a newer larger hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again.

EaseUS Disk Copy

EaseUS Disk Copy is free software, which can create an exact (Mirror Image, Disk to Disk) copy of your old disk, including the operating system, applications, personal preferences, custom settings, and all of your vital data. Disk Copy can be used for backup, cloning, or upgrading your original small hard drive to a new larger drive. It will offer you a rapid and simple method to copy all or part of a hard drive to another hard drive.

SyncBack

Easily backup, synchronize, or restore your files to another drive, FTP server, ZIP file, networked drive, or removable media. Highly configurable, SyncBack includes: detailed, easy to read log files; email results; simulated backups and restore; file filters; sub-directory selection; copy verification; background backups; auto-close of programs; easy and expert modes; profile groups; compare files, and an extensive context sensitive help file.

AutoBackup

Autobackup is an excel auto-save replacement, tailored for those who find auto-save inadequate for their needs. Unlike auto-save, auto-backup will never prompt you to save files, or replace your original files without asking. Instead it will automatically save your files to a folder specified by you, at a time interval you define. You will also be able to define how many backup copies you want to keep.

TaskZip

TaskZip is a great little backup tool which runs as a system agent. It will automatically archive specified files and folders into a single ZIP file (although ZIP-64 is not supported so don't try to backup huge folders). TaskZIP also allows you to password protect the ZIP file archives. And although TaskZIP has no restoration features, it stores archives as standard ZIP files. Backing up with TaskZIP is fairly easy if a bit kludgy (hey, it's free!). Just set up one or more "Backup Jobs" and let it run quietly in the background. The program's scheduler can run backups at any time, and you can set recurring schedules for running daily, weekly, or monthly backups.

Comparator

Comparator provides folder mirroring and data synchronization (again similar to Windows briefcase) optimized for use on a single computer (not across a slow network). Comparator has strong data backup and data restoration features but it requires quite a bit of user interaction (which might be a good thing if you have complex backup tasks.)

Comparator uses a two-panel comparison display to allow you to quickly and easily see where changes to files have been made. This allows for quick custom backups in case you do not want to backup all files every time. You won't need to open two Explorer windows to make painstaking comparisons but you'll still have the Windows system menu available to you by right-clicking a file.

Lou Backup

Lou Backup is an extra-ordinarily simple backup tool intended for backing up Visual C source code files -- but also quite useful for backing up any collection of folders. Supporting multiple projects, directory and folder exclusion and backing up of only modified files, Lou Backup can manage multiple "projects" simultaneously which works nicely if you want to manage multiple backups on a single computer.