Best Backup Software

Regular backups are an essential part of computers, but one that’s easy to ignore or forget. Windows includes its own backup tools, but they’re not all in one convenient place, their scheduling options are limited, and they don’t offer encryption or optimization. For hassle-free backups, it’s worth installing a third-party program—Backup Software.

Comodo BackUp

Comodo Backup is a powerful and easy to use backup software that helps home and business users protect their valuable data against damage or loss. It can backup registry  files, files and folders, email accounts, particular registry entries, IM conversations, browser data, partitions, or entire disks like the system drive.

A screenshot of COMODO Backup v4

AOMEI Backupper Standard

To prevent system failure or data loss, backup is important and necessary. AOMEI free backup software provides basic and advanced features to ensure the safety of your system and data. It includes a simple wizard that makes creating images straightforward, even for complete beginners. It suggests which drives to back up and where to store the resulting image – whether it’s a local drive, an optical disc or network attached storage. Give the image a name (ideally including the date) so you can find it easily later, create a schedule so the process is repeated at regular intervals, and click ‘Start backup’.

Screenshot of AOMEI Backupper v3.0 in Windows 7

FBackup

FBackup allows the backup of individual files to be saved to a local, external, or network folder, as well as to Google Drive. An easy to use wizard guides you through the backup process and includes preset locations you can choose to backup like the Documents and Pictures folder, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Chrome settings. In addition, FBackup allows you to add your own files and folders to a backup job. You can exclude certain data from a job by specifying a word in the folder or file name as well as the type of file extension.

Screenshot of FBackup in Windows 7

Macrium Reflect Free

Macrium Reflect Free is a free disaster solution for your home computer. It protects your personal documents, photos, music and emails. With Macrium Reflect, you can clone your hard disk and create disk images in the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an easily recovered backup file.   

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GoodSync

GoodSync is an easy, secure, and reliable way to automatically synchronize and back up your photos, MP3s, and important files. Thanks to this program’s step-by-step trips, managing your files and folders is as simple as a few clicks of your mouse. Backing-up and/or synchronizing your critical documents is as easy as one click, and can also be scheduled using a variety of automatic options.

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SyncBackFree

This straightforward backup utility makes it a snap to safeguard and synchronize your files, and its freeware price just sweetens the deal. Surprisingly flexible for a free program, SyncBack can save your files anywhere: on external hard drives, in ZIP archives, on network drives, on CDs (using UDF), or transfer them via FTP. Recovering from a drive loss is also cinch, with a convenient restore tool that replicates folder trees along with the files in them.

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