Crashplan local backup alternative

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wildest_jjk

wildest_jjk

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Hi guys,

Does anyone know of any alternatives that act in a similar way to crashplan? I am only looking for regular local backups to my server. Preferably with compression etc.

1. I don't like the way with crashplan you have to create an account even for local backups.

2. It also apparently communicates with their servers every so often.

Thanks :)
 
Hi guys,

Thanks for all of the responses.

I am looking for local storage so I'm not sure if livedrive can work in a similar way to crashplan with regards to that?

Cobian is one I have seen mentioned in a few places I'm just not sure how well it compares with other free alternatives. Have you had any experience with it? Would be good to see if anyone has used it.

Thanks again :)
 
Not simply use something built into Windows or a sync program without using a function of a Cloud service provider?
 
If all you need is a local backup, why are you considering moving your data through a 3rd party? Wouldn't something like Syncback work? Or am I missing an advantage that Crashplan implements.
 
I completely agree with you guys and it is part of the issue. As far as I am aware Crashplan is a very solid choice for local backups (if you want to create accounts etc). There were some nice features in terms of scheduling among other things.

As long as I can install a piece of software on my computer that isn't a drain on resources that's perfect. I think I need either real-time or regular backups, the ability for differential as from what I see this is very good and finally something that will hopefully continue a backup if I shutdown or something midway.

I will take a look at Syncback now.
 
MS SyncToy was good but outdates, FreeFileSync was said to be the next best thing a while ago.


Key Features

•Detect moved and renamed files and folders
•Copy locked files (Volume Shadow Copy Service)
•Detect conflicts and propagate deletions
•Binary file comparison
•Configure handling of Symbolic Links
•Automate sync as a batch job
•Process multiple folder pairs
•Comprehensive and detailed error reporting
•Copy NTFS extended attributes (compressed, encrypted, sparse)
•Copy NTFS security permissions
•Support long file paths with more than 260 characters
•Fail-safe file copy
•Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
•Expand environment variables like %USERPROFILE%
•Access variable drive letters by volume name (USB sticks)
•Native 64-bit support
•Keep versions of deleted/updated files
•Prevent disc space bottlenecks via optimal sync sequence
•Full Unicode support
•Highly optimized runtime performance
•Include/exclude files via filter
•FreeFileSync portable and local installation available
•Handle daylight saving time changes on FAT/FAT32
•Use macros %time%, %date%, et al. for recurring backups
•Case-sensitive synchronization
•Built-in locking: serialize multiple jobs running against the same network share


http://www.freefilesync.org/

or

http://alternativeto.net/software/synctoy/
 
wildest_jjk said:
Cobian is one I have seen mentioned in a few places I'm just not sure how well it compares with other free alternatives. Have you had any experience with it? Would be good to see if anyone has used it.
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I've been using it for over 10 years. It's solid.
 
I've had a look at Cobian and it looks like it would do everything I need it too. The problem is I'm not really sure whether I need to compress and encrypt the backups to go onto my local server.

If I don't then I could use something like FreeFileSync because I plan to encrypt anyway when I back it up to my offsite server.

Are there any benefits to encrypting/compressing on my own home server and vice versa?

Thanks :)
 
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