drew64 wrote:

> I have been looking for some free backup software to back up my  
> music and photos to an external hard drive and maybe DVD's. I have  
> tried Cobian but dont know if I like it since it has no restore  
> function. Have read somethings about winbackup and was also told to  
> try comodo backup. Any one have any experience with these. Also When  
> I tried Cobian I set it to incremmental backup. It worked but I see  
> it makes a new folder everytime a backup is made. Is there a way or  
> a program that will just back up and replace the file that has  
> changed into the same folder?

I guess rsync would do it. It's like a copy tool that only transfers  
the changes and it can work both locally and over network connections.  
It is a command line tool though. I don't know what OS you're running,  
but there are also some rsync GUI frondends out there I believe.  
BackupPC also supports rsync as a backend, but it might be overkill  
for just backing up a single machine. Also take a look at rdiff-backup  
if you want to keep multiple versions of files.

BackupPC also supports rsync as a backend, but setting up a BackupPC  
server for just one machine might be overkill maybe. It will work  
though and its web interface is very handy for restoring files.

Nils Breunese.

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