I use Cobian on a lot of machines here. Most often, I have it back up to a
Winzip archive. In this case, my "restore function" is the WinZip program.

It doesn't seem to handle compression of large backups that well. For those,
I simply back up the files without compressing them. In this case, my
"restore function" is Windows Explorer.

The new "folders" are most likely Winzip archives. You can set the number of
backups you want kept in the software.

Cobian also has excellent support, considering its free. You go to the
Cobian message board, and Cobian himself comes on there every couple days. I
personally don't know how he finds the time for all this. The key fact is
that he does.

Give Cobian Backup a chance.

Chris Baker -- cbaker AT intera DOT com
systems administrator
Intera Inc. -- 512-425-2006

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[mailto:backuppc-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net] On Behalf Of drew64
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 7:55 PM
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [BackupPC-users] free backup software


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?

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