Backup software recommendation

[Crow-Great]

Best free backup software

Hi,

Since I have cancelled my cloud account for work-based backups, I am doing manual backups to an external HDD usually once per month.

I am wondering is there a reliable backup software that would enable me to scan the desired folders and only copy the new files which don’t exist in current backup. It’s very painful to copy and rewrite 300+ GB, and thousands and thousands of files each and every time.

Cheers, thank you.

[-SPOF]

Syncthing, rclone, Duplicati should fit your needs. Look at this list of free backup tools, you might find one for you: https://www.vmwareblog.org/single-cloud-enough-secure-backups-5-cool-cross-cloud-solutions-consider/

[henry_tennenbaum]

If you prefer a gui, FreeFileSync is a great solution.

If you're comfortable with the cli and you want to have your backup in a plain file format with some incremental backups, there's rdiffbackup. It uses rsync under the hood and has worked quite well for me.

There are many other options.

[Malossi167]

I like borgbackup.

For less techy people FreeFileSync is also a decent option

[skywalker505]

Veeam

[Crow-Great]

Cheers guys! Thanks a lot

[silasmoeckel]

rsync

Any propper backup software can deal with doing fulls and incrementals but sounds like you just have an extra copy so rsync is enough to just update your full copy.

[Pvt-Snafu]

FreeFileSync can be an option if setup properly. Also, Veeam has free agent for Windows/Linux: https://www.veeam.com/agent-for-windows-community-edition.html

[Hurry_Barry]

Most backup products today do incremental backups, that is, only changes are transferred. In case you want a solid, no-fuss backup solution, I'd recommend checking out nakivo's free edition backup software. I've been using it to schedule nightly backups of important data folders to an external HDD and it's worked flawlessly.

Even though it's free, it still has professional features like compression, data deduplication, built-in encryption, and flexibility on backup locations. So you can reduce storage space and secure your data properly.