Description
You always mean to back up your important files "later", and then a drive dies or a file gets deleted and the last backup turns out to be six months old. Copying by hand is easy to forget, and you never know which files have changed.
Personal Backup is a free backup program a German developer has maintained for over twenty years. Set up a backup task and a schedule, then forget about it: pick the folders, destination and rules, and it runs on schedule, or at startup, shutdown or logon, copying only files that have changed.
Destinations can be a local or external drive, a network share or an FTP server. The interface is plain but the features are solid, with high-DPI and dark mode support and installation on Windows 11 ARM.
Many destinations: local or removable drives, Windows network shares and FTP servers.
Scheduled backups: a built-in scheduler or Windows Task Scheduler runs backups daily, weekly or at logon or shutdown.
Incremental and sync modes: update, differential and synchronize modes process only changed files, saving time and space.
Fine-grained filters: include or exclude by subdirectory, file type or wildcard, such as skipping temp files and caches.
Compression and encryption: compress to zip or file by file and protect backups with AES encryption.
Restore and logs: a restore tool brings files back when needed, and every run is logged so errors are easy to find.
Personal Backup is a free backup program a German developer has maintained for over twenty years. Set up a backup task and a schedule, then forget about it: pick the folders, destination and rules, and it runs on schedule, or at startup, shutdown or logon, copying only files that have changed.
Destinations can be a local or external drive, a network share or an FTP server. The interface is plain but the features are solid, with high-DPI and dark mode support and installation on Windows 11 ARM.
Features
Many destinations: local or removable drives, Windows network shares and FTP servers.
Scheduled backups: a built-in scheduler or Windows Task Scheduler runs backups daily, weekly or at logon or shutdown.
Incremental and sync modes: update, differential and synchronize modes process only changed files, saving time and space.
Fine-grained filters: include or exclude by subdirectory, file type or wildcard, such as skipping temp files and caches.
Compression and encryption: compress to zip or file by file and protect backups with AES encryption.
Restore and logs: a restore tool brings files back when needed, and every run is logged so errors are easy to find.
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