free backup utility?

[waylman]

Im looking for a free backup utility that will allow me to backup certain folders to a network drive at home. The app should be able to tell if any changes have been made to the folder and then copy those changes to the network drive. Anyone know of a good free or cheap app like this?

 

[oog]

doesn't the built-in ntbackup do this? i don't know if it does the incremental backups.

 

[waylman]

yeah, i need the incremental action

 

[waylman]

bump

 

[waylman]

ok, so I'm willing to pay for an app that will work...

Here's what I want to do. It's simple really. I have alot of mp3's. All I want to do is back up the mp3's to a network drive. I want to be able to schedule backups so that the backups occur over night. Also, the app should have the ability to do differential backups as I don't want to back up the whole folder everytime.

I tried an app called backup now 3, but it has its own file name for the backup. I just want the app to copy over any new mp3's to the network drive at a scheduled time.

Can anyone help me out with an app that can do this?

 

[viperbri]

There was actually a good free program that I had used called BASK (Backup And Sycronization Kit) that did exactly that.

Here is a link to it but it seems all the download links are dead:
http://download.com.com/3000-2242-10169304.html

If you can't find a copy I may still have mine I could email to you. Just let me know.

 

[waylman]

that app sounds great. to bad the d/l links are dead. I PM'ed my email to you if you still have it. Thanks.

 

[Need4Speed]

just use robocopy (free, command line, google for robocopy.exe or PM me). It's a directory mirror program. use task scheduler to run it once a day and it will only copy those files that changed or have been added. I use it exactly for the same thing with my MP3 collection

 

[waylman]

robocopy is run from the command line? I'm not too good with DOS commands so Im not sure how that will go. Other thing is, my mp3's are on a FAT 32 partition and being copied to a NTFS partition. It sounds like robocopy might chop my file names...

 

[Need4Speed]

robocopy does long filenames, but i only works on NT/2k/XP no 95/98/ME. as far as the syntax, its pretty easy.

ROBOCOPY source destination /MIR

there are a bunch of other options, but that will do basic mirroring...

i copy my mp3s from network shares running linux to ntfs and have no problems

 

[waylman]

cool, i'll give it a shot

 

[Need4Speed]

id do a small test batch first just to make sure u get the jist of things

 

[oog]

ntbackup does do incremental backups.

 

[waylman]

it does? i looked at it but couldnt' see the option. Does it allow scheduled incrementals?

 

[AT]

EZBack-it-up is what I use to copy some folders from server to another one. It has scheduler and incremental backup and the author is open to new feature suggestions.