It's too bad they killed WHS, because the backup software was the best. It was reasonably fast, featured deduplication across your systems, delta files, automatic culling of old backups, you can pull out any file from any day and even live restore. Combined with the mirroring and drive pooling nothing could touch it.
Since then I still can't find any standalone software nearly as good. The built in windows 8.1 tools are terrible - an image backup with no options for folder exclusion, incremental backups or compression is horribly inefficient. The file history feature is an absolute joke. I'm trying to use acronis, but my options are A) backup very large files with serial chains of incremental/diff backups, which is fine for system images but horribly space inefficient for data file backups or B) the non-stop backup service which at least has delta files but is super slow and crashes so often it's useless.
What other options are there?
Since then I still can't find any standalone software nearly as good. The built in windows 8.1 tools are terrible - an image backup with no options for folder exclusion, incremental backups or compression is horribly inefficient. The file history feature is an absolute joke. I'm trying to use acronis, but my options are A) backup very large files with serial chains of incremental/diff backups, which is fine for system images but horribly space inefficient for data file backups or B) the non-stop backup service which at least has delta files but is super slow and crashes so often it's useless.
What other options are there?