Recommendations for free incremental backup software

[Kadence]

I have an external hard drive, on which I want to do incremental backups of my C: drive.

What are some well-known options for free incremental backup that software will work with Vista 64?

 

[Kadence]

Are there any suggestions?

 

[Muadib]

I was told that DriveImage XML will work with Vista x64. I haven't tried it though, so I don't know if you can just do incremental backups.

 

[corkyg]

The backup software built in to Vista should work. Start Orb, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Backup. Does it not work?

 

[NAC]

I use Cobian backup to make backups of data files. It's free, very flexible, and doesn't use any propriety compression or anything.

However, I don't use it to backup the C: drive or windows folders, I'm not sure how well it works for that. I always figure that if my C: drive gets screwed up, I'm better off reinstalling Windows.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htmhttp://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

 

[QcGuy]

Not sure if this if this does incremental since I just make full images. But Paragon makes a free drive back up program. I was pretty impressed with it that I bought the Pro version and switched away from True Image.

Can't hurt to try it's, it's free and it does run on Vista 64

http://www.paragon-software.co...tmv=-&__utmk=266501774

 

[Kadence]

Thanks for the nice suggestions guys.

Originally posted by: corkyg
The backup software built in to Vista should work. Start Orb, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Backup. Does it not work?

I didn't know Vista had an incremental backup, that's pretty cool. I'll probably use that, thanks

 

[SolMiester]

I cant see the point of backing up the C: O\S, in order to recover from a hard drive failure or corrupted system files, you will need an O\S installed to run the restore. If you need to backup the C:, I would instead use an imaging software with recovery CD......You can restore the O\S with a image stored on your external drive and update user data files through a weekly backup routine to the same external drive....

 

[Kadence]

I don't think image backups can work incrementally, that seems against the idea of image backups. And plenty of people use incremental backups.

I can always reinstall the OS with my install DVD.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: SolMiester
I cant see the point of backing up the C: O\S, in order to recover from a hard drive failure or corrupted system files, you will need an O\S installed to run the restore. If you need to backup the C:, I would instead use an imaging software with recovery CD......You can restore the O\S with a image stored on your external drive and update user data files through a weekly backup routine to the same external drive....

if you're doing a full image backup of the whole drive, it's likely you're using something that can restore WITHOUT the OS installed.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Kadence
I don't think image backups can work incrementally, that seems against the idea of image backups. And plenty of people use incremental backups.

I can always reinstall the OS with my install DVD.

Acronis does incremental backups. Works fine and allows for restoring to several different time periods.

 

[wayliff]

I could not get DriveImage XML to work on Vista 64. It produced an error that is documented at the developer's site...I could not get around it.

 

[Jeff7181]

I like Vista's complete image backup (in Business and Ultimate versions)... being able to restore to a blank drive is nice. Vista's incremental backup works the same as XP and Server 2003's backup I believe. I see no need to use anything other software unless you have Vista Home.