Freeware Directory

Freeware - File Management - Backup Tools

Simple Data Backup is a FREE program that allows you to quickly and easily back up an entire folder structure from one drive to another. In addition, you can have the program automatically back up certain folders every so many days. It is a simple, but effective program at maintaining a backup of a few key folders on your computer. However, it is NOT an ideal program to maintain a full backup of your entire computer.

Back4Win is safe and easy to use, industry standard ZIP compression ensures that your data will be accessible regardless of which PC operating system, or version you are using (Linux, Windows, Mac and so on). Can restore from a disk which has lost the directory reference (most ZIP programs cannot do this). Does not have 4Gb and 65535 file limit of other ZIP backup programs. Includes Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird backup.

Someday in the far future, your operating system will automatically backup your data to a secure remote data-center deep below the Himalayas - But right now, you're simply on your own. Back2zip uses the industry's most powerful ZIP and ZIP-64 technologies to constantly monitor your documents and make sure that they are always properly backed up. Note: this program used to be shareware, it is now freeware.

MicroBackup2005 is a handy freeware backup tool that makes ZIP archives of any folders you want. You just make a list of folders and MicroBackup2005 will automatically make backups of your files. Simple to operate, but flexible enough to meet your backup demands. MicroBackup2005 can auto-start, run hidden, run on schedule or manually. You can include system/hidden files, choose to backup changed files only or turn compression on/off. Completely free for personal use. No adware or Spyware.

SimpleBackup is a designed-for-simplicity file backup tool. Backup groups of files and folders with the click of a button. Drag and drop files and folders into a new backup or an existing one. Back up files over a network. Automatically delete old backups. See clear messages about ANY problems with your backups. Exclude unwanted files and folders. Set up backups and protect your work with the greatest of ease.

Simply Safe Backup FREE/HOME Edition allows backup to DVD or CD-ROM and is designed for home/personal use. This version allows only the minimal (40-bit/64-bit) encryption and compression level options, and is limited to 79,999 files in a single backup volume. Please note, the Free Edition is just that - it is totally, completely and unconditionally free! There are no nag screens, ad-ware or spy-ware installed, it does NOT expire either.

MyBackup is an easy to use backup creator, choose a folder that contains the files you want to backup, set a filter to it if needed, and select a backup location. Then click on the set created to quickly and easily backup your files every time. It's easy backups for everyone. It's always good to keep backups of your files (docs, spreadsheets, dat files, etc.) Can create up to 25 different backup sets.

Turbo Tape 2003 does manual or time-controlled backups of any data onto the first tape drive in the computer system. A software compression is inserted with it before writing data to the packed Tape. With compression, the backup-speed and also the amount of data per Tape is considerably increased (depending on CPU speed). Also available is the use of hardware compression e.g. HP Ultrium series.

This program merges a source directory into a destination directory overwriting only the files that have been updated. Creating a setting file allows the Directory Merger to be run in automatic mode as a powerfull backup utilty. In the settings file you can specify multiple directories and limit merging to particular file types and folders.

Genius Backup is a great backup solution if you need to copy files to another drive, folder or networked computer. It supports manual mode, automatic mode and network UNC paths so you can backup to another computer using file and printer sharing. (Genius Backup was originally called NeoBack).

Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program you can use to backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. Now you can also backup to an FTP server. Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running in the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary.

Handy Backup is an easy-to-use yet powerful backup program designed for Windows. It makes an automatic backup of your critical data virtually to any type of storage media - floppy disk, hard drive, network drive, or a remote FTP server. You only need to set it up once, it will monitor changes and execute scheduled backups and synchronizations at the time you specify. Strong file encryption, password protection and zip compression on the fly and many other features will protect your valuable data. Detailed online help is available.

RKopie is a program to create and manage customized backup jobs. It can create zip compatible archive files, span across disks, delete redundant files in the backup archive and more.

The New File Order was created to simplify backups of many files onto CD-Rs holding 650-700 MB of data. Copying big data volumes into a single folder before burning them to CD isn't very practical but CD burning software offers no alternative! The New File Order allows you to set up paths for copying, either manually or using Browse Input-Path / Browse Output-Path buttons, you can also choose to delete the original files after copying if you wish.

This utility runs in the background, backing up specified files. The backup schedules can be set to hourly, daily, or weekly at specific times.

Briefcase Plus is a utility for backing up and synchronizing collections of files on two different computers, just like the Windows Briefcase. But in comparison to the Windows Briefcase, Briefcase Plus has the following advantages: only modified files are ported to the briefcase. The briefcase retains the last time it was updated, and loads only files that have been changed since that time. the briefcase contents are compressed. This lets you take 100% to 500% more data on a briefcase. the files you work on will always be on the local hard disk (and not on a floppy disk), and will only be copied to the briefcase when you load the briefcase. So accessing these files will be much faster.

A backup program that creates ZIP files and lets you configure serveral backup sets. Folders and separate files can be added to each backup set. For each backup set there's the option to delete specified files depending on the extension you enter. Can be run unattended.

Winbacker is a very nice and fast backup program for win 95/98. It makes backup of the most important startup files ex. Config.sys, Autoexec.bat, Msdos.sys, Win.ini, System.ini and the registry database. Now even more userfriendly!

BackupLatest backs up the most recently modified files. After the initialization, it scans the directory selected by the user and finds the files with the most recent time stamp. Than it saves them on the drive (fixed or removable) mirroring the tree structure of the source directory.

Registry Saver allows a user to be able to back up his or her registry at every boot up. This way if his or her registry ever gets corrupted, they will have a fresh backup to install simply by running a batch file.