SharePod lets you backup your iPod files to your computer, without any limits which iTunes might impose. Also iPhone and iPod Touch support. Freeware.
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SharePod for iPod owners
Posted by dvanarsd on October 5, 2009
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, backups | Tagged: backup, freeware, iPhone, iPod, iTouch, iTunes, SharePod, touch | Leave a Comment »
CrashPlan – Automatic Online Backup
Posted by dvanarsd on October 5, 2009
CrashPlan – Automatic Online Backup comes in free and pay flavors.
This allows you to backup your computer automatically — to elsewhere on your own computer, to an external drive, to another computer. The software for this is free for personal use.
If you want to backup to CrashPlan’s service online, there is a regular fee to compress and save using “industrial grade private key encryption to secure your files before they’re backed up. The only person who can decrypt your files is you.”
Note that as of October 2009, the lowest annual fee is $54/year for unlimited storage. On one hand, it’s not as fast as locally backing up, and costs more in the long run, but on the other hand, it’s not vulnerable to anything stolen/damaged/broken at your end.
Use at your own risk, like any such service.
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, Online storage, backups | Tagged: backup, crash plan, CrashPlan, Online storage | Leave a Comment »
Free Drive Backup Express
Posted by dvanarsd on September 14, 2009
Paragon Software offers Free Drive Backup Express – their Free Backup Software.
Supported Operating Systems
- Windows Vista (32/64-bit)
- Windows XP Professional SP2 (32/64-bit)
- Windows XP Home SP2
- Windows 2000 Professional SP4
Supported Hard Drives and Removable Media
- Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD
- Serial ATA (SATA) HDD
- External SATA (eSATA) HDD
- SCSI HDD
- All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
- USB 1.x/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices
- PC card storage devices
Supported File Systems
- NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
- FAT16
- FAT32
- Linux Ext2FS
- Linux Ext3FS
- Linux Swap
- HPFS
System Requirements
- CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible, 300MHz or higher processor
- RAM: 256 MB or greater recommended
- Disk space: 100 Mb
- Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, backups, imaging | Tagged: backup, drive, Express, freeware | Leave a Comment »
Which Online Backup Service Is Best?
Posted by dvanarsd on September 14, 2009
Bob Rankin has a post on Which Online Backup Service Is Best?.
Bob covers Carbonite, Mozy and iDrive as 3 of the biggest/most heavily advertised services.
Posted in Online storage, backups | Tagged: backup, Carbonite, iDrive, imaging, Mozy, online, storage | Leave a Comment »
Windows SteadyState from Microsoft
Posted by dvanarsd on August 11, 2009
Windows SteadyState is a Microsoft freeware product which returns your computer to the same condition as it was before the last user.
Got pranksters around? Someone who downloads who knows what?
“Windows SteadyState can return your family computer and hard disk to the condition it was before your children changed it. You just restart your computer.”
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, Microsoft Windows, Security, backups | Tagged: backup, freeware, Restore, State, Steady, SteadyState, Windows | Leave a Comment »
SpiderOak: Online Data Backup & Storage
Posted by dvanarsd on August 11, 2009
MakeUseOf has a post about SpiderOak a Secure Online Data Backup & Storage service.
“SpiderOak is a secure online data backup, sync, sharing, remote access and storage tool. It is easy to use and lets you upload your files and access them from any Internet-connected device. It works quietly in the background and automatically backups and syncs your data across multiple computers and has a versioning system, which lets you rollback to previous versions of a stored file and access deleted files
It claims to have up to 15 times faster upload rate due to its compression and de-duplication technology. It’s fault tolerant design protects your data against any unforeseen events such as a network timeout, power outage and possible human errors.”
Posted in Online storage, backups | Tagged: backup, freeware, online, SpiderOak, storage | Leave a Comment »
TechBite: Back up your Registry
Posted by dvanarsd on August 11, 2009
TechBite has a post on how to Back up your Registry.
Blogger Steve Bass prefers “Emergency Recovery Utility NT. Affectionately known as ERUNT, it’s a free tool that automatically backs up your Registry and allows you to restore it. And despite its name, it works with Windows XP and Vista, including 64-bit editions.”
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, Utilities, backups | Tagged: backup, Emergency Recovery Utility NT, ERUNT, freeware, registry, Restore, system | Leave a Comment »
Backup your registry in Windows XP
Posted by dvanarsd on July 17, 2009
Internet Fixes has a post on how to Backup your registry in Windows XP..
This is a vital first step before changing anything in the Registry or using any kind of registry cleaner.
Posted in Help, Windows XP, backups | Tagged: backup, registry, Windows, XP | Leave a Comment »
Five Best Free System Restore/Disk imagers
Posted by dvanarsd on July 13, 2009
Lifehacker has their Five Best Free System Restore Tools – Disk imagers.
You can find freeware to image your XP/Vista system in here somewhere.
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, backups, imaging | Tagged: backup, freeware, imaging, Lifehacker, Restore | Leave a Comment »
Saving data from a bad hard drive
Posted by dvanarsd on June 22, 2009
Internet Fixes has a post on how to save your data when a hard drive dies.
Step-by-step instructions and downloads for various brands. This is something to try before you resort to an expensive commercial outfit to do a recovery for you.
Posted in Files, Freeware/Shareware, Help, backups | Tagged: disk, drive, Files, hard, Help, recover, recovery, save | Leave a Comment »
13 Great Free Backup Programs for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Posted by dvanarsd on June 22, 2009
Download Squad has 13 Great Free Backup Programs for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Pick your operating system and find a backup program for it — and use it!
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, backups | Tagged: backup, backups, freeware | Leave a Comment »
Download Back In Time 0.9.26 for Linux
Posted by dvanarsd on June 22, 2009
Back In Time 0.9.26 is is a simple backup system for Linux (Gnome & KDE4).
Two GUI available: Gnome and KDE 4 (>= 4.1).
Available on Softpedia. Freeware for Linux.
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, Linux, backups | Tagged: Back in Time, freeware, Gnome, KDE, Linux | Leave a Comment »
MailStore: Email Archive and Backup free
Posted by dvanarsd on June 22, 2009
MailStore is the Email Archive and Backup for a variety of email programs.
It handles:
* Microsoft Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007
* Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail
* Microsoft Exchange Server Mailboxes
* Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
* POP3 and IMAP (including webmail services such as Gmail and Yahoo)
* .eml and other files
Freeware. Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Posted in Email, Freeware/Shareware, backups | Tagged: archive, backup, Email, freeware, MailStore | Leave a Comment »
Clonezilla will crush your drive cloning chores
Posted by dvanarsd on March 20, 2009
Clonezilla is a freeware program to “clone GNU/Linux, MS windows and Intel-based Mac OS.”
It is intended to be comparable to programs like Norton Ghost and Partition Image.
It “can save and restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk.” For “ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ of Mac OS” file systems it can save only the used blocks (so you’re not “saving” blank space, and can save to a smaller hard drive).
You can run the single version from CD/DVD/USB flash drive.
Posted in Freeware/Shareware, backups, imaging | Tagged: freeware, drive, imaging, backup, Clonezilla | Leave a Comment »
Slipstream Service Pack 1 into your Vista disc
Posted by dvanarsd on February 8, 2009
Slipstream Service Pack 1 into your Vista disc refers to creating a recovery disc for Vista that includes Service Pack 1 (SP1) in case you need to install or reinstall Vista on your computer.
Posted in Help, Windows Vista, backups | Tagged: backup, Help, install, recovery disc, reinstall, slipstreaming, SP1, Vista, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Slipstreaming Windows XP (SP3)
Posted by dvanarsd on February 8, 2009
Slipstreaming Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) means creating a recovery disc with all the Windows XP updates and service packs up through Service Pack 3 (SP3), just in case you need to reinstall Windows XP.
Paul Thurrott is considered an expert on Windows and has an up-to-date manual for this process.
Posted in Windows XP, backups | Tagged: backup, Help, install, recovery disc, reinstall, Service Pack 3, slipstreaming, SP3, Windows, XP | 1 Comment »
KLS Backup to backup your email
Posted by dvanarsd on January 13, 2009
KLS Backup 2008 is an easy backup program for Windows Mail/Outlook Express/Thunderbird and even Firefox profiles and email.
Freeware. Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Posted in Email, Firefox, Freeware/Shareware, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Utilities, backups | Leave a Comment »
Copy your Outlook Express email files to a backup folder
Posted by dvanarsd on October 13, 2008
Internet Fixes has instructions on how to Copy Outlook Express Mail Files to a Backup Folder.
Email programs tend to bury files in odd places, so here’s how to track them down if you’re using Microsoft Outlook Express.
Posted in Email, Files, Microsoft Outlook, backups | Tagged: backup, Email, Express, Files, Microsoft, Outlook | Leave a Comment »
Backup the Vista Registry
Posted by dvanarsd on October 6, 2008
Internet Fixes has instructions on how to Backup the Vista Registry.
Before you change anything in a Windows system registry, back it up!
Posted in Windows Vista, backups | Tagged: backup, Help, registry, Vista, Windows | 1 Comment »
Free Remote/Online Backup : Cucku Backup
Posted by dvanarsd on October 6, 2008
Cucku Backup — okay, what are the odds that your computer AND your relatives/friends/second computer will BOTH go crash and lose all your data at the same time?
Pretty slim, so if you use this free online service recommended by ZDNet, you can send a backup of any size to another computer as your backup.
Posted in Online Software, backups, networking | Tagged: backup, Cucku, networking, online, save | 1 Comment »