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The 27 Best Free Backup Apps

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Backing up is indeed a boring but nevertheless necessary process that all users should plan if they don't want to be surprised at some point by losing all their data. For this purpose we have collected the best free apps and present them to you.

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Macrium Reflect Free

1.

Macrium Reflect Free is perhaps one of the most ideal solutions for backing up our computer and in case of need to restore it to a previous state when it was working well. 

The program is completely free without any time limit, the various programs and other similar programs of the company that produces it can be found on the front page of MacriumSoftware. 

To run the program you need to register (it is a donation In its new version it has included many new elements and now fully supports UEFI and of course the new type of partition that follows the GPT. So after installing the application the first thing to do is to create a boot media so that we can reset our computer in case it does not start.

Everyday Auto Backup

2.

Easy-to-use software designed to automatically back up files. What you need to do is specify the source directory, destination directory and backup time. 

Then let this software do the rest. When the time to start a backup job is reached, the software will automatically start the backup job in the background without manual intervention. 

The app can be very useful to users of Dropbox, or other cloud storage services because they don't need to copy the files to the Dropbox folder manually. When the date changes the software will immediately create the list of backup tasks according to your settings.

Veeam Endpoint

3.

It is a free backup solution and provides you with a simple solution to create them on Windows based desktops and laptops. With Veeam Endpoint you can easily back up your computer to an external hard drive, NAS (Network Attached Storage) or a backup to the Veeam Backup and replication repository. 

That way, if your system crashes, hardware fails, or a file is corrupted or accidentally deleted, you can recover what you need from your data in minutes. Their mode of operation is very simple. 

After installing the application, follow the guide, where in the first phase you will be asked for the type of Backup, more specifically you have three options, the first is probably the most appropriate, since in this case the program takes a backup copy of your entire computer like this so that in case of need you can restore it to the point where you took the last Backup, the second consists of choosing a specific hard disk or partition of your computer and the third is the classic way of backing up folders or files that we all know, where we choose specific areas or files on our hard drive.

It is important to note that for the complete security of your data you should create a recovery medium so that you can restore your data in case you can not access Windows.



Duplicates

4.

Amazing free app that works with protocols like FTP, SSH, WebDAV as well as popular services like Backblaze B2, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive & S3, Google Drive, box.com, Mega, hubiC and more and which can help you create backup files and folders with strong AES-256 encryption. Duplicati is free and open source software and you can even use it for commercial purposes. The source code is licensed under the LGPL and can run on Windows, Linux, MacOS.

Z-DataBurn

5.

With Z-DataBurn you can backup your data to CD, DVD or Blu-Ray. The program includes a simple interface that can also be controlled with parameters via the command line. This allows for scheduled backups. 

With the combination of Z-DBackup and Z-DataBurn, you can have many backup strategies in the field of backups. In this sense, it makes it an ideal automatic backup tool for both professional and personal use. The Freeware version can record up to 5 GB of data per recording session.

Memopal

6.

Another online backup application does safe storage for you, so you no longer have to worry about losing important files. You can access the files on your computer or from anywhere in the world and share them with your friends and colleagues. 

Up to 3 GB free subscription. The method of use is very simple, after installing the application you must register by providing your e-mail. You immediately get 3 GB which can even be extended by 500 MB every time you accept the invitation of the application to your friends. 

Otherwise it is a classic backup application that by default saves the predefined storage locations from windows of documents videos music and photos. Of course you can change the default folders and add your own folders from anywhere on your computer's hard drives.



Z-DBackup

7.

It is a complete backup application that can copy your data quickly, easily and reliably to any kind of drive such as CD-R / W, DVD +/- R / W, DVD-RAM, Blu-Ray, USB flash drives but. It supports multiple backup plans, directory synchronization, fully automatic backup, archiving, data transfer via e-mail, FTP or network. 

This makes it an ideal backup tool for both personal and business use. Backup sets are linked together so a backup set can be linked to another backup set to perform multiple backups in one run. This allows you to create backups with different settings for different content. 

For example, you could create a Backup set for the music you want to back up to your NAS, another backup for your cloud documents to an encrypted file, and another backup for your photos to a Blu-ray disc and run it all in one step. With Z-DBackup you can also back up entire applications such as Microsoft Outlook, databases and the Windows registry. 

The software is able to backup jobs on a network, it also supports scheduled backup. All in all, it's a really great program, with professional capabilities, yet anyone can use it.

Iperius Backup Free

8.

Iperius Backup Free is a free backup software for Windows, simple, reliable, efficient, with automatic notifications, backups and email messages.

Compatible with Windows Server 2012, Server 2016, Server 2019 and Windows 10, with no license restrictions, it is one of the best free backup programs, and it has even been released in commercial versions for those who need even more advanced security features for their companies.

Supports unlimited size compression, incremental backup, network authentication and execution of external scripts and programs, includes design features so that it can automatically back up based on specific days and times. You can create multiple backup schedules based on the days of the month or week, but also at different times.

Iperius Backup can back up files and folders to any storage device or over the network, even in incremental or differential mode, and can maintain multiple backups. 

The free version of Iperius Backup has all the commercial email notification features and allows you to send an email after each backup to one or more recipients. After installing the application the first time you get backups you will need to enter your email to activate



PBackup Utility

9.

Simple program designed to back up your files. You can choose up to three locations to store your files, including cloud storage using Microsoft OneDrive. 

When setting up the program you can choose whether you want to have a version history of your project, saving each one to a time and date stamped folder. PBackup Utility will save you time when it comes to having controlled backups of your programs.

Everyday Auto Backup

10.

Easy-to-use software designed to automatically back up files. What you need to do is specify the source directory, destination directory and backup time. Then let this software do the rest. 

When the time to start a backup job is reached, the software will automatically start the backup job in the background without manual intervention. 

The app can be very useful to users of Dropbox, or other cloud storage services because they don't need to copy the files to the Dropbox folder manually. When the date changes the software will immediately create the list of backup tasks according to your settings.

FBackup

11.

FBackup is a free backup program for both personal and commercial use. Protects your important data automatically by backing up to any USB, Firewire device, LAN. The backups can be either compressed (with a zip compression standard) or an exact copy of the original files.


JaBuT Backup

12.

Powerful and easy-to-use backup solution. With jaBuT Backup you can easily set up backups. You can create "profiles" where all important and backup information is stored. These profiles are completely independent of each other. 

Additionally, you can select the destination folder, edit all the data from the source directory, or create lists of items that you want to include or exclude from the backup process, select the processing interval, activate the current profile during run or close the program except a few days a week. 

jaBuT Backup, a backup tool, a powerful and easy-to-use backup solution developed since 2011. With jaBuT Backup you can easily set up backups. You can create "profiles" where all important and backup information is stored. These profiles are completely independent of each other.

Finally, you can select the destination folder, edit all data from the source directory or create lists of items you want to include or exclude from the backup process, select the processing interval activate the current profile during running or closing the program with the exception of some days of the week.

AOMEI BACKUPPER STANDARD

13.

AOMEI is probably the easiest to use backup management application. This is a unique, free backup software. 

Backing up is indeed a boring but necessary process that all users should plan if they don't want to be surprised at some point by losing all their data. AOMEI Backupper is a free application that will help us with this by providing us with basic but also advanced functions so that we always have our data secured. 

The Backup system consists of four main functions where with one click we can back up all the data on the system drive, including system files and installed applications, without interrupting any other work we do on our computer. 

Backing up our hard drive including external hard drives, USB and other storage devices that can be recognized by Windows, backing up our partitions (Partitions) to back up a specific partition and backing up to your entire hard drive, with this option you can back up one or more hard drives (including dynamic drives).

You can even clone the Partitions of your hard drives, even your entire hard drives, and make Bootable disks so that in case of need, for example, for some reason your computer can not start to restore it. 

Finally you can configure the application and select a schedule to back up automatically for your system and data, especially for users who want to back up at a lower frequency or have multiple backup programs (e.g. x. daily, weekly, monthly), and all this through a very simple and understandable environment even for the most ignorant users. 

The program is available absolutely free which includes its basic functions, however, for more demanding users there is also the professional version of the product which includes much more features.

Back4Sure

14.

Regular backup is one of the most important and unfortunately, one of the most neglected tasks. The hard disk can store thousands of files, some of which may be of great importance to each user, such as e.g. photos documents videos and more. 

However, as we all know, the lifetime of a hard drive is not unlimited, so we should take measures so that our files (especially those that are of great importance to us) are always on one or even more backup drives so so that in case of need we can restore them. 

You can find dozens of programs for this purpose online, but Back4Sure is the application that makes the difference, mainly for its simplicity and portability. This way the backup process becomes such a simple affair that no one can make any excuses anymore.

Cobian Backup & Cobian Reflector

15.

Cobian Backup is a free file backup program that can be used to automatically back up your directories and files. It can run as a service or as a regular application and back up to another location on the same computer, network, or even an FTP server. The program supports compression and encryption. 

Reflector belongs to the Cobian Backup family, although it is a completely new program. Cobian Reflector is completely based on .NET. and in addition to all the features of the latest Cobian Backup, it has support for SFTP transfers, is DPI independent due to the use of vector graphics and Windows Presentation Foundation, and also behaves as a 64-bit program on 64-bit systems and as a 32-bit program on systems 32 bit. Cobian Backup and Cobian Reflector are applications that can be used for free even in a commercial environment.

Win To HDD

16.

It enables you to reinstall Windows and allows you to reinstall Windows directly from an ISO, WIM, ESD, SWM, VHD, VHDX file without using a CD, DVD, or USB drive. With this feature, you can easily reinstall Windows with just a few clicks, even if you don't know anything about computers. 

Also, you can easily install Windows on disks other than those on which your Microsoft Windows operating system is installed, using an ISO file, WIM, ESD, SWM, VHD, VHDX image file or a CD - DVD drive as the installation source and finally the system clone function allows you to clone the existing Windows installation from the old disk to a new disk (HDD / SSD). With this feature you can create an exact copy of your existing Windows system on another disk. You can see the differences between free and paid version  here


HD Clone Free Edition

17.

Clone your hard drives and make faithful copies of them. More specifically, HDClone Free Edition allows you to move content from one & hard drive to another, larger one.

The program installs on a USB stick or CD/DVD through which you can boot your computer and copy the contents of the desired drive to the new drive using a graphical interface. HDClone creates physical or logical copies (clones), images of hard drives and other mass storage media.

This is a great backup tool for backing up all your software or operating system installation. A special rescue feature makes HDClone an invaluable tool for rescuing files on defective hard drives. It works regardless of partition format, file system, and operating system.

Acronis True Image

18.

Acronis True Image is probably the best professional application for backup and cloning. However, the application in its full version is not free. So if you have at least one WD hard drive on your computer you can use this special version even if it is connected externally as USB. 

Acronis True Image WD Edition can clone disks, back up your operating system, applications, settings and all your data, while securely wiping confidential data you no longer need. The application provides you with all the essential tools you need to recover your computer system in the event of a disaster such as data loss, accidental deletion of critical files or folders, or a complete hard drive crash. 

If faults occur that block access to information or affect system operation, you will be able to easily restore the system and lost data. 


Drive Clone

19.

DriveClone is one of the most popular programs that can help us achieve our goal, it automatically clones your entire operating system or your entire hard drive including system files, applications, music files, photos, documents, and of Partitions documents. 

But what makes DriveClone different from other cloning applications is that it not only clones your data, but also gives you the ability to resize partitions, exclude files from cloning, defrag whole system, and remove temporary files. 

It can also do other interesting things like for example clone and convert your hard disk into VM files (Virtual Machine Files) that you can run with any virtual machine like VMware Workstation. However, for now we will only focus on cloning.


Seagate DiscWizard

20.

It is the corresponding free storage recovery and cloning application, that is, the corresponding application of Acronis True Image WD Edition aimed at every computer that has at least one Seagate or Maxtor hard drive, even if it is connected externally as USB and can clone disks, to backs up your operating system, apps, settings and all your data while securely wiping confidential data you no longer need. 

The application provides you with all the essential tools you need to recover your computer system in the event of a disaster such as data loss, accidental deletion of critical files or folders, or a complete hard drive crash. If failures occur that block access to information or affect the operation of the system, you will be able to easily restore the system and lost data.

If you have at least one WD drive and one Seagate drive connected to your computer, you should download and install the latest version of Seagate DiscWizard.


DriveImage XML

21.

Simple easy to use, reliable program for imaging and backup. To create an image, it uses Microsoft Volume Shadow Services (VSS) technology, which allows you to create secure images. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to edit them with various tools, but most importantly, restoring images to disks can be done without rebooting. It runs on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. The program can take and restore backups formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS.

Hasleo Backup Suite Free

22.

Free Windows backup and restore software, which integrates backup, restore and cloning features, is designed for Windows users and can be used on Windows PCs and servers. 

Hasleo Backup Suite Free's backup and restore feature can help you back up and restore Windows operating systems, disks and partitions to protect the security of your Windows operating system and personal data.

The cloning feature can help you move Windows to another drive or easily upgrade a drive to an SSD or larger capacity drive. 

As a professional backup and restore software, bootable Windows PE Emergency Disk can help you quickly and efficiently restore Windows operating system to a healthy state after problems such as system crash or disk failure.

Paragon Backup & Recovery

23.

Recover your data even when the operating system crashes and cannot be started. In the event that your operating system becomes damaged or otherwise fails to start, you can boot from a bootable USB stick and restore your entire system, including your operating system, installed programs, user settings and data, all in a WinPE environment. 

 In the app you'll find everything you might need to quickly back up and recover your data or your entire system on-site, whether it's to ensure the integrity and consistency of valuable information or just to be safe during maintenance or changes to your computer.

You can back up files, volumes and disks in their entirety or select one at a time. Define new strategies with custom backup parameters such as, backup type, frequency, schedule, scripted backup jobs to choose "what" and "where"

rescuezilla

24.

In previous articles, we have featured many apps for this purpose, but today's app stands out. It is an easy to use open source application that is fully compatible with Clonezilla Yes, Rescuezilla is the GUI (Graphical User Interface) Clonezilla you might have been looking for. But Rescuezilla is more than Clonezilla. It can create a backup copy of your computer's hard disk, which is managed as files stored on an external hard disk. If your hard disk fails, you can restore your disk image within minutes and all your documents and settings will be restored to the exact state they were in when the last snapshot was taken

Redo Rescue

25.

Redo Rescue Backup and Recovery is a completely free software that can backup and restore an entire computer system within minutes, from a very simple menu. It supports saving and restoring from local drives or shared network drives. Selectively restore partitions and map them to different locations on the destination drive. Additional tools for partition editing, web browsing, and more are included. Runs from live CD/USB and requires no installation.


Zback

26.

Zback is a small application that runs on Windows and is portable (no installation required) that will help you back up your computer in order to keep your data safe. In particular, you can synchronize files and folders, or synchronize two computers via USB drive or LAN, backup for general use and restore with many options. Supports files larger than 4 GB, synchronizes local drives or your network computers (LAN), includes Drag and drop support from Windows Explorer and preview mode.

Personal backup

27.

Personal Backup is a free professional program to save your data to any destination folder. This folder can be on a local fixed or removable drive, a Windows network server, or an FTP server. Backups can be initiated either manually or automatically using a user-defined schedule. 

The program will run on all popular versions of Windows. For the operation of the program, a Control Panel is provided that presents a summary of all important information about user-defined backups in a clearly organized format. It only takes a few clicks to change configurations and start an action. Note however that the program is not suitable for system data backup.
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