nabz0r Veteran Posted December 31, 2014 Veteran Share Posted December 31, 2014 Welcome to the Best Backup Software 2015 official thread. Use this as a reference for researching back-up software. The previous years thread can be found here - Best Backup Software 2014 If your choice of Paid Antivirus is not listed, please choose Other and specify in the comments. My vote goes to Acronis. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 simonlang Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 clonezilla or redo backup. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596701594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Max Norris Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Acronis Backup Server for Windows (voted TrueImage, same company anyway), Clonezilla for Unix/Linux. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596701636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MorganX Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Macrium Reflect for personal system imaging. File History & One Drive for personal data backup. Microsoft Data Protection Manager in the enterprise. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596701644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Gotenks98 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Why no Windows File History as an option? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596701658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Max Norris Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Why no Windows File History as an option?Just my opinion anyway - it's a handy way to back up personal files and such, but it's not a "proper" backup solution, that is if my hard drive suddenly gets suicidal and jumps out of the PC in front of a bus and needs replacing, I wouldn't be able to recover the operating system from it. I'd use it in conjunction with a full backup image, sure, multiple means of a backup is good but not as the only backup.. unless you don't mind reinstalling everything again. Not me, Windows gets installed once and done.. the next time I do a full install is on a new system or a major update, never again otherwise. Gotta have that image backup that recovers everything. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596701672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MightyJordan Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Other voter here; my vote goes to Create Synchronicity. It's free, fast and very lightweight. I use it to mirror backup (if I modify or delete something in the source folder, the backup gets updated when the sync's run) my music, videos, pictures and documents, but you can also do incremental (new and modified files are copied left-to-right, nothing gets deleted), two-way incremental (same as incremental, but works both ways), and strict mirror backups (reverts files modified on the right). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596701710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 goretsky Supervisor Posted January 1, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted January 1, 2015 Hello, I voted for 2BrightSparks' SyncBack, but also like RoboCopy (filename: ROBOCOPY.EXE) command in Windows, as well as NovaStor's NovaBack for its tape drive support. Different tools for different kinds of backup jobs. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596702226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dmitry G Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 For personal, I would say TimeMachine does a pretty good job. For servers, it would have to be Veeam but it only works on Virtual servers (Hyper-V and ESXi). binaryzero and BinaryData 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596743830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 binaryzero Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I use Veeam and Backup Exec. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596743860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 cork1958 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Only one's I've ever used have been Acronis and Easeus and I'd have to choose Acronis between the two. Don't usually even bother with backups as I have nothing on any of my 7 Windows computers worth saving. If a hard drive was to die or something similar, I'd just get a new hard drive and reinstall Windows all fresh. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596743872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dmitry G Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I use Acronis for cloning hard drives, as it works really well. Otherwise I try and stay away from it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596743874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +LogicalApex MVC Posted May 1, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 1, 2015 Veeam End Point Backup should be added to the list. Great backup client and free as well. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596836262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Copernic Reporter Posted May 1, 2015 Reporter Share Posted May 1, 2015 Bvckup 2 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596836386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +BudMan MVC Posted June 10, 2015 MVC Share Posted June 10, 2015 So if looking to backup to cloud services check out cloudberry desktop backup - support for all of them including Amazon glacier which is cheapest option at .01 per gig this where I backup all my home video for dr Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596883488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 LaP Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 For personal use (free) i like AOMEI Backupper and FreeFileSync. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596883490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shiranui Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Syncovery Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596883718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dan_Dan Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 bup on my Linux machine, arq on Mac, bvckup 2 on Windows Arq shipped a Windows version recently and I've been meaning to give it a try. Has anyone used it? Opinions? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596919120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 technord Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 major lol at BackupExec and DPM (worst backup software ever made) Commvault Simpana /thread ;-) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596919132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 xrobwx71 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Macrium Reflect free for home and Macrium Reflect Server for work. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-596919146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nekrosoft13 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 what backup options are available to backup to network? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-597045496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 T3X4S Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 I use Veeam and Backup Exec. OMG - A company I used to work for used those.When I started it was Backup Exec 2010, trying to retreive data from 10 year old, improperly written, tapes.Then I switched to Backup Exec 2012 for current backup jobs - it was all OK.I hated the tape machine, hated the old tapesWhen we moved from P2V servers, we implemented Veeam - and everything became much more hands off.No longer used tape, and things started getting a little better - then I quit Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-597105776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 binaryzero Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 At my new job, we use StorageCraft ShadowProtect for client backups, and I think our own internal backups as well (I don't manage our internal network). Seems alright. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-597105904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Yogurth Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 (edited) Bvckup 2 This is the most user friendly backup software I have ever encountered. UI is fantastic. Did I mentioned that is only ~ 2 mb in size? Edited October 27, 2015 by Yogurth Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1241708-definitive-best-back-up-software-2015/#findComment-597105908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Welcome to the Best Backup Software 2015 official thread. Use this as a reference for researching back-up software.
The previous years thread can be found here - Best Backup Software 2014
If your choice of Paid Antivirus is not listed, please choose Other and specify in the comments.
My vote goes to Acronis.
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