Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64
Free GFI Backup Home offers powerful-yet-simple backup and sync
by Lee Mathews Jul 2nd 2009 at 12:00PM
A good backup routine is a must for anyone that has any important data on his or her computer. Your documents, photos, music - even your Photoshop brushes and settings - those things are all a real pain to recover when they go missing.
For home users running Windows, GFI Backup is an excellent option. Not only does it do traditional folder and files backups, but it also makes backing up your registry, email, and program settings a breeze. The program settings feature is especially handy, and comes with built-in support for apps like Skype, Putty, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Winamp, Firefox, IE, and Opera.
Backups can be saved to CD/DVD, removable drives, LAN folders, or remote FTP. Scheduling, compression, and AES encryption are also supported, and GFI can also run tasks before and after your backup job - say, a CCleaner /auto run to make sure you're not backing up useless files.
And since a number of users sync to external hard drives or NAS devices instead of backing up, GFI can also handle synchronization tasks, too. It's an excellent, free way to keep your data safe.
If you'd rather not register on the GFI site to get the download, you can also find it at Snapfiles.
For home users running Windows, GFI Backup is an excellent option. Not only does it do traditional folder and files backups, but it also makes backing up your registry, email, and program settings a breeze. The program settings feature is especially handy, and comes with built-in support for apps like Skype, Putty, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Winamp, Firefox, IE, and Opera.
Backups can be saved to CD/DVD, removable drives, LAN folders, or remote FTP. Scheduling, compression, and AES encryption are also supported, and GFI can also run tasks before and after your backup job - say, a CCleaner /auto run to make sure you're not backing up useless files.
And since a number of users sync to external hard drives or NAS devices instead of backing up, GFI can also handle synchronization tasks, too. It's an excellent, free way to keep your data safe.
If you'd rather not register on the GFI site to get the download, you can also find it at Snapfiles.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matt said 1:18PM on 7-02-2009
Does GFI pay people to write about this or did you just get inspired reading How-To Geek?
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Bronze said 12:56PM on 7-02-2009
GFI reviews are popping up all over the techie sites. It's either really special software, or it simply has a very aggressive PR campaign behind it.
I might take a closer look at GFI when it offers a reliable method to backup to my Amazon S3 accounts.
Lee Mathews said 1:19PM on 7-02-2009
Same way as many of my other app reviews. I was browsing around a download mirror (Snapfiles).
Apart from AOL, no one pays me to review anything. Just to clear that up ;)
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Matt said 1:31PM on 7-02-2009
I was kidding about the paying thing. I meant did they come to you and say "hey, review this". Didn't mean to imply that you were on the payroll. Sorry!
Lee Mathews said 1:33PM on 7-02-2009
Heh, didn't really think so, Matt. We're apparently not the kind of blog that gets free laptops thrown at us by Microsoft. :)
Although, if they're reading...It WOULD be nice if I had new laptop to REALLY test Windows 7 on...
Demo said 3:06PM on 7-02-2009
How does this compare to other utilities like DirSyncPro, Bonkey, and Macrium Reflect?
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Lee Mathews said 3:07PM on 7-02-2009
I like its simplicity, though it's not really fair to compare it to Macrium. As far as sync and backup go, I'd put this in my top 3 recommendations for less-technical users.
Demo said 6:04PM on 7-02-2009
I see. I really like DirSyncPro for my syncing, but perhaps I'll give this one a shot on your recommendation.
Christian Velasquez said 8:48PM on 7-02-2009
What's the disk cache for this, as in how much space does GFI require?
Also, does it only support desktop environments, or does it support USB's, iPods, externals, etc as well?
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