If you are an IT professional or similar, you will be well versed in ghosting, backing up and restoring data. Many programs in this field tend to be highly overpriced but ultimately lacking in features.
Cobian Backup 8 is a multi-purpose piece of software that allows you to schedule and perform routine backups of important data, transferring data to different drives on your computer or over a network share. In cases where data has a somewhat smaller footprint, FTP transfers of the data are also supported (both downloading and uploading).
Cobian Backup 8 runs both as an application and a service, so backups can be scheduled and performed in the background whilst not taking up too much of your systems resources. It sports complete compression of your data, meaning you can create repositories of backups that can serve as replacement data should your hard drive corrupt in anyway. Should you need it, data is encrypted so that your important data doesn’t fall prey to data thieves.
Their latest release (Cobian Backup 9) is no longer open source but they still continue serving downloads of their open source product Cobian Backup 8, so make sure you grab the correct copy.
If you run a home server, need a way to backup the important files you store but don’t have a huge budget, Cobian Backup 8 steps in, rips up the stereotypes associated with similar backup programs and does exactly what you need it to.
