How Important is Your Data?
How often do you backup all your important data? I highly recommend a program called Cobain Backup. The author, Luis Cobain just released version 7.4.5.335 of his backup software. He describes it as:
a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload).
Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup is not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a “Scheduler for security copies”.
Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption.
I personally backup to an external USB hard drive. Without any effort on my part, Cobain Backup backs up my important data daily. Since it supports incremental backups, it usually doesn’t take long at all. (It’s scheduled to run in the middle of the night. Does it really matter how long it takes?) My fiancee’s laptop backs itself up every day using Cobain Backup’s FTP feature. It wirelessly FTPs the backup files to the USB hard drive on my computer through a secure connection. Once a month, I archive the latest backup to DVDs.
How important is your data?
December 2nd, 2005 at 9:43 pm
rsync+ssh baby