If so, we’d love your feedback. Find Cobian Backup at…
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/index.htm
We received the tip about this backup software from long-time Brigada reader, Greg, who is also Team Expansion’s I.T. guy. (Thanks Greg!) It’s totally free, and all but the latest version would be open source. It supports FTP backup (both downloads and uploads), both scheduled and unscheduled backups, and runs as an application or service. Running it in the background uses very little system resources. Also, the program can copy files and folders in compressed mode, if you’re into that sort of thing. (I like to have a real uncompressed copy of everything, myself.) Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption. (Again, thanks Greg!)
Endless “Downloading” screen was all I got. No progress- lots of McAfee alerts. Thanks but no thanks! I BOUGHT Clipmate on your recommendation and it has been worth the money many times over. Please correct me if I am wrong about this one, but it walks talks and acts like junk. Pastor Mike
Hi Pastor Mike. Well I’ll have to admit — that’s why we worded the item as a question, “Have you tried Cobian? If so, we’d love your feedback.” Because we just can’t try *everything* that comes to us as a tip. Sounds like you’re not so enthused.
And I’m with you on Clipmate. It’s still one of my most-used tools! Thanks!
Doug
Hi Pastor Mike. Just wanted to follow up that I’m loving Cobian Backup and I haven’t experienced any of the junk messages that you mentioned. To me, it outperforms any other backup software I’ve tried to date — including some of the paid packages. And, for the record, nobody is paying me to say this. Just one beggar telling another where to find bread.