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Can anyone recommend some free ( not a trial ) backup software which I wish to use on a laptop.
I already have Acronis with a perpetual licence for one computer but it seems that the software is only available on subscription now which I do not want so I cannot buy another perpetual licence.
Windows does have an inbuilt backup system but from reading up on it it appears not to do what I want.
EaseUS todo seems to do the job although the free version is a bit nag to upgrade heavy, does anyone have a suggestions ( Google Drive etc do not offer sufficient space on the free version) Fback up seems reasonable but does anyone have any other suggestions that they use.
Thanks
 
www.macrium.com

Macrium Reflect Free Trials

Macrium Reflect - Incredibly powerful software that allows you to create and schedule effective backups
www.macrium.com www.macrium.com

I have an Acronis Perpetual Licence too and I won't be going subscription, the above is what I have used for a while in the past and it works well.
 
gramps said:
www.macrium.com

Macrium Reflect Free Trials

Macrium Reflect - Incredibly powerful software that allows you to create and schedule effective backups
www.macrium.com www.macrium.com

I have an Acronis Perpetual Licence too and I won't be going subscription, the above is what I have used for a while in the past and it works well.
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Thanks for that I will give it a go
 
+1 for Macrium Reflect Free, it has some annoyances, but generally it works really well.
 
If the laptop has a western digital hard drive you can download the Acronis software for free
 
There are various custom OEM versions of Acronis (e.g. Seagate calls theirs DiscWizard). Have a look at the website of your backup drive manufacturer - I think they are usually limited to backing up to a drive made by that company, but they don't care who makes the source drives.
 
You can still get Acronis on a Perpetual Licence as I have just done so by upgrading to TI2021 for three computers.
 
I use VEEAM Agent for Microsoft Windows. I used to use the paid for version where I worked to backup our servers. The Windows client linked below is a cut-down version and is free to download

www.veeam.com

Free Windows Backup Solution for PCs and Endpoints

Simple and free Windows backup for cloud and physical servers, desktops, endpoints and more. Protect Windows workloads with Veeam Agent for Windows!
www.veeam.com www.veeam.com
 
Retune said:
There are various custom OEM versions of Acronis (e.g. Seagate calls theirs DiscWizard). Have a look at the website of your backup drive manufacturer - I think they are usually limited to backing up to a drive made by that company, but they don't care who makes the source drives.
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Thank you for that I have had a look on the seagate website and it looks as if disc wizard is a clone of acronis-I will persue further
 
troutfisher said:
Thank you for that I have had a look on the seagate website and it looks as if disc wizard is a clone of acronis-I will persue further
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As it was an external seagate drive I had bouhht I downloaded the drive wizard and it is Acronis in all but name and it worked a dream.
So thanks to everyone who replied you have sll been most helpful in sorting me out.
Chris
 
I used to use Carbonite until I had a hard drive fail. The restore speeds were throttled so badly it would have taken me years to restore everything. The technical support was non-existent, just blaming my internet speed (which is 330mbps and was running at about 8% utilized) so I cancelled my subscription and switched to Backblaze. They also do a hard disk option should you need it (with a refundable deposit on the device) and the trial restores I’ve done have been far faster.

I also use the OneDrive allowance I get with Microsoft 365 as a secondary backup for critical stuff.

Finally, I use Duplicati Free version for taking local copies to external usb HDDs.
 
MrGrumpy said:
I used to use Carbonite until I had a hard drive fail. The restore speeds were throttled so badly it would have taken me years to restore everything. The technical support was non-existent, just blaming my internet speed (which is 330mbps and was running at about 8% utilized) so I cancelled my subscription and switched to Backblaze. They also do a hard disk option should you need it (with a refundable deposit on the device) and the trial restores I’ve done have been far faster.

I also use the OneDrive allowance I get with Microsoft 365 as a secondary backup for critical stuff.

Finally, I use Duplicati Free version for taking local copies to external usb HDDs.
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I have had one occasion to backup from Carbonite which went quick and well but as always I think, people do have different experiences and I'm sad to hear yours was so bad. I have added Backblaze to my list of options for the future should things not be positive with Carbonite. Thank you.
 
SyncBackFree by 2BrightSpakrs works well for me.
 
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