Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Sync Back - Free Backup Tools

URL: SyncBack
Price: $0
Platform: Windows
Version: 3.2.20.0

SyncBack is a freeware program that helps you easily backup and synchronize your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive.


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Sunday, March 14, 2010

BurnAware - Free CD/DVD burning tools

Price: $0
Platform: Windows
Version: 2.4.4

BurnAware Free is a free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software. It is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, MP3 music, DVD-Video discs and burning disc images. Free, easy to set up, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly and provides clean, flexible interface to help you complete your burning tasks much faster.

Features
  • Create data, bootable and multisession CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
  • Create Audio CDs and MP3 CD/DVD/Blu-ray Discs
  • Create DVD-Video
  • Create and burn boot images
  • Create and burn disc images
  • Supports all current hardware interfaces (IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/SATA)
  • Supports UDF/ISO9660/Joliet Bridged file systems (any combination)
  • On-the-fly writing for all image types (no staging to hard drive first)
  • Auto-verification of written files
  • Supports CD-Text and unicode characters
  • Supports Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32 and 64 Bit), no drivers required

Friday, March 12, 2010

Back4Sure - Free Backup Tools

Price: $0
Platform: Windows
Version: 1.0

Some features of Back4Sure
  • Freeware
    Back4Sure is unlimited freeware for private and commercial use. Please see the license agreement in the downloadable files for further details.
  • Easy folder selection
    You can easily select multiple folders from the directory tree to include them into the backup set. Just as easy you can exclude certain folders from the backup.
  • Efficient filter system
    You can easily create filter set to determine which files to include in or to exclude from the backup. And this not only for the whole backup, but also for individual folders.
  • Compression option with adjustable directory depth
    Backups may be stored in a compressed format. If you choose to enable compression, you can specify the directory depth from which on all files are packed into a single archive file. This way you can avoid very large archives and improve overall safety of you backup process.
  • Cleanup the target directory
    After larger restructuring of your file organization, lots of files in the backup target directory do not have corresponding source files anymore. Using the cleanup function of Back4Sure you can easily remove those orphaned files from the target directory.
  • Logging of the backup process
    All actions performed during backup may be logged into a plain text file. You can choose between two different formats of the log file: either an easy to read version or version in ini format optimized for automated analysis.
  • Creating desktop links to backup jobs
    You can easily create a desktop link to a backup job from within the program, from which the backup job can be directly started by just double clicking it.
  • Portable use or fixed installation
    Besides the normal setup file for a fixed installation, a zipped version for use from a USB drive is also available.


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Thursday, March 11, 2010

ComparePSD - Compare 2 PSD files layer by layer

Price: $0
Platform: Windows

ComparePSD compares two Adobe Photoshop PSD files for you and highlights the differences. Layer by layer. Effect by effect. Simple. And did we mention that ComparePSD is absolutely free?



Key features:

  • ComparePSD compares PSD files layer-by-layer
  • ComparePSD handles layers styles (effects), styles attributes and layers visibility flags
  • ComparePSD provides a scaled view of the files that helps you to find differences easier
  • ComparePSD allows you to select the files in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on them

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Backup & Recovery 10 - Free

Website: Backup & Recovery 10 Suite
Price: $0-69.95 (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/brs/comparison.html)
Version: 10
Platform: Windows

Backup & Recovery 10 Suite is a disaster recovery and system migration solution for home Windows® environments, both physical and virtual. Positioned as a successor to the Drive Backup 9 consumer’s line, it offers two backup approaches, the time-proven Drive Backup™, characterized by rich functionality and excellent flexibility and the brand new System Backup™, based on simplicity and minimal user participation. P2V and P2P operations are supported by Virtual Image Management™ and the updated Adaptive Restore™ - implements the latest trends in the system migration, protection, and evaluation.

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DriveImage XML

Website: DriveImage XML

Price: $0 for Home User, Buy for commercial users

Version: 2.13

Platform: Windows

DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives.

The program allows you to:
- Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
- Browse these images, view and extract files
- Restore these images to the same or a different drive
- Copy directly from drive to drive
- Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler

Image creation uses Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe “hot images” even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a useless backup! Restore images to drives without having to reboot. DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP Home, XP Pro and Windows Server 2003 only. The program will backup, image and restore drives formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS.