ShadowExplorer is a graphical front end for the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service. It browses point-in-time copies created by Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 and Vista and retrieves versions of files and folders, intended primarily for Home edition users. The site states Shadow Copies are not a replacement for regular backups.
Kopia is an open-source backup and restore tool. It creates encrypted snapshots of designated files and directories and saves them to cloud, network, or local storage. It offers command-line and graphical interfaces and supports compression, deduplication, and error correction.
DMDE is a data recovery tool for disks that can recover directory structure and files in some complex cases. It recovers file types such as photos, videos and documents from HDDs, SSDs, USB drives and memory cards. The free edition recovers up to 4000 files from a chosen directory.
BackupPC is an open-source, enterprise-grade system that backs up Linux, Windows and macOS PCs and laptops to a server's disk. It includes a web interface for viewing logs and status, initiating and cancelling backups, and browsing and restoring files, plus data deduplication and compression. No client-side software is required. The latest release is 4.4.0, from June 20, 2020.
Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging and cloning program. It is free and open source software for disk imaging and cloning. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore, and it saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk.
AOMEI Backupper is Windows software for system backup and cloning that also provides file syncing. The Standard edition backs up operating systems, disks, or individual files to local drives, external drives, NAS and network shares, with automatic, incremental and event-triggered methods. It supports Windows 11 through Windows 7. Other editions include Professional, Workstation, Server and Technician.
USBImager is a simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups. It is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux, and its interface is minimalist and multilingual. The application is Open Source under the MIT license.
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Kopia is an open-source backup and restore tool. It creates encrypted snapshots of designated files and directories and saves them to cloud, network, or local storage. It offers command-line and graphical interfaces and supports compression, deduplication, and error correction.
DMDE is a data recovery tool for disks that can recover directory structure and files in some complex cases. It recovers file types such as photos, videos and documents from HDDs, SSDs, USB drives and memory cards. The free edition recovers up to 4000 files from a chosen directory.
BackupPC is an open-source, enterprise-grade system that backs up Linux, Windows and macOS PCs and laptops to a server's disk. It includes a web interface for viewing logs and status, initiating and cancelling backups, and browsing and restoring files, plus data deduplication and compression. No client-side software is required. The latest release is 4.4.0, from June 20, 2020.
Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging and cloning program. It is free and open source software for disk imaging and cloning. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore, and it saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk.
AOMEI Backupper is Windows software for system backup and cloning that also provides file syncing. The Standard edition backs up operating systems, disks, or individual files to local drives, external drives, NAS and network shares, with automatic, incremental and event-triggered methods. It supports Windows 11 through Windows 7. Other editions include Professional, Workstation, Server and Technician.
USBImager is a simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives and creates backups. It is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux, and its interface is minimalist and multilingual. The application is Open Source under the MIT license.
