Free and Open Source Software

17919 readers

55 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Gaywallet@beehaw.org

alyaza@beehaw.org

Any recommendations for free software backup programs that work on Windows? (beehaw.org)

submitted 10 months ago by thestarfraction@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

34 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Anyone know of any user friendly, FOSS, backup programs that work on Windows? If they were cross-platform that would be a bonus. Asking for a friend (no really, a family member)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lots of good recommendations here!

For user friendly software Veeam Endpoint, Synology Active Backup, and Duplicati would be my top 3. They all let you restore easily with a GUI that is easy to navigate, support email notifications natively for failures/warnings, and support VSS on windows without external scripts.

Kopia, Restic, and similar open source projects also work well on a technical level, but are about the farthest thing from user friendly as they require custom scripting to perform VSS snapshots before backup and send notifications after, and are not very easy to use for restoring files.