Is there a good Windows 8.1 backup software for ex. HDD?

Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy.
This forum is not for asking programming related questions.

Moderator: General Moderators

Post Reply
simonmlewis
DevNet Master
Posts: 4435
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:39 pm
Location: United Kingdom
Contact:

Is there a good Windows 8.1 backup software for ex. HDD?

Post by simonmlewis »

I have a Seagate backup drive, but have since read that Windows 8.1 won't run Seagate Manager.

So I need some software that will kick-in and run a backup of specific folders I set when I plug the drive in.

Is there such a piece of software?
Love PHP. Love CSS. Love learning new tricks too.
All the best from the United Kingdom.
User avatar
Pazuzu156
Forum Contributor
Posts: 241
Joined: Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:00 pm
Location: GA, USA
Contact:

Re: Is there a good Windows 8.1 backup software for ex. HDD?

Post by Pazuzu156 »

That's odd, but I don't have an external drive, so I don't know about software for them not running.

A quick google search yielded this though, maybe it'll give you some idea.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ ... -software/
- Kaleb Klein
------------------------------------
Web Developer | Software Developer
https://kalebklein.com
PGP Key: https://keybase.io/pazuzu156
simonmlewis
DevNet Master
Posts: 4435
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:39 pm
Location: United Kingdom
Contact:

Re: Is there a good Windows 8.1 backup software for ex. HDD?

Post by simonmlewis »

No this is not for Web-based. This is for a drive.
Those were web based... or did I miss something?
Love PHP. Love CSS. Love learning new tricks too.
All the best from the United Kingdom.
User avatar
Pazuzu156
Forum Contributor
Posts: 241
Joined: Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:00 pm
Location: GA, USA
Contact:

Re: Is there a good Windows 8.1 backup software for ex. HDD?

Post by Pazuzu156 »

They're cloud services you can back things up on. I have an internal drive I use for backups, and have OneDrive sync with that. So by backups are on the drive, but also backed up on the cloud.

However, if that doesn't fit your needs, another search gave me this, these entries are mostly desktop applications, so they might fit your needs better :)

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-bac ... re-for-pc/
- Kaleb Klein
------------------------------------
Web Developer | Software Developer
https://kalebklein.com
PGP Key: https://keybase.io/pazuzu156
simonmlewis
DevNet Master
Posts: 4435
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:39 pm
Location: United Kingdom
Contact:

Re: Is there a good Windows 8.1 backup software for ex. HDD?

Post by simonmlewis »

Well I backup to Mega. But the problem is, the moment anything changes on your PC, it's uploaded to Mega - so make a mistake, and it's permanent.
So I use to store "archived" versions of things, and obviously the "current" version.

But when I tried my small Seagate drive, it connected but wouldn't backup.

Now it will. So I can use this again. Thx.
Love PHP. Love CSS. Love learning new tricks too.
All the best from the United Kingdom.
User avatar
twinedev
Forum Regular
Posts: 984
Joined: Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:41 am
Location: Columbus, Ohio

Re: Is there a good Windows 8.1 backup software for ex. HDD?

Post by twinedev »

Not sure how it is holding up anymore (haven't used it in a while), but used to use Acronis True Image (http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/pc-backup/)

Anymore though, all my "working files" are in Cubby (like Dropbox), which keeps revisions, and then once a week I do a driect raw copy of both hard drives over to an external hard drive.
Post Reply