Review: GFI Backup Home Edition

Posted by Rhonda

I have recently come across a great and free backup solution. GFI Backup Home Edition is a full-featured backup application that is very intuitive and easy to use.

Some of the features include:

Numerous backup storage options
File/Folder synchronization
Standard ZIP archives for backups
Incremental and Differential backups
Predefined searching filters
Easy to use Task Scheduler
Email Notifications
Detailed backup logs

With all this at your fingertips what else is needed? The price is definitely right for these economic times.

Below, I will step through setting up a simple scheduled backup from one location to another on the same drive.

From the main menu, I select Backup.

Here is where you give the Backup Job a name, description, etc. You can also include your email address and GFI Backup will notify you upon the backup’s completion or if there are errors in the process.

Pick the files/folders you want to backup.

Pick the target location for the backed up files. Notice there are several options here. Very nice!

Here is where you decide if you want compression and/or encryption. Also, you can select whether you want Incremental or Differential backups.

This is where we set the schedule. Here I said Weekly on Sunday.

Set the username and password.

Several options are contained on this dialog…I just took the defaults.

At 9:45 AM, Sunday – the job runs and a Summary Notification dialog is displayed.

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Below, you can see where my files were backed up.

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From –> C:\1Photowork\DisneyWorld
To –> C:\Program Files\GFI\GFI Backup 2009 – Home Edition\Backup\Photo-Backup

In closing, GFI Backup Home Edition is a great alternative to the Windows Backup tool as well as some of the apps that you have to pay for. It is easy to install and easy to use. I suggest trying it out for yourself.

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