Windows 10: Reliable Backup Software with Low Resource Requirement

Hi All,

I am looking for a reliable backup application that runs only when I decide to do the backup, and it is completely off otherwise. I have read that backup applications like Acronis use computation resources also when inactive. Any suggestion? Thank you in advance!

Simone

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Reliable backup software for Windows 7?

If you want to backup to a standard format, Comodo allows it, and I'm sure the rest do as well.. even using 7z or ZIP. The problem you'll find is that they take up more space than proprietary formatting and in my experience take longer as well. I think you're trying to over-complicate something you want to be simple in all honesty man. No offense meant by that, but I feel you're trying too hard to minimize what you backup...what is the size of the data you want to backup?

As I said before, a system image is going to be the largest and easiest, I realize you want to narrow it down and you can do that with pretty much everything suggested here, including Windows Backup. If you were on Windows 8 or newer, it's backup is just a file-for-file backup and between that and shadow copies you'd be set. I really like it for quick and easy access without needing any image software (though Win8+ natively mounts and accesses ISO's). Plus it keeps track of changed files and backs them up using spare/idle resources. Maybe this is the answer you seek...

What's stopping you from upgrading to Windows 10?

Honestly something like Macrium works well even with it's proprietary format for image access, super easy to mount, like an ISO, but you gotta have Macrium installed of course...similar to the rest of these software packages...that's part of their catch. I feel what you ask for doesn't happen any more, it would ruin good marketing opportunities and probably cause infringement on managing backup images with other software...no bueno when bottom lines count.

 

Reliable backup software for Windows 7?

Fbackup gives you the option to backup the files directly to your backup destination so you can access them directly, nothing special required. It also lets you use standard Zip compression(with encryption if you want), this would require any standard Zip program program to access(7zip is free).

 

Reliable backup software for Windows 7?

This is a slight change of question, but do any of the backup programs you mentioned support preserving the full Windows directory structure? Many of the backup programs seem to have some sort of proprietary file format that require the software to actually access the backed-up files, but I see possible disadvantages to this (what if the software doesn't run on some future version of Windows?). That is one thing that made HP SimpleSave so simple and easy to use.