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)

  • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
    2·
    11 months ago

    Free but not open-source, Microsoft’s own SyncToy. Used it for years to do weekly backups to SD cards. You can set multiple source/target combos and run one or all with a button thereafter.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      5·
      11 months ago

      I wouldn’t trust SD cards with being backups. Data retention on Flash is a finicky issue, and SD cards are the worst of them all. Even SSDs have been known to suddenly lose their data when not powered on for some time. HDDs and DVD-Rs still have the best retention rates… but still don’t forget to follow 3-2-1.

        • jarfil@beehaw.org
          1·
          11 months ago

          True. On the software side, SyncToy seems to have been abandoned in 2021. Sounds like a reasonable candidate to get picked up by PowerToys, but who knows.

          What would be the current equivalent, FreeFileSync?

          • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org
            2·
            11 months ago

            Surely it’s available from somewhere reputable still … not like it was getting frequent updates before 2021. I was using it through May, when I switched to KDE, so I never looked into alternatives after that. Oh, well. I tried. 😁