You do not need any purchased software for the perfect data backup. Use our four free tools to create backups for a wide variety of media.
clonezilla
Clonezilla is a proven platform-independent stand-alone solution for backing up entire partitions and complete systems. With Clonezilla, you can copy a complete operating system installation including all data from one PC to another.
You download the ISO image of Clonezilla and burn it to a CD. From this CD you start Clonezilla if you want to create the backup – Clonezilla is a live system. Alternatively, you can start Clonezilla on a USB stick.
Copies made with Clonezilla take up less space than the original partition because Clonezilla only copies the actually used parts of a partition. Clonezilla supports the ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, FAT and NTFS file systems.
The download of Clonezilla is about 100 MB.
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Areca Backup
With Areca Backup you can also create backups packed in ZIP or ZIP64 format and encrypted. Areca Backup also creates incremental backups. The backups can be stored in the network, on an external drive or on an FTP server.
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Cobian Backup
Cobian Backup can also create backups via a network, compress backups and create incremental backups. Cobian Backup also creates backups fully automatically and scheduled to your specifications. The free tool can also back up files that are currently in use at the time of backup.
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DriveImage XML
With DriveImage XML you can easily back up and write back partitions. DriveImage XML backs up partitions and logical drives to image files that can be searched and extracted from them.
Drive Image XML supports hard disks with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS.