Good windows backup program

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Good Windows backup program

Cobian backup

Cobian backup is a free and easy to use windows backup program which supports volume shadow copy (Copying of files which are in use by another process [Required .NET]), Incremental backup, encrypted backup, scheduled backup, etc. among others.

Copy or backup files from Windows to Linux

To copy or backup files from Windows to Linux periodically and automatically use following steps:

1. Install cygwin with rsync, ssh, bash, bash-completion
2. Put cygwin\bin, cygwin\sbin, cygwin\usr\bin, etc. in PATH
3. Run ssh-keygen for the current user 'eg administrator'
4. ssh-copy-id from current user to destination machine
5. Create scheduled task to run cygwin\bin\rsync.exe with arguments such as "-vaz test root@192.168.100.1:/mnt/data1/windows_server_files/"
6. Run the task once and check
7. On destination /mnt/data1/windows_server_files can be backed up using rsnapshot