Best free Backup Solution?

[TechongizguyProductions]

I want to find a free solution to backup my Video Drive on my computer to my NAS, It would be great if i could schedule it to run at night. There are a lot of free programs out there but, I want to know what the LTT forums would suggest.

 

 Thanks in advance, 

[elkenrod]

A five line Linux script would do it.

[Zimon]

If you are using Windows, create a .cmd file with a robocopy one liner and set up a scheduled task.

[lubblig]

I like freefilesync and Crashplan. I'm unsure if these will work for you since I use them only with external computers (friends house using crashplan) and to external hdds with freefilesync.

[Charlie27364]

I want to find a free solution to backup my Video Drive on my computer to my NAS, It would be great if i could schedule it to run at night. There are a lot of free programs out there but, I want to know what the LTT forums would suggest.

 

 Thanks in advance, 

Check out this article: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/best-free-backup-software-11-programs-we-recommend-1137924

[Azgoth 2]

You should be able to use your OS's built-in backup tool to do this.  I know at least on Windows, it lets you select a backup device (should let you choose a NAS if your computer can see it), and you can specify specific folders to backup or just do a whole system image.  I think most Linux backup tools have similar capabilities.  At least with Windows, though, I don't think you can schedule more than one backup configuration to run on a schedule (I could be wrong, double check me on this), so if you're already using it to schedule regular backups--which you should be--that might be an issue.  Not sure offhand if the Linux or Mac backup programs do that.

 

But, as people have said, a reasonably simple cmd or Bash script can also accomplish this, but it's probably better to use your OS's own backup tool if you can.