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Easy Backup 2025 was available as a giveaway on February 11, 2025!
The world's simplest backup to protect irreplaceable data!
- Creates peace of mind as your precious pictures, music collection & private data are secure.
- Works reliably, comfortably and quickly.
- Sensationally easy to use at the click of a mouse.
- Automated backup after initial setup.
Windows 7/ 8/ 8.1/ 10/ 11
7.1 MB
Lifetime
$29.95
Thanks for the software, but it would be more comforting if AbleSoft confirmed I truly was registered in an ABOUT screen.
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Easy Backup 2025 is a simple file sync app -- it backs up files/folders you select to another, usually external drive. Some people might prefer it to for example the file sync in AOMEI Backupper, since Easy Backup is a much smaller app. Installation adds the program's folder in Program Files (x86), a folder in Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Local\, and 9 fonts. Impact on Windows registry is really minimal, though it does cause a rewrite of the Driver hive so there is a bit of churn.
Besides the obvious alternative of just copying whatever to a USB stick yourself, Windows still has File History backup, though they've taken steps to hide it in Win11 24H2, so it might be on the chopping block in the future. To find it you have to go to Control Panel -- NOT the full Control Panel listing everything -- click System and Security, then File History. You set it up with a USB stick/drive, selecting the files/folders you want to back up, and it'll do the rest whenever you plug that drive/stick in. You can also set a symbolic link or junction from the folder you want to back up to a folder that syncs automatically to the cloud. You can make such a link from a folder you want to backup in the Users\ [UserName]\ OneDrive\ folder for example, and that folder will be backed up to your OneDrive account.
tenforums.com/tutorials/131182-create-soft-hard-symbolic-links-windows.html
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Great Question .... Waiting for an answer!
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Does it create one large compressed file, that you have to open up to retrieve a file or two?. That's no use to me, when you cannot see the file and open it up to use.
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It is a good software, it uses FileFusion technology, that can be good or bad. If you change the hard drive, it will create ghost folders where the original data was installed and it will run 24/7 in the background even if you do not any changes in any folder or in any file. Other than that, it is an excellent software.
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mike, Isn't file fusion a cloud thing? Is it more efficient than zip or 7z? Do I need a special reader? Wouldn't I just be better off using a zip program and let it copy my Data Drive onto an outboard device overnight? (Kinda like RWW below but adding a little squeeze?)
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Sorry my system is the world's simplest backup.
I just keep all my data under one directory (folder) tree and copy it to an external drive every ten days, alternating external drives used. No special software required.
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RWW, Do you keep your external drives off site?
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JC,
We keep them in a fireproof waterproof safe at our home where the computers are.
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RWW, Yup... that is what I do. So if I want to use a file or in most cases just retrieve a photo, I can.
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RWW, so that's a no for the offsite storage location. Remember fireproof is not an absolute and you may find articles inside are not incinerated but are melted and unusable especially hard drives with plastic parts inside and soldered joints that melt at only 200 to 350 C
TK
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JC, even taking external drives to an offsite location in between backups is not fool proof as physical jolting and jarring can cause external drives to fail in transit due to mechanical fatigue or just design tolerances being exceeded.
TK
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RWW,
I do (sort of) the same.
I use a Chromebook so everything is automatically slung into the cloud (that I can access from any device anywhere) but for really important stuff I put on a 4Tb external drive that cost me less than $100...
I don't understand back up software if it doesn't back up the entire OS.
Widows 11 is frankly quite clunky and complicated. Chromium and Ubuntu are lightweight and simple (and fast!).
So I just copy stuff onto the external drive as a safe back up, knowing that I can grab it all from Google drive at a friend's house or just plug my external in at (for example) my local library.
The only downside to my system is that I have to remember one VERY complicated password.
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RWW, no need to keep them there if you dont keep yourself in fireproof waterproof room
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no compression available ?
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momo, That's right. No compression.
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good morning,
does it uses a proprietary format on saved backups?
Does it uses any kind of compression of backuped file?
thanks
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Can this create a bootable clone of a drive or is it just copying files like one would using copy/paste?
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Interested in an answer to this too. Downloaded and carried out a back up but all it seemed to do was copy and paste files to another location something you can already do easily by right clicking without using any backup app. No wonder it is called easy backup. It seems like a glorified copy and paster with the one advantage it can automatically schedule.
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Mike, it's just a file backup tool much like one used to do with XCOPY and copying files that have changed to the backup location... though not sure that this is that advanced. It may not do a compare and just blindly copy everything even if there were no modified files since last run.
TK
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