Backup - Manage files
- Bulk renaming
- File copy
- Disk usage statistics
- File system reader
- Boot image creation
- Disk cloning
- Partition management
- CD/DVD rippers
- CD/DVD ISO Burner
- ISO drive mounting
My favorite proprietary, open source and freeware tools
Backup
Does not include file sync (e.g. OneDrive, Dropbox, etc)
FBackup is a free backup software for both personal and commercial use. It protects your important data by backing it up automatically to any USB/Firewire device, local or network location. The backed up data can be either compressed (using standard zip compression) or an exact copy of the original files. —but the killer feature is support for plugins that tell the backup application exactly which files to backup—an extremely useful feature for easily backing up hard-to-find files like the profile folders for browser software without resorting to manually finding each location from deep within
SyncBack is a tool to backup, synchronize, and restore data files.
· Free: SyncBackFree (Windows) is a simple backup and restore solution at no cost.
· Paid: SyncBackSE (Windows, macOS*, Linux* and Android*) is a Windows solution for home users to backup their personal data. A single license is good for up to 5 installations under a single residential address for computers and/or devices owned by the licensee.
· Paid: SyncBackPro (Windows, macOS*, Linux* and Android*) has extensive cloud support, SFTP support, AES encryption (including filename encryption), scripting and connects to the SyncBack Management System (SBMS) to manage remote backups easier and more secure.
- Using SyncBack Touch (Free).
Features: · Free/SE/Pro:
- Backup, Synchronize & Restore
- FTP
- Non-proprietary (use Windows to view files)
- Unicode - multi-language filename support
- Log history
· SE/Pro:
- Open and locked files copying using VSS
- Detects renames
- Move files
- SyncBack Touch Support (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)
- Versioning - Keep Previous Backup Versions
- Compression and Encryption - unlimited size & number of files
- Incremental Backups
- Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) Support
- FTPS
· Pro:
- Supports Amazon S3™, Google Storage™, Google Drive™, Microsoft Azure™, Microsoft OneDrive™, OneDrive for Business (Office 365), SharePoint™ (Office 365), Dropbox™, Box, SugarSync™, OpenStack, Backblaze™ B2, OVH™, Egnyte™, hubiC™ and WebDAV.
- SFTP
- Backup Emails stored on POP3, IMAP4 or Microsoft Exchange
- Scripting - configure how SyncBackPro runs
- Automatic Drive Failure (S.M.A.R.T.) and Ransomware Detection
- Delta-copying (copy only changed parts of files)
- Backup integrity checking
rsync is a software application for Unix which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring takes place with only one transmission in each direction. rsync can copy or display directory contents and copy files, optionally using compression and recursion.
In daemon mode, rsync listens on the default TCP port of 873, serving files in the native rsync protocol or via a remote shell such as RSH or SSH. In the latter case, the rsync client executable must be installed on both the local and the remote host.
Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
Features
MD5/SHA-1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity Timestamps preserved on files Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis Copy mode to just copy new/changed files Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical Check mode to check for file hash equality Can sync to and from network, e.g. two different cloud accounts Optional large file chunking (Chunker) Optional transparent compression (Compress) Optional encryption (Crypt) Optional FUSE mount (rclone mount) Multi-threaded downloads to local disk Can serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDav/FTP/SFTP/dlna
Storage providers
1Fichier Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS) Amazon Drive Amazon S3 Backblaze B2 Box Ceph Citrix ShareFile DigitalOcean Spaces Dreamhost Dropbox Enterprise File Fabric FTP Google Cloud Storage Google Drive Google Photos HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem) HTTP Hubic Jottacloud IBM COS S3 Koofr Mail.ru Cloud Memset Memstore Mega Memory Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Microsoft OneDrive Minio Nextcloud OVH OpenDrive OpenStack Swift Oracle Cloud Storage ownCloud pCloud premiumize.me put.io QingStor Rackspace Cloud Files RackCorp Object Storage Scaleway Seafile SeaweedFS SFTP StackPath SugarSync Tardigrade Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS) Wasabi WebDAV Yandex Disk Zoho WorkDrive The local filesystem
Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers. The Duplicati project was inspired by Duplicity and had similar functionality until 2008. In that year the storage model was redesigned completely and the program was rebuilt from scratch. This manual describes Duplicati 2, the version based on the new storage model.
Duplicati works with standard protocols like FTP, SSH, WebDAV as well as popular services like Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive & S3, Google Drive, box.com, Mega, hubiC and many others.
Duplicati is free software and open source. You can use Duplicati for free even for commercial purposes. Source code is licensed under LGPL. Duplicati runs under Windows, Linux, MacOS. It requires .NET 4.5 or Mono.
Duplicati was designed for online backups from scratch. It is not only data efficient but also handles network issues nicely. E.g. interrupted backups can be resumed and Duplicati tests the content of backups regularly. That way broken backups on corrupt storage systems can be detected before it’s too late.
Backup files and folders with strong AES-256 encryption. Save space with incremental backups and data deduplication. Run backups on any machine through the web-based interface or via command line interface. Duplicati has a built-in scheduler and auto-updater.
Duplicati uses strong AES-256 encryption to protect your privacy. You can also use GPG to encrypt your backup.
Duplicati is configured by a web interface that runs in any browser (even mobile) and can be accessed - if you like - from anywhere. This also allows to run Duplicati on headless machines like a NAS (network attached storage).
Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits the system administrator to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula can also run entirely upon a single computer and can backup to various types of media, including tape and disk.
In technical terms, it is a network Client/Server based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Due to its modular design, Bacula is scalable from small single computer systems to systems consisting of hundreds of computers located over a large network.
Bulk renaming
Batch renaming of files and folders
Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria.
Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more!
File copy
FastCopy is the fastest copy, delete, & sync software on Windows. It uses modern checksum verification to ensure copy accuracy and data integrity. It handles long Unicode path names over MAX_PATH (260 bytes), and automatically optimizes copy mode operations between the same storage device, or different storage devices.
In Diff HDD mode, reading and writing are multithreaded in parallel. Same HDD mode uses a larger read buffer so write operations will not cause slow disk thrashing. Because FastCopy doesn't use the OS cache, other applications and processes remain fast, and speed approaches the limit of the storage device. High performance is obtained from using the Win32 API instead of MFC.
FastCopy has an Include/Exclude filter that allows you to customize large file operations, and it has a job manager. FastCopy can automatically run only one operation at a time, to avoid disk thrash, and achieve the highest possible speed.
A free utility designed to copy files faster and more secure. It can verify copied files to ensure they are identical. It skips bad files during copy, not terminating the entire transfer. Seamless integration with Windows Explorer.
The paid version of the program (TeraCopy Pro) includes the following features:
Copy/move to your favorite folders. Save reports as HTML and CSV files. Select files with the same extension/folder. Remove the selected files from the copy queue. More features coming soon!
Robocopy, or "Robust File Copy", is a command-line directory replication command. It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4.0, and was introduced as a standard feature of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.
Robocopy is notable for capabilities above and beyond the built-in Windows copy and xcopy commands, including the following: • Ability to tolerate network interruptions and resume copying. • Ability to copy file data and attributes correctly, and to preserve original timestamps, as well as NTFS ACLs, owner information, and audit information using command line switches. • Ability to assert the Windows NT "backup right" so an administrator may copy an entire directory, including files denied readability to the administrator. • Persistence by default, with a programmable number of automatic retries if a file cannot be opened. • A "mirror" mode, which keeps trees in sync by optionally deleting files out of the destination that are no longer present in the source. • Ability to skip files that already appear in the destination folder with identical size and timestamp. • A continuously-updated command-line progress indicator. • Ability to copy file and folder names exceeding 256 characters without errors. • Multithreaded copying (Windows 7 only). • Return code on program termination for batch file usage.
Disk usage statistics
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by KDirStat .
You can also examine Network Drives very fast.
Language for application AND help files can be set to Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian.
File system reader
A freemium tool for reading files from EXT2/EXT3/EXT4, HFS, UFS2, Reiser4, and ReiserFS partitions in Windows. Some filesystem types locked restricted to "Pro" version.
Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows (2k, XP, Vista and Win7). It’s a free software. Anyone can modify or distribute it under GPL2.
Features Ext2Fsd supports:
ext2/ext3 volume reading & writing ext3 journal replay when mounting various codepage: utf8, cp936, cp950 … mountpoint automatical assignment large inode size: 128, 256, … large file size bigger than 4G CIFS sharing over network htree directory indexing ext4 extent read-only, no size truncating and expanding support Fast fsck (uninit_bg) and group block checksum support 64k block-size, support compatible to Linux ext4 and e2fsprogs OS: 2k, xp, vista, server 2003/2008, win7
Features Ext2Fsd doesn’t support:
fully ext3 journal support ext4 extent support LVM and Linux raid (md) NT4 is no longer supported.
Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X is a driver which gives you full read and write access to Windows partitions under Mac OS X. When working with media files or documents in Mac, you need access to the high performance of your system regardless if the files are located on the Mac’s HFS+ formatted volume, or in Window’s NT File System. Paragon NTFS provides full read/write access to NTFS with the same high speed as native HFS+ files.
extFS is one of the primary file systems of Linux. If you work on a computer and need to read or write files from HDD, SSD or flash drive formatted under Linux, you need extFS by Paragon Software.
Write, edit, copy, move and delete files on ext2, ext3, ext4 Linux drives connected directly to your Mac!
Fast, seamless and easy to use. Mount, unmount, check, repair, and format any of your Linux-formatted volumes.
Bootable image creation
Create USB bootable drives
balenaEtcher is a free and open-source image burner with support for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux. It makes USB and SD card image burning as simple and fast as possible.
FEATURES
- Validated Burning - No more writing images on corrupted cards and wondering why your device isn't booting.
- Hard Drive Friendly - Makes drive selection obvious to avoid wiping your entire hard-drive
- Beautiful Interface - Who said burning SD cards has to be an eyesore.
- Open Source - Made with JS, HTML, node.js and Electron. Dive in and contribute!
- Cross Platform - Works for everyone, no more complicated install instructions.
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
Features:
- Formats USB memory sticks to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/exFAT/UDF/ReFS
- Creates bootable USB drive from a wide range of ISOs
- Creates MS-DOS/FreeDOS bootable USB memory sticks, with no external files required
- Creates BIOS or UEFI bootable drives
- Checks for bad blocks
- Modern UI, with UAC elevation for Windows Vista and later
- Fully Open Source (GPL v3)
It can be be especially useful for cases where:
- you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
- you need to install an Operating System or run a Live CD from USB
- you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
- you want to run a DOS low-level utility
Despite its small size, Rufus provides you with everything you need!
Disk cloning
Copy entirely a drive / Drive imaging
Protect your data, upgrade your hard disk or try new operating systems in the safe knowledge that everything is securely saved in an easily recovered backup file. Macrium Reflect supports backup to local, network and USB drives.
Clonezilla is a free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution.
You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®. The problem with these kind of software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!
Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partclone and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. There are two types of Clonezilla available: Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition).
Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.
Clonezilla SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously.
Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency.
Partition Management
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All-in-one Disk Partition Manager: MiniTool Partition Wizard aims to maximize disk performance. It helps create/resize/format partition flexibly, convert disk between MBR and GPT disks, convert partition between NTFS and FAT32, and convert dynamic disk to basic without data loss in a few clicks.
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Data Recovery: MiniTool partition manager software offers two perfect solutions for data recovery. Partition Recovery Wizard can quickly find and recover the lost partitions while Data Recovery feature just hit the score when you are struggling to recover deleted files and retrieve lost data from damaged, formatted, and inaccessible drives.
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Disk Clone Tool: Disk clone or system migration is most frequently used to back up and upgrade hard drive. Disk cloning works perfectly when you are forced to make an instant backup. System migration returns you to act on the new disk in a while. No need to spend hours reinstalling operating system and applications.
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Disk Diagnostic: As comprehensive disk check master, MiniTool Partition Wizard can measure disk read/write speed, analyze disk usage on computer, verifies the file system integrity of a volume and fixes logical file system errors, and quickly detect if there are bad sectors on the drive.
With the Free Edition, home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Functions include: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery.
NOTE: Free Edition cannot resize dynamic partitions.
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GParted is a GTK+ frontend to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application. It is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
GParted is developed on GNU/Linux. It can be used on other operating systems, such as Windows or Mac OS X, by booting from media containing GParted Live, which can be installed on CD, USB, PXE server, and Hard Disk then run on an x86 machine.
The bootable image is called GParted Live and enables all the features of the GParted application.
CD/DVD rippers
HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder – it compresses and converts digital media from one format to another. HandBrake can rip encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss (libdvdcss is installed with VLC media player on macOS, or AnyDVD/DVD 43 on Windows).
Supports • Any Blu-ray or DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and some .VOB, .m2ts, and .TS files. Without VLC, HandBrake requires media to be unencrypted or already decrypted by third-party programs (i.e. DVD rippers). • Almost any other multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.
Outputs • File format: MP4 and MKV • Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora • Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC (macOS Only), MP3, or Vorbis. AC-3 pass-through, DTS pass-through (MKV only)
Other features • Support of chapter selections • Support of subtitles • Integrated bitrate calculator • Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling • Live Video Preview
WonderFox DVD Ripper Speedy is a powerful free DVD ripper software which can rip the content of DVDs.
Decrypt CSS and Region Code Protections
Commonly purchased DVD (Movie, TV show, tutorial, etc.) has one or more copy protection to avoid copying DVD content from DVD disk. There are some popular DVD encryption technologies including CSS, Region Code, Sony ARccOS Protection, Disney X-project DRM, etc. WonderFox DVD Ripper will help you decrypt any DVD protections, to convert your DVD to video file.
DVD to Video by Only 5 Minutes - O Quality Loss
WonderFox DVD Ripper Speedy lets you backup a DVD to MPG video within 5 minutes. This is the real No. 1 Speed. All of the conversions are based on perfect output quality as original.
Flexible Settings
It offers flexible choices to fine-tune the parameters to tailor the output videos, in terms of video/audio encoding, bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, resolution, audio codec, audio channel, sample rate, etc. You can customize and apply your own settings, and save all of them as a single profile.
WinX DVD Ripper is a software capable of ripping any DVD (even latest encrypted DVD discs/ISO images) to mainstream videos, such as rip DVD to AVI, DVD to MP4, H.264, MPEG, WMV, MOV, FLV and M2TS. It also helps faultlessly convert DVD to Apple (iPhone 5S/5C, iPad Air/Mini, iPod/5, Apple TV/3, iTunes), Android (Google New Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy S4/S5, Note 3, 10.1, HTC One, Kindle Fire HDX), Microsoft (WP8, Surface Pro 2, Xbox One), Sony PSP/PS4, Nokia Lumia 2520, etc. This DVD ripper brings No.1 fast DVD ripping solution thanks to the cutting-edge tech to support Multi-core (up to 8) CPU and Hyper-threading.
Besides 350 built-in profiles, the DVD rip software has 4 DVD copy modes to meet users' up-to-date DVD backup demands - clone DVD disc to ISO image, to a folder at a 1:1 ratio, backup DVD main title content for playing on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox, Media Center, etc, and copy DVD title fully to a multi-track MPEG2 file, including all videos/audios/subtitles. The last copy mode costs you 5 minutes only!
Freemake Video Converter is video converter that lets convert videos to avi, wmv, mp4 (iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, xBox), 3gp, rip dvd, extract mp3, burn DVD and Bluray, create photo slideshow and audio visualization, cut, join, rotate and upload videos, photos and music to YouTube.
Freemake is the only free video converter that rips online videos via URL copypaste from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and 50+ sites. Download YouTube to iTunes. Convert YouTube to MP3, MP4, AVI, etc. Convert online FLV to MP3 or any format.
CD/DVD ISO Burner
Write an ISO file to a CD/DVD
CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free.
Create Data-CDs/DVDs burn any Data on CD-R/CD-RW/DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM/BD/HD-DVD, including double layer mediums Supports burning data on permanent backup M-Discs, which promise up to 1000 years of data preservation. burn mp3-CDs to store many audio files on one single disc create bootable discs Disc spanning: Spread data on multiple discs verify written Data automatically after the burning process use either the internal browser to add your files or the intuitive Drop-Box to drag and drop files directly from any Windows Explorer window save your compilations for the creation of backups burn on the fly and with buffer-underrun protections import previous (ISO 9660) sessions and edit existing file structure on CD/DVD quick- and full-erase disc copy data discs (possible copy-protection is not bypassed) retrieve recorder and disc information Create Audio-CDs Create Audio-CDs from the following formats: MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, WMA, APE, MPC, WV (WavPack), ALAC (Apple Lossless) add single or multiple tracks from existing audio-CDs directly to your new compilation without ripping tracks before (add cda-files) play audio files with the integrated audio player gapless audio-CDs supported (disc-at-once-mode) Import M3U or WPL playlists or Nero audio compilations (NRA) support for ReplayGain support for CD-Text import CUE sheets Export audio compilations as M3U playlist and Cue sheet create mixed-mode discs ISO features burn ISO files to CD create your own ISO files convert bin- and nrg-files to ISO save CDs/DVDs as ISO file to disc Other features simple cover printing feature for data- and audio-discs LightScribe integration Command-line version supports most IDE, USB, Firewire, and SCSI drives
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application (39 languages) that everyone should have in their toolkit. ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats. It can burn Audio CDs from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM. You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease.
Note: ImgBurn cannot write a multi-session disc, and may not even support one.
PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. It can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN.
Main Features: Support almost all CD / DVD / BD-ROM image file formats (ISO, BIN, NRG, CDI, DAA and so on). What is DAA file? DAA file (Direct-Access-Archive) is an advanced format for image file, which supports some advanced features, such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. Open and extract ISO file. You can extract ISO file with a single click. Burn ISO file to CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray disc. PowerISO is a professional burning software. With this tool, you can create Audio CD, Data CD, Data DVD, Video DVD or VCD. PowerISO also supports Blu-Ray burning.
Burn Audio CD from MP3, FLAC, APE, WMA, or BIN files. Rip Audio CD to MP3, FLAC, APE, WMA, or BIN files.
Create ISO file or BIN file from hard disk files or CD / DVD / BD discs. Edit ISO image file directly. Mount ISO file with internal virtual drive. PowerISO can mount all popular disc image files to built-in virtual drive. Convert image files between ISO / BIN and other formats. PowerISO can not only convert BIN to ISO, but also convert almost all image file formats to standard ISO image file. Create bootable USB drive. PowerISO allows you to setup Windows through USB drive. Make bootable ISO file and create bootable CD, DVD disc. Support both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. Can be used easily. PowerISO supports shell integration, context menu, drag and drop, clipboard copy paste...ISO drive mounting
Mount an ISO file as a drive
WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator - a tool that allows you to mount optical disc images by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer. If you have downloaded an ISO image and want to use it without burning it to a blank disc, WinCDEmu is the easiest way to do it.
Features:
- One-click mounting of ISO, CUE, NRG, MDS/MDF, CCD, IMG images.
- Supports unlimited amount of virtual drives.
- Runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions from XP to Windows 10.
- Allows creating ISO images through a context menu in Explorer.
- Small installer size - less than 2MB!
- Does not require rebooting after installation.
- A special portable version is available.
- Translated to more than 20 languages.
- Does not occupy drive letters when not used.
- Supports data, DVD-video and BD-video images.
- WinCDEmu is free for any kind of use - it is licensed under LGPL
Translations: WinCDEmu supports various UI languages through the LNG files maintained by the community. You can download the latest language files or submit your own translation in the Online Translation System.
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