Cobian Reflector
Cobian Reflector is the successor of Cobian Backup and inherits all the features from it: it's a file-backup program that can be used to make automatic backups for your directories and files, supports compression and encryption and can backup to some other location in the...
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Features
- Schedule Backup
- Differential Backup
- Incremental Backup
- Support for FTP
- Multiple languages
- Support for Multiple threads
Tags
- ftp-backup
- backup-folders
- File Backup
- backup-open-files
- vss
Cobian Reflector News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
TheNico57 added Cobian Reflector as alternative to BackupFichiersPro
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What is Cobian Reflector?
Cobian Reflector is the successor of Cobian Backup and inherits all the features from it: it's a file-backup program that can be used to make automatic backups for your directories and files, supports compression and encryption and can backup to some other location in the same computer, to the network and even to an FTP server.
In addition to all the features of the latest Cobian Backup, it has support for SFTP transfers, it is DPI independent due to the use of vector graphics and Windows Presentation Foundation, and also behaves as a 64-bit program in 64-bit systems and as a 32-bit program in 32-bit systems.
Cobian Reflector information
Developed by
Luis Cobian Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
86 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
1st attempt a fail. Tried shadow compression of whole disk copy with sata attached drive. Lots of error, but seemed to be running ok. The drive it was going to, had enough space but apparently the space of the drive it was running on mattered.. apparently it was saving to a local temp file.. at least until it was finished. Space ran out & 3 hours later, nothing to show. Maybe I will try again after I try Duplicati.
As some discussed previously in comments, Cobian Backup was indeed sold and is no longer maintained.
However, Cobian Reflector is developed by the original author of Luis Cobian, is maintained and designed to replace Cobian Backup.
What is a bit confusing on this alternativeto page is the URL and comments mentioning Cobian Backup while the title is "Cobian Reflector" (this must be a brute edit.) . Those are two different apps, Cobian Reflector is the one you should keep in mind.
Luis Cobian, the developer of Cobian (11.2.x), has SOLD his code to a "James Sweeney" in 2013.
Luis Cobian still provides a forum and has answered several questions even after the sale, but cannot make any fixes/updates to v11.2.0.556. There are no apparent bugs in v11.2.x, according to the newest forum.
Sold announcement by Luis Cobian The old forum (prior to sale) is now archived and accessible as read-only. New forum hosted by Luis Cobian for users of Cobian Backup 11.2.x The new owner of Cobian Backup James Sweeny . . . April-2014
:EDIT: sorry about the Linkedin link, by some freak I was connected just once, there after Linkedin want me to signup. No thanks As a result; in 2014 Sweeny promised to release a v12.x.x "soon" ... 6 years later ... still waiting ?
18-Oct-2020
Luis Cobian did sell source code in 2014 BUT has retained the right to still provide Cobian Backup v11 (Gravity) It is still free from the Cobian website and Softpedia ... Softpedia are offering an older portable version too. The Cobian Forum is still active and Luis Cobian is responding to threads as at August 2019 The most recent historical VirusTotal scan was dated Aug-2019 which indicates to me the program has a popular reputation v11 works with Win-XP/2003/Vista/7/8.x/10 FAQs It's impossible to determine the age of FAQ answers ... but the website is Copyright 2019 I have not used the program but am planning on trialling it ASAP.
(August-2019)
Looks good, but I noted the source code is for sale - so am not sure of the future for it?
http://www.cobiansoft.com/forsale.htm
It is an older version (four versions old) which is Open Source.
Thanks for posting about this, I'll definitely have to keep an eye out to see what happens. I wonder if someone will purchase it and immediately make it open source?
Cobian is the best solution I've tried lately. It has a decent UI, the standard range of options, runs pretty fast and reliably.
The key thing it does that is unique amongst the free tools I've seen is that it lets you set a strategy like "Do a full backup every 1 month, and an incremental one every day in between". Or it will even do differential backups each day (an incremental backup is everything that changed since yesterday's backup, differential is everything that that changed since the last full backup).
Otherwise it's similar to a lot the other tools out there, for example GFIBackup, which I'd definitely consider otherwise.
It does not target anything other than a mounted folder. If you want to write to the Amazon cloud, for example, then consider Duplicati.
No backups every 2nd Monday, no pause when busy, Duplicati is best It is not good, that missed backups always run, when the computer next time starts up. Cobian Backup should have an option: "Run missed backups, only when the system is not busy for 5 minutes and pause missed backups, when the system will be busy again" Cobian Backup is not able to run Backups only every 2nd Monday. If you need a free solution to backup every 2nd Monday or to start only a backup when system is not busy for x minutes, you must use SyncBack free (1) (only english) or Acronis True Image Home (2) (not free and many languages) or Duplicati (Open Source). SyncBack Free and Areca Backup (Open Source) use the windows Task Manager for the Schedule, Windows Admin rights are necessary for it. SyncBack and Areca cannot cleanup more/older than 4 backups, this only Cobian and Duplicati can do. So Duplicati seems to be the best free backup service. (1)
SyncBack
(2) 
Acronis True Image
(3) 
Areca Backup
(4) 
Duplicati