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What's the easiet way to perform an incremental/differential backup to a network share in Windows?

Does a Robocopy/Xcopy solution work reasonably well (I need to the parameters!) or is there a good free tool out there that simplifies the management?

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  • You should provide more details such as if you want files to be accessible individuals, or can the incrementals be in a single proprietary backup file which you can only access through the backup software.
    – Sun
    Nov 5, 2014 at 16:38

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I use Areca: http://www.areca-backup.org/

It is free and very easy to use. I hope it works for you.

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  • Awesome, that's exactly the kind of tool I was looking for!
    – Alienfluid
    Aug 30, 2009 at 21:39
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How about SyncToy? It's free and has a nice GUI.

It can easily copy just the changed files to a server.

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I use rsync on my Mac. If you installed cygwin you would be able to use it.

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SyncBack is a great free option for incremental/differential backup. It has a great GUI and is similar to rsync. You can download it at CNET.

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I was used to Linux stuff, but then for Windows I first tried Duplicity, running through Python under Cygwin, but then with latest versions there were some problems reports.

Then I tried Duplicati. I've been testing it for some time now including encrypted restores and all seems to work very well – congrats to the developper great simple efficient tool.

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    Oct 22, 2012 at 0:14
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Left field solution. Use Dropbox to sync a folder from the desktop to the server.

Dropbox uses a kind of rsync algorithm to efficiently move data over a LAN, plus for free (up to 2GB) you get an offsite backup.

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