Anyone know of any user friendly, FOSS, backup programs that work on Windows? If they were cross-platform that would be a bonus. Asking for a friend (no really, a family member)

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‘install Linux’ not really going to be an option in this case

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Install a Windows backup software… targeting a Linux machine? Either that, or external HDDs.

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Yeah, I’m probably looking for something to an external drive for now

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Veeam is not FOSS, but there is a free version, it’s user friendly, and has agents for both Windows and Linux.

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Urbackup. It does automatic backups of both files and whole disk image of all computers in the network and it’s set and forget. Once the server is set, you just need to install the client on every machine you need to backup, it will take all the settings automagically from the network.

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Duplicati runs om Windows AFAIK.

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Yes, and it works very well. A friend of mine is using it on his Surface Go backing up to the local system (with high frequency for case of editing/deleting files accidentially) and to his cloud storage simultaneously (with daily frequency for case of hardware loss).

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Not free as in foss. But free as in beer.

You can use xpenology or just a synology disk station with active backup for business. It does quite well with windows and just runs in the background.

Before using that I use urbackup ,which is FOSS. It also worked quite well.

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