{"id":78,"date":"2010-03-01T13:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T10:10:19","slug":"gfi-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/gfi-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"GFI Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am currently trailing GFI BAckup<\/a> – which is free – against the all-conquering Genie Backup Manager<\/a> (commercial), which has to be almost the defacto standard in home backup: I have yet to find a more complete system than GBM. However, my findings so far regarding the GFI offering:<\/p>\n

GFI Backup is outstanding!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"GFI<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a synch to set up and use – everything designed in a logical and almost foolproof manner: this is what you have to do to back something up:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click the word ‘Backup’ (see screen above)<\/li>\n
  2. Select your source files…<\/li>\n
  3. Select your destination…<\/li>\n
  4. Specify any options, like encryption and when you it to run…<\/li>\n
  5. Click Finish!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Could it be easier than this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Well actually it could, because GFI Backup will actually search your machine for known file types and back these up, without you having to specify where <\/strong><\/em>your files are actually stored. This feature is also available in other backup software, but remember GFI is free<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

    Personally, this ‘autodiscover’ feature has never attracted me – if only for the reason that I like to know that nothing has been ‘missed’ from my backup. Still, it’s a very useful feature and nice to know it is available.<\/p>\n

    Another attraction is the ability to synchronise <\/strong><\/em>folders – something that is often missing from alternative solutions. You can ‘pair’ two folders to be synchronised and schedule this to repeat at intervals – just like the backup tasks – this really is set it and forget it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am currently trailing GFI BAckup – which is free – against the all-conquering Genie Backup Manager (commercial), which has to be almost the defacto standard in home backup: I have yet to find a more complete system than GBM. However, my findings so far regarding the GFI offering: GFI Backup is outstanding! It’s a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,14,25,39],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup","tag-backups","tag-computer-backup","tag-gfi","tag-online-backup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}