No matter who you ask or where you turn, it seems like people are telling you to back up your computer more and more these days. Just a few years ago, backing things up was the cause of much pain and lost time. Now it can be done quickly with freeware solutions like Cobian Backup.

So what is this freeware backup solution all about? Here is what the developers of the program have to say:

Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and back up your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload). Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption.

Version eight of the program program now uses Unicode functions whenever it can. Using compression and FTP will use ANSI functions, of course, because of limitations in those formats or the FTP protocol. If you don’t use compression or FTP, the program will always handle your file names as Unicode.

The program now uses memory-mapped files for inter-process communication. All the TCP communication used in older versions has been eliminated.

A new method of encryption has been added: RSA-Rijndael, which uses a 256-bit Rijndael encryption with a random key that is itself encrypted used a 1024-bit RSA asymmetric key.

Sensitive settings as passwords are now stored in the .ini file using strong encryption.

The result is obvious. If you do not already have a good backup plan in place, you should give Cobian Backup a shot. It is free. It is easy to use. It is one of the best freeware backup solutions out there today. What is there not to love?

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