The Best Free Backup for EVERY Operating System

Want a Universal Backup that works on EVERY operating system and is free + open source? Urbackup is the software you are looking for!

[EdwardCrosby]

If you haven't produced one yet, it would be nice to see a follow up video on restores using this product. As the saying goes, your backup is only as good as your restores.

[mister.wizard]

Great video for something I never heard of. any backup software need to see if it can really restore, which is the whole purpose of backing up. If it can’t restore then it’s worthless. Any chance of doing a video of restoring, Chris? Thanks

[nubfaceforthelose]

I've got backups of my backups of my backups.

[Mystical_Socrates]

Duuude, I just came here after spending about a week and a half trying to get Veeam Community Edition server to back up one of two clients that I want to protect. I even reinstalled windows to try to get it working. Zero support from Veeam tech support and no luck with posting questions on Reddit. I'm going to give this URBackup a go! Love this video, man! Subbed!

[adamyork]

Another good one that not too many people seem to know about Kopia. It is quite comparable to Borg (deduplication etc), but, unlike Borg, will run on Linux, Windows, and Mac. I'm currently using Kopia and like it a lot. It also has some nice plugins for cloud backups. Currently using it locally and with Storj.

[mbraun]

Would be informative to at least briefly discuss the restoration process for the different OSs.

[squawkback]

Definitely interested in LVM conversion. I didn't even know it was A Thing.

[byCDMC]

I use AOMEI Backupper, it works great. Make a backup of your entire C drive. If you f'up or something goes wrong, you can restore it in minutes and you can even restore it from local network, so you don't even have to have the backup file on like a USB drive or anything.

Basically if you have your windows running great and have everything setup, make a backup. Then you can do what ever you want and even nuke the OS, 5 minutes later you have your OS back with all the settings and everything. I mean i tried it, it worked like a charm, so no complains and im picky as f' about this stuff, so the fact it all worked so well first time is a big plus. Not sponsored. This would be more for people who want to have a backup just in case and don't want to use terminal/powershell.

[Trotter_Tolkien]

Would have been nice to see how to mount the image backup as a virtual disk, so that you can copy files from it to your real hard drives.

[uryaar]

Probably a noob question - where are the backups stored? Somewhere in the web or does this assume you have your own backup server? If the latter - how is it set up?

[katrinabryce]

On Mac, I use Time Machine, because it is just configure and forget, like all backups should be. I do check up on it from time to time, and there is never any problem, whereas on other platforms, I often find problems with the backups.

[drake]

Hey Chris, could you perhaps make a video on how to use DISM to restore (or even remove) features on a stripped down Windows? Not many online articles explain it fully, and Microsoft's is too verbose for a non-technical person

[codyevanscomputer]

I have a client setup with Urbackup to backup 29 computers, a mix of desktops and laptops, Mac and Windows. I've already used it for several recoveries as well as transferring data to new computers. My personal backup strategy is too complicated to put in a youtube comment...

[designwithphoenix]

The sounds great, The only downside currently for me is dealing with having 2x 2 terabyte hard drives that are both half full and a C drive SSD that's 500gb with 60gb's free and My 2 terabyte hard drives that I have are also 7 years old and I don't want to lose the data on them and I'm kind of at a point of needing to get another hard drive at some point definitely but I want to get into having a NAS with 4x 4 Tb drives for then setting it up correctly with some sort of raid configuration for redundancy of some kind. There's just a lot of solutions out there for setting up network attached storage that's just absolutely almost overwhelming how many different ways it can be done that can be confuseing a for the direction I want to go in with storage.

[drescherjm]

I have used bacula for 15 to 20 years at work. I have several hundred TBs of data backed up to LTO tape. I used to have a 2 drive 24 slot LTO2 autoloader that I purchased in 2006 but about 10 years later it became expensive to use as tapes became too small for our needs (had several hundred tapes). I replaced it with a standalone LTO7 drive and I believe I am at around 40 tapes now. This software works great in linux but out of the box its not good for disaster recovery in windows. For that I have moved to using AOMEI and sync the backup to a cloud drive after a system image is created. I also use it at home in a similar manner but backup to disk and cloud instead of tape.

[surfingsub]

These are okay with Linux and Mac and may work with Windows but I find that Macrium Reflect is probably one of the best free backup and imaging programs available for the Windows platform. These other tools may work but do not look very intuitive for the avarge home user

[TheDeeplyCynical]

Anyone else getting Max Headroom vibes from the backdrop in the intro?

[CMDRSweeper]

I have to say my current backup solution beats the pants of software like this.
I mount the documents I care about on a network drive, autosynced locally to the network, once there it is on a NAS handled by ZFS with snapshots and where it will replicate to another NAS box running ZFS as well.
This way I am defended against most issues that can creep up and strike.

[traewatkins]

The real question is what the restore to bare metal experience is like.

[zerKerbal]

thank you. you mention animated progress bar - well in the :55414 page - top menu bar - click on 'Activities' and viola, there it is. and network traffic.