I think it's clear from the previous responses that, as much as backup
software, you need a backup
strategy.
My own strategy boils down to something like this:
1. For immediate short-term backups of the document or program I am currently working on, simply make copies at convenient times during the day to another directory on your local file system. This is intended to cover accidental deletion of corruption of the file in question while I am working on it.
2. At the end of the working day, do an incremental backup to an external drive or device, such as a USB drive. This is done on a five-day cycle, such that all files that have changed in the previous five days will get backed up, and each backup set is kept for five days.
3. Once per week, do an incremental backup to a cloud-based service or to a remote server.
I stress that the above is what works for me. Your circumstances will be different, as will your method of working. The point is that you need to devise a backup strategy before you start looking for sotware.
For 1 (above), I simply copy a file using the facilities of the OS.
For the other two steps, I use a program called SyncBackSE, which supports everything I want to do. It does my daily incremental backup to an external hard drive, and my weekly remote backup to a server via FTP. I believe there is a free version of this program, but I use the paid-for version. I don't remember how much it ocst, but whatever it was, I'm sure it was worth the cost in order to do reliable seamless semi-automatic backups.
Mike
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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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