Comments on: Back up conveniently with free GFI application

GFI Software launches free full-featured backup and recovery software for home users.

this software looks great, I'm gonna download it right away and check it out

[Cruton]

Dong, you are becoming one of my favorite editors at CNET. A good backup program should be added to the window's starter kit over at download.com. I'm defiantly going to try this one out.

[waynecnet1]

Be great if Mr Cooley & Mr Merrit expand on this program they kinda gloss over it and they did not from what I seen offer a link to it plus Cnet did not have link to it as well I had to Google it to find out more about it. I think if you are going to talk about something like this please do a demo on it.

[rpesq]

Good app, but no similarities to TrueImage.

TrueImage is a partition mirroring program. This GFI app is nothing more than another backup program, such as Cobian Backup (free), Microsoft Synctoy (free), Syncback (free).

As those three examples show, there is no shortage of free backup programs, so GFI has not really added any value to the world by releasing this.

If GFI wanted to offer something of value, then they should offer an app that competes with Trueimage -- a real partition mirroring app, that can create a real boot cd that allows partition saving/restoring from the boot disc. There is nothing free that has these features or works as good as Trueimage. The free alternatives (such as Clonezilla) bite hard.

[darrenkay]

I did find some reviews about this software

http://gfi-backup.en.softonic.com/
http://www.itnewsblog.com/2009/05/14/freeware-gfi-backup-home-edition-review/

i hope this helps.

[stefcky]

I have been using this software for my small business for months now and I think Its really great. I do all my backups to external HDDs and they are decently fast! Recommended.

[ariel6361]

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[Fraidicat2]

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[Chili_Pepr]

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