Cobian Backup/Reflector

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Don’t know if anyone here uses Cobian Backup software but I have been using it for YEARS and love it! Many options and very configurable. I use it in conjunction with periodic drive images. Finally decided to try the new version renamed Reflector. Running it on Win11 (as I did with the older version) and so far so good. Install was a breeze, interface hasn’t changed all that much (guess it may be a little “prettier”), and it imported my old version Main.lst configuration just fine, so saved me a bunch of configuration. Just kicked off the mirror task I run on one of my drives. Will wait for it to run on its own schedule tonight for my 2 drives I do true incremental backups on.

It’s free for personal and business use but I do donate. If you’re looking for a good backup program it is worth a look IMHO
https://www.cobiansoft.com/

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Same here. Been using Cobian for as long as I can remember. It has always done the jobe with little or no fuss. But I personally continue to use Gravity. not Reflex. I figured it would be prudent to wait a while till Reflex has all the little kinks worked out of it.

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I haven’t had any issues at all with the new version. I see he released an update on the 28th but I’ll be waiting a bit before upgrading.

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I use Cobain Reflector sparingly. seems like whenever it runs a scheduled job unattended something goes wrong with it, so I can’t really trust it.

Instead, I’m now using Goodsync and I’m pretty happy with that (after a little learning curve). It’s not free, but it was a one-off cost for I think 5 licenses. Plus a license for my QNAP NAS. I can also install it on my iPad and have it on my Android phone. So I backup my Users\<account> folder (minus the system stuff) to my QNAP NAS and also to my QNAP DAS when I need. On a more frequent basis I use it to backup my daily work to my USB drive, and sync that after to the NAS. Every now & then (maybe weekly) I make a clone copy of the DAS and put that in my fireproof security safe. I detach the external drives when not in use. I do have dropbox also (I’ve disabled and uninstalled OneDrive, it was more trouble than it’s worth for me) but cloud storage is just a convenience not a backup.. Since it’s always connected it’s at risk of having malware propagated to it if I get hit with that.

On the android phone, I can transfer to/from the phone’s file system also, by wifi if I want using the GoodSync app on the phone and the host PC. If I’m lazy I’ll use the phone’s Files app instead of goodsync to see and transfer files to/from some shared folders I’ve set up on the Win 11 PC as well. So I’ve lots of ways.

For cloning the PC, I have Acronis True Image (ATI) on a bootable stick. Trouble is you can’t clone the boot disk if it’s bitlocker encrypted. Has to be decrypted first. So be careful with that. I did use Acronis Home Security, the successor to ATI for a long time but it had lots of stuff I don’t need and nothing more than ATI features I did need, so I stopped the subscription because I didn’t like all the security nags I didn’t need.

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