Areca is an advanced personal file backup software. It allows you to select files or directories to backup, filter, encrypt and compress their content, and store them on your backup location.
Rated 40/50 by giessen at Mar 3, 2010
This can make a backup and keep it up-to-date by just changing the parts that need to be updated. It can cut large files into pieces and encrypt the backup (including the filenames) so it is completely safe. The backup process is reasonably fast. It's not very effective for making a backup to a (mapped) network drive, because the backup process involves many write and read operations (more than just creating the backup files and saving them). No WebDAV compatibility. I use this to make a local backup, which I then transfer to a web drive with a WebDAV synchronizer (in this case, Gladinet). Areca offers to save the backup to an FTP server, but they are not easily available anymore and have been superseded by WebDAV, whcih Areca can't handle. The backup process is fast and seems to be accurate. With a strong password (or a pass-key -- but you need to make a backup of that somewhere else) the files are probably very safe.
Rated 50/50 by oldyoungguy888 at Mar 30, 2011
FREE for ALL (commercial and personal), can do incremental backup, original files are viewable in backup repository, can work with mapped drive, easy to use, tutorial is clear, Linux and Windows, encryption is available not found yet
Rated 30/50 by marlem388 at Apr 20, 2011
Sounded good Does not have an internet storage destination Updated on Apr 26, 2011