SyncBack

- - - I had previously stated that 2brightsparks no longer offers the free version of this utility. I was wrong. In an email exchange with Michael J. Leaver from 2BrightSparks he informed me that:

"It is still available, and still free, and still being updated. You can download it, and other freeware we offer, here:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html
Just scroll down the page, and it's all there.

... Unfortunately since we released SyncBackSE (in February) a lot of people assumed that we'd stopped making the freeware version available."

Thanks for the correction, Michael!

I'm confident that you have full up-to-date backups of your important files or even your entire hard drives. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I'm sorry, give me a second. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. What's that? You've been remiss? Welcome to the club. Sad to say, but very few people back up their data like they should. Like crashing on a motorcycle or hurting a knee playing football, hard drive failures are inevitable. If you ride, play, or use a computer long enough, you're going to crash, hurt, or lose a drive.

SyncBack is solid, straightforward tool that allows you to synchronize or perform complete backups of whatever you choose, including entire drives, to another directory, drive, medium, ftp server, or network location. If you like, you can configure SyncBack to start automatically and perform it's magic without user involvement.

http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html