Cobian Backup 8 backup software for Windows

Cobian Backup 8 (Blackmoon) is the only open source backup software for Windows which comes with GUI. Written in Delphi by Luis Cobian of the Umea University, Cobian Backup 8 is 100% free & donation-supported backup software for Microsoft Windows platform.

The latest version of Cobian Backup is 9.5.1.212 which supports Unicode, FTP, compression (Zip, SQX, 7z), encryption (including Blowfish, Rijndael, DES, RSA-Rijndael, incremental and differential backup. It also supports long file names (upto 32,000 characters) for all backup types except ZIP (which supports only 256 characters). The software may be installed as an application or as a service running in the background. Multilingual support is implemented via user-submitted language files.

Blackmoon is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule & backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or any other computer on the network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload). Blackmoon comes in two tastes - application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary.

Cobian Backup 8 is not an usual backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a "Scheduler for security copies". Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption.

The source files of Cobian Backup 8 can be downloaded from Source Forge while Cobian Backup 9 (Amanita) is not going to be an open source software.