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<h2 class="style1">What is Cobian Backup?</h2>
<p>Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can
be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their
original location to other directories/drives in the same computer
or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in
both directions. </p>
<p>Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: <a href="appserv_en.htm">
application and service</a>. The program uses very few resources and
can be running in the background on your system, checking your
backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup
is
<span class="style2">not an usual backup application</span>:
it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode
to another destination, creating a security copy as a result. That
way Cobian Backup can be better described as a
"Scheduler for security copies". </p>
<p>With Cobian Backup you can automatically backup
your files once, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or on a timer basis,
<span class="style2">using compression or not.</span>
<span class="style2">Incremental and differential backups</span>
are supported as well. You can also save and open lists with
different backup file sets. </p>
<p>The program creates a <span class="style2">log
file</span> which optionally can be mailed to you automatically.
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<p>Cobian Backup has integrated compression
capabilities, using the<span class="style2"> standard Zip</span><font color="#FF00FF">
</font>algorithm and <span class="style2">Zip64</span><font color="#FF00FF"> </font>
<span class="style2">or 7zip</span>
for large archives. All the functions in the program can optionally
be
<span class="style2">password protected</span> and the
backup files can be <span class="style2">encrypted</span>
using one of the following methods:</p>
<p class="style2">AES 256, AES 192, AES 128</p>
<p>When a folder is copied, you can specify a list
with files to exclude from the backup. You can also specify an event
to occur before a backup starts (for example, close a program) and
an event after the backup ends (example, start the same program).
This can be useful if you need to backup some file that is in use by
another application. </p>
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