Veeam Agent FREE — The Complete Guide: Image Backup and Bare-Metal Restore for Windows
Veeam Agent FREE backs up a whole Windows PC as an image, with recovery media and bare-metal restore. No time limit, but one job only and no cloud targets.
Guides and Articles
Cobian Reflector — The Complete Guide: Free Scheduled File Backup for Windows
Cobian Reflector runs full, incremental or differential folder backups on Windows with 7-Zip compression and encryption, to disk, network or SFTP. Free.
Vorta — The Complete Guide: BorgBackup with a Graphical Interface on Mac and Linux
Vorta runs BorgBackup without the command line: profiles, scheduling, archive browsing and single-file restore on macOS and Linux. Free, GPL open source.
BorgBackup — The Complete Guide: Deduplicated, Encrypted Backup over SSH
BorgBackup stores each identical chunk once, compresses and encrypts it, and backs up to a disk or server over SSH. BSD-licensed and free for firms.
Duplicati — The Complete Guide: Encrypted, Scheduled Backup to Cloud, NAS and Disk
Duplicati backs up folders on a schedule, encrypts them locally with AES-256 and uploads only changed blocks to S3, OneDrive, SFTP or a NAS. Free for firms.
Filelight — The Complete Guide: A Simple Ring Map of What Fills Your Disk
Filelight shows disk contents as a ring map: the folder in the centre, its subfolders in rings of proportional size. Click to drill in. Open source.
QDirStat — The Complete Guide: A Disk Usage Map for Linux Workstations and Servers
QDirStat shows disk contents as a size-sorted folder tree beside a coloured treemap, with file-type statistics and cleanup actions. Open source for Linux.
Czkawka — The Complete Guide: Find Duplicate Files and Similar Images on the Project Server
Czkawka finds duplicate files by name, size or content, similar images and videos, empty folders and huge files. Open source, no ads, no data collection.
GParted — The Complete Guide: Resize, Move and Create Partitions Without Losing Data
GParted creates, deletes, grows, shrinks and moves disk partitions in a graphical interface, with NTFS, FAT32, exFAT and ext4. GParted Live also serves Windows.
smartmontools — The Complete Guide: Drive Health Monitoring for Servers and Workstations
smartmontools includes smartctl to read S.M.A.R.T. data and run self-tests, and smartd for continuous monitoring with alerts. Open source for any OS.
GSmartControl — The Complete Guide: Graphical S.M.A.R.T. Checks on Windows, Linux and macOS
GSmartControl shows S.M.A.R.T. data for SATA and NVMe drives in a graphical window, flags abnormal values and runs self-tests. Open source, any OS.
CrystalDiskMark — The Complete Guide: Benchmark SSDs, USB Sticks and Network Drives
CrystalDiskMark measures a drive’s read and write speed in MB/s, sequential and random small-block — to check a new SSD, an external disk or a network drive.