Free alt to NTI Shadow backup

January 14, 2008 4:31 PM

I'm looking for a free alternative to NTI Shadow Backup on Windows. The features I'm most interested in are "Backup whenever the file is changed" and file versioning.
posted by bumper314 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Subversion? It's not just for source code.
posted by IronLizard at 6:54 PM on January 14, 2008

Subversion isn't a bad idea, but do you know how to setup a trigger so that anytime any file changes, it can commit it? That's the nice feature in Shadow Backup that I like.
posted by bumper314 at 7:16 PM on January 14, 2008

No, but if you find that out I'd love to know it. I just started using it for a couple of projects on my debian server and I seem to have to log in to the machine itself and do svn update for changes to go live in thw working copy. Running it locally, you wouldn't have that particular problem (feature?). Which windows are you using, btw? Vista's task scheduler has some interesting triggers I've been meaning to investigate and it might be possible to use it to run svn update or svn commit when files are modified. Just something to think about if nothing else shows up.
posted by IronLizard at 7:53 PM on January 14, 2008

I have written a (very simple) c# app that watched a directory, and fired a change whenever a file got changed. It only took a few lines of code to do it, and I'm sure you could have it fire off the SVN command to commit.
posted by lilac girl at 8:02 PM on January 15, 2008