Cobian Backup

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Cobian Backup
Developed by	Luis Cobian
Latest release	9.1.1.193
OS	Microsoft Windows
Type	Backup software
License	Version 8: Modified Mozilla Public License 1.1, Version 9: Freeware
Website	http://www.cobian.se/

Cobian Backup is a free, donation-supported backup software for Microsoft Windows. It is written in Delphi by Luis Cobian.

1 History
2 Features
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

History

Cobian Backup was originally released in 2000. The program was later rewritten and released under version 7. The next version (version 8) was released in 2006. Its source code was later released under the Mozilla Public License in late January 2007. However, with version 9 the author of Cobian Backup decided to switch back to a completely closed source model.^[1]. Older versions will remain Open Source forever, since the author will keep version 8 (Black Moon) under the Mozilla Public License.

Features

Cobian Backup supports Unicode, FTP, compression (Zip, SQX, 7z), encryption (including Blowfish, Rijndael, DES, RSA-Rijndael), incremental and differential backup. It supports long file names (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.