# Superduper! of backups for Windows?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superduper-of-backups-for-windows/742397 "2016-01-07T06:59:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superduper-of-backups-for-windows/742397/1 "2016-01-07T06:59:01Z")

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Being a Mac guy I really like using for backup SuperDuper!. What is the equivalent best backup software that runs on Windows 7?

Features I’m looking for are the following:  
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[li]Be able to backup two internal drives to one large external drive.[/li][li]Automated backups or at least come up and say something like “Time for a backup” or “It has been 1 week since your last backup, do you want to run the backup now?”[/li][li]Be able to do a shutdown when the backup has been completed.[/li][li]Easy to use.[/li][/ul]

Do any of them use the regular file system? On SuperDuper! you don’t need its software to look at the external drive and pull off a file. So I’d like to stay away from proprietary archive formats.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superduper-of-backups-for-windows/742397/2 "2016-01-07T16:13:14Z")

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I use Retrospect, but that’s because I’ve always been a Retrospect guy on the Mac side so I got a good deal on the Windows version. Use “Duplicate” rather than “Backup”. It will even give you bootable Windows backups but not if the physical backup disk is an external; if your C drive dies you need to physically swap it out for the backup drive in order to boot from the backup drive.