My Local Backup

I was frustrated with backup solutions that were overly complicated, locked data behind proprietary formats, or forced me into monthly cloud subscriptions. My philosophy was simple: my files are on my machine, so my backups should be too—not on someone else's server. The Challenge: Storage Efficiency The biggest technical hurdle was space. A simple file copier would fill a hard drive in days. The Solution: I implemented NTFS hard link deduplication. This allows every snapshot to look and act like a full backup, yet unchanged files share the same physical space on the disk. The Result: You get high-efficiency versioning. Storing 10 snapshots of 50GB might only consume 55GB of actual disk space instead of 500GB. Evolution & Reliability What started as a basic utility evolved into a robust backup engine. I spent significant time refining the architecture to ensure reliability: Resilience: The app handles locked files gracefully, survives restarts, and preserves user data through updates. Transparency: A dedicated "Skipped Files" tracker ensures nothing is ever lost silently. Usability: Features like Dark Mode, flexible scheduling, and a pause/resume system were added to make the experience seamless. If you have ever lost a file and wished you could simply go back in time to retrieve it—without restoring an entire system image—that is exactly what I built this tool to do.