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Forward all emails into a Gmail account

"Forwarding" is not what you want to do. Neither you need a program to migrate all your messages. Instead, simply set up a new account in your existing Thunderbird installation with your new email ...
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Android application to backup list of installed applications

Tried the ones listed in this thread, but they only save the package name and the list should be fed to the same app for reinstallation. Finally ran into List My Apps which is capable of exporting to ...
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Software to create identical copy of system hard drive with all partitions

I use Clonezilla for that, and it never failed me. http://clonezilla.org/ Very complete and robust piece of software. From their website: Features Many File systems are supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ...
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Open source backup software

Have a look at Duplicati, it's free and open source (LGPL), Source Code on Github. It supports a lot of backup endpoints including of course local external hard drives. It has a user interface, works ...
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Back-up software for Windows

I really like Bvckup2. Like their website says... it's simple, fast backup with polish and a focus on doing one thing well. Just reviewing their website will give you a good sense of the nice clean ...
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Online storage service with 15GB that works well on Linux

May I recommend OneDrive? It meets your requirements of, Comes with 15 GB free Cheap rates with upgrade plans starting at 50 GB for just $1.99 a month. Works with Linux using this software, onedrive-...
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Free automatic backup tool for Windows?

I just found Duplicati and am very impressed! ..it is FOSS, can access many cloud providers storage, and encrypts to the cloud by default. I also have used Cobian quite a bit before this to make ...
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Real-time local backup with versioning on Windows 7/8

Free File Sync is a great Open Source application that really does this well http://www.freefilesync.org/faq.php. The features are really rock solid. Warning: you must be careful to not install the ...
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What data backup software provides these specific features?

You check out CloudBerry Backup, from a company I am affiliated with, to automate Windows Server backup to Amazon S3 , Glacier, Google Cloud Storage , MS Azure and 20 more cloud storage providers. ...
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Software to output the flattened directory tree in a particular format

From my understanding, given an input folder, you'd like to flatten the folder tree/hierarchy and write the result to a text file with the format you specified. I've written a PowerShell script to ...
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IMAP Email backup to .eml files named by date - time- subject - sender to local folders that match IMAP folders

The answer is the MsgExtract app from maildev.com does name the .eml files like what I need and it does place the .eml files in folders named after their IMAP equivalents and also retain the hierarchy....
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Software to clone two hard drives

What you're looking for is Disk Image Backup. Windows has this feature built in so you don't even have to download anything. Disk Image Backup basically creates a completely identical copy of a ...
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Free (gratis) software to clone a Windows boot drive

Clonezilla fits the bill Clonezilla is a free (licensed under GPLv2) disk imaging software that supports all common file systems, including NTFS used by Windows. It can also restore the previously ...
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Backup solution for laptops

UrBackup would satisfy all your requirements. For encryption and compression run it e.g. on FreeNAS. Here is a list of features copied from https://www.urbackup.org/features.html: Full and ...
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Software to backup incrementally to cloud provider

Use Borg (or another incremental backup program) alongside a cloud access tool Consider using a combination of utilities that each do a part of what you want, instead of a single giant program that ...
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Automated full system backup solution that deletes old backup files as needed

If you are using Acronis Backup and Recovery 11 or 11.5 (and apparently v10 as well), there are advisories in the support section of the web site you've linked. Automatically deleting backups ...
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Rsync like program for Windows 7

Aside from the Cygwin package mentioned by Kodiologist (and by extension one for MobaXterm), there's also cwRsync, and Grsync )which also works as a GUI for rsync on UNIX systems too). You could also ...
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Non-root Android full phone backup

A full backup app is impossible without root access, as it cannot access the data of other apps (and neither some system data like WiFi APs etc). The closest you can get to that is ADB backup – ...
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Fixing corrupted jpgs that still looks ok visually

I know this is late for the OP, but may provide useful information to others with the same problem. A jpeg file has a header section and a data sections. If the header is corrupt the file may not open ...
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How to recover video from scratched DVDs

I found a viable solution by combining MakeMKV and Handbrake: MakeMKV is able to extract the Video from the DVD by simply copying the data of selected titles (or chapters, it is very flexible) into ...
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Looking for a simple free windows file backup software

Can I suggest that it would be a very good idea to change the way that you are working to use a decent distributed Version Control Software such as git, mercurial or such. Rather than having automatic ...
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Extremely fast Windows file copy/move for large directory trees?

You could use robocopy from the command prompt. You could also put it in a batch file if the source and destination disks do not change their drive letters over time. And since you’re using Windows 10,...
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Download my Tumblr likes

I made this small native application which downloads all the Tumblr posts that you liked. https://github.com/neuro-sys/tumblr-downloader-client It only downloads image posts (and GIFs) at the moment,...
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Backup software for Windows befitting my needs

Try using EaseUS Todo Backup, the free version. It might not be perfect but will allow you to slice up the backup into any size you want as well as compress the info. As for security, it may not have ...
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Android application to backup list of installed applications

My App List is what you can try, it does exactly what you asked for. With 'My App List' you can save installed applications in a list to restore them after flash or install a new ROM. First ...
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Free backup software that synchronizes folders

I have tried many (many, many) over the years and the best choice for you (for almost anyone) is Free File Synch file and folder backup (although it's even better if the same tool supports system ...
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Software for making disk images? (Commercial or free)

You will be pleased with Symantec Ghost. Windows should be installed unregistered and registration should be made after image is applied to a new machine. Or the enterprise license which is not always ...
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Encrypt then sync your files to ANY cloud storage as secured offsite backup?

It could be well worth taking a look at git-annex - you mark the remote storage for one of several types of encryption and it will sync your files as and when. Currently, August 2015, built in ...
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Desktop Backup Software with Google Cloud Storage

Assuming you meant Desktop Software that would backup the drives on your computer to an online service like Google Cloud Storage, then this should work, CloudBerry BackUp (Desktop Backup, $29.99) ...
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