Cobian Reflector
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Cobian Reflector, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Cobian Reflector's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Cobian Reflector | Free | Freeware · usable in commercial environments · donations accepted |
The facts
Each one read from Cobian Reflector's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Backup scope
- filechecked 23 Sep 2026
- Backup types
- It supports full, incremental, differential, and dummy tasks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compression
- The help page lists ZIP, Zip64, and 7z compression options.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Computer backup
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Development status
- The FAQ says version 2.7.20 is the latest and Reflector is no longer under development by the maker.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- The help page says compressed backup files can be encrypted using AES 256, AES 192, or AES 128.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Execution modes
- Reflector can run as an application or as a service.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Logging
- Reflector creates log files that can optionally be mailed automatically.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Mobile backup
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Notable limitation
- The FAQ says backups from FTP or SFTP sources must be full backups; other backup types are ignored for those sources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Cobian Reflector schedules backups of files and directories to other locations on the computer, other computers on a network, or FTP, FTPS, and SFTP servers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Ransomware protection
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Remote client
- The maker offers a separate Remote Client download for Cobian Reflector.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Restore modes
- filechecked 23 Sep 2026
- Scheduling
- Backups can run once, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, on a timer, or manually.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Server backup
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- The FAQ says the support forum has been discontinued and asks users not to email technical questions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Volume Shadow Copy
- The feature list says Reflector supports Volume Shadow Copy snapshots.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- The About page identifies Luis Cobian and says he lives and works in Umeå, Sweden; it does not state a company founding date or headquarters.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform requirement
- The download page lists Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or newer, and Windows Server 2008 or newer, and requires .NET runtime 4.6 or newer (not 5.x).checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windowschecked 23 Sep 2026
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