Free automatically backup software for windows

Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program you can use to backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. Now you can altso backup to a FTP server. Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary.
Features
You can automatically backup your files once, daily, weekly, monthly, on a timer basis or manually.
You can backup to other computers on the network, to other partitions or to a FTP server.
You can also save and open lists with different backup file sets.
The program creates a log file which optionally can be mailed to you automatically.
Cobian BackUp can be used as an application (Windows 95 /98 /ME /NT /2000 /XP) or as a Windows service (Windows NT /2000 /XP).
Cobian Backup has integrated compression capabilities, using the standard Zip algorithm. All the functions in the program can optionally be password protected.
Incremental backup
Live update
The program remembers the position of the window and the columns width
Support for windows XP themes
Include/Exclude certain files using file masks
Drag and drop
Multilanguage support

This program makes it easy to back up your ICQ 99 or ICQ 98 files. It can compress the files and automatically locate your ICQ directory. It also has a restore wizard.