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Backup software for computers
Posted by Mike Shepp on January 19, 2021 at 11:18 amI have been backing up my job files by copying them onto a hard drive. I know that there is software to do automatically, what do you folks use and/or recommend?
dmyhill replied 3 years, 2 months ago 9 Members · 9 Replies- 9 Replies
dropbox
IDrive. You can send it to the cloud and an external drive
@brad-ott
dropbox has failed to include All files for me on numerous occasions.
Mega has been much more reliable…friendly reminder: Backup is a copy. the cloud is “someone else’s computer” that you can not control.
Do Not Keep All Of Your Eggs In One Basket.
Redundancy is super important.The cost of a NAS device such as Synology or Qnap and a few hard drives is so minimal these days there’s really no reason not to leverage something like that both for storage and backup. Onsite, offsite and cloud backup is what you should strive for IMHO.
If you subscribe to Office 365, you get 1 terabyte of OneDrive space. I configure my Windows 10 Documents, Pictures and other folders to be located on OneDrive so everything is always saved in both locations.
I also have BackBlaze. I’ve had this account since about the time they started (2009ish?). I’ve been very happy with them and even use it as a secondary backup for this very website. I keep hourly backups on our own server plus BackBlaze, plus a tertiary daily backup to OneDrive. BackBlaze has never let me down, so it’s a good choice.
Your friendly, virtual neighborhood WebmasterAfter much tearing of hair, cloning, etc, I went to Acronis True Image. I have a slightly older version (2016) which does not have cloud backup, but it works very well with a local backup. Basically, it is capable of restoring your complete computer to the last backup, even with a completely crashed drive. You have a master Acronis DVD for recovery program and a separate HD to backup to. My separate HD is a 5TB USB3.0 portable drive connected all the time. My scheme is a complete backup once per week at midnight and incremental backups at midnight between. Old backups are retained per your setup.
If you have a complete crash which is not recoverable with Windows, run the recovery program, select the backup you want (usually the latest incremental) and you should be back in business as of the last midnight. You may need a new HD if the old is physically crashed. I’ve had to do this once and it worked like a charm. There are also other utilities such as cloning a drive and making recovery disks. Subscription price for non-cloud is $50/yr for up to 5 windows or mac computers and also supports android. Google Acronis.
Ahh, yes…all the world saw this past week or so that indeed, “the cloud” is code for “someone else’s computer”.
-All thoughts my own, except my typos and when I am wrong.
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