What kind of backup system do you use?
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I am thinking of purchasing the Acronis backup. I don't want any cloud based solution like CARBONITE because they want a subscription every month.
I want to make 1 time payment and deal with it.
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My laptop and desktop are backed up to a server running Windows Server 2016 Essentials.
That machine itself isn't properly backed up right now, though it is using Windows Storage Spaces with mirrored disks to mitigate against hardware failure. I ordered an 8 TB external HDD to do an actual backup, at which point I will use the OS-provided backup tool.
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OneDrive.
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@MrL said in What kind of backup system do you use?:
OneDrive
Because One is better then NoDrive, right? Right?
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@Nagesh I bought R-Drive Backup a few years ago. It worked great but I wasn't disciplined enough to use it regularly. My backups are more on an ad-hoc basis of copying "important" files to disk/disc.
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RAID
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I use RAID
Edit: damn that
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I use Arq, but its been a while since I got it working again after I formatted the main server...
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I use Acronis (True Image) to do local backups to an external hard drive and it works well enough for that. I also copy important files to flash drives and/or Dropbox. Previously I backed things up to my file server as well, but I don't have one currently. Never been big on cloud backup services for whatever reason.
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@Zenith said in What kind of backup system do you use?:
@Nagesh I bought R-Drive Backup a few years ago. It worked great but I wasn't disciplined enough to use it regularly. My backups are more on an ad-hoc basis of copying "important" files to disk/disc.
I have a program I wrote that does that. It looks for files that are newer or modified (because if you copy a file, it keeps the modified time, but updates the create time) than the last time I ran it. And then copies the files to the backup drive. (my NAS, and also an external USB)
I don't care about the system - I can just reinstall. With my install media and data files, I'm covered.
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@dcon I think I can restore a system from the image file R-Drive creates but I've never really taken it that far.
@dcon said in What kind of backup system do you use?:
(because if you copy a file, it keeps the modified time, but updates the create time)God I hate that behavior. I've actually written programs and library functions to bypass that.
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@Zenith said in What kind of backup system do you use?:
I think I can restore a system from the image file R-Drive creates but I've never really taken it that far.
If you haven't tested your backup, you don't have a backup. Or something like that. I don't have a backup.
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@HardwareGeek Oh, I've pulled files out of the backup after reinstalling Windows, just never restored the entire system from it.
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@Nagesh said in What kind of backup system do you use?:
I want to make 1 time payment and deal with it.
I have an external HDD (the one payment I made, except I bought another one after the first one had done me well for about 8 years). The backup software I'm using reminds me if I've not made a backup for a while. Anything actually important is probably pushed to a server somewhere else (via git or fossil) and so is reasonably well replicated in addition to my own backups.
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Crontab+scripts+(whatever local backup software,) with rsync to remote servers.
With a Dropbox simulacrum as a 'live backup,' Because it's in more than one place at the same time, that's like a backup, right? /s
@Nagesh said in What kind of backup system do you use?:
because they want a subscription every month
Oh - you want free? Er - can't suggest any. I have to pay monthly for the Linode server the backups go to/come from.
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I use Duplicacy (open source with a pretty cheap paid license), with Backblaze B2 for the storage (because it's cheaper than AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
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@Choonster said in What kind of backup system do you use?:
Backblaze B2
Them's the folks who publish all those broken hard drive statistics?
I don't suppose they allow you to select "Backup Location: Not Seagate"
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