backup and recovery

Hi- I have a pretty good backup routine set up for my desktop and laptops - back up to a NAS every two weeks (full) with daily incremental backups. Last 3 months of full backups are retained. What I am looking for is an automated off-site solution to store the most recent full backups...

backup or sync from Onedrive to Googledrive can be handled but backup between the 2 clouds with limiting the copy speed is impossible for me using Azcopy or Ondrive client ! how can I limit the copy speed from 50m/s to 10m/s to give the other devices in the network the ability work normally...

I want to purchase the Seagate 4TB Expansion portable STKM4000400 and want to use it as a backup drive. This model does not come with software according to Seagates website (2nd link below). Not sure if this is the toolkit software that some models include or not. But I see in the 1st link below...

Hi All, I'm currently running Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition on an HP Z640 Workstation. I also utilize Hyper-V and run VMs within the host. Up until this point I have been using the included Windows Server Backup program as part of the standard windows features. While it works fine for...

I'm trying to backup my HDD to an external HDD with about 300GB and hundreds of thousands of files but in the end there are always 2000 files missing due names too long to be moved. I have tried different programs like FastCopy and SyncBackFree, although they are faster they move even less files...

I want to protect my data from loss or corruption, sources such as: Bad sectors Hardware damage Malware, like ransomware Other backup objectives: Ability to revert accidental deletions and renames Ability to revert a file/folder to a previous version I need a backup solution that is...

I'm looking for a copy tool from your experience which meets the below requirements : GUI and work automatically copy file server from windows server 2019 to Azure blob can schedule tasks can work on the background to email me when any task is done or when any problem happens support SMB easy...

[Moderator Note: Moving thread from Systems to Storage - more applicable.] Im trying to schedule two backups on my Windows server 2019. One of them takes a daily backup of the data disk. And the other one a monthly backup of the entire server. Both of them will be stored on remotely shared...

We switched our users to OneDrive recently. However, we detected that OneDrive is unable to copy long path names and this is stopping the syncing of OneDrive agent? Microsoft states that OneDrive software does not support long path but OneDrive support said that OneDrive itself can support long...

I do music production using Cubase and FL Studio and video production using the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. I have lots of VSTs, add-ons, plugins, etc for all these tools and I also use this PC for my basic email and web-browsing, and various writing and journaling activities. The PC that...

I need to reset my PC. Its bad, all my deleted files keep reappearing after reboots. My disk usage is constantly going up to 100%. I can't uninstall apps, they just come back. Super slow. And when i try to reset, it just restarts the PC and doesn't reset anything. So, i think my only option is...

I need a backup software (no fail please) for Win 10. I have Easus To Do and Anomei but frequently get error mesages. Not a geek so something simple please

I'm a computer repair technician and would like to buy some good imaging and backing up program. I was thinking of getting Macrium Reflect, but I was shocked to see the Technician version for $580!. Do I need to pay that to backup and restore my customer's PCs? Would the free or some cheaper...

Hi! I am building a new PC for my dad. Currently, he is using two HDDs in the RAID 0 configuration. I'd like to convert these drives to a regular, non-raid array. How do I go about that? Will I be able to connect those drives to a new motherboard without losing data? If not, is there any...

I have two pc's the same and two licenced programs. my first install will not allow me to select function. Second install from same file works well. Tried reinstalling to #1 and same result. No workee. befuddled.

Before I continue potentially wasting my time learning how to use Robocopy, I would like to get some opinions. Is there a universal tool that does everything Robocopy and Macrium Reflect can do? For a computer tech, such as a repair and networking technician, does Robocopy do anything, when...

I usually try to back up hard drives by plugging them to SATA rather than USB, as I heard that the SATA-to-USB conversion may affect the transfer. Is this really true? I find USB more convenient so I’d like to know if it’s worth the hassle. Any advice much appreciated

Hello everyone, I need a NEW backup software as WD SmartWare is no longer supported by the company and the replacement - Acronis is not exactly what I need. So what I need? Well, a simple backup solution. I have a 6 TB WD Book Duo connected by USB to my windows computer and I have a few HDDs...

I currently run two samsung evo 860's in raid 0.. I solely did this to be able to use them as one system volume as prices were and still are kind of crappy (just bought a 2TB crucial M500 for like $200). is there a different way to use both drives as one volume or should I just ditch it? I have...

I've tried Chkdsk /r and /b and after using EaseUS there are 3 bad sectors and I can access like 99% of the data like pictures and videos fine but if I try to transfer it out using an image or cloning it to another HDD/SSD it keeps crashing and saying the device is disconnecting (it's an...

Hi there! Yesterday one of my Western Digital internal harddrives ran into trouble. Therefore I reach out to you, the many wise members of this forum, for some help. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS It all started with the computer lagging, and filetransfers going really slow. I then noticed that the...

I want to back up a 2 x 14tb raid 0 array. would the best way he to make a second 2 x 14 tb 0 raid array and back it up there? if not how would i go about it

Hi everyone, I choosed to reinstall DSM 7.0 because of issues what I experienced, so I went into control panel and choosed the factory reset option, with erase all data. Now I changed my mind, because on the two 2TB hdd there could be some files, what I need though. I look over the internet for...

So my pc randomly crashed when i was closing tabs on my browser and it had said the system32 folder had some error in it or something was deleted. I havent done anything or installed anything for it to do this and idk why it did it. however, I restarted my pc and it loaded up fine like there...

I've been using seagate discwizard that came with my 2tb drive for backups for a few months now but recently they have slowed down a lot. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to fix this.

Hey, So I was having some problems with my old surface pro 4 when one day windows corrupt itself due to some odd circumstances (I tried everything and it was definitely corrupt) after trying to get windows back onto the drive (it diffident work) I decided to get a new surface. It just arrived...

I am working on a Dell laptop that can't boot, the dell diagnostics shows there is a problem with the 512GB nvme ssd and battery. To get the data off the drive, I connected a usb with ubuntu live then a usb with windows to go but the files are showing as 80TB while in fact the size is around...

when trying to migrate windows server 2012 R2 to 2016 via Robocopy . .. I have a problem that can't be skipped named -the path is too long -, something like that! how can I solve this ?

Hi everyone, I need some help and advice regarding OS backups and images, but please (ELI5) explain like I'm 5yo as my knowledge is very poor on this subject. I'm a little embarrassed to say that after more than 2 decades of being a techy PC nerd/enthusiast, I've never actually done any OS...

I connected a hard drive to a smart TV some years ago. The TV broke and is now gone. I really want to access the files on the disk, but the TV formatted the content so that as soon as I plug it in my computer, I am asked to format it. Is there any way to do a backup of the content as it is, and...

I want to backup my 2TB external HDD, 1TB laptop HDD and 64GB Android Phone ROM to an external 5TB HDD. I want to set the backup in a way that whatever files are created/added, deleted or edited, including moving files/folders to different locations are reflected on the 5TB backup drive. It...

I am replacing my old HDD as it's crashing a lot and so deciding to buy a SSD but when I'm trying to create a system image, the program is showing two system drives. Actually, I have two hard disks in my pc. I even tried to unplug the other hard disk(which is not crashing) and the OS still boots...

I recently decided to upgrade my storage space on my PC, but I’m worried with how things are setup that my system image will not work. I’d like some advice on two combinations. My previous setup is one 120gb m.2 ssd as an OS drive, and two 1TB SSDs in Raid Zero format. I’m replacing it with two...

we need to copy huge amount of data from windows 10 to NAS via SMB , my company manger ask me to find a solution to solve the issue of long path names and copying Symlinks as my friends in another company informed me that they faced problems like that with Robocopy , how can we solve this...

What should I look for in a NAS set up? This is just intended as an alternative to a raid pair of Seagate Ironwolf 4TB hard drives. Shoudl I still get the pair and put one as the storage drive in the workstation and the other in the Ns box? What should I look for in a NAS box, good and bad...

Hello guys. So I has a question. So I run a small business that handles a lot of Data and backups for my clients. I currently use Teamview to log into each clients server and manually pull down files that need backed up and store them on my servers. This works but its slow and tedious. I need...

So I'm aware of a few solutions to data backup like having a NAS or manual backups to say a cloud service or an external drive. Whilst I'm aware these solutions work well I need something that's less time consuming, more elegant and not overly expensive. My idea currently is to automate the...

Hi, I have recently encrypted my system drive using veracrypt but I have multiple other drives for storage of games and files. What im trying to do is encrypt all my hard drives and backing them up to back blaze. How would I be able to back them up without anyone else gaining access to my...

I have two M2 drives in my computer. One for data and one for OS and programs. The samsung 960. Was hoping I could just buy two large SSD drives and clone to each of them through external docking station. Is this possible? And does Samsung have a software or is there something better. Want...

So, I'm trying to restore a backup of what was my C: drive where windows was installed onto an external HDD. I have unallocated 900GB on that HDD, the drive the backup was taken from was only 240GB to begin with. Help appreciated