So I haven't been looking into much for manual backup software free and paid since I've been doing simple copy and pastes to my external hard drive. What is the recommended cloud backup software that I can use to backup my whole windows image?
HDD.So if I were to buy another external, should I buy an external ssd or hdd?
Define "whole windows image".So I haven't been looking into much for manual backup software free and paid since I've been doing simple copy and pastes to my external hard drive. What is the recommended cloud backup software that I can use to backup my whole windows image?
By whole image, I mean my whole windows OS drive...Unfortunately I do not have access to an offsite local drive I can use for whole the whole image as my external drive is too small for the image I have.Define "whole windows image".
That can be quite large.
Ideally, you do whole drive images locally, and specific personal files to the cloud.
"whole windows OS drive"By whole image, I mean my whole windows OS drive...Unfortunately I do not have access to an offsite local drive I can use for whole the whole image as my external drive is too small for the image I have.
And that is not going to happen 'in the cloud'.I'd like to try to back it up once in a while regardless of the changes...And when anything goes wrong I can copy that working image back to my current SSD.
My C drive partition is about 930gb (with 470gb used). Upload bandwidth is 9-10 mbps via ethernet[
So it is recommended to just backup individual files to the cloud and system images to an external drive? And this is due to how long it would take for the "system image" to be copied to the cloud backup?And that is not going to happen 'in the cloud'.
500GB, at 10megabits/sec, will take 5 days, running constantly.
And how would you "copy it back"?
You cannot do this cloud only.
Full drive images locally, specific files in the cloud.So it is recommended to just backup individual files to the cloud and system images to an external drive? And this is due to how long it would take for the "system image" to be copied to the cloud backup?
Also don't many cloud backup softwares allow you to restore images or your entire windows backup?
So if I were to buy another external, should I buy an external ssd or hdd?Full drive images locally, specific files in the cloud.
But, the basic concept is 3-2-1.
3 copies, on at least 2 different media, at least 1 offsite.
But a trimmed down concept, one or two external drives will do this easily.
HDD.So if I were to buy another external, should I buy an external ssd or hdd?
So any reasons why SSD wouldn't work besides the cost?HDD.
This is my backup routine.
What is your backup situation at home?
What is your backup situation at home? And if you don't do that, why not? Every single day, I read multiple threads here of "How do I get my stuff back?" or "That drive had 5 years of photos of my kids!!" Be it a dead drive, dropped phone, virus, accidental deletion, formatting the wrong...forums.tomshardware.com
Instead of the NAS box I have, an external drive or two would suffice in your situation.
Macrium Reflect Free would work just fine.
Cost is the reason. For this function, the speed of the SSD is wasted.So any reasons why SSD wouldn't work besides the cost?
So how important is macrium reflect free in this situation?Cost is the reason. For this function, the speed of the SSD is wasted.
Last summer I bought an 8TB external drive for $140.
How much is 8TB of SSD space?
That is the software that does the backup thing. And recovery, if needed.So how important is macrium reflect free in this situation?
That is the software that does the backup thing. And recovery, if needed.
It will take a snapshot of your C drive, and create an Image off on the external drive. A single file, encapsulating the entirety of your whole physical drive.
Later, if you need to recover, you boot up from a Macrium RescueUSB, tell it where the Image is, and what drive you wish to recover to.
Click Go, and it does its thing.
It also has the functionality for Incremental and Differential images. My procedure does an Incremental every single night. Each drive gets its own set of images.
Yes.So I do have a couple of flash drives lying around, will creating the rescueusb require the flash drive to be wiped?
I believe I have a flash drive I can spare...BTW can I store multiple hard drive images on an external drive or only 1 can only be on there?Yes.
When you buy the new external, buy another flash drive or two.
Multiples.I believe I have a flash drive I can spare...BTW can I store multiple hard drive images on an external drive or only 1 can only be on there?
So if I want to store my main OS image to my 2tb external that i might buy and I want to store another drive image from a non-os drive, it would work? BTW when it comes to images sizes, are they the same size as the physical drive that is being imaged?Multiples.
On my NAS, it stores images from 6 systems, 13 drives, all in one folder tree.
Macrium will let you set up an automated schedule, and automatically delete the oldest when the drive gets too full.
So if I want to store my main OS image to my 2tb external that i might buy and I want to store another drive image from a non-os drive, it would work? BTW when it comes to images sizes, are they the same size as the physical drive that is being imaged?
Good enough, I will get a 2tb external drive then and store my image on there.One of my 1TB drives: 743GB consumed space, the Full image (last night) is 708GB.
- Yes. I have an individual folder for each drive, so I know which is which.
- A bit smaller than the actual consumed space. It leaves off things like the pagefile, and does a teeny bit of compression.
I'd like to try to back it up once in a while regardless of the changes...And when anything goes wrong I can copy that working image back to my current SSD.
My C drive partition is about 930gb (with 470gb used). Upload bandwidth is 9-10 mbps via ethernet[
Well it seemed that backing up my windows image to my new external drive was not only less costlier, but didn't take too much time with the macrium software. Not only that, i still have more than 1tb and a half space left for other future images.One of my 1TB drives: 743GB consumed space, the Full image (last night) is 708GB.
- Yes. I have an individual folder for each drive, so I know which is which.
- A bit smaller than the actual consumed space. It leaves off things like the pagefile, and does a teeny bit of compression.