Question Best Overall Amazing Back Up Setup? 1K-4K Budget! Software + Hardware? Help!

[needspractice]

I remember a lot of people before when my hard drive failed told me that I could do a couple of amazing things with backing up data. What stuck out is two things...

1. Software that will backup your data live via a cloud solution or over the internet without having a corporate cloud product.
2. Get a storage tower with hard drives and load them up.

What I mean is there software out there that you can install on your computer. You tell it which data you want backed up. Lets say your main PC with (2) hard drives and (8) hard drives connected to it via a tower.

Then you have and (10) hard drives connected to the internet or your LAN to which this software will automatically copy all of your data 1 for 1 match, live, not compressed from your current PC and (8) hard drives to your (10) hard drives in another location.

Live and in the current moment. So if you make a change or add a file, it automatically copies the differences.

Does this make sense? If not, what is simply the best hard drives I could buy, the best hard drive storage or bay system to hold them, and what is the best software that I can do this with that is non compression and not cloud base that cost a monthly fee.

Thanks!

 

[USAFRet]

This depends on exactly what and how you wish to do this 'backup'.

My personal....

NAS, such as QNAP or Synology.
Software, such as Macrium Reflect.

Modified since I wrote this, but the basics:

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

 

[hotaru.hino]

My setup is the following:

• A Synology DS220+ NAS
  • it's 2-bay, but they make models with more bays
  • I have 2 hard drives in there, a Western Digital Red Pro and a Seagate Iron Wolf
  • Synology also supports btrfs, which has data reliability features I was looking for
• iDrive for my cloud backup solution
• A Western Digital Passport

I use the NAS as the "staging area", where I update it with stuff. I have this setup to do the backup:

• The primary drive takes snapshots. If I'm reading the settings right, it saves one the day before, the week before, the month before, and the year before.
  • This is in case I need to go back to a version of a file.
  • The rate you need depends on how important having this is for you.
• The secondary drive makes a back up of the primary drive. It also h
  • If you're asking why I don't just RAID1 the drives, it's because the secondary drive isn't going to wear out as much as the primary
  • It also keeps snapshots, so I can recover from a point in time
• The NAS has iDrive integration, so every week the NAS pushes changes from the primary drive to iDrive.
• Once a month, I do a tertiary backup on the Western Digital Passport.

Regarding pushing data to the NAS, I use a program called FreeFileSync since it can figure out what updated and push only those changes.