Question Method of Backing up

[Artisanico]

I am currently performing a scan on my main storage disk data using Disk Drill and since it covers only around 200Mb per day I can see that this is going to take many months. To avoid the problems in future, I plan to back up my dozen or so main folders each on their own partition on my HDD, and keep folders that have been corrupted / might be prone to corruption in various separate partitions. Can anyone advise me as to any drawbacks with this? I have one in mind, but perhaps it's rather minor: what happens when Windows runs out of letters of the alphabet for drive letters?

 

[rgd1101]

#1 drawback is if the whole HDD failed. everything is gone.
try different hdd or ssd and have multiple back on your important data

 

[LordVile]

Just use a cloud backup?

 

[USAFRet]

I am currently performing a scan on my main storage disk data using Disk Drill and since it covers only around 200Mb per day I can see that this is going to take many months. To avoid the problems in future, I plan to back up my dozen or so main folders each on their own partition on my HDD, and keep folders that have been corrupted / might be prone to corruption in various separate partitions. Can anyone advise me as to any drawbacks with this? I have one in mind, but perhaps it's rather minor: what happens when Windows runs out of letters of the alphabet for drive letters?

Full drive images, off to some other physical device.

With your plan, if/when the drive dies, you will lose the data AND the backups.
Also, trying to backup individual 'folders', invariably, you will forget one.
Lastly, doing this manually, you will forget.

The basic backup concept is 3-2-1.
3 copies, on at least 2 different media, at least 1 offsite or otherwise inaccessible.

There are many automated tools for backing up your data.
I use Macrium Reflect.

Automated Incremental images every night, off to a folder tree in my NAS.
6 physical drives, full drive Images, each in their own subfolder.