Simple network redundancy in local storage

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Dec 13, 2016
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I work in a small office with my father, and recently he bought a laptop with a 1Tb HDD
in this office we have one computer being accessed by 7 others in a small network. This pc holds all the important files which are just 50-60Gb of office documents

I want to know if there's an easy way to make a redundancy of this central storage in my father's new laptop, something that updates 1 or 2 times per day with all the changes we make in our central database, or in any other frequency

It's a very simple wired network, with the internet modem connected to a hub router and that's it.
 
Something as simple as you say so I assume you have SHARED drive(s), so share your DAD's HD to the file server, and schedule a backup task on it to write to your Dad's. This can be annoying though you Dad is doing something, and the HD come on all by itself, and he will notice it as the laptop will slow down to mind this task.
 
Although you can do that with a number of tools designed for backing up things the new way is the cloud backup. Not sure if you can get 60gb for free but it should be inexpensive. The most common one is the one drive junk in win10. I think the cost of 100GB is only $2/month. Google and everyone else also offers services like this. I know you get some storage even as part of amazon prime.

This will solve the issue of what happens if the office is destroyed by fire or some thief take your machines
 


we plan to do that in the future, when our central PC fails, we plan to do daily backups in the secondary hard drive until the main one wears out. Currently we don't wanna spend money on new equipment because in Brazil those things can be really expensive. A simple software solution will do just fine.

Also he's interested in having a redundancy in his laptop so he can work at home sometimes, or when travelling.