Solution for the "3 2 1 rule" backup rule

[Filingo]

I want to start backing up my stuff with the "3 2 1 rule" - 3 backups, 2 different devices and 1 offsite

Right now some stuff are backed up in the cloud (iCloud, Drive)

I also have a local copy on an HDD.

 

And now I bought a 4TB hard drive

What would be a nice, sort of automatic way to do it? I can just plug a dedicated PC to the router and have it sit there with the 2 drives if that helps.

 

Right now I was thinking about hooking the two drives to the dedicated PC, have one drive that I copy the media to, and every once in a while I copy from this drive, to the second drive manually.

 

But are there better ways to achieve that, instead of manually doing so?

 

[Kilrah]

There are ways to automate but I don't consider them "better", to me a backup is only a backup if it's precisely not constantly online and automatically updated. If you delete something by mistake and the backup system replicates that instantly on the backup the backup is useless. If some malware infects/encrypts your files and that's silently replicated to the backup automatically it's no good either. If a power surge takes your main storage it's likely to also kill the backup if it's connected,...

 

So I like to do things manually and only connect / power up the backup drives to the PC and run a sync when needed, then disconnect afterwards. 

[Filingo]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

There are ways to automate but I don't consider them "better", to me a backup is only a backup if it's precisely not constantly online and automatically updated. If you delete something by mistake and the backup system replicates that instantly on the backup the backup is useless. If some malware infects/encrypts your files and that's silently replicated to the backup automatically it's no good either. If a power surge takes your main storage it's likely to also kill the backup if it's connected,...

 

So I like to do things manually and only connect / power up the backup drives to the PC and run a sync when needed, then disconnect afterwards. 

thank you, then manually it is.