weekly backups?

[JewishBacon]

so i know this is a pretty dumb question but ive spent the last few hours trying to get this working and i have no idea whats going on.  I have a WD drive that i want to set up to do weekly backups of my main drive. both are 1 tb.  im trying to config acronis to do it automatically but i dont see the setting to do a weekly clone of the main drive.  any assistance would be awesome

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

so i know this is a pretty dumb question but ive spent the last few hours trying to get this working and i have no idea whats going on.  I have a WD drive that i want to set up to do weekly backups of my main drive. both are 1 tb.  im trying to config acronis to do it automatically but i dont see the setting to do a weekly clone of the main drive.  any assistance would be awesome

You want to do bare metal backups? Or just files?

 

I use duplicati to compress and encrypt, and then to upload to Google Drive. It has options for local disks, or network drives as well. Maybe look into using that. It took me about 15 minutes to configure.

[AMD Lover]

Put it in RAID 1 but ill let someone else explain as ive never done it.

[Moosie]

Put it in RAID 1 but ill let someone else explain as ive never done it.

RAID 1 isn't necessarily the best for a whole system backup. It's great for bulk data protection against drive failure, ut if something majorly wrong with Windows or something else royally screwed up your system, and it's in RAID 1, then you don't really have a fallback because both drives are identical and are therefore most likely both messed up. The best solution is what's here: taking snapshots of your drive at intervals so that any error or loss isn't totally catastrophic and is reversible without reinstalling everything. Of course that means that any vitally important things such as work files, dissertations, secret muffin recipes, etc.. should be backed up externally (flash drives, another drive, a NAS or a cloud sevice) after each edit, for maximum data security.

[JewishBacon]

RAID 1 isn't necessarily the best for a whole system backup. It's great for bulk data protection against drive failure, ut if something majorly wrong with Windows or something else royally screwed up your system, and it's in RAID 1, then you don't really have a fallback because both drives are identical and are therefore most likely both messed up. The best solution is what's here: taking snapshots of your drive at intervals so that any error or loss isn't totally catastrophic and is reversible without reinstalling everything. Of course that means that any vitally important things such as work files, dissertations, secret muffin recipes, etc.. should be backed up externally (flash drives, another drive, a NAS or a cloud sevice) after each edit, for maximum data security.

lol secret muffin recipes...who has a secret muff-- WHO ARE YOU, NSA?!

  but seriously im going to look into that duplicati thing thanks @xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt

[N7_Zer0]

so i know this is a pretty dumb question but ive spent the last few hours trying to get this working and i have no idea whats going on.  I have a WD drive that i want to set up to do weekly backups of my main drive. both are 1 tb.  im trying to config acronis to do it automatically but i dont see the setting to do a weekly clone of the main drive.  any assistance would be awesome

 

Do you have the full version of Acronis or the free one that you get from WD or Seagate? The full version you can schedule backups (I've been using it for years), the free version you can only do manual full backups (no incremental).

 

PS: RAID is NOT a backup solution. People need to stop insinuating that it is.