which backup software?

[gnarly0531]

so i want to get a new back up software ive been using genie for awhile and dont really like it all that much. looking between Nova backup, acronis true image (not sure i trust an image back up), or acronis backup (costly). so which of these would you chose or would you chose another? thanks for any help

[d3sl91]

so i want to get a new back up software ive been using genie for awhile and dont really like it all that much. looking between Nova backup, acronis true image (not sure i trust an image back up), or acronis backup (costly). so which of these would you chose or would you chose another? thanks for any help

 

I just switched from Genie to Bvckup. https://www.bvckup2.com/

 

Its beyond simple, and just, sits there and backs up changes every XX minutes/hours whatever. I have it running on 3 systems backing up to my NAS. Set it, forget it. After a few months, its working fine. It only does raw backups, but I always do raw, so I have full access to my files. And it handles deleted files by archiving them, and then deleting them after awhile.

 

I originally thought I wanted cool features genie  had, but really.... I never used them anyway, as I had the free version, so, I just went the simple route. 

[gnarly0531]

Dude...you need to stop

lol for real though...

[EpicAdom]

lol for real though...

Sorry...don't use backup software

[gnarly0531]

Sorry...don't use backup software

no its all good lol. thought your comment was funny to his use all of them reply.

[TetraSky]

I'm using Acronis True Image, works fine. Though it might just be a bug in the version I bought years ago (2011), but the auto-cleanup feature doesn't seems to work, it doesn't remove older backups as per the settings I set it to, making me go and delete them manually.

That said, it works perfectly to restore the entire OS, even if you formated the drive or whatever, restore to the same state it was when you backed it up. Saved my bacon multiple times. Especially when I derped and forgot to save the bitlocker key to my thumb drive... which resulted in me losing EVERYTHING, thank god I had full drive backups....

 

There's also a "try & decide feature", which essentially capture every change made from the time it's enabled to the time you stop it, allowing you to revert them. Great if you want to try out something but not sure if it works or not. But it doesn't work with a bitlocker encrypted drive.

 

Unless you own a business, you do not want Acronis Backup. The general consumer version is True Image. But man did it increase in price? I remember buying it for about $30 at best buy....

Whichever solution you decide to take, I recommend one that you can actually recover the backup from outside windows. That way if something ever fail, you can recover your entire OS easily just by putting in a recovery CD/flash drive of the backup software or similar. (Which Acronis does)

But if all you want is just backing up a few files or folders and don't care about having to reinstall everything in case of a failure, then anything will do really, even windows's built-in backup system.

[vembutech]

Hi,

 

Go for Acronis..