How do you Back Up your Data?

[Philcat101]

I thought I would make this thread so we can see how we all back up data.

Post a reply below and tell us how you backup your data. (Where to? Specs of backup hardware? How often? Which folders? Software?)

I hope we can throw enough ideas around so someone may be inspired to see which backup solution is good for them.

[Philcat101]

I'll be first:

I just plug in an external drive and copy over the folders I want to.

[failblox]

I backup to my 4TB WD Black HDD. It's just a HDD in my rig, I don't have a separate computer like a NAS to backup to (unfortunately). Once a day, I backup my entire drive using Acronis True Image 2015.

 

It's saved my ass big-time once when I accidentally wiped my C:\ drive (whoops).

[GalacticRuler]

I use a 4 GB USB drive. (No I didn't mean 4 TB)

[thekeemo]

google drive

[The Official Czex]

Google Drive + external SSD + external HDD + NAS

[Philcat101]

I backup to my 4TB WD Black HDD. It's just a HDD in my rig, I don't have a separate computer like a NAS to backup to (unfortunately). Once a day, I backup my entire drive using Acronis True Image 2015.

 

It's saved my ass big-time once when I accidentally wiped my C:\ drive (whoops).

How long does it take?

If you have a SSD and HDD setup, do you just make separate images?

[VAkena]

I thought I would make this thread so we can see how we all back up data.

Post a reply below and tell us how you backup your data. (Where to? Specs of backup hardware? How often? Which folders? Software?)

I hope we can throw enough ideas around so someone may be inspired to see which backup solution is good for them.

 

These are just some ideas for those who just want some solutions

 

1. Create System Restore Points regularly - every 2-3 months

2. Create a System Image (must have all your IMPORTANT data on the system first)

3. Use cloud storage (OneDrive, iCloud, Drop Box and Google Drive)

4. External Hard Drives

[TheKDub]

I forget if I've even got automated backups set up... probably should check that...

[Gregoreg]

I backup 15GB of my most important files to 3 flash drives, 3 (soon 4 when my ssd arrives)internal hard drives and google drive.

[Belgarathian]

I use a NAS for the storage device, the NAS then backs up to a cloud storage account every night for off-site storage (NAS I use for media streaming/storage/backup is a QNAP TS-453 Pro).

• Windows 10 has a feature under the setting panel for automatic backup of files and documents.
• OS X has Time Machine. 

I'm not sure about Windows 7, 8, 8.1. 

 

There are 4 machines in the household that regularly backup data daily to the NAS.

[mrmonmon2]

only back up the important stuff and other important stuff if you know what I mean, on 16gb 64gb (usbs) and 1tb portable hhd

[leadeater]

> /dev/null

 

But seriously, I actually don't backup anything at home. I have nothing I can't download from the original source again so that is my backup, slow but free. I'll backup during a PC migration but that's about it.

 

I'm a massive hypocrite since one of my main roles at work is backups which I'm very strict on making sure everything gets backed up no matter how unimportant.

[HelplmChoking]

I have a boot SSD, storage on a 1TB barracuda HDD (including my main work/university files in a synced google drive folder), then I use Dsynchronise to replicate this folder to an external 500GB HDD attached to my router.

 

So basically, important documents are stored on a storage HDD, synced to Google Drive, and mirrored to an external HDD.

[failblox]

How long does it take?

If you have a SSD and HDD setup, do you just make separate images?

I don't backup my HDD. It takes about an hour though to make a full image of my SSD on my HDD. I have a little less the 300GB of stuff on my SSD.

[Monte_Carlo]

Two 3 TB HGST drives in RAID 1 for some redundancy for media files, and flashdrives with cloud storage for papers and the such.  Planning on getting an external drive of some variety to move the media files away from PC storage in case of some virus or catastrophic hardware/software failure. 

[Bensemus]

I use a NAS for the storage device, the NAS then backs up to a cloud storage account every night for off-site storage (NAS I use for media streaming/storage/backup is a QNAP TS-453 Pro).

• Windows 10 has a feature under the setting panel for automatic backup of files and documents.
• OS X has Time Machine. 

I'm not sure about Windows 7, 8, 8.1. 

 

There are 4 machines in the household that regularly backup data daily to the NAS.

Does W10 let you use a NAS as the drive to auto back up to? I tried in W7 and found out it only supports USB connected drives when using the built in backup. 

[Belgarathian]

Does W10 let you use a NAS as the drive to auto back up to? I tried in W7 and found out it only supports USB connected drives when using the built in backup. 

 

Sure does, you can find your options under backup>advanced and set your drive location there. Mine is //MAX-NAS/Backup for example. Any shared or local drive can be used. 

[Bgordy2013]

I have a 3x2TB (4TB usable, RAID 5) NAS that I use.

[EmeraldFlame]

1. All my workstation use Macrium Reflect to losslessly compress and backup to my home server once a week for on-site backup.

Home Server is a 12TB (9TB usable) RAID 5 for on-site redundancy

Server than encrypts and uploads all data to CrashPlan for emergency off-site backup