Backup software advice

[davemajormusic]

HI LTT, 

I'm looking for a bit of advice and help to find a reliable backup program I can use on my win10 main laptop.

First off here's the plan. 
I'm investing a lot of time into my YouTube channel and so have a large amount of video and audio that is very important. 

id like to do the following backup on various schedules.

BACKUP 1 - Entire Documents drive backup - weekly incremental

BACKUP 2 - YouTube Channel Specific Folder - Daily Incremental
BACKUP 3 - MIrror Backup 2 to another external drive - monthly full

Backup 1 and 2 go to my 4tb Seagate External drive (usb 3.0) 
Backup 3 is another external drive again.

For a while, I was running this successfully using EaseUS Backup Free. After updating to 11.5 (can't find a legacy version to rollback) it starting taking a whole day to do an incremental backup and then would return an error saying file access denied.

So I tried Paragon. The interface is nice but EVERY backup I tried it failed saying 'hot processing not available'. I couldn't find anything on google that pointed me in a direction of how to fix it. Anyone else encountered this problem and fixed?

I'm using Iperius Backup now but the program seems a little buggy (although I've just run Backup 1 successfully)


Any solutions to the bugs with the programs above or recommendations of other programs would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Dave

[desertcomputer]

You should consider some off-site backup or cloud. As a fire/robbery/water damage can wreak all your backup in one go.

 

As for backup software, I am using mix of rysnc/syncthing to my FreeNAS Server and then my FreeNAS has VM which does cloud backups and my off-site is just a backup at Grandparents basically a small low spec computer which turns on once a week during the night and rsync update backups(basically machine VPN into my network) and all drives are encrypted by the respectful OS such as LUKS/Freenas/Bitlocker.

[keskparane]

I would just create some wbadmin scripts.

FYI here is my weekly drive backup.

Spoiler

@echo off
setlocal

:config

TITLE Saving OS image
set SOURCE=C:
set TARGET=F:

:getdrive

if exist %TARGET% goto backup
choice /c RQ /m "Backup app can't locate target drive %TARGET% - [R]etry or [Q]uit?" /n
if %errorlevel%==1 goto getdrive
goto end

:backup

rem choice /c BQ /m "Backup %SOURCE% to %TARGET% - [B]ackup or [Q]uit" /n
rem if %errorlevel%==2 goto end
rem wbadmin start backup -allCritical -include:%SOURCE% -backuptarget:%TARGET% -quiet

wbadmin start backup -allCritical -include:%SOURCE% -backuptarget:%TARGET%

echo .
echo Press any key to exit.
pause > nul

:end