Hey guys,

I do not want a repeat of last year's computer crash to mess me up again. It's taken me quite a while to come to terms with the reality of what happened.

I'm looking for recommendations on a simple to implement backup solution. Please let me know what kind of back solution you are using.

Thank you in advance,
Mike

Michael Riley
GySgt USMC (Retired)
www.zilchworks.com

Michael


After many experiences of that sort, especially with earlier versions of Windows I started cloning my HDD. My main computer is an i7 with two drives - one is a 256GB SSD and the other a 500GB HDD. I have a couple of 256GB HDDs that I hook up occasionally via USB and clone using Macrium Reflect. This one has the os baked in.

I also wrote my own backup system to back stuff up to a USB drive as and when I want - generally after any major changes to code or database.

None of it automated and all manually initiated but it seems to work

Roy Lambert

Michael,

I have 3 backups:

 1. Incremental Automatic Win 10 backup to external disk (daily)
 
 2. Manual copy of changed and new files (.bat file with ROBCOPY)
    that mirrors my work disk to the work disk of another computer,
    that is pretty much a clone of my development machine (just with older hardware).
 
 3. A second external USB disk where I store only .zip files,
   each one containing a complete project (code and test data),
   that is updated at every minor release of each one of my projects


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Fernando Dias
[Team Elevate]

On 5/18/2019 10:10 AM, Michael Riley wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations on a simple to implement backup solution. Please let me know what kind of back solution you are using.

Desktop (windows) and laptop (mac)
- ARQ backup www.arqbackup.com/) of important files to Amazon S3 (cloud)
(usually) daily.

- Desktop (windows) using Drive Snapshot (www.drivesnapshot.de) to image
drives to external drives (full weekly and incremental few days per week).

- Laptop (mac) using one external drive for Time Machine and another
drive with Carbon Copy Cloner (https://bombich.com/)

I added the cloud backup to have copy of files away from computers. Most
of the external drives are with computers and while I tried to keep one
drive offsite it simply was not a process that was working for me (i was
not consistent enough).


Raul