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Robert wrote:.....
That's not good enough for me so I backup the backup server to USB drive. That then goes to live at my daughters place. After I think it is time to do it again the other new drive gets used for backup and gets swapped for the other off site.
Robert wrote:.
Oh and if you are doing a full computer backup check/test your restore process will work with new hardware.
Woodster wrote:So, SSD or Hard Drive? Cost is a factor but aren’t SSD’s much faster?
9fingers wrote:I might be talking through my ar$e here but if you are wanting to make bootable backups, don''t you need to make image files and in which case incremental backup software is not likely to be suitable?
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Andyp wrote:Does bootable men the same as complete system restore?
RogerM wrote:Interesting thread. At the moment I am just occasionally backing up all my files, but it is a long tedious job so doesn't get done as often as it should. I believe there is some free software that automatically just updates any changes and additions automatically which would be far preferable. Any recommendations as to what software to use? I'm particularly interested in backing up my photos.
RogerM wrote:Interesting thread. At the moment I am just occasionally backing up all my files, but it is a long tedious job so doesn't get done as often as it should. I believe there is some free software that automatically just updates any changes and additions automatically which would be far preferable. Any recommendations as to what software to use? I'm particularly interested in backing up my photos.
RogerS wrote:RogerM wrote:Interesting thread. At the moment I am just occasionally backing up all my files, but it is a long tedious job so doesn't get done as often as it should. I believe there is some free software that automatically just updates any changes and additions automatically which would be far preferable. Any recommendations as to what software to use? I'm particularly interested in backing up my photos.
Roger... Mac or PC ?
Woodster wrote:I wanted to do a second backup on another drive the other day and it took several hours. During the backup the machine was quite slow so I gave up trying to do other stuff on it. In this case, and I’ve done it several times in the past, a faster drive would have been very helpful. When fitting internal drives I’ve always fitted 7200 rpm models in the past. Not sure why manufacturers don’t want to tell us the speed of the drives they’re trying to sell us?
RogerS wrote:Woodster wrote:I wanted to do a second backup on another drive the other day and it took several hours. During the backup the machine was quite slow so I gave up trying to do other stuff on it. In this case, and I’ve done it several times in the past, a faster drive would have been very helpful. When fitting internal drives I’ve always fitted 7200 rpm models in the past. Not sure why manufacturers don’t want to tell us the speed of the drives they’re trying to sell us?
Curious to know how much data you were backing up. I've got about 240GB to do a full backup. Just kicked one off and it's taken 25 minutes for 40GB so the whole disk should be done in about 90 minutes or so. And that is over a slow USB2 interface.
9fingers wrote:Slightly dodgy arithmetic methinks?
Bob
9fingers wrote:RogerS wrote:Woodster wrote:I wanted to do a second backup on another drive the other day and it took several hours. During the backup the machine was quite slow so I gave up trying to do other stuff on it. In this case, and I’ve done it several times in the past, a faster drive would have been very helpful. When fitting internal drives I’ve always fitted 7200 rpm models in the past. Not sure why manufacturers don’t want to tell us the speed of the drives they’re trying to sell us?
Curious to know how much data you were backing up. I've got about 240GB to do a full backup. Just kicked one off and it's taken 25 minutes for 40GB so the whole disk should be done in about 90 minutes or so. And that is over a slow USB2 interface.
Slightly dodgy arithmetic methinks?
Bob
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