Need advice on system backup software

[Dime333]

I want to make a complete backup of my system drive that will work with my windows 7 setup. Is there anything free out there that will work good?

[dougan78]

I just use windows backup.

[Dime333]

OK. I guess I can try that. I've never done this before and I read this somewhere:

Microsoft might include backup tools in Windows, but they only do the bare minimum and they are confusing.

But if it will backup everything, I can't see a reason not to use it.

[dougan78]

It makes like a entire hard drive image. Cant be much easier imho.

[Guest]

Backblaze. Simple, cheap, done.


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[Dime333]

54 minutes ago, dougan78 said:

It makes like a entire hard drive image. Cant be much easier imho.

Sounds like the perfect solution since it's right there in windows.

 

21 minutes ago, tonesmalone said:

Backblaze. Simple, cheap, done.


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Is that better in any way than using the windows one?

[Guest]

Is that better in any way than using the windows one?

Yep.


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[Dime333]

OK. Could you please elaborate?

 

Edit: I just briefly checked their webpage and it didn't really seem to be what I'm looking for. If I understood it right, that is a cloud storage service that you pay to use. I'm just looking for software that will backup my system drive. I already have storage for the backup once I have it. 

Windows backup it is. Thanks for the input, guys.

[RLBradders26]

I use a custom robocopy script on a schedule but Windows Backup would probably be alot better, let us know how this goes. Pros and Cons etc

[dougan78]

I just leave my cab run, it backs up automatically via windows backup to my nas every sunday night.  My nas backs that up to a USB drive and I have 2 USB drives.  I swap the USB drives out every so often with one I keep in my desk at work.  Every once in a while I check to make sure the backups are working:

 

1. I check windows backup

2. I check the nas

3. I check the USB drive to make sure I can recover data.

 

Some of this could be automated with a script to check folder dates and email if it is not within a specified time frame.  I spend too much time setting stuff up to not be able to recover so I go with a manual approach to checking to make sure i can recover.  The other nice thing about the windows backup is it makes a vhd file you can just mount and drag files over if you need a one off thing.

 

Good luck.

 

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On 20.03.2017 at 10:19 PM, dougan78 said:

I just use windows backup.

I would recommend use a reputable paid backup service such as Crashplan, Carbonite , or BackBlaze (my choice, btw). I have now about 2 To of data saved in backblaze (about 700,000 files and 2 Go for bzfileids.data).