Dime333 Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 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?
Dime333 Posted March 20, 2017 Author Posted March 20, 2017 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 Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 It makes like a entire hard drive image. Cant be much easier imho.
Guest Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 Backblaze. Simple, cheap, done. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Dime333 Posted March 20, 2017 Author Posted March 20, 2017 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. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Is that better in any way than using the windows one?
Guest Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 Is that better in any way than using the windows one?Yep. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Dime333 Posted March 20, 2017 Author Posted March 20, 2017 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 Posted March 21, 2017 Posted March 21, 2017 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 Posted March 21, 2017 Posted March 21, 2017 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.
stream26 Posted July 8, 2017 Posted July 8, 2017 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).
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