What backup software do you use?
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it: c: OS, application sw, etc d: main development SSD, project files e: virtual machines The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will: (1) allow me to image an OS drive (2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub. thanks
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Acronis True Image for the workstations, Windows server backup for the Servers. We have been scoffed at for using Windows Server Backup but I don't honestly know why. It's just plain bitchin. Does bare metal restore of everything - even exchange and file by file if you just need one back. Same as Acronis. What's more, Acronis can and will restore a Windows Server Backup VXD to dissimilar hardware, where Windows Server Backup does not.
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it: c: OS, application sw, etc d: main development SSD, project files e: virtual machines The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will: (1) allow me to image an OS drive (2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub. thanks
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
OneDrive seems pretty good.
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...waiting for Griff to answer this one. Can anybody guess? :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Seriously? How much data can you get into a sheep? One mega-baa-yte. :-) Sorry - it sounded funny in my head.
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Acronis True Image for the workstations, Windows server backup for the Servers. We have been scoffed at for using Windows Server Backup but I don't honestly know why. It's just plain bitchin. Does bare metal restore of everything - even exchange and file by file if you just need one back. Same as Acronis. What's more, Acronis can and will restore a Windows Server Backup VXD to dissimilar hardware, where Windows Server Backup does not.
Ah yes, "bare metal" is what I need. I've used ATI in the past, went to disk imaging as it was much, much faster. Of course, it helped that I could pop out the hard drive on my Dell Precision in 20 seconds. Thx Ron
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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OneDrive seems pretty good.
For bare metal or just dev areas? I can copy files with the best of them. Just curious as to your procedure.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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For bare metal or just dev areas? I can copy files with the best of them. Just curious as to your procedure.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Just documents and files - they are hard to replace whilst restoring a drive might take a couple of days but it's pretty straightforward and, unless a disaster strikes, not a frequent operation. Besides, I'm paranoid enough to also backup to a nas box. :-)
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Just documents and files - they are hard to replace whilst restoring a drive might take a couple of days but it's pretty straightforward and, unless a disaster strikes, not a frequent operation. Besides, I'm paranoid enough to also backup to a nas box. :-)
Paranoia is good :).
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Seriously? How much data can you get into a sheep? One mega-baa-yte. :-) Sorry - it sounded funny in my head.
Oh oh oh... you need to go to confession... so bad
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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...waiting for Griff to answer this one. Can anybody guess? :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Before Griff gets his bit about AOMEI in, I am going to shout: "I use Macrium's Reflect!" :laugh:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it: c: OS, application sw, etc d: main development SSD, project files e: virtual machines The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will: (1) allow me to image an OS drive (2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub. thanks
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
OneDrive autosync, 1TB storage with MS Office Sub. I also then have a second drive which I use as a target for Windows File History. Periodically, I used to do a backup image to my 10TB Raid 5 NAS, although this is rare (aka never), now that I have moved my PC more than 5000km from my NAS!
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it: c: OS, application sw, etc d: main development SSD, project files e: virtual machines The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will: (1) allow me to image an OS drive (2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub. thanks
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
You already know I use AOMEI Backupper, and love it! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm going to ignore the others. It's Friday, and they are clearly drinking. Somehow I have to image my OS drive. The other stuff I can handle, but I shudder at the agony of rebuilding the OS drive....
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
clonezilla. Ugly interface, but it works.
"Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." Al Capp
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it: c: OS, application sw, etc d: main development SSD, project files e: virtual machines The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will: (1) allow me to image an OS drive (2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub. thanks
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I have all my data and code backed up in the cloud using Carbonite. What's neat is it works in the background and automatically backs up every time a data/code file is changed. It only costs $60/year. A few years ago, my computer suddenly died while I was working on a project. No problem. Bought a new computer, logged onto Carbonite, restored my data, and in less than a day, I was back where I left off. Carbonite is worth its bits in gold. :-D Peter Ringering
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clonezilla. Ugly interface, but it works.
"Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." Al Capp
this is very attractive to me. I will try it.
diligent hands rule....
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it: c: OS, application sw, etc d: main development SSD, project files e: virtual machines The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will: (1) allow me to image an OS drive (2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub. thanks
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I use the R, because the D makes it go forward, and the P doesn't work on my machine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have all my data and code backed up in the cloud using Carbonite. What's neat is it works in the background and automatically backs up every time a data/code file is changed. It only costs $60/year. A few years ago, my computer suddenly died while I was working on a project. No problem. Bought a new computer, logged onto Carbonite, restored my data, and in less than a day, I was back where I left off. Carbonite is worth its bits in gold. :-D Peter Ringering
I don't see how Carbonite can handle (a) system images and (b) massive amounts of data for $60/year? (b) oh wait - *unlimited* storage for a system, okay, that changed the last time I looked at them. That would only be 18 hours for the initial capture, much less for incremental backups. I'll have to look into that. One issue I have is making sure I am disaster proof - fire, theft, tornado. (a) how did it handle the system disk restore? A major pain point for me is restoring all of the installed software. cg
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I use the R, because the D makes it go forward, and the P doesn't work on my machine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
too early in the morning for this. btw, "R" is for rocket mode.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I don't see how Carbonite can handle (a) system images and (b) massive amounts of data for $60/year? (b) oh wait - *unlimited* storage for a system, okay, that changed the last time I looked at them. That would only be 18 hours for the initial capture, much less for incremental backups. I'll have to look into that. One issue I have is making sure I am disaster proof - fire, theft, tornado. (a) how did it handle the system disk restore? A major pain point for me is restoring all of the installed software. cg
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I'm an individual developer with just 1 PC. All my data is in MS Access and SQL Server CE databases. I don't have massive amounts of data but what I do have I couldn't live without. What I like about Carbonite is that it automatically backs up my data when my computer is idle. It doesn't hog system resources. It also only backs up data--not videos and program files unless I specifically ask it to. Since my Visual Studio code files are small in comparison, Carbonite backs them up automatically too. Carbonite has saved me many times in the past several years. Peter Ringering
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it: c: OS, application sw, etc d: main development SSD, project files e: virtual machines The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will: (1) allow me to image an OS drive (2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub. thanks
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
I'm assuming you want to make 1:1 image of at least your C drive - i.e. if anything goes wrong you just want to either have it already on a drive or be able to restore an older image. For this I've used CloneZilla several years now. Many a time I screwed up an installation by fiddling with drivers and settings, and many times screwed up partitioning and/or dual-booting. If it wasn't for CloneZilla I'd have had to euthanize myself long ago. I've seen others mention stuff like Arconis. AFAIK they all do pretty much the same job as CZ. Either make a raw copy of one drive to another, or to an image file for later restore (either entire drive or per partition). For your other drives I'd just go with a normal copying backup. Yes (as many other answers state) online stuff (like OneDrive / Dropbox / GDrive / etc.) can help, but depending on size you may not be able to use these. Probably OK for the development project files - they tend to be smallish and don't often change all at once. Although for coding I've found these auto-online-sync stuff tends to screw with the editor / IDE as the timing of the sync gets "out-of-sync" making the editor / IDE think the file's changed from outside. It would be very cumbersome for your VMs though - since all the VM virtual drives would change nearly every time you run them, meaning a near 100% upload on a daily basis (hope your bandwidth is large and fast enough). I would likely rather just go with a local copy (at least for your E drive). To be absolutely sure, a rotating copy on 3 drives - overwriting the older backup. There are many programs which can do this on a scheduled basis, some even on an event basis as a file changes (i.e. the way OneDrive / DropBox works, only instead of to an online server, to a local path you specify). You could even setup a task schedule in Windows to perform the copy, though I'd likely go with RoboCopy instead of copy/xcopy. Personally I use rclone on my NAS box, using DeltaCopy in Windows to backup onto the NAS. Then I've got a script on there firing when I plug in a USB drive - which simply copies the backup from the NAS's internals to the external (overwriting only newer files). But that's me - on my home LAN, and since nearly all my project files (3d models) tend to be huge (even in relation to video files) - nothing strange to see several GB per file (i.e. similar in size to your VM files). For your D drive I might be tempted to use a versioning system. Even a local background service running something like SVN should be awesome in rel
