How do you Backup your hard-drive?

titanium777

titanium777

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I have a laptop that I still use, but it's getting quite old.

There's documents that I wouldn't want to lose on it.

How do you guys save/backup your harddrive data?

Do you use some sort of cloud or storage provider?
If so recommend me your favorite!

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I used CrashPlan (cloud storage) for years.. 500Gig or so, $50ish per year. About a year ago I had my first problem in which I actually needed my shit and they couldn't deliver.

Since then I've switched back to local backup... I bought two 1.5 Tb XHDDs and I simply use SyncBackFree to back up what I need, keeping one on my desk for immediate/continual use and the other stored remotely in case of fire/theft/whatever. Every 1-2 weeks I just swap them out.

Granted, not a gapless plan, but better than counting on internet jackholes. Another ancillary benefit to local v cloud for me is that I constantly work remote over my hotspot, which means I'm paying dearly for my data plan, and all-day cloud backups will wreck that shit.
 
CrashPlan and I have a raid array connected to Time Machine that backs up every hour.

intent said:
I used CrashPlan (cloud storage) for years.. 500Gig or so, $50ish per year. About a year ago I had my first problem in which I actually needed my shit and they couldn't deliver.
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What happened with them? As I've yet to have to call their backup into any restoration-action and I'd like to know if it's not fit for purpose.
 
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CrashPlan and I have a raid array connected to Time Machine that backs up every hour.



What happened with them? As I've yet to have to call their backup into any restoration-action and I'd like to know if it's not fit for purpose.
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Loved what I thought was their backup service, seemed to be working... When the time came to need it, they just 'didn't have it'. I pushed that wall as much as you can with an internet company, but got the "we don't give a fuck" response across the board. Given all that and seeking life elsewhere, I had to push them to quit spamming me afterward given their shit service and my discontinuation as a client, but they are seemingly unable to make that stop. Make of that what you will.

Local backups are clearly more a pain in the ass than cloud backups, but these days I'm erring on the side of reliability v convenience.
 
I literally don't even use my hard drive anymore for housing documents / important stuff. Everything is in cloud storage. Anything REALLY important gets thrown into a zipfile and e-mailed to 4 different e-mail addresses that I own as a failsafe.

There's probably easier and safer ways than what I'm doing.... but hey, just relaying my process.
 
I use an external 1tb drive and CrashPlan. The free edition does local storage, but you can pay some small fee (it's like $5 a month or something) for cloud storage. I get up at 5am every day, and my laptop is set to wakeup at 3am everyday, and CrashPlan is set to perform the backup at 3:15am every day.
 
Have some paranoia on the online backups, based on experience. My kid deleted a lot of files on my dropbox backup and only recovered 2/3's of it.

So I do my backups in an 2x external HDD atleast once a month with all the necessary virus checking, device partition, defragment and such. Doing it while on day off cause its like a click and wait for an hour to finish
 
Keep most of my day-to-day stuff in Dropbox, and I make backups of that + any other important stuff onto a 1TB external about once a month.
 
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