BackUp Solution

Which is your Backup Solution?

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I use Acronis with a full monthly and daily incremental backup of the Win 8.1 system, and monthly backups of the browser, some data folders, and games in other drives to an external one.

However, I also have a system image using the built-in backup done yearly and file history turned on, both stored in an internal HD in the same system.

Finally, I used free accounts of MegaSync and Zoolz to do cloud backups of some folders.
 
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Captain Awesome said:
Which is your Backup Solution?
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I encrypt backups with AES256+Blowfish then dump them into the triple encrypted (AES256, 2048RSA, SSL/TLS), zero knowledge, SOC-3 protected, Canadian Cloud service called Sync.

It's the safest way for me to easily store my backup data. If you are referring to mirrors and images, I don't do it because it takes me 15 minutes to reset windows 10 then a few more minutes to draw off needed files from Sync. Everything important is mirrored at Sync. Anything else, I don't really care about.
 
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Having seen more hard disk crashes and failures than I care to remember, the most recent being Nov 2015, I take data backup very, very seriously. I have purchased licenses for several backup programs in the past including Storagecraft's Shadowprotect (expensive), Acronis TrueImage (unreliable restores which for a backup program automatically labels it as not-fit-for-purpose) & EaseUS Todo Backup (slimeball company). Also tried AOMEI Backupper, close but no cigar.

So here are the programs I depend on:

Main backup program - Macrium Reflect Home. A full image weekly and 4 incrementals a day. This is "IT" for me. No other backup program has this level of reliability, moderate cost and ease of use.

For syncing to local drives and NAS - Pipemetric's Bvckup 2 and Siber Systems's Goodsync Pro

Cloud Backup - As a former Crashplan & iDrive user, I use Duplicati, an open source software with a lot of promise. But it is a bit buggy. Also considering Syncbackpro or Cloudberry Desktop as options.
 
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Vivek J. Mundkur said:
So here are the programs I depend on:

Main backup program - Macrium Reflect Home. A full image weekly and 4 incrementals a day. This is "IT" for me. No other backup program has this level of reliability, moderate cost and ease of use.

For syncing to local drives and NAS - Pipemetric's Bvckup 2 and Siber Systems's Goodsync Pro

Cloud Backup - As a former Crashplan & iDrive user, I use Duplicati, an open source software with a lot of promise. But it is a bit buggy. Also considering Syncbackpro or Cloudberry Desktop as options.
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Same here (not Goodsync though).
Also a former Crashplan and iDrive user, for Cloud I am using Zoolz now. Downside is that it's slow to restore, but it is last resort backup for me so that's not really an issue. I have found their support to be very good.
 
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I have made one copy of the entire system on the external drive of the Windows backup program and that's it.
I do not think it makes sense to do a monthly copy of the system because I do not install unnecessary programs or test programs.
I use the programs I need.:)
 
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Vivek J. Mundkur said:
Main backup program - Macrium Reflect Home. A full image weekly and 4 incrementals a day. This is "IT" for me. No other backup program has this level of reliability, moderate cost and ease of use.

For syncing to local drives and NAS - Pipemetric's Bvckup 2 and Siber Systems's Goodsync Pro

Cloud Backup - As a former Crashplan & iDrive user, I use Duplicati, an open source software with a lot of promise. But it is a bit buggy. Also considering Syncbackpro or Cloudberry Desktop as options.
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Why have two sync software though and why have separate program for cloud backup. Doesn't Goodsync already do that?
 
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Why have two sync software though and why have separate program for cloud backup. Doesn't Goodsync already do that?
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Ok, here's the thing, other than the fact I purchased multiple Goodsync licenses long before I discovered Bvckup, I find the latter faster and better for syncing local folders. Try Bvckup and you'll discover it for yourself. :) Bvckup 2 | Simple fast backup

Goodsync has an advantage - it also syncs to the cloud but it isn't as elegant a solution like Cloudberry or SyncbackPro. So, yeah, Goodsync is good but there are better solutions out there.
 
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Vivek J. Mundkur said:
Ok, here's the thing, other than the fact I purchased multiple Goodsync licenses long before I discovered Bvckup, I find far the latter faster and better for syncing local folders. Try Bvckup and you'll discover it for yourself. :) Bvckup 2 | Simple fast backup

Goodsync has an advantage - it also syncs to the cloud but it isn't as elegant a solution like Cloudberry or SyncbackPro. So, yeah, Goodsync is good but there are better solutions out there.
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Do any of them have the ability to directly sync to an Android phone? Free or Paid feature? I'm sure Goodsync has this.
 
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Do any of them have the ability to directly sync to an Android phone? Free or Paid feature? I'm sure Goodsync has this.
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Hmm...I haven't tried an Android backups with either program but yeah Goodsync does that. There are limitations on the # of files in the trial version.How to Backup Android | GoodSync and GoodSync Free vs. Pro

As for Bvckup, it may work if you connect your device in MTP mode. Again, I've never tried it so YMMV.

PS - there is a Goodsync 10 giveaway on shareware on sale .
 
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I am using Acronis backup.
Every time I am doing a full disk Image. (4 min job)
Usually I am doing 2 backups per month kept for 6 months back
Also doing daily backup of data with FreeFileSync (1 min job)

Currently I am using Acronis 2014, as for some unknown reason, Acronis 2015,2016 and 2017 were doing corruptions to target disk File Table.
(HDD driver compatibility?)
 
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