File backup(s)
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All laptops back to a NAS. I never map network drives or save passwords to the NAS so that malware cannot easily trash or encrypt files on the NAS.
Backups are performed by simple batch files that prompt for the password, then use robocopy to synchronize folders.
The NAS backs-up to itself for versioning of files. This allows me to view most edits of all documents going back about 5 years.
That versioned NAS backup is then itself backed up to an external USB drive, and also to OneDrive. A few folders are excluded from the OneDrive backup due to only having 1TB available, e.g. virtual machines.
This external drive not shared on the network. It is also formatted as Fat32 so is easy to read on any laptop if the NAS dies.
Every couple of months I also synchronize everything to an external disk which spends 99% of it's time disconnected for obvious reasons.
Backups are performed by simple batch files that prompt for the password, then use robocopy to synchronize folders.
The NAS backs-up to itself for versioning of files. This allows me to view most edits of all documents going back about 5 years.
That versioned NAS backup is then itself backed up to an external USB drive, and also to OneDrive. A few folders are excluded from the OneDrive backup due to only having 1TB available, e.g. virtual machines.
This external drive not shared on the network. It is also formatted as Fat32 so is easy to read on any laptop if the NAS dies.
Every couple of months I also synchronize everything to an external disk which spends 99% of it's time disconnected for obvious reasons.
Edited by alock on Monday 18th November 13:41
alock said:
All laptops back to a NAS. I never map network drives or save passwords to the NAS so that malware cannot easily trash or encrypt files on the NAS.
Backups are performed by simple batch files that prompt for the password, then use robocopy to synchronize folders.
The NAS backs-up to itself for versioning of files. This allows me to view most edits of all documents going back about 5 years.
That versioned NAS backup is then itself backed up to an external USB drive, and also to OneDrive. A few folders are excluded from the OneDrive backup due to only having 1TB available, e.g. virtual machines.
This external drive not shared on the network. It is also formatted as Fat32 so is easy to read on any laptop if the NAS dies.
Every couple of months I also synchronize everything to an external disk which spends 99% of it's time disconnected for obvious reasons.
That’s a Backups are performed by simple batch files that prompt for the password, then use robocopy to synchronize folders.
The NAS backs-up to itself for versioning of files. This allows me to view most edits of all documents going back about 5 years.
That versioned NAS backup is then itself backed up to an external USB drive, and also to OneDrive. A few folders are excluded from the OneDrive backup due to only having 1TB available, e.g. virtual machines.
This external drive not shared on the network. It is also formatted as Fat32 so is easy to read on any laptop if the NAS dies.
Every couple of months I also synchronize everything to an external disk which spends 99% of it's time disconnected for obvious reasons.
Edited by alock on Monday 18th November 13:41
Terminator X said:
What or who do you use? I'm a bit old school so backup onto a Sandisk drive that I plug in then remove. Conscious that online auto backups are probably better these days.
The file size is about 250Gbs at the moment.
TX.
I’d carry on with the portable drive and also add in a something like onedrive / google drive etc that way you have multiple copies of the data stored on different medium.The file size is about 250Gbs at the moment.
TX.
I'm Cloud-first, mainly because it supports the way I work across Windows, macOS and mobile devices.
OneDrive is my source and version history.
On a daily basis, this is sucked down onto my NAS.
TimeMachine runs out to another NAS which then backs up to the first NAS.
I also have the first NAS backing up certain content to OneDrive under another account.
Main risk is human....!!
OneDrive is my source and version history.
On a daily basis, this is sucked down onto my NAS.
TimeMachine runs out to another NAS which then backs up to the first NAS.
I also have the first NAS backing up certain content to OneDrive under another account.
Main risk is human....!!
All work stuff is on enterprise OneDrive - about 8gig of files and 20 years of emails.
Personal photos etc all on Google Drive and extra copy on FlickR (total cost for both is under £100/year).
Everything else - musics, games, films etc is all via streaming.
I have Synology NAS RAID drive and 2 other networked hard drives form the old days but 'the cloud' is so much easier to deal with/manage. The work stuff in particular is so simple as it all enterprise managed.
Personal photos etc all on Google Drive and extra copy on FlickR (total cost for both is under £100/year).
Everything else - musics, games, films etc is all via streaming.
I have Synology NAS RAID drive and 2 other networked hard drives form the old days but 'the cloud' is so much easier to deal with/manage. The work stuff in particular is so simple as it all enterprise managed.
Edited by gangzoom on Tuesday 19th November 21:08
- File History (Windows) and Time Machine (Mac) to a locally-connected SSD array so I can step back in time (you may not consider that a backup)
- Daily alternating backups to two on-prem Synology NAS units in different locations via LAN
- Daily backups of active document directories to cloud using Acronis
- Weekly system backups to locally-connected huge HDD using Acronis
- Weekly system backups of all documents to cloud using Acronis
- Monthly (at least) manual copies of of all documents to alternating plug-in Thunderbolt/USB-C SSD drives, one kept off site
Two Synology servers. One for project work, one for admin.
They used to have important folders backed up every night to externals, but they are now too small so I need to replace.
Over 20yrs of digi photos are my prized files so I try to take care of those first and foremost. Really like the synology’s - very simple to access and use and gives me peace of mind.
They used to have important folders backed up every night to externals, but they are now too small so I need to replace.
Over 20yrs of digi photos are my prized files so I try to take care of those first and foremost. Really like the synology’s - very simple to access and use and gives me peace of mind.
I'm old-school too, so everything is in triplicate. I have a couple of hard disks that I plug just when required, one of which lives away from the house, and my Google drive.
Cloud backup is fine in the big city where you have an eight billion squigabyte connection, but out here in the sticks we still use carrier pigeons - it took over 3 weeks running 24/7 to upload all my photographs to the Google drive
Cloud backup is fine in the big city where you have an eight billion squigabyte connection, but out here in the sticks we still use carrier pigeons - it took over 3 weeks running 24/7 to upload all my photographs to the Google drive
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