Home backup software

[RDBx]

Need to back up the home computer, files, data, system disk image for recovery etc. Have used Win 7 integral backup function previously but this time round it just fails to complete the process no matter what settings I use and without giving me any meaningful explanation as to why.

Can anyone recommend a free or relatively inexpensive alternative to use, I'm not interested in putting it into the Cloud at this stage.

Cheers.

[selwonk]

I use this:

https://www.macrium.com/products/home
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

We run the full version in the office and it has been extremely reliable.

Edited by selwonk on Tuesday 19th September 20:36

[SystemParanoia]

rsync

[TonyRPH]

I've used the Microsoft Sync toy for this in the past.

[Untalented82]

I currently use Veeam, not the free one as I got a copy from work but there is absolutely nothing wrong with the free one for you sort of use.


https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-back...

[RDBx]

SystemParanoia said:

rsync

Thanks, but think that goes far beyond my IT capability. I just need something that with a few mouse clicks will take care of things.

[RDBx]

selwonk said:

I use this:

https://www.macrium.com/products/home
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

We run the full version in the office and it has been extremely reliable.

Edited by selwonk on Tuesday 19th September 20:36

Cheers, will have a look.

[Derek Smith]

RDBx said:

selwonk said:

I use this:

https://www.macrium.com/products/home
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

We run the full version in the office and it has been extremely reliable.

Edited by selwonk on Tuesday 19th September 20:36

Cheers, will have a look.

I'll second that.

I had a HDD collapse this week (thread on here) and it caused no significant problems because of the back-up. Apart fro the cost of the new HDD.

[Who me ?]

I've got a simple back up solution. Two hard drives. One is the one in use, the other only is put in PC ,at backup time. The in use one has a larger HDD, approx 1000 GB, with four partitions- XP/W7 /W10 & STORE. The out of use HDD has XP ( I've got two keys) W10 and backup data. This was a cheap drive as it's only 320GB .I regularly backup after a full system virus /malware scan .The backup then sits on a shelf, so if Ransonman comes calling/I get a virus past MacAfee / HDD packs up, I've got all my data to the last backup. I've done this for years as I've found earlier HDD started to fail. But instead of using the geriatric HDD,and put that one a shelf, I've put backup on a good HDD .

[Derek Smith]

I do a lot of photography and video. This eats memory.

I have 1 x 2TB and 2 x 3TB HDDs in my computer and 2 x 3TB external HDDs that I use solely for backup. I also have 1 x 1TB HDD and 1 x 750 GB HDD for OS drive cloning. I use Google drive for rugby videos, that's paid for by my club.

I use Macrium to back up files once a month. I reclone my OS drive every 6 months, leaving one HDD with the original clean Win10 installation.

Every year I clone the clean install HDD and use that in my computer.

On my recent failure of a HDD I noticed that my first use of it was in 2011. In 2015 I used it as my standby cloned OS HDD and in error popped it in my computer last December, so brought the failure on myself I suppose.

So 12TB+ for me and I'm running out of space.