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Photo transfer
Hi guys I have to back up,my photos as they are only on a 5 year old laptop drive . theres about 200 gb although I need to run a duplicate scanner. I am am a bit of layman so words of one ...
hi Stephen thanks for your reply .
i am considering my back up options at the minute and acronis looks interesting. a permanant automatic or one button press back up would be ideal. otherwise i will be in this situatuation again in a few months.
my back up is in a mess to be honest. i currently have dropbox 1tb, picasso , icloud , etc.
Your redundency situation of 3 copies sounds good , do you think laptop plus nas which is raid 2bay so two copies and a cloud upload is sufficient ?
one thing i would ask is i have two office pc's in my office which is a few hundred miles away.
could acronis back these upto my NAS over the broadband or does it only work on lan.
thanks for your help.
john
Clarko wrote:
Your redundency situation of 3 copies sounds good , do you think laptop plus nas which is raid 2bay so two copies and a cloud upload is sufficient ?
Yes, I'd count that as three copies. I don't count RAID redundancy, but I do count the original (laptop+NAS+cloud = 3 copies). I count the NAS as one copy because the NAS itself can fail in ways that compromise the RAID array.
I'm not using the Acronis Cloud, I use Crashplan for disaster recovery. Acronis Cloud Backup pricing does look competitive if all your data is on one PC.
Clarko wrote:i am considering my back up options at the minute and acronis looks interesting. a permanant automatic or one button press back up would be ideal. otherwise i will be in this situatuation again in a few months.
I do image backups (which allow me to completely restore the PC), with a NAS share as the target. These can be scheduled (and I do that on our desktops), but I just run them manually every week on the laptops. The image backups are incremental, but configured to do a full backup every couple of months.
I'm sure there are other good backup solutions out there, but I've used Acronis for several years now, and it has worked out well for me.
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