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rmurgz
Jan 04, 2015Tutor
Backup assistance
I am a photographer with currently 5.5TB of data stored across 4x2 TB drives on a READYNAS 314 which is accessed via both PCs and Macs. It is imperative that I keep multiple off-site back-ups howe...
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Jan 06, 2015Stephen Thanks for sharing the ideas for your backup scheme. I have a 3 pronged approach as well. I am a bit more of a cheapskate and invest in hardware over cloud options.
1.) First any PC I own is setup to do an mirror robocopy on a schedule based on windows task scheduler. Not perfect but there is a backup folder on the ReadyNas that all machines are mapped with.
2.) Second I backup the ReadyNas to separate Network PC that has an additional RAID 6 setup.
3.) I have a (2)USB 3.0 WD hard drives. They get swapped weekly with my bank safety deposit box at my bank when I take my paycheck in. (yea I'm old school :D )
Does anyone else have ideas for simplifying backups from multiple PC's --> ReadyNas--> Network Machine?
I love hearing more and more about what others are doing!
1.) First any PC I own is setup to do an mirror robocopy on a schedule based on windows task scheduler. Not perfect but there is a backup folder on the ReadyNas that all machines are mapped with.
robocopy C:\Users B:\XPS8700 /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_XPS8700_Backup.Log /ETA /NP
2.) Second I backup the ReadyNas to separate Network PC that has an additional RAID 6 setup.
robocopy B:\ D:\Backups /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_Backup.Log /ETA /NP
robocopy S:\ D:\Documents /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_Documents.Log /ETA /NP
robocopy P:\ D:\Pictures /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_Pictures.Log /ETA /NP
robocopy V:\ D:\Videos /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_Videos.Log /ETA /NP
robocopy M:\ D:\Music /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_Music.Log /ETA /NP
robocopy T:\ D:\IT /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_IT.Log /ETA /NP
robocopy W:\ D:\Work /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_Work.Log /ETA /NP
robocopy H:\ D:\Home /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_Home.Log /ETA /NP
robocopy R:\ D:\ReadyDrop /MIR /R:1 /W:2 /FFT /TEE /Log+:%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_RN104_ReadyDrop.Log /ETA /NP
3.) I have a (2)USB 3.0 WD hard drives. They get swapped weekly with my bank safety deposit box at my bank when I take my paycheck in. (yea I'm old school :D )
Does anyone else have ideas for simplifying backups from multiple PC's --> ReadyNas--> Network Machine?
I love hearing more and more about what others are doing!
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