#Personal backup install#
I need to install a fresh windows every once in a while because I experiment with a lot of different things, and windows would just get bugged down after a while. a second computer is possible, but since it's off-site, I wouldn't know if it goes offline for whatever reason. I'd get that with raid 1, wouldn't I? it's just pure mirror of everythingĮxternal HDD wouldn't be ideal, unless the backup process is completely automated.
It's less than 1TB super important stuff (work project files, documents, photos, etc) and about 4-6TB Work "assets" like raw photos, 8k video files, which are important as well. However, I was able to recover the data using reclaime and R-Studio, but that took days. a few years later, the raid controller died and I couldn't find a replacement because it was not on the market anymore. I had 2 bad experiences with raid10, 1st disaster was after replacing a dead hdd, during recovery we had an overnight blackout in the city and my ups was completely drained and ended up corrupting everything. That way, should something happen, the restore back to the happy place is under 30mins. Nb:- As good practice IMO, whenever i setup a computer of my own or for a family member, i do the install and configure and install applications the once all done i do a CloneZilla on the OS hard drive.
#Personal backup Pc#
Only if you get a virii which reeks havoc in your pc would i suggest reinstalling. You shouldn't be needing to reinstall windows every 6months. Invest into a cheap second hand ATX computer specifically for backing up. Invest into an external HDD for destination 2. You could have a backup folder on two different HDDs (destination 1 + 2) which is some sort of redundancy. How much data are you planning on backing up ? I would suggest having at least 2 different types of destinations for your backups in case anything were to happen. But i have irreplaceable family photos etc. Depending on how much you value your data, depends on the commitment your willing to take.įor example, i run raid10, with nightly backups to a headless server which then pushes to a cloud. Raid is not a backup solution, as you've probably read on multiple occasions. I'm not very familiar with the possibilities that exists, maybe i'm twisting it more than it should be, maybe there's a much simpler way to go about this, so I understand if I'm looking at this all wrong. But if the RAID and Kopia are enough, then I would keep my dispensable data on the 4th HDD. then I'd have the 4th HDD free, which I would like to utilize as an additional safety layer. and use Kopia to make backups of the RAID on a third HDD. So I'm thinking of using 2 of my HDDs as RAID 1. I also do a fresh Windows install every 6 months or so. I'd like it to be automatic, so files are up to date. So I'm looking for a Free/affordable solution, that is fairly easy to set up on windows.
#Personal backup software#
and other software like Syncthing, AOMEI and FreeFileSync. I have 4 HDDs (that used to be in my RAID), and I started reading about backup software like Duplicati, Duplicacy, Borg, Restic, and Kopia. Firstly, I don't have the luxury of having an off-site backup, nor cloud or a secondary PC. I've decided to have another layer of safety. After having a nightmare with RAID recovery on 2 occasions.