Hard Drive Backup/Mirror

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Hard Drive Backup/Mirror

by baker-w Jun 11, 2015 11:20AM PDT

Sorry if this has been asked & answered a billion times but I didn't see anything in a (cursory) search of the forums.
After a massive hardware failure on a fairly new Dell system, I need to be better about backing up my personal files. There is the option of mirroring the files to an external hard drive or to a cloud service. Pros/cons of one versus the other?
Also, can you help me with specific recommendations on the mirror software or cloud service provider? Not sure who is better or even what to look for.
For the record, I'm running Windows 8.1 on a Dell T1700. Thanks!

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r. proffitt · Answer 1 · Jun 11, 2015 10:01PM PDT

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It's both.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 11, 2015 10:01PM PDT

You must backup to more than one place. Or you fall out of the backup state. For my backup I just sync with a few HDDs, my HDD on my router and carry those things I can never lose on a few memory sticks.
Bob

VAPCMD · Answer 2 · Jun 13, 2015 4:37PM PDT

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My way ...add another internal HDD so you can do

by VAPCMD Jun 13, 2015 4:37PM PDT

quick images of your system drive to a backup drive. You can create multiple backup images on the same backup drive.

Then maybe back backup drive up to another internal or an external. I use internals to avoid any issues associated with booting from an external drive and they're fast.

Makes recovery or restoration from a drive failure pretty simple and straightforward. Otherwise it's just this side of heck for me anyway.. I use Windows7 64bit and ACRONIS for the imaging.

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