Backup Software

[patricia459]

I live in a very remote area, naturally there are lots of power cuts and I've become very adapt at resurrecting my computer. Trying to be smart I use an external drive to save all my stuff. I use CloudBacko as my backup program.

Any advice? Or any other clever and EASY ways to deal with backup's?

 

[DCurry]

If you're on a Mac, use Time Machine. Doesn't get any easier than that, and it's free - you just supply the external drive.

 

[mattbeals]

Time Machine works very well. Simple, effective, free.

 

[wonderings]

I love Time Machine as well. Hourly backups, works in the background and you never even know it is backing up, no slow downs at all! Not sure if there is anything as easy as Time Machine for windows.

 

[chevalier]

If you want an automated offsite solution Carbonite is pretty great.

 

[dabob]

CC Cloner works pretty well too . .. different from time machine but in their own area I really like using both of them

 

[cosmo]

best way is to get a NAS with 2+ drives in it running raid miror, QNAP has some good ones, dont trust just one backup drive, they will fail eventually.