ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade Voice - Data - Video Discussion Make sure your computer is backed up

I have a stack of backup drives on the shelf with lots of copies of my legacy stuff (data, pictures music video etc) that is static and I keep that on different drives than my system drive (C:). Even on my laptops with only one physical drive I have 2 partitions, one for the system(C:) and D: for my data. You can use a simply "copy" for data but you pretty much need a drive image to rebuild the partition with the installed software, registry etc so I keep that as small as possible to reduce that image size. Also make sure your products use a library or documents folder on your D:.

I actually have six partitions on this machine spread out over 4 physical drives (one SSD for the system partition and a work space partition, 2 are mirrored for backup and a data drive with 3 partitions)

There is a great program called (Latshaw) file synchronizer that keeps your data partition backups current. It just compares your backup drive to your active drive and the program synchronizes them only updating the things that changed.

Greg,

You're well past my level of Computer Literacy,

I use a program called duplicati to back up all of my important stuff to a service called backblaze. Costs me less than $15 a month for the storage space and is fully automated. It's also all on a raid5 array in case of drive failure - if the array fails I can restore from backup but as long as only one drive fails at a time there is no interruption to my access.