Windows 10: It's Backup Season Again

That tells me there's a lot going on with your PC.
My last backup on my 2 PCs (Win 7 and 8.1) a couple of days ago both took less than 10 minutes. My last "clean restore" was 2 years ago. That's not a clean install but rather a restoration from factory settings image. Always good to have an image of the original clean installation as a backup image, too.
I do have several giveaway programs too but I don't mind losing them if I have to. Those programs don't come with updates so that may screw up some things also. And those giveaways always come back anyway. An x month old backup is way better than no backup at all. That will already save one whole day of complete re-installation. *Smile

Are your data files on separate drive? or with the same drive as the OS? That may be the reason why your backup takes 3x longer to complete than mine.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how or how often we do it. As long as we all do it.

Backup, backup, backup! It's all but common sense. *Smile

Cheers!

 

Wow, the way you secure your data makes me wanna steal your data... hahaha... just kidding! *Smile

 

I back up with Macrium, after every update. I do not make many changes to the system and the monthly backup is more than enough for me. My backups did save me twice after virus attacks.

 

Did you see I said I make 2 Acronis images, and 1 Paragon image? *Wink

 

Cool. *Smile

 

That first world problem where you can't even use Windows' Storage Spaces feature to set up a redundancy array to hold what's on your three TB hard drive because you don't have enough three TB hard drives... *Sad

All the data I really care about, documents and pictures and soon to be my music library, I have backed up on OneDrive. That totally saved my butt the last time a hard drive died on me, oh my God! ('o') That time sucked because I was right away to start backing up that hard drive, nope, it crashed before I could even do such. Luckily, my vital statistics were on OneDrive so it wasn't a total loss.

I'm toying with the idea of Blu ray disk backups to keep local copies of everything I have in OneDrive. The less volatile and mechanical the backup method is for me, the better.

That reminds me...I need to make a system image of my SSD before Windows 9! *Cool

 

LOL! And that is why I'm anal about my backups. *Wink

 

It's always backup season for me. Macrium Reflect image (x2) for windows, not because if something goes wrong (it did once only) but because it's easier and faster to go back to full working condition and/or change BOOT drive. Programs and data are stored and backed up independently and multiple times as per importance and are incrementally backed up when something important enough is changed/added. Every now and than, I clean up those backups from really obsolete stuff otherwise I would fill up the room with HDDs, DVDs etc. in no time at all. Would not mind couple of these drives though: Largest Hard Drive in the World 12TB

 

12TB?
I will skip that one for sure. I even told myself not to use 4TBs as back up drives. I would rather get 6x2TBs than one 12TB. If that one (the 12TB) dies on you, you are done. It will probably take a week to completely scan it for recovery and another week to recover files to another harddrive. Since I started using a computer 15 years ago, my data is probably less than 5TBs to date (because I kill the old ones and burn photos to DVDs and BDs every year).

 

My thoughts too but it would cut down on number of drives in large data banks.

 

Agreed. This is probably a good backup solution for office setup with multi-users but too much for home use. At least for my own personal use and preference.

 

Also too much for average budget too.