Essentially, I would like something that can create a full image of my hard drive, and which can run once a week or so. I'm looking to have at least one complete physical back up and one cloud based back up. Please help
Workstation backup question
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- KVRian
- 1414 posts since 1 Jul, 2023
Hi, am looking for a reasonable way to back up my workstation. I use Windows and haven't had any luck using the default system back/recovery image creation stuff. At the moment, I'm just dragging important files to a hard drive which is less than ideal.
Essentially, I would like something that can create a full image of my hard drive, and which can run once a week or so. I'm looking to have at least one complete physical back up and one cloud based back up. Please help
Essentially, I would like something that can create a full image of my hard drive, and which can run once a week or so. I'm looking to have at least one complete physical back up and one cloud based back up. Please help
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- KVRAF
- 7120 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
Two parts regarding backups as I see it
- system disk with os where some files are not available while system is running
- all user data files you created working
For all data files I think the good old xcopy works well
- create a BAT file with some commands
- a command line like xcopy d:\*.* f:\backupd /s /d will copy all new files, and update only files that are changed since last on d-drive to f-drive folder backupd
- I usually end BAT files with command pause, so you see if it went well
- make a shortcut on desktop to this BAT file to execute this only, maybe attach the external backup drive first
In a command prompt run xcopy /? to get all parameters you can use.
- you can make an exception file showing extensions that are not to be copied etc
For system drive and also getting all files held by OS(ghost shadow) there are some options.
- Macrium Reflect I consider really good
- Paragon backup I am to evaluate, have not tried it yet
But you can use backup software for all disks of course if you want.
- system disk with os where some files are not available while system is running
- all user data files you created working
For all data files I think the good old xcopy works well
- create a BAT file with some commands
- a command line like xcopy d:\*.* f:\backupd /s /d will copy all new files, and update only files that are changed since last on d-drive to f-drive folder backupd
- I usually end BAT files with command pause, so you see if it went well
- make a shortcut on desktop to this BAT file to execute this only, maybe attach the external backup drive first
In a command prompt run xcopy /? to get all parameters you can use.
- you can make an exception file showing extensions that are not to be copied etc
For system drive and also getting all files held by OS(ghost shadow) there are some options.
- Macrium Reflect I consider really good
- Paragon backup I am to evaluate, have not tried it yet
But you can use backup software for all disks of course if you want.