Advice on a backup solution

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Hi,

Just moved back over to a PC after 10 years with a Mac. I'm looking for a replacement for Time Machine to use as a backup solution. I'm already running a RAID 1 array to give resilience on my data drive, and Version history for certain files on C drive, but there are a lot of things version history doesn't cover.

Can anyone advice on a good time machine equivalent for Windows 10?
 
never trust automatic backup use copy and paste...

I speak to so many people who think they have a backup... when infact it stopped 3 years ago, or cannot be restored / does not contain what they think it does
 
How much data are you looking to backup?
Are you intending to do daily backups? and if so how much data change do you anticipate?

If you're only backing up a few files each day, i would look at a cloud solution, as you won't need to remember to connect external storage each time you backup.
If you're looking for full drive backups/drive clones, then either an external hard drive, or something potentially like a NAS.
 
Ideally I want something like TimeMachine which gives an almost constant backup. Cloud would be ideal but my upload speed is shockingly bad so it's not really an option.

Windows backup isn't really an option, I want something more intelligent than that, ideally something with incremental backups and inbuilt de-dupe/compression. The Free version of Veeam may be an option, or maybe something like Crashplan.
 
edscdk said:
never trust automatic backup use copy and paste...

I speak to so many people who think they have a backup... when infact it stopped 3 years ago, or cannot be restored / does not contain what they think it does
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The key to a successful backup strategy is testing restores.

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Sounds like Crashplan might fit your requirements then.
 
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