Backup Software Ideas

Fluffybob · 11 Oct 2014 at 11:13

Hi all,

I have bought 2 WD Green 3tb drive and was going to raid them but have been told they are not very good on raid so was wondering if you have a suggestion on a free incremental backup software I can use instead.

Cheers,
Fluffybob.

zola25 · 11 Oct 2014 at 11:33

You can alter the timeout of WD Greens which reduces their tendency to drop out of the array. However, RAID shouldn't be considered a backup - it will not protect you from viruses or accidental deletion.

Cobian backup is a good free solution, or even robocopy can be useful.

If using Windows 8 File History gets the job done if set up right.

bledd · 12 Oct 2014 at 17:03

Robocopy /mir source destination

KIA · 12 Oct 2014 at 20:44

bledd. said:
Robocopy /mir source destination

A mirror/sync ain't incremental backup.

Cobian Backup & Macrium Reflect will do incremental backup.

bledd · 13 Oct 2014 at 13:39

No, but it's the same behaviour as a RAID1 setup

Depends how they're being used.

Will they be data only drives? or also used as a boot drive?

Raumarik · 13 Oct 2014 at 18:33

Crashplan client might do this tbh. Don't need a subscription to use it.