Backup solution for small business

[Mark M]

I have recently moved into an office so really need to sort out my backup solution out which I have been meaning to do for months! There is only me and my laptop at the moment so hopefully should be pretty straight forward but I have made the move to a paperless office so everything is stored on my laptop so the data is absolutely vital! Im an accountant so data protection is also an issue.

I currently have 1.5GB of data made up of word excel and pdf files as well as my practice management and tax software which run off their own database. All the data is under one folder on the C: drive but I would also like to ensure that should my laptop break or be stolen etc that I can get everything up and running as quickly as possible. My emails are set up to run via IMAP so not an issue (unless tsohost have a problem of course!) but is there anything else I should be looking to backup too?

I currently run a manual sync to a usb HDD using freefilesync but this would also sync any errors or corruptions etc. Ive looked at online backups but the recovery of the data seems to be the main issue here and the time to download 1.5GB+ probably means that its a non starter really.

I always take my laptop home with me which means that the original data and the backup are in 2 different places.

Any help appreciated thanks.

 

[LizardKing]

1.5gb is pretty minimal tbh, if you want extra security, create a 2nd partition and enable Previous Versions and keep your data in there use dropbox/skydrive to sync online, should anything happen you can still browse your folders via dropbox's/skydrives web interface while its re-syncing.

 

[Mr_Orange]

We have a server based fileshare/backup with RDX drives but that sounds like it would be complete overkill for you.

The only other thing I could think of is to chuck everything on NAS box and if you use windows 7, sync it as an offline folder on your laptop.