What would be the simplest and easiest way of setting up some simple backup of my parents documents incase their HDD fails or their PC goes pop?
I'm thinking either a mirrored RAID setup, or just a simple second HDD and some scheduled nightly backups using SyncToy or similar. I've never really bothered with RAID. If a HDD fails in a mirrored RAID setup, would my non computer savvy parents be able to just carry on regardless, or would they need to go into the BIOS and fiddle with RAID settings (which they won't do, and I'm not going to want to try to talk them through over the phone).
Using SyncToy to a USB HDD means that if the system drive fails they can just plug it into a laptop and carry on working until I visit next and reinstall Windows, etc.
Any other suggestions? What are online storage providers like? What do other people do? It was fine when I was living at home as we just used my WHS, but having just spent an hour talking my mum through removing a HDD and connecting it up with an IDE/USB cable, I'd rather not have to do that again
I'm thinking either a mirrored RAID setup, or just a simple second HDD and some scheduled nightly backups using SyncToy or similar. I've never really bothered with RAID. If a HDD fails in a mirrored RAID setup, would my non computer savvy parents be able to just carry on regardless, or would they need to go into the BIOS and fiddle with RAID settings (which they won't do, and I'm not going to want to try to talk them through over the phone).
Using SyncToy to a USB HDD means that if the system drive fails they can just plug it into a laptop and carry on working until I visit next and reinstall Windows, etc.
Any other suggestions? What are online storage providers like? What do other people do? It was fine when I was living at home as we just used my WHS, but having just spent an hour talking my mum through removing a HDD and connecting it up with an IDE/USB cable, I'd rather not have to do that again
