What backup software do you use?

cats_five said:
The latest Synctoy is a big improvement over the original if backing up to a USB stick - if the stick has a different drive letter to last time it still works correctly.

I use Synctoy, in a variety of ways - to an extra internal HDD, to a NAS, and to a USB stick.
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Happy days.

I don't have a NAS as of yet. Planning on throwing together a PC with existing parts. I only need the motherboard & PSU. Have the rest.

Then was planning on just installing Windows on it and setting up shares/homegroup and accessing files across a Gigabit network.

Would I see any advantage to running something like Windows home server or FreeNas. My only plan is to access files on the hard drives.

P.S. All hard drives isntalled in Main PC at the moment and backing up from one drive to another. Different drive letters of course.
 
Use WHS, also Win 7 backup/Restore facility and Acronis True Image Home (for OS backup), use Second Copy 7 for files/folders...
 
jbloggs said:
Use WHS, also Win 7 backup/Restore facility and Acronis True Image Home (for OS backup), use Second Copy 7 for files/folders...
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I already use the built in Windows 7 feature to image the hard disk. Find it pretty good and efficient. Not so keen on Acronis. A lot of unnecessary options and over complicated menus, when I used it anyway. Windows 7 does the job nicely and doesn't complicate things.

I'll give WHS a try when I get round to building the NAS.
 
mrk said:
If it does what you need then that's fine I guess. FFS is faster with larger file transfers as well and has more power within each sync project.
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might give FFS a try as i transfer backups & folders which are around 50-60gb ... is it possible to set FFS to automatically run? instead of doing everything manually.
 
FreeNAS will run headless, not sure about WHS. Suspect it's lighter on the processor. Try to plan on mirrors as well if you have stuff you fairly seriously don't want to lose - if you are very serious you want off-site backups as well.
 
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