auto image hard drive weekly to NAS or cloud?

[luv2liv]

i've been making images, store them on a NAS, copying to cloud manually. if a restore is needed, i manually copy the image file onto a USB drive for recovery.
is there an automatic solution whereby i dont have to do anything? ideally, the solution will:
1- image all the drives in the Windows machine, nightly,weekly, or biweekly
2- dump the image onto a NAS or cloud service like BlackBlaze
3- recover an image through network? so i dont have to connect usb drive manually

thanks!

 

[tecci]

You should try free AOMEI Backupper, which supports to backup data (system, file, disk, partition) to NAS and clouds including hubiC, Sugar, One Drive, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Cloudme. Also, it allows to schedule backup tasks for automatically running at a time of day/week/month. Restore is another feature of it as well as clone.

 

[luv2liv]

never heard of this 1. will try it asap! thank you

 

[JimmiG]

There are plenty of solutions, both free and paid. Most backup programs also support incremental or differential backups, which helps keep down backup times and the amount of data to backup/store.

I use EaseUS Todo Backup, which creates a backup of my local SSD's to a locally attached HDD every other day, and also dumps a copy to the NAS via FTP. The NAS then backs up to the cloud automatically. Most major NAS manufacturers support several services like Amazon S3/Glacier, Crashplan, Google Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox etc., so there's no need to do this step manually. Log in and have a look around the web GUI and App store of your NAS.

For recovery, I'm pretty sure the EaseUS recovery disk contains network drivers. Either way, recovery is (hopefully) done so rarely, that plugging in a USB drive shouldn't be a problem.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I'm at something of a crossroads. The entire household of MOSTLY Win 7 systems* is auto-backed up nightly to a WHS-2011 server. I'm looking to replace the server in an orderly fashion, already have the essential hardware put together and tested with a Win 7 OS before installing 2012 R2 Essentials. But the existing [WHS but essentially 2008 R2] server may use hardware that is 8 year-old technology, yet that hardware has only 3 years of mileage on it.

So I've encountered some anomalies with the server on my Skylake (sig) system, and dual-boot complicates it. So far, I've been relieved to find that Macrium Reflect (free) will image a single drive containing both OSes and restore it without a hitch. But it needs the insurance that a regular backup can provide, and I'm not going to attempt making it work properly with the WHS box. So it has to be a LOCAL solution.

The Skylake, for being dual-boot, has been a mindful attempt to reduce the number of drives running 24/7. If the sig doesn't say so, the Macrium helped me put my dual-boot OS on a 960 Pro NVMe PCIEx4. I'm planning shortly to replace one HDD with a 1TB SATA SSD -- my Egg cookies and e-mails show Egg attention to my window-shopping.

So about that local backup. It should be incremental in addition to differential, so looking at Macrium, I'll need to purchase the software. I can't be sure I can trust Windows native backup to work in event of restoring dual-boot, even if it's run within Win 10. Macrium, however, is a known quantity with me at this point.

Pretty slick software, too. No criticism whatever for anyone using EaseUS ToDo or Acronis. But EaseUS tech support has been reticent about dual-boot systems, and Acronis tech support offered no assurances either.

UPDATE: Maybe I put it in another thread just hours ago. I have discovered that I can image my entire system with Macrium to a network drive -- which mean my server. So I can take local backups and manage or schedule a backup locally with a folder on my server as target. That's schweet. It's Schweet if you can't trust the WHS server to restore client backups even if they appear to be "successful" in creation.

 

[MikhailCompo]

i've been making images, store them on a NAS, copying to cloud manually. if a restore is needed, i manually copy the image file onto a USB drive for recovery.
is there an automatic solution whereby i dont have to do anything? ideally, the solution will:
1- image all the drives in the Windows machine, nightly,weekly, or biweekly
2- dump the image onto a NAS or cloud service like BlackBlaze
3- recover an image through network? so i dont have to connect usb drive manually

thanks!

Can I ask why you need to backup your full machine so frequently?

 

[luv2liv]

my brother will open an office. would sucks if he got ransomware somehow. so i better backup and revert as needed.
myself, i dont really need. i only do maybe once a month.

 

[Carson Dyle]

my brother will open an office. would sucks if he got ransomware somehow. so i better backup and revert as needed.
myself, i dont really need. i only do maybe once a month.

Once a month??? You must be kidding. I hope you're kidding.