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Best windows cloud backup service with *FULL SYSTEM* backup?

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slackerinabox

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I'm more of a mac guy at home and have been using Google Drive's 1 tb of storage well on my mac desktops and laptops. I just got a dell 2-in-one (windows 8) and like it quite a bit, but it's atom processor means I don't want to have an AV running at all times.

What's a good, seamless (no user interaction required, no saving to a particular directory) for a full system backup? Meaning if I do get a virus I should be able to restore windows, then load up all of my programs (as they're installed) as well as whatever documents I have as well.
 
I'm kinda interested in this too. I've gone without a backup solution since I guess forever and have only had one or two HDDs fail without much hassle, but this definitely ain't a good idea.
 
I use crashplan as well, but its not a full System backup. I never could find anything that did the full sytem backup as well as windows home server.
 
swanysto said:
Wouldn't it be easier to create restore points on an external drive?
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Well, I'm a mac household with mac formatted hard drives. I suppose I could get a $120 external, but I've had externals fail on me, and $10 a month is a fine price to pay for set it and forget it ease of use, if a service like that exists.

This is mostly a writing/home finance netbook so not much heavy lifting - I'm not dealing with mission critical media (for that my mac server backsup to google drive with local hardware redundancy).

I just hate how everytime I have to set a windows box back to fresh (system gets or virus, or just feels sluggish) I end up spending the better part of an evening updating service packs, finding and installing esoteric drivers, and hunting down and installing programs. Ok, I"m not very organized but my mac and the appstore lifestyle is used to just restoring, logging in, and hitting download all (and clean installs are rarely necessary). Maybe I'm lazy, but remembering to hook up to a device and making sure my toddler doesn't turn that into nunchucks (she has, and climbs)... i'd rather not.
 
I backup all my systems using windows built in "File Versions" backup to my NAS (including the occasional full image backup). I backup my *nix systems to my NAS using rsync. I backup my NAS using Crashplan.

Yo dawg, I heard you like backups, so I backed up your backups....
 
ethebubbeth said:
I backup all my systems using windows built in "File Versions" backup to my NAS (including the occasional full image backup). I backup my *nix systems to my NAS using rsync. I backup my NAS using Crashplan.

Yo dawg, I heard you like backups, so I backed up your backups....
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I know that's the best thing to do, but I don't currently have a nas and spending so much scratch to protect a free laptop (promo offer) seems counter-intuitive. But, yes, "how much is your data worth" does apply.
 
Setup Windows Server 2k12 Essentials R2 (or whatever the hell it is now) remotely, do an initial onsite backup to it, then have a VPN hookup so it will backup nightly to it.

Used to do this with my WHS v1. Worked well. Unfortunately W8 and WHS v1 don't play nicely.

Or just do an external drive. And just enable Windows Defender, FFS.
 
notposting said:
Setup Windows Server 2k12 Essentials R2 (or whatever the hell it is now) remotely, do an initial onsite backup to it, then have a VPN hookup so it will backup nightly to it.

Used to do this with my WHS v1. Worked well. Unfortunately W8 and WHS v1 don't play nicely.

Or just do an external drive. And just enable Windows Defender, FFS.
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Hmm, still feels too complicated for a few megabytes of word docs, a few pdfs, and pictures. I'm reading up on crashplan. I also used moxy back in the day. their 20gbs/month free plan might work just fine.
 
Gunbuster said:
Man, bare metal restore over the wire might take you a while...
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Bonus to offsite but still in your in local (read: at a family members house) area.

Depending on download speed/cap, might not be too bad.

Relatively cheap but nicely redundant: two drives, cheap little cases for them (plastic shells), external dock. Simply rotate them and one stays offsite.

Month 1: backup to both, take disk 1 offsite.
Month 2: backup to disk 2, take it offsite, return disk 1, and backup to it.
Month 3: backup to disk 1, take it offsite, return disk 1, and backup to it.
Repeat...
Profit?
 
My method is local backup (image level) using Windows 7 backup to an external/internal drive. Then all user data backed up via Crashplan. I actually had a client recently who had a drive fail and we restored from the external drive to 2 week prior (system image) and then any missing files from online cloud backup. Whole process took maybe an hour.
 
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