How do you manage your backups?

[nageov3t]

Just looking for some ideas... I'm trying to simplify and streamline my backups.

Currently, I backup my desktop to my NAS using Acronis 2012 (all files excluding my Steam directory), and I backup my NAS offsite using Crashplan. unfortunately, though, Crashplan's implementation on Synology NAS arrays is unsupported natively and pretty clunky. pretty much any time Java is updated, it breaks for a couple weeks.

what I'm thinking of doing instead of that is dropping Crashplan ($60/year) for Acronis 2016 Cloud ($90/year) which is capable of natively backing up a NAS array straight out of the box, to run daily backups of my PC to my NAS and then monthly backups of my NAS to the cloud.

trying to decide if it would be worth the manual effort of doing a cold backup maybe quarterly, on a USB drive that I'd keep disconnected from my PC, just so that I would quickly restore my base desktop in the event that I got hit with ransomware that managed to encrypt not only my files, but also all of my backups.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Sounds like a good plan to me although I am unfamiliar with Acronis cloud.

Definitely would do a semi regular cold backup just in case there's some ransomware or other destructive malware.

 

[Phynaz]

Why not run Crashplan on your PC to backup your NAS?

 

[ViviTheMage]

I have a 12TB NAS for files. I use crashplan (to my own server) to back up my more critical 1TB or so of data that fluctuates, and owncloud for my very often edit'd and need on my phone stuff which is a couple hundred MB.

I then do monthlyish full backups to a 12TB raid 0 strip offline in a fire safe, just incase I had to do a nasty restore of the 12TB NAS.

So I have 1 scratch 12TB, which backs up to two automatic backups with historicals. I then have an onsite cold back up I do monthlyish.

I lost my raid once, lucky I was able to rebuild it with a new drive, and a new raid card, never again! Invest in backups. Backup early, and often

I used to use services like backblaze and sugarsync, but I opted to not have my stuff on someone elses cloud. I already maintain my own stuff, so figured I should use it. If I didn't have my own data center and hosting, i'd probably go with backblaze + cheap VPS for owncloud + cold storage local.

 

[nageov3t]

Why not run Crashplan on your PC to backup your NAS?

Crashplan doesn't detect network storage as a backup source option on a PC.

they claim it's a Windows file system limitation, but it seems to work fine in Acronis, so... ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[ViviTheMage]

Crashplan doesn't detect network storage as a backup source option on a PC.

they claim it's a Windows file system limitation, but it seems to work fine in Acronis, so... ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

soooooo limitation in the software

 

[Phynaz]

Crashplan doesn't detect network storage as a backup source option on a PC.

they claim it's a Windows file system limitation, but it seems to work fine in Acronis, so... ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Backing_Up_A_Windows_Network_Drive

 

[JimmiG]

I'm using a pretty simple system that has worked fine so far, using EaseUS Backup and Crashplan.

Incremental backups 3 timer per week to an internal Seagate Archive 8 TB, with a full backup every 30 days. This includes pretty much *everything*, including a full disk image of C: so I can recover the entire OS installation if I need to.

Same scheme (but on different days) for an external 2 TB drive, but only the most important data

Cloud backup to Crashplan which runs continuously in the background

Since I only have one main PC, there's no need for NAS. I don't use RAID, either. Twice the protection, double the risk of failure...

 

[shimpster]

i sync mine with any of my 43 gmail accountz, which links to a google drive account

 

[Bardock]

Ghost 8, freedos, usb. Boot the device to freedos, run ghost on the device with the backup drive plugged in. I like ghost because you can easily mount the images and explore. then upload to ftp