Hi guys, here's the situation: I have 2 computers, a win7 home premium laptop and a newly built win7 pro gaming htpc, the htpc only has an ssd but will get a large HDD in it.
I've never had a good backup system, honestly over the last 10 years I've been pretty lucky and only had small data loss issues, it's only a matter of time! What I want to achieve is the following: I want to seamlessly backup files from my laptop to the htpc via home wifi, then I want to use a service like backblaze to do offsite backups.
What's a good way to set this up so I don't have actively think about it? I also have a poor file storage system heirarchy and have scattered files everywhere (my documents, desktop, I've been known to use the download dir as active file editing...), any suggestions to improving that and how to sort files in a logical way?
For the HDD, I was debating between WD Red/Green 3tb (same price atm). I have a small case (fractal core 1000) and tossed the idea of raid1 around, but I think with automatic offsite backup I can get away with single drive and restore the files on a new drive if it were to fail.
I haven't used backblaze yet, but I assume it has ways of skipping my recordings, rips, and game dirs since those aren't really offsite backup worthy.
I've never had a good backup system, honestly over the last 10 years I've been pretty lucky and only had small data loss issues, it's only a matter of time! What I want to achieve is the following: I want to seamlessly backup files from my laptop to the htpc via home wifi, then I want to use a service like backblaze to do offsite backups.
What's a good way to set this up so I don't have actively think about it? I also have a poor file storage system heirarchy and have scattered files everywhere (my documents, desktop, I've been known to use the download dir as active file editing...), any suggestions to improving that and how to sort files in a logical way?
For the HDD, I was debating between WD Red/Green 3tb (same price atm). I have a small case (fractal core 1000) and tossed the idea of raid1 around, but I think with automatic offsite backup I can get away with single drive and restore the files on a new drive if it were to fail.
I haven't used backblaze yet, but I assume it has ways of skipping my recordings, rips, and game dirs since those aren't really offsite backup worthy.
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