The local backup drives:
since the ransom hacks I guess the 1-backup-drive solutions, even RAIDed, lost their appeal to you, too?
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Leon wrote he burns old imaging raw data on CD/DVD once a year or so.
I like that.
I can imagine going through old data sets in a few years, using some futuristic new stacking software or someink. And discover black matter or ... you know...
whatever is then the hippest latest subject of discovery.
But: when I went to school we were told this form of physical media has a life expectancy of 10 years.
Anyone know better?
The cloud? For personal files?
Yeah. No problem. I, for myself, can hardly see how, in the future, any idiotic intelligence clerk could interpret anything damaging into my data which puts me in prison.....
Cloud is a good - second - storage location. Especially for users with multiple devices.
Does anyone remember the bad old days of having to synchronize data from a handheld device to a PC or server and vice versa?
Tragic disasters ....
I'd never suggest cloud in a corporate environment, though. Never ever.
And if then only a cloud that resides within the country of the company.
ACRONIS TI 2016 works just fine here.
I do weekly back-ups to an external HDD.
One full & two incrementals, plus always have them validated, just to be sure.
Have used ACRONIS for about 4 years with very few probs.
A lot of people now back up reasonably often but my experience (46 years in IT) tells me that very few actually test the back up just taken. Too many times the attempt to Restore fails for whatever reason, just when you need it.
Always test your latest back up copy. Spare HDD's are relatively cheap and could save a lot of worry.
