Comments on: How to Create a Simple Backup Solution That You Can Trust

By: jsonmez

jsonmez — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:45:00 +0000

In reply to Christian Oeing. Yep. Great points. There is less and less that we actually need to store on our own systems these days.

By: Christian Oeing

Christian Oeing — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:01:00 +0000

Great tips! nnnJust realized a few days ago when setting up my PC from ground up that there are really very few files that I needed to save, mostly save games of games which are not stored in the Steam (or another gaming platform) cloud.nnnA great way to make sure you don’t need to worry about backup:n- Use Git repositories for your development projects (e.g. GitHub or BitBucket which also supports free private repositories).n- Use Dropbox for documents, images,…n- Use Google Music Library to store your music. It even works with MP3s you bought outside the Play store! Or just use a streaming service.n- Use a online password service to store your sensitive text data. I use Passpack for example.nnnI’ve got a NAS at home, too, but I’m using it only for non-critical recordings of movies.nnnIn the end there was nearly no data I had to backup before resetting my PC which was really nice 🙂

By: Eric Goebelbecker

Eric Goebelbecker — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:17:00 +0000

Assuming you have a Mac: Buy an extra hard drive that is the same size (or larger) as the one in your Mac put it into a cheap USB or Firewire enclosure. Get a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner. Set it up to wake up and clone your hard drive every night. Make you sure you plug in the extra drive at night. You now have one complete onsite backup in the form of a bootable disk.