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this is very attractive to me. I will try it.
diligent hands rule....
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...waiting for Griff to answer this one. Can anybody guess? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Seriously? How much data can you get into a sheep? One mega-baa-yte. 
Sorry - it sounded funny in my head.
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Oh oh oh... you need to go to confession... so bad
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Before Griff gets his bit about AOMEI in, I am going to shout: "I use Macrium's Reflect!"
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Backup are for Girls 
No, to be honest: I misuse Subversion as backup Software for all of my data I really are interesting in. And OS is not a realy important part of it
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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where is your repo?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Whatever came with the tape drive.
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Acronis True Image for the workstations, Windows server backup for the Servers. We have been scoffed at for using Windows Server Backup but I don't honestly know why. It's just plain bitchin. Does bare metal restore of everything - even exchange and file by file if you just need one back. Same as Acronis. What's more, Acronis can and will restore a Windows Server Backup VXD to dissimilar hardware, where Windows Server Backup does not.
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Ah yes, "bare metal" is what I need. I've used ATI in the past, went to disk imaging as it was much, much faster. Of course, it helped that I could pop out the hard drive on my Dell Precision in 20 seconds.
Thx Ron
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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OneDrive seems pretty good.
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For bare metal or just dev areas? I can copy files with the best of them. Just curious as to your procedure.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Just documents and files - they are hard to replace whilst restoring a drive might take a couple of days but it's pretty straightforward and, unless a disaster strikes, not a frequent operation. Besides, I'm paranoid enough to also backup to a nas box. 
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Paranoia is good .
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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OneDrive chokes when used for code backup. It cannot handle all the intermediate and output files created by build processes. It just stops syncing, never completing its "scanning for changes... " routine. This is with the pro plan (1 TB).
Happened to me twice. Took an act of congress to get sync working again. Now I use git repos outside OneDrive for all my code storage and all is well.
For OS and app backup I use Acronis True Image. Fast, flexible, reliable, but not cheap. Then again, what would you give in an emergency to get your data back?
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I back up code as files only. I use TFS[^] online for real code backup. Has not caused a problem and means I have the code in a number of places.
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OneDrive autosync, 1TB storage with MS Office Sub.
I also then have a second drive which I use as a target for Windows File History.
Periodically, I used to do a backup image to my 10TB Raid 5 NAS, although this is rare (aka never), now that I have moved my PC more than 5000km from my NAS!
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You already know I use AOMEI Backupper, and love it! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have all my data and code backed up in the cloud using Carbonite. What's neat is it works in the background and automatically backs up every time a data/code file is changed. It only costs $60/year.
A few years ago, my computer suddenly died while I was working on a project. No problem. Bought a new computer, logged onto Carbonite, restored my data, and in less than a day, I was back where I left off.
Carbonite is worth its bits in gold. 
Peter Ringering
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I don't see how Carbonite can handle (a) system images and (b) massive amounts of data for $60/year?
(b) oh wait - *unlimited* storage for a system, okay, that changed the last time I looked at them. That would only be 18 hours for the initial capture, much less for incremental backups. I'll have to look into that. One issue I have is making sure I am disaster proof - fire, theft, tornado.
(a) how did it handle the system disk restore? A major pain point for me is restoring all of the installed software.
cg
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'm an individual developer with just 1 PC. All my data is in MS Access and SQL Server CE databases. I don't have massive amounts of data but what I do have I couldn't live without.
What I like about Carbonite is that it automatically backs up my data when my computer is idle. It doesn't hog system resources. It also only backs up data--not videos and program files unless I specifically ask it to. Since my Visual Studio code files are small in comparison, Carbonite backs them up automatically too.
Carbonite has saved me many times in the past several years.
Peter Ringering
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I used Carbonite for a couple of years, but on two occasions when I needed to restore relatively small amounts of data, the restore went unbelievably slowly - to the extent that I could not imagine trying to recover from a real disaster that way. I now use Acronis (which seems to be much more reliable and stable than it was up to a couple of years ago) for local backup, mainly of system files, to a NAS device, and CrashPlan Pro for continuous backup of documents and data. I have been very impressed with the latter program - occasional problems have been dealt with promptly by support people who know their product and care about their users.
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I use the R, because the D makes it go forward, and the P doesn't work on my machine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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too early in the morning for this. btw, "R" is for rocket mode.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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