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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it:
c: OS, application sw, etc
d: main development SSD, project files
e: virtual machines
The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will:
(1) allow me to image an OS drive
(2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub.
thanks
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 for all but code and movies.
Dropbox for code.
(This due to not having enough space on either for all of it. I prefer OneDrive, so might spring for an Office 360 subscription.)
I periodically xcopy/robocopy stuff to an external drive (which also holds my video collection as MP4s.)
Years ago, I did backups using a program. Upgraded everything and suddenly couldn't read my backups, so I reverted to xcopy/robocopy. For long term compressible stuff, I 7-Zip it.
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I'm going to ignore the others. It's Friday, and they are clearly drinking. Somehow I have to image my OS drive. The other stuff I can handle, but I shudder at the agony of rebuilding the OS drive....
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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charlieg wrote: but I shudder at the agony of rebuilding the OS drive....
Yeah, but by the time it truly dies, your backup may already be polluted.
BTW, I've briefly used a bundled version of Acronis, and it worked okay, but didn't see the point for my home system. Haven't used any others in years.
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clonezilla. Ugly interface, but it works.
"Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
Al Capp
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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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