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DaveC426913
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- I want to stop losing my precious projects. I need a reliable way to backup files for me, and friends & fam
I thought I had a long-term backup of my important stuff when I bought a 1Tb Seagate External Drive. It died and took years of projects and memories with it.
Running Win10 on a laptop.
I think there are three options:
Running Win10 on a laptop.
I think there are three options:
- Another (better) external drive
- Some newfangled solid-state external drive
- Cloud storage
- I want to ensure it covers mine and my wife's files - (and, in an ideal world, daughter-in-law-at-separate-residence). Whether that means one, two or three devices/services.
- I think I'll need to set up an auto-backup service for my wife. I personally didn't need one, but I'm more conscientious about securing my important files. But maybe I'll let a computer do something for me that I can do myself. (Big step there.)
- I don't want to spend a half hour every month watching progress bars push my files around. (I guess that's auto backup during off hours)
- I do have my own webhost and domain, if that makes any diff. There is storage there. I'm just not sure it's a serious, robust consideration (I've had bad experiences with webhosts).