Soooo.yes I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, but let's just say I have my own idiosyncratic ways of doing things and I get set in them, but I am trying to make a change and be better about some of this stuff (it's slow going, but at least it's going!).
To that point, I haven't really backed up my stuff, and I have 5 laptops with data on them, and 1 home PC (well two if I count the really old P3 from 2000 that still has stuff I need). Figuring I should really get on this before things get worse (I thought my main PC had died the other day, and the drives are configured in RAID 0 and I realize reconstructing that would've been a major pain, right Tim? ;P) and get this stuff backed up! So what's the easiest way to do this? I guess I could use a cloud service and let it run in the background, but I've got TBs of stuff, and there's that Seattle guy who got shut down by Comcast b/c he exceeded his quota by uploading stuff to the cloud http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/seattle-comcast/, and I don't want to run afoul of Time Warner b/c they're the only fast internet game in my town. Which leaves me with local backup options. I figure I can get like a 2-3TB drive and use my BlackX external USB (tho eSATA would be preferable but most of my laptops don't have it-in fact none do *sigh*) and just backup over USB (at least the newer laptops with more data on them are USB 2.0!) and that's my best option. The only question at this point is what software (if any) I should use? I don't mind paying for something if it's that much better and will make my life easier-ease of use is worth it for me now, so good features are welcome! Or should I just copy C:\ in Explorer over to the new drive and backup each computer separately that way? Thoughts, advice, comments, opinions all welcome guys! BINO
