Ed Mullen wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 2/25/2015 7:27 PM:
David E. Ross wrote:
I spent about $50 for Acronis True Image Home 2015 last October.
This price included later updates. For one PC or one MAC, that price
still applies. No, I don't know if it can operate under Linux.
With several other good backup applications (software), why would
someone spend four times as much for backup hardware?
A good backup system must have several essential features (top three,
not an exhaustive list):
1) The backup media must be removable or located separately from the
computer. If your house goes up in flames, and your backup was on a
shelf next to the computer, you have no backup. In the case of removable
media, you should have several, and make a habit of removing the newest
one and bringing back the oldest one each day.
2) The backup system must be automated and scheduled. If you have to
think to do it yourself, you'll forget or make excuses, and you'll have
no backup. Murphy's law states that the failure will occur on the day
when you forgot.
3) The backup system must be capable of restoring all or part of your
system from bare metal. If your computer dies or you lose a file and you
can't restore it, you have no backup.
So it's nice that you didn't spend a lot on software, but that doesn't
tell us whether you're safe. Can you pass these three tests?
As I've detailed here before, yes. I have two 1 Tb external USB drives.
All three systems in the house run scheduled backups to the drive
connected to my main PC. I periodically take the drive to the bank and
swap it with the one from the safe deposit box.
Sounds good. Did all that hardware ;-) come included with the $50
software price tag? Remember, you were replying to a comment that
"people [do] not like spending 200 dollar[s] [on] [backup] hardware."
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