For those who make backups of their PC

getmore4less

Johnmcl7 wrote: »

For backing up I have one internal drive for daily backups then I have a separate USB drive I backup monthly to (or more often if I've saved more files to the PC) that I keep separate so if something happens to the PC and I lose the original and backup drives, I've got an entirely separate backup.

My sync software scans the backed up files each time to look for differences so if my backup did get corrupted or had wrong, that would show and it would recopy the files over to replace the damaged ones.

John

how does it tell which is the corrupted one?


Sync != backup

Johnmcl7

getmore4less wrote: »

how does it tell which is the corrupted one?


Sync != backup

I'm well aware of the difference which is why I referred to the backups correctly as backups not synchronisations. The software is labelled as sync software, hence I referred to it as such because as with many others of its type its capable of both one and two way transfers.

My sync software scans the backed up files each time to look for differences so if my backup did get corrupted or had wrong, that would show and it would recopy the files over to replace the damaged ones.

John