Laptop back up

Sir_Stanley_Hubris

I have an external hard drive containing a back up of my laptop but I'm thinking I need a cloud based back up too for added security - can anyone suggest or recommend one? I'm wanting to back up my files and all my laptops software so in theory if I lost everything I could buy a new laptop, download everything from the cloud and have a new laptop with all my 'old' stuff on it.


I'm looking at Acronis but open to suggestions. Thanks (PS can't post link as I'm a new user)

grumpycrab

Sir_Stanley_Hubris wrote: »

I have an external hard drive containing a back up of my laptop

Lots of suggestions coming up...If that's an image of the laptop (on external drive) I suggest you keep that updated and that's the image you restore from (assuming any new/replacement laptop would be same model!?); assuming Windows10, it's a doddle to reinstall and so I suggest you just backup docs,pics,music,videos to Cloud. Which service you use depends on how much data you have; do properties of C:\Users\your-user-name to get a rough idea (assuming all your stuff is under that folder). e.g. Google provides a default 15GB. Sorry, lots of assumptions...

Chino

Sir_Stanley_Hubris wrote: »

I'm looking at Acronis but open to suggestions.

OK, I use Macrium Reflect.
There's a free edition for home use: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

richj

grumpycrab wrote: »

Lots of suggestions coming up...If that's an image of the laptop (on external drive) I suggest you keep that updated and that's the image you restore from (assuming any new/replacement laptop would be same model!?); assuming Windows10, it's a doddle to reinstall and so I suggest you just backup docs,pics,music,videos to Cloud. Which service you use depends on how much data you have; do properties of C:\Users\your-user-name to get a rough idea (assuming all your stuff is under that folder). e.g. Google provides a default 15GB. Sorry, lots of assumptions...

how do you create an image of the laptop in win10?

grumpycrab

richj wrote: »

how do you create an image of the laptop in win10?

If not joking, any of Macrium, Acronis, or even Windows10 "Go to Backup and Restore(Windows 7)" provide imaging functionality.

Sir_Stanley_Hubris

Many thanks for the suggestions - I'll look into cloud based storage for files, photos, etc and a full image on an external hard drive.