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Laptop back up
Sir_Stanley_Hubris
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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)
I'm looking at Acronis but open to suggestions. Thanks (PS can't post link as I'm a new user)
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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...Sir_Stanley_Hubris wrote: »I have an external hard drive containing a back up of my laptop0 -
OK, I use Macrium Reflect.Sir_Stanley_Hubris wrote: »I'm looking at Acronis but open to suggestions.
There's a free edition for home use: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree0 -
how do you create an image of the laptop in win10?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...0 -
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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.0
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