What software For Backing Up

[Ritzy]

I tried doing a quick search on here and didn't find anything so I'm asking now.

I just got myself a 1TB external drive that is only for backing up and was wondering what everyone is using as far as software to do their backups? The software that came with the drive won't backup any video that I have taken which I find really strange. I would like something that I can set for say 3am to do a full backup of certain folders. Any suggestions?

 

[480sparky37 37]

Acronis.

 

[table1349]

I just us the OSX soft raid this is part of OSX. Might help to know if you are a Mac or a Windows.

 

[Ritzy]

Should have mentioned that I'm using Windows 8

 

[SCraig]

I tried a bunch of different programs, didn't like the way most of them worked, and settled on Genie Backup.

 

[table1349]

[h=1]ShadowProtect Desktop 5.0[/h]

 

[Overread13 1]

Am I the only person that backs-up stuff manually?

I think for most amateur use and even one person professional setups most of the time you should have a small enough photo load that you could manually back up your work without too much trouble. Might take a little longer, but you know 100% that its done!

 

[Ritzy]

I would normally do it myself but I'm not the only one that is adding stuff that needs to be backed up

 

[480sparky37 37]

Am I the only person that backs-up stuff manually?

I think for most amateur use and even one person professional setups most of the time you should have a small enough photo load that you could manually back up your work without too much trouble. Might take a little longer, but you know 100% that its done!

But was it done 100% correct? :er:

 

[Overread13 1]

Am I the only person that backs-up stuff manually?

I think for most amateur use and even one person professional setups most of the time you should have a small enough photo load that you could manually back up your work without too much trouble. Might take a little longer, but you know 100% that its done!

But was it done 100% correct? :er:

Great now I've got a new phobia! I'll have to hire someone to do it for me now !

 

[shefjr]

When I had my pc I used Microsoft sync.

 

[The_Traveler]

Syncback

 

[AceCo55]

Genie Backup Manager

 

[photograpix]

I use Macrium Reflect http://www.macrium.com/

 

[JClishe]

Am I the only person that backs-up stuff manually?

I hope so

I use a product called Cloudberry to backup to an external disk array at 2am nightly, and then backup to Windows Azure storage at 3 am nightly. It emails me when the job is complete to provide status on whether it succeeded or failed, and the contents of the email contains the amount of data it backed up (number of files and total backup size) so every morning when I get the email I can instantly do a mental gut check to see if the amount of data it backed up seems in line with how much data I added the day before. (I only use this system for photos and I usually already know in my head exactly how many photos and the approximate size that I imported into Lightroom the day before).

And of course no backup system is complete unless you're doing random and periodic restores.