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What happens if your system dies? Ypu'd have to reinstall the OS, reinstall your various programs, then restore your backup files.
Why not image backup to a portable USB HDD (or even better a couple of them)? And add incremental/fie backups onto that.
It's not the backup that's important,
it's the ability (and amount of work involved) to restore that actually matters.
Web backups really only useful for secondary storage, I don't care what the vendors tout, it's all crap - they can fail, they can close shop, they can demand money once they have your data
(I'd only ever store files that don't matter on web storage - and even then absolutely never as an only backup.)
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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I'd agree - and a'd encrypt the data before it left my systems as well.
That's one of the problems I have with the whole cloud thing - you have no idea who you are actually dealing with, what data security procedures they use, how well backed up the data you send them is. Or even if they will still be in business next week when you actually need the data.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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True. I got caught out when Microsoft Store closed down. I was bitten again when British Telecom decided to abandon their attempt at cloud storage.
These days I have a library of portable spinning discs. Yes, sometimes they fail but a couple of copies of important stuff seems to be the way to go.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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So following your plan...
I just replaced my external last week with a 3TB drive. Assume I put another 3tb into my server. We store everything there, then image that each week to the external.
Sound right?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: Free would be nice.
Don't; unless you don't really care about your data. Pay for a proper service that guarantees your data. I have been using Online Cloud Backup | IDrive®[^] for a few years and find it well worth the money.
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Can you give a brief explanation of how it works? It is automatic? set easy? backup anything?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Easy as pie. You just need to download the app to your PC, configure which directories to back up, and tell it when you want backups to run. The application then does all the work and gives you a quick summary of the number of files backed up at each run. Recovery is extremely simple from a web page. You can adjust your schedules and directories at any time. If you have a ton of data to backup first then you can request an external disk from them, copy everything onto it and send it back to them by courier, and they will create your first backup. I did this from the UK and it worked seamlessly.
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Your thoughts on Lopatir's reply?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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He is entitled to his opinion.
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I was just going to say that. Why is "free" even a contender if you actually care about the data?
How invested can anyone be in providing a free service? They have to monetize through some other means. What's the long-term prospect?
Use the freebies as an extra backup only, if you insist on putting anything online to begin with. But "free" should never be the first solution.
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I don't think you meant this message for me.
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Only the "I was going to say that" part.
OP is assumed to continue reading through the threads he starts. 
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Pay for a proper service that guarantees your data.
Keep in mind however that the guarantee only extends to point that company manages to remain solvent. True of any company of course.
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Well that applies to everything that you buy. And a paid for service is still less likely to disappear without notice.
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I've been using Backblaze for a while now - not free, but pretty cheap. I haven't needed to restore yet (aside from a couple of specific files here and there), so maybe I'm not fully qualified to recommend the service, but I've heard good things from other users.
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I can healthily second BackBlaze.
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You should take a look at Acronis True Image there's a subscription where you can add Cloud Storage if you want, I use it for local backups only to an external drive and it has worked great the 2 times I had to recover data (one time the full System and other time only some files)
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If one of the biggest credit reporting services gets hacked, then any big company is vulnerable.
I have a SQL Server box, a Web server box, an email server, and 2 workstations. Backing up is critical. I purchased 6 1TB drives and a 6TB Western Digital My Cloud Home, which I use as a NAS. I backup weekly to the 1TB drives. I use TeraByte Unlimited image to backup each box. Much faster than backing up to the cloud.
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Not a programming question… but I am intrigued by video editing, and why it takes so long to perform simple tasks, such as chopping bits out (beginning, middle or end), or creating a new video by stitching together one or more existing ones.
I can get a 5 minute video, chop 30 seconds off the end in a video editor, and it’ll take 20 minutes to recompile the new video... wtf is it doing all that time?
This is using either Freemake or the AVS video editor.
And god help me if I’m playing with longer videos of an hour or more. They can take all night to recompile… (Usually mp4’s)
I can sort of see why there are problems to overcome by chopping bits out the middle, but just taking some off the end... why does the whole thing need recompiling for that?
Professionals can’t possibly have to put up with this. There must be faster ways of editing videos. IS it just that free or cheap software is lousy, or what? Is there some decent, not stupidly expensive, video editing software out there can do these jobs in a more reasonable amount of time?
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Cr@ppy programming.
Pro systems are lightning fast, as their internal format is more suitable [than mp4] for any edits.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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So converting to any of the standard "Windows" video formats won't help? AM I stuck with having to put up with wasting hours of computer time, given that I'm not about to spend a fortune on pro equipment?
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I cannot say wheter that helps or not. It may depend on what the poor programs do internally. I would research other affordable alternatives like the ones mentioned below.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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A_Griffin wrote: why it takes so long to perform simple tasks
I like to make short videos to explain things -- though I'm not very good at it.
I have had those issues in the past.
I finally found a reasonably priced software that does screen capture, and imports exports video of all type and allows me to very quickly create a screen grab video and create a GIF of it. It's very nice. It does a whole list of formats (MP4, etc) and compression levels etc. Very nice.
Movavi Screen Capture & Video Editor 8 Personal Edition $49.95[^]
Comparative software like Camtasia is $300.
And I think this is easier to use than Camtasia.
Also, I think the slowness you've experienced is because it is
1. literally converting data to another format (your final output) - it has to convert at the byte-level
2. video is large amount of data (obviously)
3. could be a slow computer too and low amount of ram -- my 8GB i7 with SSD does okay with 30 minute videos.
more ram probably allows data to convert in memory instead of page to disk so much -- and if you're paging to disk, hopefully you have a SSD.
Good luck.
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