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For small businesses, Bree, that makes good sense. Thanks for pointing that out. Another +1 for Macrium!
For small businesses, Bree, that makes good sense. Thanks for pointing that out. Another +1 for Macrium!
Good day I have just started using Macrium Reflect Free Its very easy to use backup and restore.
Multiple failures with Acronis for me. When I found this forum and all the Macrium love, I tested it out. It is the best, hands down!
AOMEI, as explained by some well-known and well-respected members, is also something to be considered. In fact, later on, there is nothing wrong with having (probably no more than) two backup / restore utilities, Macrium Reflect being one of the two.
Hi folks.
Those of you who have data stored on NAS boxes should also every so often back that up -- If it's a dedicated NAS type box it may well have its own backup in which case use it regularly !!!
It's one thing backing up an OS but if you have a lot of music / multi-media / data etc on a NAS box you don't really want to lose it all. Imagine re-sourcing and re-ripping 2 TB of music - even if you still have some of the CD's you might have originally ripped the music from apart from other sources such as iTunes etc.
Personally I'm not a fan of streamed music like Spotify -- when you travel a lot you can't always get access to internet anyway so I prefer having music available on my own devices.
Some backup to the cloud but depending on your Internet speed and size of backups this might not be a feasible alternative for NAS data. Personally I just back up to a set of external HDD's -- the WD external USB3 passport self powered 4TB are cheap enough and should be large enough for the purpose. Keep them offline after running the backup.
If your NAS server is a basic Linux box there's loads of ways to use Linux commands to back up as well -- I recommend using the GUI front end to the rsync program -- grsync but there are a load of others.
The advantage in this case is you can run the backups on the server with no clients connected (Windows laptops normally) and you can run it either at night or automatically scheduled (crontab).
For Windows IMO there's absolutely no alternative to Macrium -- works every time, fast, reliable and for 99% of users out there the Free version is all you need.
Cheers
jimbo