Backing up to OneDrive and External Hard Drive together.

Jesse Williams · 26 Feb 2019

Does anyone know how I can back up my important information like my edited photos from Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop as well as my important files to OneDrive and my external hard drive at the same time automatically?

OneDrive already automatically backs up. But I don't want my files and photos backed up to my computer, as I feel it will take up disk space. I have a 1TB Hard Drive, but still I just don't want my computer to have to worry about things on the drive.

Jesse Williams · 26 Feb 2019

Figured out how to back up my files and folders. My question is, should I back up my C: drive and the whole computer?

spunk · 03 Mar 2019

If your computer is working the way you want, then make a Clone Image of the computer and save it to a separate drive, or External USB Using your favorite clone software like Macrium Reflect. If disaster happens, you just restore your image to be back in business.

Jesse Williams · 05 Mar 2019

@spunk, thank you. I will try Macrium Reflect. WD (Western Digital) which is the manufacturer of my external separate drive has some software called Acronis TrueImage on their website. Not sure if that's a good program or not.

spunk · 05 Mar 2019

Acronis is great! I prefer it to Macrium. The version they give away is the Lite version it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the paid version but does the job.

Steve C · 06 Mar 2019

Jesse Williams said:

@spunk, thank you. I will try Macrium Reflect. WD (Western Digital) which is the manufacturer of my external separate drive has some software called Acronis TrueImage on their website. Not sure if that's a good program or not.

Macrium software is well engineered and supported, Acronis software isn't.