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Backups for home PCs


RobK
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A slightly different solution but depending on how many PC's you have you could get a Windows home server like the HP Media Smart Server EX475 1TB which automatically backs up all your machines and does a whole lot of other funky stuff. PC recovery is as easy as putting a cd in the drive and selecting the backup you want to restore from or you can restore individual files from the backups.

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The Windows machines backup onto a 2Tb NAS which in turn is rsync'd to a 2Tb NAS that lives in the office.

The MacBook uses Time Machine onto a 1Tb Time Capsule. There's nothing important on the MacBook that isn't on the Windows machines so if the MacBook and the TC go tits up it isn't a problem.

My ESX server (which lives in the office) is backed up manually by me stopping all the virtual machines and copying the virtual hard drives onto a NAS which then replicates with another NAS in the office in Paris.

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At the moment I manually disperse the data in chunks around my HDDs both internal and external - it is a pain but I'm just can't be faffed to setup a backup system - I know I should but 2.5TB of storage 'on tap' is gonna get expensive backupwise especially with the non-regularity of work at the moment.

Wifey is stamping on all 'non-Christmas/essential' spending and my 'toys' are way down the list even coming after bloody fripperys such as her works christmas do.

I can't argue as her wage is regular and mine isn't despite it being a lot more when it comes in.

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