I never ran backup for Windows yet as I use OSX. But now I need to run a software backup to external HD on a Windows 10 system. Which of the following software is worthy? Pros and Cons?
Hmmm never heard of Veeam so will add to my “check it out” list. Lots of good reviews. It might be quite bloated so need to review.
About Aconis True Image, I heard it was bought out by a Chinese company. I tried it for a few days and ease of use is quite good. I’m hesitant to go with Acronis now. I’m just saying…
Used Acronis for years. Gave up on it. Have been using Macrium for probably 7+ years with success. Free version is adequate for my needs.
Have read good reports on EasUS.
Oh good and kinda like getting new shoes huh $) . I'll give Acronis a go but only inside VMware first. Last thing I want this long weekend is to reinstall Windows again! Last time I did that, I was all night till 9 A.M. the next day! Big reason...making the USB recovery disk! :GLASSES: Took around 2 hours waiting for the bugger to finish!
Another big reason is the recovery stage if and when it comes to that. You know, the part where you find out whether you lost everything or you didn't. :D
I had a near catastrophe way back in the 90’s when a HDD crashed. I was lucky to be able to recover virtually all of the important material. That stuck. I’ve used a variety of software since. I’ve used those I mentioned for at least ten years and have been happy. Never had a hardware failure that caused much anguish since.
Great that you got it back! Time stands still when you get a computer crash. It’s like tomorrow will never come.
Cloning is good to do to. PC crashes…grab the clone, insert clone into different PC and back to normal. But with cloning, I have a feeling one might have to do a reinstall anyways. Backing up seems to be more of a chore these days. Easy but not easy.
Looks like you’re ready for doomsday! Don’t mean to go off topic but I like their website layout! Easy on the eyes with nice hues. Not too overly complicated. Wow one of the best site layout I’ve seen. Everything just links up smoothly. Click pretty link on left and results show up on the right. All on one page. This is how a site should be.
I’m using Macrium Reflect Free. Works nicely, backing up the system SSD 3-4 times pr year. I use ViceVersa, for documents and other data files, backing up each day, or with any major change. Please let me know if there is a good free alternative to ViceVersa. Else I think it is worth the money.
Many thanks for all the input from everyone. I was then able to finally make a choice! It was tough the last few hours deciding.
I’ve decided to use FreeFileSync. It’s open source and ad free. Plus it’s got that nifty parallel file transfer tech. Let’s just hope I don’t have to reinstall.