Originally Posted by
antichef
Can you tell us what you want backing up, and what flavour of operating system you use? This should help us choose what might suit you. For example, if you have a Windows 10 laptop or a Mac desktop we might offer different solutions.
Do you want the drive to be a physical external hard drive plugged into your computer, or an external "cloud" solution?
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Thanks for your response ...
OS = Win 7 Home Premium on my desktop & Win10 on my laptop
B/U what= Mainly data files & downloaded files
B/U type= Prefer local external drive (although some have crashed in the past). Having said that, I like your idea of a physical + cloud option. And that seems to be seconded by
MAN Pax as well.
Originally Posted by
antichef
...Or do you just want something to copy your hard disk to an external hard disk of the same size or larger?
If I can attach that to my PC and then have the software backup periodically without any intervention on my part, that would be nice. But when I tried this several years (e.g. 10 years) ago, I had two external drives (one Seagate and one WD) crash on me. So I am not sure whether having these drives run all the time is a good idea or not.
If you have any further advice, I will really appreciate that