Backup solution for Windows
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Have a new laptop coming and I'd like to run something like Time Machine for OS X where I can just restall the whole system from it if possible. Any suggestions?
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@creayt said:
Have a new laptop coming and I'd like to run something like Time Machine for OS X where I can just restall the whole system from it if possible. Any suggestions?
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Veeam has that new, free solution. I have not tried it so cannot speak to what it can and cannot do.
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I am using Easeus todo backup. But just saw this
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/did-you-know-windows-8-has-a-built-in-time-machine-backup/ -
@scottalanmiller said:
Veeam has that new, free solution. I have not tried it so cannot speak to what it can and cannot do.
Veeam Endpoint Recovery Free? http://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html
I am running it on my office machine now. It seems to work pretty good. I have mine just doing file level backups at the moment since my USB drive is too small, lol.
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For Home, I have Acronis True Image WD edition for disk level backups and Windows Backup & Recovery for my documents and stuff.
At work, I've got Veeam Endpoint Backup Free running but I haven't tried to restore anything yet. AFAIK the recovery media that Veeam EBF makes, allows the restore of the entire machine from booting into the recovery media. -
@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Veeam has that new, free solution. I have not tried it so cannot speak to what it can and cannot do.
Veeam Endpoint Recovery Free? http://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html
I am running it on my office machine now. It seems to work pretty good. I have mine just doing file level backups at the moment since my USB drive is too small, lol.
That's the one.
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Circling back because this came up in a search.... but since this time the "new free" Veeam solution has pretty much become the desktop backup standard and has had a lot of development done to it as well.
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Since posting earlier in this thread (some months ago for those visiting from the future), I have also swapped my home backup to Veeam Endpoint Backup Free.
I like how Veeam EBF operates and it makes sense to do IT at home.
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@nadnerB said:
Since posting earlier in this thread (some months ago for those visiting from the future), I have also swapped my home backup to Veeam Endpoint Backup Free.
I like how Veeam EBF operates and it makes sense to do IT at home.
Yepp. I'm hoping Santy Clause will bring me a 4-bay NAS and a 4TB drive or two for Christmas, lol.
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Albeit probably more involved than what you need, but BackupPC is capable of this.
Or Fog
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@scottalanmiller
Veeam FTW!! Easy.. Free.. Perfect!! Their recovery media only takes up 500Mb for my 1TB computer so get a 1GB USB and you are set for bare metal restore. -
@LAH3385 I cheated a bit... I let it put their USB recovery image on my USB hard drive... which also holds my backups, lol. USB boot & Done.
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Why didn't this thread get yelled at for wanting to backup an endpoint? Or breaking licensing rules?
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@BRRABill said:
Why didn't this thread get yelled at for wanting to backup an endpoint? Or breaking licensing rules?
Because it is not a business but just one person. And he is not trying to virtualize or migrate using his backups.
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@BRRABill
Why? Veeam Endpoint Backup specified it is FREE and meant for Desktops and Laptops.
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@LAH3385 it's because in his other threads he was extending that to mean "restore to other platforms or virtualize using the backup as a migratory tool."
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@scottalanmiller
Oh. Also another Oh.. this thread is 4 month old
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Is it OK because it is one person?
In my other non-business thread, I was talking about personal machines. Your uncle's PC, whatever.
Chromebook, everyone said. Never backup a personal machine.
And how do we know this backup is working? The only way would be to put another hard drive in there and recover to it. (Which I have come to understand is the trade-off of all this ... convenience (paying for a license to spin up a VM and check in minutes) vs time (having to do the whole actual restore to test).)
And it was mentioned in another post to boot the recovery image on a USB drive. Is that OK? I thought no, technically.
So, I think the same themes are in play. Just playing devil's advocate here.
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@BRRABill said:
Is it OK because it is one person?
In my other non-business thread, I was talking about personal machines. Your uncle's PC, whatever.
Not really, but better. Everything should be hosted somewhere. Although his backup is a bit unique in that he is backing up a very complicated environment that he does not want to have to set back up again. Power user rather than non-power user. He has local RAID, for example, on hardware.
