Backup Software

[Locarno1]

Hello,

So, I'll try and explain this as best as I can. I have a desktop PC which has a number of drives on it. At the moment, I mainly use the PC for general use and also Microsoft Flight Simulator. Alongside this, I use the PC for photo editing on Lightroom and I store all my photos (RAW Files) and Lightroom Catalog on an external SSD Harddrive that I just connect up to a USB Hub plugged into the PC.

I can use this External Drive between my Windows Desktop PC and my MacBook Pro.

However, the way I use Lightroom in regards to its file/photo sorting needs to change (but that's another project) and essentially I have all my photos just on this one drive. I do have my photos backed up to an internal drive on the PC which I did by just Copy & Paste. What I am looking for though is something that is more automated and backs up only 'new files', and hopefully notifies you to backup regularly as well. Because, if I lost or had an issue with my external hard drive that my photos are on, they're gone! Thankfully, it's quite a new SSD and is fine at the moment.

But what is out there software wise that will just backup files in the background? Lightroom will backup my Lightroom files and catalog but I want to change the way I'm using the programme and ideally back up my photos to one, or two, separate drives.

I have had experience with Backblaze in the past, and that was good. But I don't use that or any cloud based backup (Apart from Google Drive) yet.

Apologies this is slightly aimed at Lightroom specific, but it's also asking about specific backup software. If I could find something that essentially does 'Everything on this drive, backup to this other drive as well'. I'm not very busy with my photography, used to be, but in the future I may be and I just want to improve the way I'm organising and backing up my photos/files.

I also have another drive with a lot of MSFS Add-Ons that I wouldn't mind backing up as well.

Many thanks,

 

[Martinr36]

I use Dropbox, onedrive, google drive etc, on the Berserker both Dropbox & onedrive are on their own dedicated hard drives & naturally the Laptop & mobile devices all back up to the same accounts on both, so think I'm covered

 

[TonyCarter]

It's always good to have multiple copies of your backups. Local HDD (internal/external), remote (not permanently attached to the PC), cloud (for access anywhere, and in case the backups are destroyed in a fire).

I have my documents on a separate, external HDDs and Dropbox...along with individual CDs/DVDs/USB sticks & Dropbox folders for each client as a job finishes.

That's on the Mac though, and I use CarbonCopyCloner to schedule full/incremental/selective backups to whichever location I want.

Did consider Macrium Reflect for the PC, but realised it's only really games on there and my documents/game saves are not on the boot drive anyway. Also realise it doesn't offer cloud syncing (although I thought it did at one point). Otherwise OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Dropbox, etc. will let you keep stuff in sync.

 

[Scott]

I would probably go with OneDrive. I'm not sure of the storage requirements though, as I guess that would play a part. What sort of file size are you looking to backup?

The reason I was thinking OneDrive is you get MS Office along with OneDrive for a reasonable subscription. It only really makes sense if you don't need more than 1TB though.