Back up options?

seth.

hey polycount.

I recently started freelancing again and wondered what software/hardware people are using for automated back up.

Currently I'm just transferring important files at the end of each day, but I would prefer an automated way of doing this at set intervals during the day if at all possible, perhaps with something more sturdy than a 300gb western digital portable drive.

If there is one thing I hate its repeating work...and I really dont like the idea of losing days should the worst ever happen.

Anyone got any tips or suggestions?

thanks

SuperFranky

Dropbox is pretty useful.

seth.

True, and it would be a cost effective solution, but some clients aren't keen on NDA stuff being hosted on there

ambershee

I've done this before with an automated perforce setup to a networked machine; synchs up overnight. Didn't set it up myself though, someone did it for me. Cost effective though, as it's free software for this use case.

FAT_CAP

I use SyncBackPro which I got free with an extrenal hard drive and it's performed pretty well for me over the years. I believe they do a standard/ home edition which is a bit cheaper too SyncBackSE, although I've not tried it.

Noors

Yeah synback is nice, backup intervals, versioning. I was looking for a tool doing autosync like dropbox too. I'm trying syncovery but have no hindsight yet.

seth.

syncback...I will follow that up, thanks guys.

sounds awesome ambershee, possibly beyond my ability though...I will look into it.

pior

On the subject of storage : a friend of mine recently suggested using high quality USB thumbsticks for backup, as opposed to hard drives. I think that's a pretty smart move !

mats effect

Carbonite is great and quite cheap.

weee

I've been using crashplan for more than a year now, recommended.
one thing about Dropbox is its not custom designed for backing up but more sharing.

haiddasalami

On a side note. Perforce is free for up to 2 users

Blaizer

I use hard drives, always. Usbs are not so good, the more you write/delete, the more they fail. And the space is a big issue. for the price of a 64GB usb pendrive i buy a 2TB HDD seagate/WD/HGST.

I recommend to have a docking station for HDDs and other storage devices if your pc tower does not have it. In my case, i don't need it, my pc tower has an e-sata docking bay.

And for more security, you always can have 2 HDDs in raid, mirror mode, or just use a free sync app between 2 HDDs.

I suggest you to forget dropbox... you should read the TOS. Cloud storaging is not the solution.

Steve Schulze

mats effect wrote: »

Carbonite is great and quite cheap.

If you listen to the Nerdist Podcast, Carbonite quite often sponsors them, and offers a cheaper offer codes each time.

seth.

awesome information thanks guys, I have purchased a 2tb desktop external for the storage, now I'm going to have to look into the software, I'm not too familiar with version control software but I know a man that is, I honestly didnt think of just going down that route, and considering I saved the wrong tool over an iteration and lost half a day this week it might be the best solution.

thanks very much