Best Practice for creating back-ups

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Hi Guys, once again after your wisdom and advice.

I am shortly going to be purchasing a new desktop PC as the photography business is getting going (thanks for advice already given on what to buy!). To date I have priodically copied my important files to an external hard drive on our home network and burnt to DVD whilst retaining original files on the laptop too.

My new preffered way to back is going to be similar with the desk top having it's own dedicated external hard drive (to be replaced as and when required) and I will use DVD'd for individual client records. My question is now about how to actually do this.

I have (touch wood) rarely had to do a complete system restore on any of my previous PC's but now that I will be using the new one for business I want to be able to move forward confidently knowing that I can restore the system and my images successfully if required. I also want to automate as much as possible a way of copying new files over to the exHD without having to do what I do now (literally find files and copy and paste!) so how do I do it?

Thanks

Annie
 
personally i wouldnt use DVD for backing up due to many issues with de-laminating.

my preferred method at the moment:

1) main working copy on my NAS storage
2) copy on external HD (gets taken off site and copied to off site HDs)
3) copy on Blu-Ray (not prone to de-laminating due to construction differences)
 
Neil, sorry, I think perhaps my question isn't clear the way I wrote it... what I'm interested in is what program or function do I use to create the back ups automatically? I'm happy with and have already discussed at length what I'm backing up to.

Thanks
 
Agree with what Neil has said but you could use something like Syncback or Microsoft SyncToy 2 to setup an automated job that can be scheduled, for example a sync or replicate job that runs every evening.

Just be sure to check the logs once it has run rather than just assuming it has worked.:thumbs:
 
Thanks Alan, I will check those out... I have 2 small children so need to automate as much as possible otherwise it won't get done at all...time is a big factor for us... better to risk automating than not backing up in the first place but I will obviously do checks to make sure it's working!
 
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