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Another back up strategy question
This is my first visit to the back up and restore forum so please go easy on me. I've searched the forums to try and get a view on the best way forward but there is so much information in here and so many differing opinions I thought it best to start a thread of my own.
This is what I need to back up on my Sony Vaio Laptop:
C Drive (Internal 100GB/250GB in use) - system image, working files and folders, favourites etc.
M Drive - (USB 500GB/640GB in use) - Music and pictures
V Drive - (USB 700/1TB in use) - Videos
I also have a 2TB external USB drive which I will use for back ups only (and I'll keep this at work to protect against theft or fire at home).
Since windows backup does an incremental backup I figured it should be as simple as plugging all the drives in once per week, setting the back up settings to take a system image and 'let windows choose' (all my M & V drive folders are added to the libraries so should be picked up by windows default setting) hit back up now and the back up should run pretty quickly because it will just pick out files and folders that have changed since the last backup.
Is this what I can expect? I wouldn't know because I've not had chance to try it yet because my initial backup is still running after 2 days lol
Having read the forum it seems that another option would be to use windows to create a system image and back up my working files and folders (weekly would be good for me) and then use Macrium Free version to do occasional backups of my M & V drives (monthly should suffice).