Home PC Backup

[sted]

Another vote for Windows Home Server here. I used it last night to fully recover a Windows 7 Desktop PC that had an HDD failure. I did a bare metal recovery booting from a WHS recovery CD. It took just over an hour.

It is based upon Server 2003 and can be set up to share folders too. I really like it!

i tried that a while back it backup up fine but just caused the pc to hang when trying to restore files when i was just testing it

atm i just backup my docs to laptop-desktop with synctoy and use windows backup on win 7 for the c drive

[gloriousglenn]

I like the idea of Backblaze and Jungle Disk, and at $5 a month Backblaze is looking favourite, but I'll research first.

I also like the idea of a file server using Windows Home Server stored at my father-in-laws. This of course would be more expensive, having to purchase the hardware/software.

Thanks again everybody.
Glenn

[tom_newton]

Mozy (Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com ? Welcome) - no bother here. Win/Mac only tho.

[theriver]

Word of caution about using disk images as backups - if you are ever in the position of having to restore onto different hardware, you can end up with a machine that doesn't boot.

[gloriousglenn]

Word of caution about using disk images as backups - if you are ever in the position of having to restore onto different hardware, you can end up with a machine that doesn't boot.

I understand what you're saying but I know that with Acronis (and I'm sure others are the same) you can pick and choose which files from the image you want to load. If different hardware is used you can build that system and then just load your music/videos/documents etc from the Acronis image.