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I just got an Acer Windows Home Server machine. It does complete machine level backups of all the home/office PCs. I found it very easy to set up and has given

I just got an Acer Windows Home Server machine. It does complete machine level backups of all the home/office PCs. I found it very easy to set up and has given me piece of mind at last!

streety 17y ago
I hope I'm wrong but it sounds suspiciously like all your backups are in one physical location. You may well be protected against an individual drive failing but what about a more calamitous event such as a fire or flooding?
- andrewdavey 17y ago
  A good point - they are. However, I have Mozy taking care of critical files for me as well :)
- icefox 17y ago
  So clearly I should rotate my backups between my three alternating sites and have a whole system where... No. I think I would screw up. In fact I know I would screw up because when I used to do that I would forget every few weeks and eventually I didn't bother because it was a hassle. Talking about backups are funny. We all like to talk about how we should have a great system, but for the vast majority of people if they simply had one automatic local backup they would be so much better off it isn't funny. When my mom's pc died her super backup system (one hd at home one at work) was months out of date. When my dad's mac hd died he got a new hd, and restored from the Mac Time Capsule overnight. They both have macs now* As much as I would like to advocate super backup solutions I feel that anyone that actually has a local solution that is automatic and runs is way better then someone who is preaching about making a more complicated backup solution. When people talk about back solutions someone always comes along and says how you really need to have two solutions, one local and one remote. If even one person doesn't backup at all because they tried to implement a dual backup and found it too hard then the original person has caused more harm then good. *For many reasons including the backup one.
  - streety 17y ago
    I agree entirely about the importance of backups being simple and automatic. Where I disagree is with the idea that remote backups are more difficult than local backups. Even ignoring all the people with only one computer at home, for whom a local backup typically means a usb stick or CD/DVD, arranging off site backups is now at least as easy as on site backups. Granted if you're dealing with hundreds of gigabytes of data you may encounter some problems but the vast majority of people are dealing with far smaller amounts of data.

I just got an Acer Windows Home Server machine. It does complete machine level backups of all the home/office PCs. I found it very easy to set up and has given me piece of mind at last!

streety 17y ago

I hope I'm wrong but it sounds suspiciously like all your backups are in one physical location. You may well be protected against an individual drive failing but what about a more calamitous event such as a fire or flooding?

andrewdavey 17y ago
A good point - they are. However, I have Mozy taking care of critical files for me as well :)
icefox 17y ago
So clearly I should rotate my backups between my three alternating sites and have a whole system where... No. I think I would screw up. In fact I know I would screw up because when I used to do that I would forget every few weeks and eventually I didn't bother because it was a hassle. Talking about backups are funny. We all like to talk about how we should have a great system, but for the vast majority of people if they simply had one automatic local backup they would be so much better off it isn't funny. When my mom's pc died her super backup system (one hd at home one at work) was months out of date. When my dad's mac hd died he got a new hd, and restored from the Mac Time Capsule overnight. They both have macs now* As much as I would like to advocate super backup solutions I feel that anyone that actually has a local solution that is automatic and runs is way better then someone who is preaching about making a more complicated backup solution. When people talk about back solutions someone always comes along and says how you really need to have two solutions, one local and one remote. If even one person doesn't backup at all because they tried to implement a dual backup and found it too hard then the original person has caused more harm then good. *For many reasons including the backup one.
- streety 17y ago
  I agree entirely about the importance of backups being simple and automatic. Where I disagree is with the idea that remote backups are more difficult than local backups. Even ignoring all the people with only one computer at home, for whom a local backup typically means a usb stick or CD/DVD, arranging off site backups is now at least as easy as on site backups. Granted if you're dealing with hundreds of gigabytes of data you may encounter some problems but the vast majority of people are dealing with far smaller amounts of data.