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I don't know what OS you have, but both Win XP and Windows 7 have built-in Backup utilities.

You can set it up to backup at certain times to your external hard drive, or device of your choice.

There are many freeware programs as well.

Example:

http://www.tucows.com/preview/323898/BackUp-Maker?q=backup

I've converted my drives to Storage Spaces in Windows 8, which means that if any single drive fails I won't lose any data. In addition to that I use SkyDrive to backup important documents, images and files online. To be honest though most of my data really isn't that valuable. I've had a few occasions in the past where a drive failed or I accidentally formatted the wrong drive and I just shrug is off.

I should backup, but I would need another huge hard drive.

Let's talk total size (not used space):

  • My iMac has a 1 TB drive, and I assigned an external 1 TB drive for Time Machine for backup. So this is fine.
  • My iTunes Media has an external 4TB drive, and there is no backup. This is not so good.
  • My downloads and Dropbox reside on an external 500 GB drive, and there is no backup. I don't mind losing data on this drive if it fails. They are my Dropbox, but that's is in the cloud, so I won't lose anything. And the downloads are mostly DMG, ZIP, and install files that I'm too lazy to just delete.

All the external drives are G-Technology's. They have not failed me yet. The 1TB is 6 years old, the 4TB, 3 years old and 500 GB, 3 years old. I should probably get another 4TB drive to backup the iTunes Media, but it would mean another external drive on the desk?

Right now I use Macrium Reflect to backup my Windows partition every now and then, and Dirsync Directory Synchronizer to do the same with Firefox, Thunderbird profiles, stuff I write, my personal software archive, music archive etc.

I was using Windows Home Server 2011 for client computers, but since that is going away and likely won't support Windows 8 once it's out, I've done a RAID 1 in my new computer... and that's about as far as I've gotten. Need to figure something else out.

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