Does anyone have any recommendations for good backup software? My use case is pretty simple. I have an external usb drive I want to backup to every so often. Both the source and backup drives are 8TB capacity (I’m not even close to using the full capacity yet)
Normally the backup drive is left unplugged but I want to be able to plug it in run the backup software to copy across anything new then unplug it again for storage.
Simple file backup (not looking to do a full bootable OS drive backup or anything)
Thank you
The question really is what data you‘re trying to back up.
Would you be annoyed, sad, very sad or potentially ruined if that data goes away?
Depending on your threat level, you should choose one that strikes the balance between cost and reliability.
If you don’t have tons of data and it’s not insanely important data, use something free to encrypt/stripe it over free google/dropbox/onedrive accounts.
If it is insanely important data, you can try tarsnap. I just heard of it but stripe uses it for their credit card data.
I personally use idrive. Has worked well so far but is paid as well and I didnt have to restore yet.
Good luck.