Laptop software backup software recommendation please

[desidude]

Hello friends,

I hope you are doing well. I need some help. I am terrible at backing up my data, and have had fatal and near fatal HD crashes before, but not yet learnt my lesson.

Now is the time to learn

I have a couple of laptops which are using Windows 10. I believe they all have regular HDD not SSD. I understand that SSDs are less prone to fail.

Can anyone please recommend a good backup software to use to save my data periodically?

I am looking for two options, one backup which is not on the cloud, and another which is on the cloud.

I do not have much data, maybe 1GB or less, just regular home office type work.

I understand that may require different programs, which is fine.

I would prefer a freeware option, but am ok paying for it too.

Any suggestions will be really helpful.

Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

desidude

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I'd recommend Macrium Reflect for local backup and Backblaze for cloud backup.

 

[John Connor]

1GB or less I would use Free File Sync. Just buy a backup SSD and use a USB to SATA adapter and sync away. http://www.freefilesync.org/

The reason why I mention an external hard drive is just in case something catastrophic doesn't take out your internal hard drives like a power surge.

As far as a cloud soloution there is Dropbox, Box, and Adrive. You could even use Dreamobjects and the CrossFTP or their sync software. I think they have a sync software. Been awhile since I looked into Dreamobjects. There's also Amazon S3. Though there is no client that I know of for S3. You would have to take your 1GB of data and manually upload it to their cloud.

You might be interested in Boxcryptor. https://www.boxcryptor.com/en

 

[ClockHound]

There is the Cloudberry Win software for S3 backups