backup strategies

In a world where mobile devices are more of a necessity than a luxury, the freedom to work from anywhere—be it a breezy park, a cozy café, or even the cramped environment of an airplane—brings with it the lurking danger of loss or theft. With sensitive data traveling alongside us, the need for...

Hello guys. I have a server running windows 2012 R2 backup services. The server has a Hyper-V with 3 VMs on it.(C drive) The E Drive has 2 VM's. I want to do a bare metal backup with a externa HD with 3.7TB size available. My drives size are: C: 1.8TB available 150GB E: 650GB available 270GB...

I have used Macrium Reflect for years and being free it lacked encryption. I just found that out b/c it is EOL for free. I keep trying different ones and don't know whether to stay with Macrium and pay or go elsewhere. I tried Windows B+R and it was fine but heard it is not long for this world...

I'm considering leaving Carbonite and maybe going with just an external HD or another cloud backup service. But I'd really like to hear what other people's back up strategies are? I back up photos, documents, and videos. If you use a cloud back up can you tell me why you chose them? And if you...

When one re-installs windows7 from scratch, what part of the hard drive does it write itself on? Will it overwrite old data, so to speak starting from the first place on the hard drive or will it rather first write in between un-used space? Would it make a difference if the old data had bean...

Backing up on ssd would be safer than hdd because no moving parts correct? So ssd failure rate is lower so just wondering how is it possible to lose data on ssd?

Hello everyone here on this lovely forum! I have some questions regarding the file system in Windows 7 that I really hope you can help me with. File A This file is created in 2010 and modified in 2012. File A Created: 2010 Modified: 2012 Accessed: 2012 File B This file is a copy of file A...

Hello, i just was writting my study work with word 2010. Then i saved my document and closed it. Then later i launched my document i got this message, and cant see my word. I want help to recover my document, because i don't have any copy of it. I will be very grateful. I would atach my word...

Im confusing myself on these ntfs permissions. Is there an easy way to allow a specific group rw access to one file in a folder full of other files but only have ro access on all other files...without changing the permissions on each file? The problem I have is we have a folder organized...

I have Acronis true image 2010 and it works sometimes but I just got a corrupted archive and I lost my C drive. So I'm thinking about another Backup program, or buying Acronis true image 2012 with Norton Ghost 15 so if one fails I have the other, but for both of them to be on the same computer...

Section 1: Performing a Bare-Metal Backup Hello, this is Mike from Windows 7 Forums. In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a Paragon backup and restore image of a hard drive, using bare-metal backup and restore. What is a Bare-Metal Backup/Restore and Why Is it Useful? Bare-metal...