Question for the people who use external hard drives for backup...

[TurcoLoco]

Originally Posted by thecoalman

The book you have been working on for 10 years somehow becomes corrupted on your main machine and you lose 300 pages in the middle. 3 weeks later you notice your 300 pages are missing but if your backup is a newer copy of the file on your hard drive your backup is no better than the main file.

Working on the same damn book for 10 years?
Was this guy Moses?
I think it would have taken even me no more than a few months to carve all them commandments on stone tablets using a hammer and a chisel!

[CHTransplant]

I have 4 backup methods I use for my primary home laptop:

1. I use MS SyncToy once a week (running as a scheduled task) to copy any new/changed data files to a large secondary drive I have installed in a desktop computer. Files deleted on the laptop are not deleted on the desktop unless I manually do so.

2. I use Cobian Backup to make a daily incremental backup (again to the secondary desktop drive) and weekly full backup.

3. I occasionally manually do a full directory copy of my data directories to an external hard drive connected to my router.

4. I back up my photos to MS SkyDrive using SDExplorer.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by CHTransplant

2. I use Cobian Backup to make a daily incremental backup (again to the secondary desktop drive) and weekly full backup.

Thank you sir as that appears to be exactly what I've been looking for.