What's the best tool for making backups?
What's the best tool for making backups?
Adam Collins
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Bentley Green
google.com
Jeremiah Perez
rsync
James Peterson
Pen and paper
Mason Morales
The one time I had to copy a hard drive I've used FreeFileSync.
Levi Watson
gentoo
Grayson Diaz
I've heard Urbackup is pretty good, if you want to backup over the network
Alexander James
Borg
Carter Kelly
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Oliver Mitchell
/Bread
Isaiah Lee
raid-0
Nolan Sullivan
Windows 7 system image creation.
Angel Cook
As long as you don't need to keep the permissions, ZPAQ (mattmahoney.net
Not on its own.
William Allen
Actual serious answer:
Home users - there isn't any. It's best to sync all the personal files (~/documents, ~/Desktop, and so on) to Dropbox or some other service. That way in the case of the inevitable catastrophic failure, ransomware, or lost password, recovery is as easy as installing Dropbox and letting it suck all the files back from the internet.
Small business - something like ownCloud with at least 2x redundancy for the inevitable catastrophic failure.
Enterprise - redundant live systems that are slow-synced to the production systems so when the inevitable catastrophic failure happens you have a known-good slightly-old copy of everything that is ready to go in minutes.
Daniel Edwards
Backup tool not backup server you retarded Jow Forumsnigger.
Gabriel Brown
I said, there isn't any. All home backup tools suck severely and have major problems restoring the backup. Syncing personal files is way easier and doesn't require any fiddling at all. Install app, select sync folders, done. If you're an enterprise with production client-facing systems then you obviously need a live failover. It's that simple.
Henry Howard
>just upload all your personal data to servers you don't own or control, fellow white man!
i wonder who could be behind this post
Connor King
zfs send & receive
Leo Cook
cat /* >> backup
Really cool, imagine that you write your entire file system by hand and then store the sheet in a huge archive.
Jonathan Foster
tar
Carter Green
Copy+paste.
Jace Rivera
Backblaze is my set-and-forget solution. When I used osx I also used a local Time Machine drive, but I can't find any Windows solution as good as TM.
Nolan Foster
tar
Daniel Green
SyncToy
>is a freeware tool in Microsoft's PowerToys series that provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface for synchronizing files and folders.