"Cloud" Question
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Afternoon all, I'm starting to get paranoid about all the stuff we have on our modern SSD laptop and old external Seagate HDD at the moment, in terms of if it dies a fiery death like the previous did a few years ago. The £5.99 a month Onedrive account would be adequate in terms of capacity.
My question(s) revolve around the managing of it all. Our Seagate doesn't mirror the laptop, we simply have folders with photos and documents on it, that we copy from laptop to it.
Would there be a folder called "laptop" on the account and one called "Seagate"? Or something like that?
Do you set all your stuff to back up periodically?
Will it all become clear if we sign up for it?????
My question(s) revolve around the managing of it all. Our Seagate doesn't mirror the laptop, we simply have folders with photos and documents on it, that we copy from laptop to it.
Would there be a folder called "laptop" on the account and one called "Seagate"? Or something like that?
Do you set all your stuff to back up periodically?
Will it all become clear if we sign up for it?????
With One Drive it's worth considering the Office 365 prices as well, that comes with 1Tb of One Drive storage plus all the Office stuff for not much more than the One Drive price. If you can make use of the family subscription that is better value for money and if you have access to the Home Use Programme via an employer then it is heading towards no-brainer territory.
The simplest method of managing backups is to access your NAS thingy as a Mapped Network Drive and then use that as the One Drive Sync Location, that way the laptop manages the backup. It can make sense to have a local folder for One Drive though and then back that up to the NAS - You get network independent access to the files by default, a third location with a copy of the file and One Drive is already doing the sharing across multiple devices for you, so you don't miss anything by not doing that through the NAS.
You can use programs to schedule backups to the NAS from your machine or there's probably an option to install a service on the NAS directly that lets it speak directly to One Drive and keep itself up to date whether your Laptop is on or off.
The simplest method of managing backups is to access your NAS thingy as a Mapped Network Drive and then use that as the One Drive Sync Location, that way the laptop manages the backup. It can make sense to have a local folder for One Drive though and then back that up to the NAS - You get network independent access to the files by default, a third location with a copy of the file and One Drive is already doing the sharing across multiple devices for you, so you don't miss anything by not doing that through the NAS.
You can use programs to schedule backups to the NAS from your machine or there's probably an option to install a service on the NAS directly that lets it speak directly to One Drive and keep itself up to date whether your Laptop is on or off.
I have both MS One Drive & Dropbox & personally I find Dropbox easier to use. You have a folder called Dropbox on your PC & whatever you save there is copied up to the cloud. You can move your My Documents/Pictures to the DB folder or just create others as required (you can do the same with One Drive of course). I'm not sure if a local NAS can sync to DB.
The free level of DB will give you 2GB of storage whcih is fine for documents but soon gets eaten up by photos & videos.
https://www.dropbox.com/basic
Just copying to "the cloud" isn't true backup but it's a lot better than what you have at the moment.
The free level of DB will give you 2GB of storage whcih is fine for documents but soon gets eaten up by photos & videos.
https://www.dropbox.com/basic
Just copying to "the cloud" isn't true backup but it's a lot better than what you have at the moment.
I do a copy to an off-line NAS one a month (cough), but a few years ago I started using one-drive and haven't looked back - just simply select the folders you want to backup and leave it a few hours to sync.
Then if hard drive crashes or you PC i stolen, you simply logon to a new PC with your windows account and then your files will be there ready without you having to do anything.
P.S. make sure you have 2 factor Auth on the account (and all other accounts)!
Then if hard drive crashes or you PC i stolen, you simply logon to a new PC with your windows account and then your files will be there ready without you having to do anything.
P.S. make sure you have 2 factor Auth on the account (and all other accounts)!
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