When saving image backups, do you back them up to an External drive or a secondary Internal Drive? NOTE: I'm mainly referring to Desktop users when talking about using a secondary internal drive.
Initially I backup to internal, but then transfer it to at least 1 (most often to 2) external drives. I keep all key images at least on 1 internal and 2 external drives.
Basically a fail safe system? If one drive were to fail, you can always revert to the other? If this is what you're doing....I like this setup/concept. Currently, I'm just backing up to an external drive. I might switch it up and try your backup plan for mine.
External drives! - I have 3 of them and use 3 different programs (Easeus Todo, Macrium Reflect and Paragon B & R) to image on a weekly basis – I ended up with 3 drives courtesy of installing an SSD and using my old spinner drive as additional storage – my first external drive (320GB) became too small as I also use it to backup all my music and other stuff) I figure that with 3 different imaging options, I can restore my system one way or another no matter what the scale of disaster! (my failsafe theory!)
External drive: safer respect hardware issues and any malicious exploits in my system ( if they happen ).
Need an additional poll option, both I back up to both internal and external drives. Use Shadowprotect. Also sync data to external drive, 2 other machines, and the cloud. Pete
Yep. Though it's rather tiresome and good for infrequent imaging. Once an external disk failed. And this plan helped me. That's why I keep it.
there was no options for "Both". i first save my images to a secondary internal drive because of the speed, then that gets backed up to a USB external drive and USB stick.
Right now I don't backup at all (internal and external disks are full ) and I don't care how shocked you are.
I don't use images to backup my computer. I just simply copy & paste files. (So basically im not backing up my whole OS just what i think is important)
I do both. My internal scheme is RAID 1, however daily backups of key files/directories are sent to my external as well.