Images - Do you backup to External or Internal Drive?

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.

 

Where's the poll?

 

I ran into a problem, hahaha...it's fixed now

 

Great...well done

 

hehe, thanks

 

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
but I always keep a master image on a Blu-ray disk

 

External drive: safer respect hardware issues and any malicious exploits in my system ( if they happen ).

 

Always on an external drive.

 

3 computers with external drives

 

External.
Big believer in off-site storage.

 

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.

 

External only - total isolation from the net or built in

 

Agreed!

 

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.

 

like me

option for both, please

 

Right now I don't backup at all (internal and external disks are full ) and I don't care how shocked you are.

 

External Drive.

 

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 actually do both, but no poll option for that...

 

Both. But since mainly external, I voted for it.

 

I do both. My internal scheme is RAID 1, however daily backups of key files/directories are sent to my external as well.