![]() Hanselman is also passionate about backups. Hope this helps you develop your own backup strategy and saves you from losing your work. Possible, but not something I’m worried about. The only time I would need that is if CrashPlan was down and both of my hard drives crashed or my house burned down at the same time CrashPlan was down. Like an offsite physical backup where they swap drives every time they visit that location. I lot of people have more sophisticated backup strategies than I do. If my house burns down, I can recover the files from CrashPlan.If CrashPlan is down, I can recover the files from my second external drive (M).If my first external drive (L) crashes, I can recover the files from CrashPlan.If my laptop’s local hard drive crashes, I can recover the files from my first external drive (L).They will tell you when you haven’t backed up in a while and will tell you when you aren’t 100% backed up. Make sure you get the CrashPlan email notifications.Including that folder in a Library allows it to be picked up by Windows 8 File History. You will also notice that under /Libraries/Documents/ I have included the “_docs” folder from my C drive. It contains the CrashPlan encrypted versions of my L drive. It contains “_media” which is where I source media files from SD cards and it has FileHistory, which is where Windows 8 File History creates it’s log. It just contains “_docs” which has the docs I need for work (code, word, visio, etc) Setup CrashPlan to sync to an external drive (M)Ĭ is my laptop’s local hard drive. You can do that by right clicking on it and selecting “Include in library”, then select the library you want to include it in or create a new one.Ģ. To find your library folder just open Windows Explorer and find “Libraries” > If you want Windows 8 File History to back up something you need to add it to a Library. Windows 8 File History backs up your “Windows Library” folders. Setup Windows 8 File History to sync from laptop to external drive ** I use CrashPlan to backup my media and my Windows 8 File History log to both the cloud and my second external drive.I import my media files from SD cards directly to my first external hard drive (L).I use Windows 8 File History to backup my laptop’s local hard drive to my first external hard drive (L).I don’t have those files on my laptop’s local hard drive, because do most of my creative media work at home and I don’t usually need them during the day. I source media (music, photos, videos) on an external drive (L) that is connected to my docking station at home.I source documents (code, word, visio, etc) on my laptop’s local hard drive, because I always need those docs.2 External USB Drives connected to my docking station (Drive letters: L and M).Be able to easily recover from a temporary loss of work.Make sure I don’t permanently lose my hard work.Get a backup strategy now before you regret it. I take backups seriously because many years of hard work would be gone if something happened to that data. If I didn't have that I might consider an old laptop drive or maybe a 40GB or smaller hard drive that is useless for anything else.I’ve been fine tuning my backup strategy for years, so I thought I’d share to help any one out there who is just getting serious about it. Yes, when I change my hard drives in the case it seems I have to go into bios to tell it how to boot from the flash drive again, so maybe a flash drive isn't the best for installing crashplan onto.īut I happen to have a 4GB compact flash drive that has an IDE connector and it looks like a regular hard drive in bios so that might be perfect for this. I guess what you mean by getting it shared properly is having to mess with it in bios when you add/remove a hard drive from the array. I mostly was saying flash drive so it would be clear I wasn't talking about any of the unRAID array drives or the cache drive. I know it is not that hard once it is set up, but it is just one more thing (the flash drive) that I don't want to deal with. I just don't want to deal with another flash drive in my system and having to mount it and get it shared properly every time. Yes, it would and would stick around through a reboot. It sounds like if it was on it's own flash drive that it would update itself automatically - is this correct?
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