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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (331773)	10/16/2020 2:54:54 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362362

I spend 45 seconds using Filesync a few times a day to back-up new and changed files from the Documents folder to a RAID 1 Synology server in a secure part of our home via the home network. The Documents files are also synced to other home and laptop computers. So there's a quite a few copies. Once every six months or so I use Acronis to make a full back-up of each computer to 2 TB USB drives - amazon.com - just so I don't need to spend much time doing Windows updates in the rare event a computer fails. Using Acronis to restore a drive is pretty reassuring. Only new data files warrant frequent backups.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (331773)	10/19/2020 7:36:44 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 362362

Like anything else true safety is work.. and most want a solution that is non extant..

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (331773)	10/23/2020 3:04:21 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362362

for only a couple of hundred bucks you could buy a fanless industrial machine Alas, That was my previous backup solution. I bought a Seagate NAS server with 3 disks in a RAID configuration. It was about the size of a cigar box and fit well in another room (I had a network cable). The problem was that after many years the circuit board failed so none of the data could be read even though the drives were operational. I had to take it to a data recovery company which charged me $600 to copy the data onto another disk (which I had to supply).