Backup strategy

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Hello!

I am thinking about which one of the following two backup strategies is better / more stable. I have a SSD where Windows 8 is installed and a 3TB HDD with three partitions (games, documents&music, videos).
At the moment, I am doing a full backup of all partitions except the games partition (it seems rather useless for me to backup the large game files because I could just reinstall them) to an external eSATA-drive every 2 weeks.

I want to increase the backup frequency, but it should be without any additional effort (scheduled tasks and second internal backup-HDD because I don't want to switch on an external drive every day).

1. Incremental backup of system partition (120GB SSD) every evening and Nonstop-Backup for the personal folders (documents, music, videos); backup destination: Acronis Secure Zone on an internal backup-HDD. Additionally, I'm scheduling encrypted Online-Backup for my documents every day.

2. Nonstop-backup in partition mode for everything (system, documents&music, videos) with Online-backup of personal folders every day.

I will continue to do a full backup of all partitions every 2 weeks to the eSATA-drive, so in the event of a hardware failure I should be able to restore the 2-weeks-partition-backup from the eSATA-drive first, and then bring it to the latest snapshot before the failure by restoring the personal folders from the nonstop-backup.

But which one of 1. and 2. would be better? I read that nonstop-backup could have problems when it has to backup large amounts of data?

Thank you for any suggestions! :)

Dom, 09/09/2012 - 16:00
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Martin H,

I would use 1, but with modifications.
First, I wouldn't use the the Acronis Secure Zone. If you are concerned about security, you should rather copy some of your backups to another disk drom time to time and take that disk offline, offsite. If you are concerned about restricting access to your backup, you should encrypt the backup files.

Second, using NonStop Backup for files is OK if having near real-time protection is very important (like a business computer with some quickbooks on it), otherwise I would use a file backup. Also, NSB is not very flexible. You cannot control the retention of versions, and you cannot salvage an older backup is a more recent one is corrupt.
ATI offers the possibility to store a file backup in a ZIP container. If you don't use encryption, using a ZIP container eliminates the problem of storing your precious content in a proprietary container. Note that any container is a problem for irreplaceable content. If that container gets marginally corrupt, you lost the entire backup (ie all content in it).

Third, another consideration is that a lot of files on personal computers are already in a compressed format (music, photos, videos, PDFs, ZIP files), and they don't change much. So, compressing them again in a container is useless. Using an incremental backup for them doesn't add much.

Long story short, I'd rather use:
- an image backup for any hidden partition, the active partition, the OS partition and the apps, that you don't feel like reinstalling. Note that having some apps using a partition that is not backed up with the OS can create issues when you restore the OS independently.
- a file backup for files that you want to keep a version of. Use an incremental backup scheme,
- a sync for files that are already in a compressed file format and that don't change much.

Dom, 09/09/2012 - 16:17
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