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World Backup Day on March 31st, AOMEI free backup app and more
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bbearren
AskWoody MVPMarch 19, 2022 at 7:36 am #2432566For me, every Sunday morning (beginning at 2:00 AM) is backup day, plus any other day of the week that I might be making changes in my system.
Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.We were all once "Average Users". -
geekdom
AskWoody_MVPMarch 19, 2022 at 8:30 am #2432568Every day is backup day.
On permanent hiatus {with backup and coffee}
offline▸ Win10Pro 2004.19041.572 x64 i3-3220 RAM8GB HDD Firefox83.0b3 WindowsDefender
offline▸ Acer TravelMate P215-52 RAM8GB Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1265 x64 i5-10210U SSD Firefox106.0 MicrosoftDefender
online▸ Win11Pro 22H2.22621.1992 x64 i5-9400 RAM16GB HDD Firefox116.0b3 MicrosoftDefender -
RetiredGeek
AskWoody_MVPMarch 19, 2022 at 9:47 am #2432577As always there’s the fine print!
From the Read-Me file:
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【 Terms and Conditions 】1) This gift is a One-Year License which entitles you to use the software for one year. There is NO automatic renewal.
2) Strictly non-commercial usage.
If you have any questions, please contact us via support@aomeitech.com.
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Basically an extended trial, or as the cynical side of me says “use it for a year then you’re hooked.”1 user thanked author for this post.
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Alex5723
AskWoody PlusMarch 19, 2022 at 1:23 pm #2432610For me, every Sunday morning (beginning at 2:00 AM) is backup day, plus any other day of the week that I might be making changes in my system.
For me every day at 3 AM is a backup day. 1,16 every month a full image. Any other day incremental backup.
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bbearren
AskWoody MVPMarch 19, 2022 at 1:32 pm #2432613For me every day at 3 AM is a backup day. 1,16 every month a full image. Any other day incremental backup.
A Task Scheduler-run command triplicates my data daily, to a separate drive on my daily driver and to my NAS (as well as the cloud). I don’t do incremental backups.
I do full drive images a couple of times a year. Those are primarily to rebuild my partitioning structure should I lose a drive and have to replace it, and then I can restore the up-to-date data to each partition.
Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.We were all once "Average Users".1 user thanked author for this post.
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Kathy Stevens
AskWoody PlusMarch 19, 2022 at 2:05 pm #2432619We backup daily to internal drives (Acronis True Image for Western Digital), weekly to two separate external drives (Acronis and data files using Windows File Explorer), and monthly cloning the C drive onto a third external drives prior to updating Windows.
See the thread Cloning vs. Backing Up a Computer at https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/cloning-vs-backing-up-a-computer/
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