What kind of backup software are you looking for?
What kind of backup software are you looking for?
I’m considering switching from Genie to a different backup solution. I’m evaluating Nova Backup, Acronis True Image, and Acronis Backup—though the latter seems more expensive. Which option do you think would be best, or would you prefer something else? Thanks for your advice!
I recently moved from Genie to Bvckup. https://www.bvckup2.com/ It’s quite straightforward and automatically saves changes every few hours or so. I’m running it across three systems with a NAS for backups. Once set up, it’s easy to manage. After some time, everything functions well. It performs only raw backups, which gives me full control over my files. Deleted items are archived before being removed after a period. Initially, I was curious about Genie’s features, but I never really used them since I had the free version. I opted for the simpler option.
I'm using Acronis True Image, works fine. Though it might just be a bug in the version I bought years ago (2011), but the auto-cleanup feature doesn't seems to work, it doesn't remove older backups as per the settings I set it to, making me go and delete them manually. That said, it works perfectly to restore the entire OS, even if you formated the drive or whatever, restore to the same state it was when you backed it up. Saved my bacon multiple times. Especially when I derped and forgot to save the bitlocker key to my thumb drive... which resulted in me losing EVERYTHING, thank god I had full drive backups.... There's also a "try & decide feature", which essentially capture every change made from the time it's enabled to the time you stop it, allowing you to revert them. Great if you want to try out something but not sure if it works or not. But it doesn't work with a bitlocker encrypted drive. Unless you own a business, you do not want Acronis Backup. The general consumer version is True Image. But man did it increase in price? I remember buying it for about $30 at best buy.... Whichever solution you decide to take, I recommend one that you can actually recover the backup from outside windows. That way if something ever fail, you can recover your entire OS easily just by putting in a recovery CD/flash drive of the backup software or similar. (Which Acronis does) But if all you want is just backing up a few files or folders and don't care about having to reinstall everything in case of a failure, then anything will do really, even windows's built-in backup system.