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How to Programmatically Eject a Drive for Immutable Backups with Physical Connection?
We are looking for a practical and cost-effective way to enhance the security of our backups. Our initial idea was to go for immutable backups but unfortunately, due to cost constraints, we are ...
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Using rsync to merge two source directories
I have my photos on an external disk, which I back up to my server by manually running a script that uses rsync. This script ensures that my external disk and my backup are in sync, which means ...
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How can I prevent Backblaze from frequently (every few days) reuploading my entire external hard drives?
It seems that Backblaze is frequently (every few days) reuploading my entire external hard drives. Backblaze already has the files on its server, so it's only scanning my entire external hard drives, ...
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Is it possible to make a RAID of multiple WD elements external drives
I have about 10 2tb WD Elements 2.5 WD green external hard drives (WD20NMVW). I want to know if I could make something useful out of them.
The best would be to be able to use them for a data archive ...
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Backup iCloud files to an external hard drive?
What are my options for backing up every file on my iCloud to an (exFAT) external hard disk?
Right now I have more files on iCloud than space on my Mac internal hard drive.
Copying folders from the ...
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How should I interpret this "Bad disk" report by CrystalDiskInfo?
Today, I have gone through the process of individually plugging in all my ten current backup disks and checked them with CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.8 x64 in order to determine whether I dare to keep using ...
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I am unable to copy/paste lots of files from a NTFS 4TB external drive, to a SSD 16TB USB stick to back up the 4TB drive. Always fails except for?
I have a WD 4TB external USB storage dive, that I want to copy everything on it to a newly purchased 16TB USB SSD stick drive.
I started to copy/paste all of the data (about 860GB) which took quite a ...
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Backing up from Dropbox (online) straight to external drive
I have all my work saved on my Dropbox account, and generally only have around 20% of that stored locally at any one time.
I'd like to buy a large external drive and back everything up onto that for ...
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Questions about external SSD software RAID?
I currently have two 2.5" 4TB SSDs. My plan is to get an external Thunderbolt enclosure with a minimum of 4 bays and no hardware RAID (e.g. OWC Thunderbay Mini), and buy two more 4TB SSDs to make ...
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Dropbox writing to external drive very slowly
I have an external HDD which I wanted to utilize as Dropbox backup. It's connected to a secondary idle PC via USB. I've installed Dropbox and set its location at the external drive hoping it would ...
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Is it bad keeping an external hard drive on my desk – given vibrations from typing on keyboard?
I keep an external hard disk on my desk, which is usually turned off, but I will plug it in occasionally to do backups of my computer.
A friend told me that it's a bad idea to be typing on the ...
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Backing up System Image of Primary Drive to External HDD and Files on Secondary Hard Drive to Same External HDD?
I have a weird use case:
I have two drives in my PC: C drive (1TB nvme ssd) and D drive (different 1 TB nvme ssd).
C drive has windows, d drive has personal files.
I want to create a complete image of ...
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backup then restore when drive sizes differ
I would like to backup a Windows 10 machine ( 256gb internal drive ) onto an external SSD drive ( 1 tb ) ... however to do this backup if I boot up using a Ubuntu LiveUSB memory stick then issue the ...
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Hard Drive space used but files are in found.000 and cannot be accessed
I had used Virtualbox for a virtual machine which had froze for a long period of time and would not close by shutting it down normally. I closed it by clicking the cross and restarted my machine. I ...
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Why isn't my External Hard Drive getting backed up by Backblaze?
My External Hard Drive (8 TB Seagate External Hard Drive mounted as disk letter F) isn't backed up. by Backblaze? See demo below. Why isn't it getting backed up?
I read https://help.backblaze.com/hc/...
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Can I move .exe files from a file history drive to a new computer?
If I backup my folders for Steam and GOG using the Windows 10 file history tool, would I be able to move those files to a new computer and run the .exe files?
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Backup ext4 on LUKS to an external drive if the size of the target drive is less than the size of the source drive
I have a few spare 1TB marked SSDs that I'd like to use for my primary NAND backup. I'd prefer to have dd for dumping everything as it is - but the tricky part is that my NAND has about 1.5 GB more ...
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How to backup my Google Drive for Windows files onto an external backup drive
I'm on Windows 10, and trying to organise my file system and backups. I would like to have all of my "main" files (documents, etc.) on Google Drive, so I can access them across different ...
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How to stress test a new portable hard drive before using it as a backup
I guess the title says it all. I'm getting a 2TB WD My Passport which I intend to use as a backup, but I've heard some stories of people copying all their materials to a new drive only to have it stop ...
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Windows 10 backup stuck at 97%
I was backing up my ssd to an external usb hard drive, and it was almost over being done. It says Creating a system image of windows (C:) but its stuck there for an hour. The green bar thingy is also ...
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Maintaining old laptop HDD as backup while replacing with newer SSD
tl;dr: Is it possible to replace an old hard drive while maintaining the existing bootable drive as an external backup?
Here is the story: I have a 10+ year old Apple Macbook Pro that still works and ...
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Backup files on external disk. Take new backups only for files that have changed like GitHub
I want to backup thousands of files on my external hard disk. They are plain text files. I update some of them on a regular basis.
Now, if I copy them form my PC to hard disk, I have two options:
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Having multiple copies/backups on the same Hard drive?
Recently I have read somewhere that: -
If you do not have 3 backups of your important data, you do not have your data.
Now, I have a single 2 TB HDD. My important files are only of 100 GB in size.
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How to mount my TimeCapsule partition on my external hard drive?
I'm trying to backup my computer and I cannot figure out how to mount my harddrive. I have an external that I've split into a TimeCapsule and random stuff like movies and files (Tachyon is the name). ...
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Partitions on external backup drive - are they useful?
I have PC with Windows 7 and two drives: SSD 256 GB (system, 1 partition), HDD 3 TB (data, 3 partitions - 1 TB each).
I have also second HDD 3 TB in external HDD case which is using USB port to ...
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Correct workflow for backing up 2-4 TB of NAS data to external hard drive on monthly basis
I have a QNAP NAS server (with only one HDD slot) with a 4 TB drive installed. I would like to back up all data on monthly basis. What is the best workflow to do this?
I could simply copy all the ...
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Back up from Multiple Sources
I have several separate copies of my OS volume taken over various points in time, but now want to set up a cleaner, scheduled backup strategy. I could simply start regularly backing up the current ...
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How to backup too many small files faster? [closed]
I'm trying to backup my SSD to an external HDD
And even when my folder is less than 50Gb it has more than 400.000 files, I'm just copying the folder using Windows Explorer and it says it will take ...
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Formatting an external hard drive from HFS to NTFS/exFAT
I have a 2TB external hard drive which I formatted to HFS to store Mac backups since 2014. I also made a 200GB exFAT partition so that it would work with Windows. So currently there is 1.8GB HFS ...
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System Image Recovery: can't find my backed up image
Summary: On a PC with Windows not booting, I want to restore my files with System Image Recovery, but it won’t find the backed up image.
My Desktop (Windows 10) won’t boot to Windows anymore (...
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reducing time to take backup for virtual machines 376 Gb backup takes 4 hours to copy to USB
I have Workstation 15.0
I want to take its backup on an external USB
I try copying virtual machine folder to external USB suddenly some thing happens due to some connection error or wire being loose I ...
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Is it possible to disconnect a HDD by using a switch?
Background story: over time, I bought a lot of external hard drives. I got bored playing DJ with hard disks, and bought a Synology NAS (16TB JBOD, backed up to 8 external 2TB HDDs).
Skipping forward, ...
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Recommended backup methodology for a photography business
Problem
I have a small photography business. Currently, I'm sitting on 15TB worth of images, and it's growing about 100-150GB a month.
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I have 1 internal and 2 external drives. Currently,...
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Figuring out the size of data on an external harddrive
I have an external HD, a seagate backup plus slim 2TB. The filesystem on it is exfat. It has a single partition. I want to create a new partition table for this device, so I can use different ...
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When using Windows 10 Backup, is it possible to persist defined folders after changing drives?
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I'd like to have a simple system in Windows 10 where I backup known folders daily to an external drive for two weeks, then switch that out with a second external drive, and repeat this process ...
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Time Machine backup folder getting twice as big on other hdd?
So i have an old 1TB HDD for my Time Machine backups. Its nearly full (950gb used) and now i decided to move to a bigger HDD (i buyed a 5TB drive, but made partitions to split it to 2TB and 3TB, the ...
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create password for external Hard Drive
how can I make a password for my external hard disk easily & effectively? Do I need third party tools or I can do It from windows?
thanks <3
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unison: two computers, one external hard drive
I'd like to keep a common synchronized folder on two laptops. (With lots of media files and such, so can't use git, but on the other hand, very few changes needing reconciled.)
The easiest way to do ...
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Issue in restoring / copying the 38.4G original file which is in Restore Point
I have my SeaGate Backup Plus Drive which is of 2TB. It is not taking a 40G VDI file while copying. It is taking up to 12.16G and there stopping. Tried copying with Windows Explorer, TeraCopy. Both ...
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Are SSDs better than HDDs for long term idle storage? [duplicate]
I want to back up some files on an external disk. I won't be accessing the files as often, but I want them to be secure and private. It goes without saying that I don't want to upload them on the ...
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Automatically execute backup script when external hard drive is plugged with systemd
I have a laptop, an external USB hard drive and a backup script.
Laptop runs Arch Linux.
External USB hard drive is encrypted with LUKS.
Backup script backups on a given mount point (/media/backup).
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Veracrypt to Veracrypt copy hangs
For several years I've made a backup of my backup by plugging both USB external HDDs into my Windows 10 laptop, mounting them via Veracrypt and then simply dragging and dropping with File Explorer. ...
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Don't know what I’m looking for regarding removable HDDs? [closed]
Ok all. So I’m a gamer and haven’t built my own system since the 90s. I’ve always had a backup USB HDD in case I run into issues and have to format. I’m looking to have a bay for a HDD that I can ...
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Efficiently mix encryption and rsync on an external drive? [duplicate]
I have an external hard drive that contains several folders. The largest of these folders is a backup that I often update by rsyncing the relevant folders from an encrypted (via Ubuntu's ...
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Copying large amount of files freezes Ubuntu and Windows
I have two machines: an old one (core i7-920/12 GB RAM) and a new one (AMD 1950X, 96 GB RAM). Both machines have Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 in a dual boot setup. When I backup my NAS on the old one, ...
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File and folder mirroring required, to work on multiple systems
I am a graphic designer and I work on multiple systems, an imac at my office, and a laptop at home. i generally work on one system and then continue the work on other system, and more frequently i ...
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Imaging then using image
I have an old laptop with a failing internal hard drive (that cannot be easily taken out).
I want to install the same version of Windows (Windows Vista, 32-bit).
How can I image the internal hard ...
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Backing up 200TB of data from networkshare to multiple 8TB external HDDs (Linux)
I'm working for a company which collects tons of sensor-data from test drives. Currently we have about 200TB (1,638,400 Gbit) of data that needs to be backed up.
We're planning to set up a tape ...
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WD My Passport unusable after creating image with Clonezilla
I have a WD My Passport with 1TB. I used Clonezilla-live device-image to create a backup of my whole hard drive. Note that I have done so once already but since it only backed up 2 partitions out of 5,...
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How can I backup the data of my "windows" hard disk?
My problem is the following:
The mother board of my laptop is broken, but my HDD is ok.
Before changing the motherboard (which is still under warranty), I want to backup the data of my HDD.
What I ...
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