1. I recommend to everyone to have a offline backup - buy 3 disks - keep 1 at your PC in home - keep 1 at your office, friends home... - use 1 to switch disks so that there is allways 1 copy at offsite location
2. If you syncronize, you will syncronize your errors as well - I copy new photos and files by just adding newones, no deletes - time to time I rename a backup as "old" and create a new backup - once the new backup is tested and replicated to all disks, I'll delete the old one
3. Test time to time your backups - I use Microsoft's Synctoy and it has at least once "made the backup", but in reality it didn't
Here is my 2 cents to add this topic....
1. I recommend to everyone to have a offline backup
- buy 3 disks
- keep 1 at your PC in home
- keep 1 at your office, friends home...
- use 1 to switch disks so that there is allways 1 copy at offsite location
2. If you syncronize, you will syncronize your errors as well
- I copy new photos and files by just adding newones, no deletes
- time to time I rename a backup as "old" and create a new backup
- once the new backup is tested and replicated to all disks, I'll delete the old one
3. Test time to time your backups
- I use Microsoft's Synctoy and it has at least once "made the backup", but in reality it didn't
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