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Backup for iOS & Windows & Mac?
Please excuse the newbish question. For the above three platforms, what would you suggest for backup software & procedure? It’s a backup jungle out there with so many possibilities it’s boggling. All I’m looking for is a simple, reliable, automatic, low cost / preferably no cost way to provide reliable backup for the three mentioned platforms.
It seems Windows has depreciated all its built-in backups (correct me if I am wrong). It seems many backup solutions have moved to annual fees (does not sound very cost effective to me). It seems many backup solutions have moved to cloud storage (not my first choice as I prefer local hardware based backup).
For iOS I did buy two of these (have not used them yet) and using these would be my first choice https://www.amazon.ca/Sunany-Lightning-External-Storage-Android/dp/B07TFCQ945/ref=pd_day0_1/146-4917491-7428121?pd_rd_w=OzRua&pf_rd_p=a0f07c06-3bfe-427e-9527-5be8cea27b66&pf_rd_r=MRR2D1M82P4HQQFGPEM0&pd_rd_r=f8216c95-66db-4972-8305-9c476380c613&pd_rd_wg=6HILD&pd_rd_i=B07TFCQ945&psc=1
For Windows and Mac I have a lots of high capacity USB HD’s sitting around and using these would be my first choice for Windows and Mac.
I understand the risks of local hardware backup, and I am will to take that risk as opposed to offsite or cloud backup.
Much thanks!
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I guess I'll just get another Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1TB for my laptops (running the free Seagate Toolkit) and use my Lightning / USB thumb drives for iOS.
For Mac, use the Mac app "Time Machine". It is free, made by Apple and comes with every Mac.
For iOS, just use the Mac's iTunes software to backup your idevice to your Mac's hard drive.
Sorry, can't advise on Windows.
I use a Synology NAS configured for RAID for backup. For the Macs in the house we use Time Machine hooked to the NAS. For my Windows and Linux machines I just copy (the very few) important files on them to the NAS.
For iOS devices I use the iCloud backup for daily stuff and then use Finder on my main dev machine to do full backups when needed.
I backup all important files to offsite locations manually when needed. I don't feel the need to backup my entire set of devices to offsite because I can rebuild my work environment in a few hours, but the important files have to be backed up in a couple of offsite locations or they aren't backed up.
A Synology NAS is a great center storage piece for multi-platform use.
But I‘d engage the RAID functionality only if a (real) lot of transactions happen, as in business workgroup scenarios with many disks to hot-swap any failed drive without interuption.
The entry 2 drive configs don‘t add significant security, but engage drives much (!) harder.
I used to activate the system with a single drive, which effectively prevents RAID and later added more drives as „just a bunch of disks“ configuration.
In this mode you can use regular HDs, in RAID mode you need appropriate drives.
(the NAS literally eats a regular desktop WD drive within a couple of days... done that)
Of course it doesn‘t harm to relief quality 24/7 drives a bit by non-raiding, if the storage purpose is more or less an archive of files.