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    Windows 8 laptop - how to backup?

    Question: got a Windows 8 laptop here. Anyone got any suggestions how best to back it up?

    Explanation: Eldest kid got a Windows 8 laptop for Christmas, and although I'm recommending she cloud store her documents, I'd obviously like to be able to do some kind of backup in case of disk crash (we get to swap "are we there yet" for "is it rebuilt yet" - dad's will know what I mean).

    On the previous system she had (a desktop) there were two disks, so it was damned simple to setup Windows backup to automatically backup one drive to the other. Effectively a fire-and-forget solution. Problem is that this is a consumer laptop, so it's only got one drive bay.

    I've got plenty of hardware here (flash drives, disk crates, NAS boxes) so I guess my confusion is more over the best software to use. The more automation the better so - for example - some magic program that could start automatically, take a backup and shutdown the laptop if a certain drive were plugged in would be superb. If a NAS-based solution then it would absolutely need to be able to do incremental/differentials - since the time taken to do a backup of a 1TB disk (even one not that full of user data) over WiFi is likely to be appreciable.

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    Re: Windows 8 laptop - how to backup?

    Easus, winrar, winzip, pkzip from batch, roaming profile if hubby wants to start a domain

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    Re: Windows 8 laptop - how to backup?

    Time machine ?
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