I use this strategy myself, but I don't do it technically forever because at the moment, the repeated consolidations into the Full backup can cause fragmentation within the file, which can degrade the performance of future consolidations. Macrium has a nice YouTube animation of Incrementals Forever here that might help illustrate the concept. Thanks for your comments, I'm learning every day about backup and security in general. I saw the schedule profile(grandfather,father and son) that use everything (full,incremental and diff). With all my data, my pictures is my biggest concern, which profile should I use (the incremental forever) or something else. So basically, I plan to buy an external HDD around 10-12 TB that will be used only by Macrium and I want some versioning and a real backup strategy. In case of a virus or ransomware, I may be in trouble because I sync my stuff and everything gets lock at my place ? My main concern is that I sync my stuff on external drives, at least I have Backblaze (1 year of versions, I paid for that extra feature) to go back in time. I have Backblaze Personal plan on my main PC.īasically, I have a 3 2 1 backup strategy I guess? When I said I sync, I mean I use the mirror function from source to destination. I have an external HDD(4TB) at my parent's house that I sync every 3 months. I have 2 external HDD(4 TB) that I sync with my WD RED 4TB with Syncback Pro every Sunday.

Pictures = 1 TB (I had around 10 Gb per month)ĪPP = 4-5 GB (not vary that much in size)ĭOCUMENTS = 10-20 GB (maybe 500 Mb per month)īACKUP IMG(Old acronis true image, fixed in time) = 500 GB My main PC has a couple of SSD and all my data is on a WD RED 4TB. Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to the whole backup stuff and I would like to know which backup method I should use.įull, incremental, differential and the new one that I don't know, the incremental forever.

Syncbackfree v7