Best way to back up entire laptop?

[NeilCartwright]

Im notbut im not too tech savy either. I have a small business and work from home alot, and today it hit me. If my laptop crashes im screwed

Is there an inexpensive way to back up my entire laptop periodically? I had an external hard drive a while back and even that crashed. And it was a pain to drag and drop.

Isnt there a way in Windows to do a hard back up/save every 1-2 weeks?

 

[Dorian Breh]

Backup and restore/ Create System Image on Windows

Go to Settings > System & Security > Backup

Edit: the downside of this method is that you can only restore the image to the same computer. So I guess you’d be in trouble if your computer died. Drag and drop, nikka

 

[Tunez]

Buy an external hard drive, WD

 

[ball15life]

If you're not comfortable with the cloud, or backing to an external since it crashed...

I'd probably get a Hard Drive duplicator, extra Hard Drive and just duplicate the entire drive every so often (both around $100 total).

If the main laptop/laptop HD crashes you'd at least have some type of clone you can just plug into another laptop and keep moving

 

[NeilCartwright]

Backup and restore/ Create System Image on Windows

Go to Settings > System & Security > Backup

Edit: the downside of this method is that you can only restore the image to the same computer. So I guess you’d be in trouble if your computer died. Drag and drop, nikka

Appreciate the info

If you're not comfortable with the cloud, or backing to an external since it crashed...

I'd probably get a Hard Drive duplicator, extra Hard Drive and just duplicate the entire drive every so often (both around $100 total).

If the main laptop/laptop HD crashes you'd at least have some type of clone you can just plug into another laptop and keep moving

I have my iPhone pics and data backed up to the cloud. I’ll do some research on that but there’s a way to back up my docs on a Windows operating system to the cloud as well?

 

[ball15life]

Appreciate the info


I have my iPhone pics and data backed up to the cloud. I’ll do some research on that but there’s a way to back up my docs on a Windows operating system to the cloud as well?

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Dropbox or Google storage definitely works

You can also purchase a personal cloud (depending on how you set up your home network this option might be more secure)

 

[Fatboi1]

Put the laptop on a stable surface and push it towards something.


Acronis has a software that can do this.

 

[The Guru]

how big is t he hard drive? You could maybe fit what you need on just a usb stick or sd card if it's not too much.

 

[bnew]

heres a guide with screenshots

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/4241/how-to-create-a-system-image-in-windows-7/

 

[TripleAgent]

Duplicator or Norton Ghost