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It's always a great idea to backup your data. Too many people complain about "Oh I lost all my data". And my first response is "Where's your backups?" One thing you didn't mention is the longevity of the type of backup drive you select. If you're using ordinary desktop type backup drives (WD Elements, Seagate Expansion etc), they'll only last a few years if you keep them permanently connected to the NAS 24/7. They're only designed to be on for a short time (not 24/7), which will significantly reduce their life. If that's not a concern, go ahead and keep it permanently connected. If it is, I'd suggest maybe connecting it weekly to backup (that is of course if you can handle some data loss if the NAS was to go down and requires some manual intervention). If you can't, either use an expansion unit with NAS drives or you can also buy generic JBOD expansion units too that will connect via USB or sata. Using expansion units are great too if you upgrade your NAS storage drives to bigger ones, you can put the older ones in the expansion unit and get a few more years out of them. For me personally, my NAS has media and a backup of personal files. The media files are generally only updated on a weekly basis when I add new content. Personal files are already on my laptop so there's another backup anyway if the NAS or laptop where to fail.

Very good advice. I lost a HDD once 28 years ago with some precious family photos. Never to be seen again. Since then I have always had 2 backups.

I lost half a terabyte of data in February 2019. I can't stress how vitally important it is to ensure that your personal data is archived and backed up. I learned that lesson the hard way.

Brian - Thank you for making the exceptionally useful videos for the ‘rest’ of us to watch. While I am not a tech new by, I still learn a great deal from your presentations, and would go so far as to say that the subjects of this video was presented in a far more useful fashion than those provided through Synology. I do a very similar thing with my DS918+ using a WD 10TB Drive. What I really wish to learn is how to do the ‘bare metal backup’ that apparently my NAS and available software can provide. More importantly, I need to learn how to restore a computer from this ‘bare metal backup’ on my NAS. I look forward to possibly seeing you present a video covering this topic. Thank you again for providing excellent videos.

I back up nightly with a scheduled batch file that distributes the data among other computers on the network and a weekly backup to an external hard drive and a DVD. Half my folders on MWF, the other half on TThSa. 25 years and I've only lost one or two files. In case someone asks, I've checked the old DVDs (originally CDs). They are still readable.

Being an IT guy, this is what I have seen: 1. The people that desperately need to backup never do. They just don't know better. They trust their laptop and their google photos will NEVER go dead. When they are advised to do so, they want you to do it for pocket change ("Is the cost of the backup hard drive + an extra $20 for your labor good enough?") 2. The people that don't need to backup are usually the ones that at least have a USB stick or similar external device. But they keep nothing of value. All they do is use Google Chrome to surf the web. For the first group, if you offer it as a service, they think you're trying to profit, so they resist. When their shit does take a dive, oh boy, the cries of lamentation and regret! I spent an entire week with someone, working with Google to restore their entire photo catalogue, from 2005, which they had zero backups of. I charged them hefty because that was a colossal pain in the rear, and now they stopped calling, haha.

Thank you very much for this great video! After seeing this, I have now set up my NAS backup.

The NAS doesn't have a propitery connector. the connector is the USB 3.0 version of micro USB

Just in time as usual! Thank you.

Brilliant idea to always keep your data backed up. P.S. forgot to say on earlier videos but outro music is very funky now :D

i like those units but they seem to made with real cheap plastic . Another issue is is you have a lot of them , then each one has each power supply. I always thought the manufacture should make a large wattage unit where you could plug in drives into it utilizing one plug

That’s not a proprietary connector. It’s called usb micro b super speed which is used for those types of storage devices which can hold a lot of data and need speed to transfer it

I just use a second drive and clone the data from my main drive to the other, I do this quite regular, if i install anything i just do a backup, takes 20 mins with a free version of a program, I won't mention it as i don't know if I can :)

I have a 4tb internal drive in a second computer and a 4tb external drive for backups. I am setting them up right now. According to Seagate's website the 4tb external is formatted in exFat which Seagate calls a "lightwight file system" and states that it is better to format the drive in the OS's native file system. Of course the instructions that come with drive don't mention that the drive is formatted in exFAT. So I am currently redoing my backup with the drive reformatted in NTFS. I never thought to check berfore I started.

Brian, I like your videos, a lot of good and helpful content. 👌👍 Also the little pot plant ad's a nice touch.

I use StoreJet external hdd and backup via AOMEI Backuper, and it works fine.

Good video. Nice setup.

This is really useful on my end keeping files for work, photography, videography, my pc to my mac going to that would be really great! Still figuring out how to set up that RAID system on pc if it’s related lol Thanks for the vid I’ll set this one up!

Thank You very much. Great info. Perfect timing.

Always enjoy your informative videos! Great demonstration and spot on emphasizing data backup. With FAT32 file size limitation of 4GB and partition size limit of 2TB Fat32 seems to be outdated for hard drives. What are your thoughts? Thanks again

Back up? I want mine to go forward.

Hey sir can you make a video of how to download Microsoft oem key windows 11 and remove old oem key

I don't have a NAS setup but I have two WD Elements 18TB drives one is a backup of the other

Had too many versions of different backups and decided to consolidate and then back up, ... AND somehow deleted 10 years of photos in 1 click on a SSD (which I thought would speed up a weeks solid work. On the bright side I no longer have to edit 70 + k of pics anymore. Anyone want a camera?

What if i have a nas server dedicated to backup?

I should definitely purchase a Western Digital 12TB external USB hard drive from Best Buy prior to backing up my downloaded PS4 games because I am redoing my PS4 console and taking the console & hard drive with me to a Wi-Fi enabled building (Houston Ballet, Lake Sam Rayburn, Lake Buchanan, etc)

Hey Brian are those activation keys geo locked? Can I use your affiliate link here in Australia?

Just press that button 🔘

After 4 years I watch his video, looks like he becomes old and change his voice.

Are the 4tb versions of this WD drive good and reliable ? I know they are SMR types on the lower capacities so i was wondering if they are worth it ? I got once toshiba canvio basics 2tb that had reallocated sectors and at 20% health barely working 15h total .Luckally i was able to save my files which were 300gb with 1-2 archive ones being corrupted and return the disk .

Please sir i will waiting

I take this to be for those who have an enormous amount of data and I just do a monthly backup onto a USB 1TB hard drive and that is just a system backup - is that enough for me to do?

as i only have docs music and pics i just back them up to an external hard drive and i have a USB saved ready to go with all the drivers uploaded..primitive i know but thats ok

Hyper backup not able to restore by folders or files level, correct me if I am wrong... Thank you

Different ending ?

👍 I don't know, but it must be mind blowing how Microsoft backs up their data.

Thank you Sir I got already the meaning on google this time and thank you for your immediate reply..! 👍🖐✔

Can I use a nas to backup my nas as my data is quite large?

What does NAS mean?

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