In the past, my main storage for personal data was PC. I was using WD external drive to backup purposes and WD Anywhere Backup. I like this software, but there are some limitations exist:
-you can backup ONLY from PC drive to several different destinations (to NAS, to USB, to HDD, to online storage)
-this concept of “smart picks” make me crazy as you cannot backup one WHOLE folder. You can switch, to folder view but WDAB will still skip some files (Smartware is much worse)
Now, due to space constrains on PC I moved some personal data to NAS (MBL) and found that WD do not offer any software to backup data FROM NAS.
So, I’m looking for free or cheep software (<50usd) which do have following:
-folder (and files) backup software (like WDAB without Smart picks and hidden rules about file exclusion)
-backup software (not sync software) to keep several file versions and keep deleted files in backup (like WDAB)
-multiple sources and destinations for backups (PC to NAS, NAS to PC, etc) (missing in WDAB)
Which tool you are using to backup your NAS?
PS: my schema for backup in future will be:
-folders from PC drive to NAS (almost online)
-folders from PC drive to USB drive attached to the same PC (weekly)
-folders from NAS drive to USB drive attached to the PC (weekly)
PPS: I see that WD offer possibility to backup NAS to another NAS in new firmware, but I assume it is not backup but just sync (no file versions and deleted filed will disappear from “backup”)
PPS: For the time being I consider to use two backup programs in parallel to get benefits from both:
-WDAB to backup data from PC to NAS (as it doing backup only from one source)
-Altaro Oops!Backup to backup data from PC and from NAS to USB drive attached to PC (as it doing backup only to one destination)
Thanks!