I did not know about the Ransomware before this video, also first time I know about the features of One-drive or Dropbox to recover files, it's really helpful tools. Thanks for this useful information.
Question from the audience: From Ken M. in your video on backups "The only caveat I might add concerning incremental backups is that restoring from an incremental backup relies on ALL previous incremental backups being valid. If any one is corrupted for some reason the restore will fail" Can you clarify that? If the Wed backup gets corrupted would I lose: -All the backup? -Full + Mon to Wed incrementals? -Only Mon to Wed incrementals? (Restore Full and rest of week?)
If: Sunday is the full backup, Monday through Friday are incrementals, then if you lose the wednesday backup, you lose thursday and friday as well. HOWEVER I have heard that some backup software is more resilient, and you may lose only some files, not the entire backup. But it's best to assume you'd lose everything. That's why I recommend starting over with a fresh full backup every month. And, for what it's worth, while it's something that everyone seems to worry about, I'not experienced, and have yet to hear of an actual incremental backup loss of this sort.
Hi Leo, thank you for your videos. I've been looking into finally getting back ups for my PC. I checked Macrium but the free edition only does Incremental backups, has no protection for ransomware, and the paid version at $70 it's way too expensive Did look into EaseUS with it's misleading name, it's a Chinese company. No way, no how (And before some Karen out there cries RaCiSm!!!!!) look into the Chinese regime lack of respect for privacy (or human rights) There's Ashampoo Backup 15, on sale right now at Humble for $1, I've owned other software from them and it's been kinda sucky, maybe you could do a review? Finally there's Personal Backup, from a single dev in Germany, FREE! but either too advanced or too confusing (WTH it's a bit archive??) Again, thank you!
All I can say is that backups are important enough to warrant an investment. Macrium, IMO, is worth it. There are others that I've not had a lot of direct experience with. Acronis has mixed reviews (mostly poor customer support), and they're out of Russia, so I suspect they're also not for you. AOMI Backuper (worst name ever) seems to have some following. I believe Paragon has an offering too. I've not heard of "Personal backup" before, and have no experience with Ashampoo. Good luck!
Windows assign drive letters to the system using unique information of the drive. In a case of drive, letter lost you can reassign one by going to storage management, If it's happening often well you should make sure OS is in good condition and does not contain malware
Keep in mind that the protection of the MIG service only acts on local disks... if we place our Backup on a network disk (NAS), it is best to save the credentials of that location only on the Macrium Reflect (it has its own SAM database for this purpose). This will cause the program to access such storage without restrictions, but not for Windows Explorer (virus). 💪💪
