Backup Solutions (SmartSync Pro)
A couple months ago I had a scare that turned out to be a GPU burnout (fortunately.)
Anyway, I decided that my backup solutions needed some serious work. Sure, I had everything important saved off to my 2T NAS, but it’s only through an awful lot of real drudgery.
I went looking for a backup solution with the following requirements:
- Moderately priced.
- Easy to set up.
- Used simple file copy rather than some obtuse proprietary data format.
- Supported multiple backup jobs running on independent schedules.
It wasn’t SO long before I found SmartSync.
It fits the bill in ALL cases. The thing is a damn pleasure to work with. So much so that once I’d gotten it set up I forgot entirely about blogging anything about it and giving credit where credit is due.
At the $50 price point, it’s a bit high, but it’s perfectly usable, does EXACTLY what I want it to do, does it reliably and quietly. In fact it’s got a tremendous amount of flexibility that I suspect I will grow in to as time goes on.
I’ve set up a half dozen “backup profiles” (individual jobs) that run on independent schedules and keep things humming nicely.
I will eventually want an online backup system as well, but that will only be for the “in case someone blows up my apartment, I want … whatever it is I’d want” cases.
Good job guys o/