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And when you have that gear, what is it used for? Obviously businesses can, but a home user? Even with an appetite for movies etc you would have filled your drives in no time.

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I do full disk image backups of my half full 1TB OS drive to a HDD every day, and upload archive to remote storage every few nights, so about 1-2 TB a week of uploads. Then i have my other HDDs backed up once a week, so about 10-20gb of changes a month.

Now i started doing photography as a hobby, and boy, are those raw files large. 24mb each. Last weekend i was on a short trip with friends, 75 GB of raw photos and videos. Gotta back those up, the faster the better.

Why don't you synchronize the files instead of doing full image backups?

Synchronization does not offer benefits of proper back up. Ransomware propagates through sync

How so?

If ransomware starts encrypting your files then the sync will just upload that encrypted data.

How is it different to upload a disk image containing encrypted data?

You can also use versionning when you sync your files.

Because i want to be able to restore latest working state as quickly as possible, which includes all configurations of all my apps without having to fix missing license keys in the windows registry, setup accounts, and other fiddly settings.

I do file backup of my photos, documents, invoices, and other random things I've setup for backup.

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It's used to download things faster, not necessarily all the time.

> filled your drives in no time

What do you mean?

Not OP. With 2Gbps you can theoretically fill a 1TB drive in just over an hour.

shhh i was trying to get him to admit to Hollywoord movie piracy...

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