Witterings
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I've used Goodsync in the past which I actually think is a great tool but I absolutely abhor companies that charge you £10 for the 1st year, the 2nd year it increases to £35 when they think they've hooked you until you don't renew your subsciption for 6 weeks and the price drops back to £10.
I don't mind paying £150 for a lifetime licence if it does what I want but that's not an option with Goodsync.
I don't work in IT but I'm generally very IT literate, I very recently bought a Synology DS224+ and setup Plex within minutes .... I've tried setting up their Synology Drive backup and after many hours have completely given up.
Most of the other tools as in TB EaseUS don't do a real sync , if you remove something from the original folder and try syncing again, it doesn't then remove it from the backup, I tried their paid version so I could back up to the cloud and it was completely useless ... down to like 1 mbps which for backing up 360gb of photos on a 1Gbps line was a complete non starter.
Most of my backups are a main source of say photos which the folder may regularly be added to, and for work, hundreds of word docs so it's not for complete PC / Laptop backups and probably hence why Syncing is a better option for me.
If anyone can recommend a decent alternative with a lifetime licence at a sensible price I'd be really interested to hear it.
I don't mind paying £150 for a lifetime licence if it does what I want but that's not an option with Goodsync.
I don't work in IT but I'm generally very IT literate, I very recently bought a Synology DS224+ and setup Plex within minutes .... I've tried setting up their Synology Drive backup and after many hours have completely given up.
Most of the other tools as in TB EaseUS don't do a real sync , if you remove something from the original folder and try syncing again, it doesn't then remove it from the backup, I tried their paid version so I could back up to the cloud and it was completely useless ... down to like 1 mbps which for backing up 360gb of photos on a 1Gbps line was a complete non starter.
Most of my backups are a main source of say photos which the folder may regularly be added to, and for work, hundreds of word docs so it's not for complete PC / Laptop backups and probably hence why Syncing is a better option for me.
If anyone can recommend a decent alternative with a lifetime licence at a sensible price I'd be really interested to hear it.
My Computers
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At a glance
Windows 11Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 258V (2.20 GHz)32gb- OS
- Windows 11
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo Yoga 7 Gen10
- CPU
- Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 258V (2.20 GHz)
- Memory
- 32gb
- Hard Drives
- 1tb
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At a glance
Windows 11 ProIntel i7Currently 16gb ... may upgrade to 32gb+- Operating System
- Windows 11 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Optiplex 7090
- CPU
- Intel i7
- Memory
- Currently 16gb ... may upgrade to 32gb+
- Hard Drives
- NVME 512gb
- Internet Speed
- 1tb
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender
