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1. #WD SMARTWARE VS SMARTWARE PRO WINDOWS 10#
2. #WD SMARTWARE VS SMARTWARE PRO PORTABLE#
3. #WD SMARTWARE VS SMARTWARE PRO SOFTWARE#
4. #WD SMARTWARE VS SMARTWARE PRO WINDOWS 7#

I work with WINDOWS 7 on my laptop, is ok for me. and backup, that’s not the problem.īut I don’t need encryption or real back ups.Īlso I am not interested in “My Cloud” etc… or in WD Smartware. Let me make it simple to understand what’s my problem.įirst I know the difference between sync. Hi Bennor and jamalaya, thaks for your good willing helping me. Just another way and it never let me down.

#WD SMARTWARE VS SMARTWARE PRO WINDOWS 10#

If you are well off and have Windows 10 pro, then enable BitLocker and all backups will be encrypted. Now buy a gold chain, hook the USB stick to it and wear it around your neck ).

and choose the USB stick <- This will allow you to boot from it, and then restore the system image from the USB drive, when all is dead (assuming laptop can still boot). Useful when your laptop’drive dies and you want to restore as it was before you dropped it on the floor).

Schedule a system image back up (this will create a system image. Get a good USB stick (don’t buy a cheap one).Ĭontrol panel > system and security -> Back up and restore (windows 7) <- ignore it says windows 7Ĭhoose the external USB disk (the same you used for file history) You can also browse it for certain versions of file later to restore. Every one hour it will scan for changes and backup in the background and hardly intrusive. not much more expensive than normal one and always in my laptop bag. (use a reinforced drive such as Silicon power (anti shock - water proof and stuff, had for 4 years and never let me down and I travel a lot).

#WD SMARTWARE VS SMARTWARE PRO PORTABLE#

Here is the procedure I go through (despite the fact my wdmycloud working non-stop for 4 years now serving files for Windows and MAC):īut I am still paranoid, and only home at weekends, and not always connected.Ĭonnect your portable USB drive to laptop. Or if you are not always within an internet connection.

#WD SMARTWARE VS SMARTWARE PRO SOFTWARE#

If you are not worried about encryption and hate installing 3rd party software to do a simple job, or keep it to minimum then the solution is really simple. But this would require editing the firmware of the single drive/single bay My Cloud using SSH to allow for SFTP remote access. Some programs, like Free File Sync, can perform a backup/mirror/sync remotely using SFTP. The main downside to both Smartware and third party backup programs is the inability to backup from a remote location. Here are several free programs for performing backups or mirroring.įree File Sync can also perform syncing as well, the other programs mentioned are primarily straight backup programs. Generally a backup is one way/direction, where as a sync is typically bidirectional.Īnd Shabuboy is also correct that its better to use a third party solution not tied to the specific NAS vendor that way one can replace the NAS with a different product and still maintain their backup’s.įor pure backup there are a number of free programs available that will perform, mostly, the same function as Smartware. Smartware is a “backup and restore” program, WD Sync is primarily “syncs” data between two locations so they are both identical if the content in either location changes. While it may appear they are similar, each performs a slightly different function. One should understand the difference between what a backup does and what a sync does. In most respects Shabuboy’s answer is correct. saurabhaggarwal is not asking whether to backup or sync, but rather which WD utility to use.Īctually saurabhaggarwal did ask about backing up “…which version to use for backup…”. Shabuboy didn’t answer or didn’t understand the question.