backup data software Win10 recommendations

[cineflex35]

What would you recommend for PC Windows 10 OS to use for data backup software?

Sure there are different strategies such as
multiple versions of your computer backups so you can recover to a previous state
on-site multiple HDD
off-site HDD
cloud storage.

I am specifically interested in the backup software to use for the incremental data once you do the bulk of your data with the software also. The maintenance if-you-will. weekly, monthly. I've heard Acronis True Image by some and also that it is a joke by others. I want to pay for the software once, not a reoccurring license. Recommendations?
This thread deals with Windows 10 PC OS only.

[rootwyrm]

Acronis TrueImage is a steaming pile of crap at it's pinnacle. Anyone recommending it for anything other than one-time use is out of their gourd.

https://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html

It is unparalleled in quality, it comes with AMAZINGLY good lifetime email support (who I've used twice, don't do "canned answers," and solved the issues both times), and it's FREE.

[limeburst]

I use Arq.

https://www.arqbackup.com

[Thumper]

I use also Veeam for my Desktop. My mothers and gf laptop still uses macrium but will be migrated to veeam soonish.

[andrewjoy]

I use https://www.backblaze.com/ for all our macs and our mac mini 6TB thunderbolt raid, it has versions going back several weeks , you can backup external HDDs and you can get your files back as a download or they will ship you a USB disk or a HDD ( there is a charge for that however).

Now it does keel over when i try to back up out 30TB live fibre channel raid dataset for our editors but you show me any cloud service that can back up 30TB daily and i will love you long time ! This is why i am going to be building a rather large FreeBSD RAIDZ2 server with 10GigE to replace the 30TB fibre channel raid, sometimes offsite is not an option.

I would also HIGLY recommend having an on site and off site backup, look into ZFS on BSD , you can use freenas or zfs guru but for a backup solution you don't need all the features. Just have the ZFS pool mounted over iSCSI to your windows PC and use some sort of windows equivalent of rsync to copy the data overnight to the ZFS server ( 1gbe ethernet minimum recommended)

So i would have .

Live data on win 10 PC > https://www.backblaze.com/ then i would have a weekly dump of all data form the windows 10 PC to a older PC running a ZFS mirror set on BSD.

Have a look a the book FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS by Lucas / Jude , its an amazing recourse for ZFS and it also manages to be quite funny.


Can you sell this is all i have been dealing with for months ?