Martin Kadansky will teach us about syncthing, an open-source, free program that can be used to synchronize two computers, and thus can be a useful backup layer. We will contrast it with Syncback, a commercial program. 

We will discuss Macrium Reflect, one of the good imaging programs.

          1. How to back up your entire PC, and get files back, and do a bare metal restore

           2. Developing a good system of disk rotation and scheduled backups 

           3. The hazards of drive letters, and Macrium’s “alternative drive” feature

We will compare Backblaze and Carbonite, two good cloud backup systems. We will contrast them with Icloud, OneDrive and GoogleDrive, which are not backup systems, even though sometimes they pretend to be.

We will talk about how to use the free 7-zip program to do a simple data backup to flash drives.

We will talk about how to create a very strong layered solution using all these tools.

We will talk about good strategies for backing up your phone photos and other data. 

We’ll talk about KeePass, and using it to safely back up your passwords, will, health care proxy, and other vital documents, and share them with your loved ones and executor.