# Backup solutions - what are people using?
**URL:** https://cog.discourse.group/t/backup-solutions-what-are-people-using/817
**Category:** useful info
**Created:** [July 3, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/backup-solutions-what-are-people-using/817 "2014-07-03T04:33:40Z")
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### Author:  [@CryHavok](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CryHavok)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/backup-solutions-what-are-people-using/817/21 "2016-11-03T19:01:50Z")
Nice - I’ll have to investigate myself.
I’ve recently dumped Crashplan in favour of [rclone](http://rclone.org/), and a mix of providers. Sure, there’s no pretty GUI, but it just works and between unlimited Amazon Cloud Drive, Backblaze B2 and others I can be pretty sure that no matter what happens, my data can be recovered.
(Well, as long as I’ve got a working Internet connection… 😛 )
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### Author:  [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 6:17am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/backup-solutions-what-are-people-using/817/22 "2016-11-04T06:17:02Z")
urBackup supports bare-metal restore. How cool is that? Just create an image of the workstation/laptop, and when disaster strikes, pop in the urBackup restore CD, select the image to restore, and you’re back in business… (barring Mr Murphy)…
This I will investigate at a later stage. The idea is to create an image of any new laptop/desktop system that arrives, or after an existing laptop/desktop is rebuilt, then store those images on a safe place, and when disaster strikes, you can just restore from the preconfigured images, and be going in a short time without faffing around with factory restores, removal of bloatware etc etc…
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