Quote - The two harddrives I lost had the same data on them they were back up of each other. Like a idiot I had then both installed in one computer, but for about 7 months now I back up everything on 3 external drives.

The three external drives are a good idea.  I have one drive in my working area, one in a safe and one held at another location.  Each contains a backup of all the downloads in zip or rar format, a copy of my runtimes folders and a copy of all my work.  In addition there is a copy of all the photographs I have taken since I moved from film to digital photography.  After all there is no way of re-downloading my photographs.  The one off-site is to cover off either a fire or burglary at my home.

The other aspect is how these are stored with the aim of not taking an age to back up on a regular basis but allows easy uploading of the data should the worse happen.  I use Karen's Replicator, which is free for private use.  This maintains the folder structure but only backs up the changes since the last backup.  When I built my new computer some time ago I loaded it with Windows 7 and then copied the Runtime back up to a new harddrive.  It took hours but thankfully, using the replicator I was able to start the copy and go to bed, something not possible if you have to sit feeding the computer with sequential DVDs.  Next morning I had a new machine with all my Poser stuff just as before.  I was really pleased, a new machine built and ready to be used to the full in 24 hours.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.