need easy to use software and reliable wireless drive for backup

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luckydriver

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preferred brand is Seagate but open to others you have used.

I'm lazy and admit I don't hook up the usb drive to the laptop as often as I should be to do my backups. my Linksys e1200 doesn't have usb on it so Im assuming i need a wireless hard drive to do what I want to do. at least 1tb and probably should get 2. really don't want to spend more than 150.

ease and reliability of the incremental backup /software are paramount. I don't need the fastest thing in the world.
 
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Software wise I like syncback. It is free, easy to use but also allows a lot of fine tuning if you choose to get down that fair. If you pay for the $35 SE version then you can also get versioning so it will save the last X number of versions of the file for the amount of time you specify; this is great for corruption or accidental modification/deletion.

As far as reliable wireless drive, that is a tough one. I have setup a buffalo and a Seagate one for friends/family before and neither of them are very reliable even using static IP address over hostname.

I would either use a cheap laptop or computer and just use that (if desktop you don't even need monitor after you set it up, just use remote desktop), and then connect the drive...
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Software wise I like syncback. It is free, easy to use but also allows a lot of fine tuning if you choose to get down that fair. If you pay for the $35 SE version then you can also get versioning so it will save the last X number of versions of the file for the amount of time you specify; this is great for corruption or accidental modification/deletion.

As far as reliable wireless drive, that is a tough one. I have setup a buffalo and a Seagate one for friends/family before and neither of them are very reliable even using static IP address over hostname.

I would either use a cheap laptop or computer and just use that (if desktop you don't even need monitor after you set it up, just use remote desktop), and then connect the drive to that.
If you don't want another computer and are computer savvy enough to not be scared by the Linux word then another option would be to get a raspberry pi (and sd card/power supply/case) and then set it up to be your NAS. Make sure to get the more powerfull B model.
http://www.howtogeek.com/139433/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-a-low-power-network-storage-device/
 
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