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Community weekly poll: Do you backup your computer data?
- 4/5/07 4:58 PM
No (by choice)
by jayhelman - 4/6/07 5:04 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I choose not to back up my computer. Chances are nothing is going to happpen to your system (or @ least my system that is).
Yes, using Norton Ghost 10.0
by Harry J. Smith - 4/6/07 5:22 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I automatically backup my computer every night while I am asleep. I use Norton Ghost 10.0 and an external hard drive. The drive is a Western Digital 250 Gigabyte USB 2.0/FireWire 400 device.
I have Norton Ghost set to do a full backup once a month on the 1st and an incremental backup on other days. The full backups are about 60 GB and the incremental backups average less than 1 GB.
My Internal hard drive I am backing up is a 120 GB drive with about 75 GB used. Towards the end of the month I use Norton Ghost to delete some old backups so there is room for new ones.
If you plan to use this scheme, I recommend that the external drive is at least twice as big as the drive you are backing up.
Data Backups
by pickren - 4/6/07 5:29 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I schedule an automatic backup of my Docs and Settings daily at noon with Microsoft's Backup Utility for Windows and then I perform a manual Automated System Recovery backup with boot disk every 3 days.
backup
by robie57 - 4/6/07 6:01 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do not know how to backup
I wouldn't if it wasn't automated with Windows Home Server
by Considerate_Guy - 4/6/07 6:01 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Face it, we are all lazy and don't regularly back up our data. We think about it, we perhaps made a DVD backup of our valuable photos 18 months ago, but haven't since. It's too much work to do on a regular basis and trying to remember to switch tapes, or move the external USB drive to each PC is a pain.
I've been part of a beta program for Windows Home Server and I see this as an ideal solution. Not only does it back up every PC on your network, it makes duplicate copies of all files stored on the server. I'm really enthused about it and since I've been running the beta, I even had the opportunity to test a full recovery of one of the PCs. The disk failed, but I was able within about 45 minutes to install a new drive, and then reload the contents from the server. That was eye opening!
Microsoft has some details on their website.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
From what I know, they are trying to target a release of the product late this year.
Mozy is the way I go
by mepp - 4/6/07 6:04 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I finally tired of backing up my 49 GB of data, photos, audio, and video to one of two external drives and then parking one of them offsite.
At $5/month for unlimited storage Mozy is a no-brainer. FREE if you're willing to fiddle or don't have that much to backup.
- Savings in not having to purchase two external drives: $200-$400.
- Eliminating the pain-in-the-@$$ monthly backup routine: 1hour of your leisure time X your hourly rate.
- Knowing your photos and videos are safe from fire or theft: priceless
Backup Software
by vsawler - 4/6/07 6:05 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hi
I use Windows Home Server!
It's has a very good backup program, that backups all the PC's on my home network daily .... It's does not have the best file selection method, but the other benefits out way this small problem.
The restore CD is awesome. I've had to use it one already, which saved me days of rebuilding a PC. I just booted off the restore CD, selected the correct backup and 1-2 hours later the PC was up and running.
I applied for the beta when it opened and a few days later I was testing! I can honestly say this is a software package or product that will fill the void in the market.
I back up several times a day
by phna2 - 4/6/07 6:49 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am an old and I emphasize old hand a backing up critical data files. Back in the 1970s, I wrote a five line Basic file to copy and move all new files and any that changed since the last backup to a zip file and copy that file and place it into a floppy disk. For years I placed it on the older 3.5" floppy disks, but now I'm using a small USB drive. I was able to get over 3MB on an older 3.5" disk after compressing the data with PKZIP
Back up
by streck733 - 4/6/07 7:08 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Well i only back my stuff up when im gonna update windows like a service pack or im gonna install a new os or do something major. i have a hard drive camcorder so i back my stuff up on it incase i acciently wipe the drive
Backup Exec / Norton Ghost
by dam718 - 4/6/07 7:51 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Being a Systems Administrator for the past 12 years, there have been a few occaisions in my early days where I quickly learned the value of backing up data.
In a professional environment, this is absolutely vital, and I conduct nightly backups of critical data to AIT Tape using Veritas Backup Exec. I also keep two sets of full system backups for each server, imaged at the time the software configuration was built and active directory schema put in place; one set stored on site, and another in a safe deposit box off site. Not to mention, each server is running 6 drive RAID 5 arrays. But I am in the business of keeping an enterprise level network on its toes 24/7. If anything happens to disrupt service to the network then I am in jeopardy of being fired.
With that being said, I guess it makes me a bit more controlled at home. I adopt a lot of the same practices. In my home PC I use Norton Ghost. I have two SATA drives in a RAID 1 configuration (mirrored) as my C: drive so I have redundancy of my operating system. I also have a full system backup on DVD which I imaged using Norton Ghost at the time I built the system. I have Ghost conduct incremental backups of several folders which I use for storage of important business related, personal files, music, and other such items... It would be a shame to lose your iTunes library, especially since Apple makes you pay (again) to download a song you've already paid for... (That's crap, by the way, if anyone at Apple is reading this!)
I should mention here too that a set of system recovery disks is every bit as vital as having backups of your data. I have found in the past that what seems like a drive failure is simply a corrupt boot sector or master boot record on the hard drive. You can recover the master boot record and your essential system files and system state data (like registry information and active directory information in Win2K+ servers.) You may not have lsot any data at all, but if you don't have recovery disks especially for your system, you will lose everything if you end up with a bad master boot record...
And for those who don't know or don't care about backups... I can understand that, but I tell you... You never know how valuable they are until you've lost everything. Imagine a fire burning everything in your house. It's a little bit like that. I'd rather keep my important files, and make them as fireproof as possible.
Good luck folks!
Dave
I use a combination of Retrospect and Backup MyPC
by rsimanski - 4/6/07 8:04 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
For daily backups, I use the Duplicate feature in Dantz Retrospect Express. This copies new and changed files to a partition on my external USB drive that duplicates the partition on my internal hard drive. Because Retrospect simply copies the files and doesn't compress them into a proprietary format, I can retrieve them easily.
This process doesn't delete old files on the USB drive. Every so often, I tell Retrospect to duplicate all files. In this case it deletes files on the target drive that don't exist on the source drive.
For full system backups, I use Backup MyPC to create a backup file on a different partition of the external drive. I know that I should back up to a different medium than the one that I use for Retrospect, but I'm lazy and this method is fast and convenient.
Linux Server
by purposed - 4/6/07 8:09 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I order my directory structure (and that of my wife's system) so that all important data (except emails) are in a single tree. I back that up about once a week to my Linux server (proFTPD on the Linux manchine and Smart FTP on the Win machines). I use Thunderbird so that my email files are similarly easy to back up.
About a year ago, I helped purchase a large hard drive for my son (lives in a different city) and now I ssh/scopy/rsync those files from my linux server to my id on his linux server about once a month. We both use DynDns to assure the servers can find each other.
Why not using two HDDs ?
by hifly.liu - 4/6/07 8:40 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Just cost you US$80 a secondary HDD you will never need to backup your data again. Anything you think is necessary to be store forever just put on the secondary HDD. Don't forget to update your Windows by Windows Update and Microsoft Update. This will prevent your computer from virus attack. If you feel the system to be slow down, it's because you install too many application software. Just format C: and reinstall Windows, cost you around 2 hours. Your data is safely store in D:, remember ? Don't try to fix it by any means, it's of no use.
Don't count on any anti-virus software due to it's of no use, too. I have seen the virus affected PC equipped all kind of anti-virus softwares. And I can guarantee to you that if you want to protect your PC by anti-virus software, then your PC will definitely been infected by virus. It's because you don't understand computer, nor the Windows.
yes
by lover_boy420691 - 4/6/07 9:25 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
yes i do backup my computer data with system restore i have windows xp and i just go to start and then click on help and support and then go to system restore and type in the date and time i want to restore it to and it does it for me and then i have all the information that i deleted.i just hope that i can help some people and if there are any other problems that people need help with then i will be happy to help them thank you for takin the time to read this bye
I do.
by Ed-duh-win - 4/6/07 9:40 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do, with Synctoy.
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