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Community weekly poll: Do you backup your computer data?
- 4/5/07 4:58 PM
re: Do you back up your computer often>?
by ILoveEmail - 4/6/07 10:17 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No, by my own stupid choice.
Automated backup for OS X: SilverKeeper
by Josephacote - 4/6/07 10:54 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Lacie's SilverKeeper, which has the ability to make bootable backups of my hard drive. It can backup as often as once a day, or as seldom as once a week.
No redundant offsite copy, not a real backup.
by mepp - 4/6/07 11:18 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If you're not backing up to two separate external HDDs you're not really backing up your data against catastrophic loss.
I once was recovering a machine from a backup on an external HDD, when the entire contents of the external HDD itself were wiped out during the recovery process.
If you're not keeping one backup offsite, you're not backing up your data.
Your house burns down. Did you keep your HDD in a fire-proof safe? Oh, note that while the garden variety fireproof safe may gaurd your paper hardcopies for anywhere from a few minutes to a couple hours, it won't necessarily protect magnet media.
Enough said?
Backup
by MSgt Mackel - 4/7/07 12:42 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I backup weekly using Mozy. It's an automatic scheduled backup. Once it's set up you never have to mess with it (of course unless you need to change anything or restore your files). The only thing that interferes is me, when I use the computer during its scheduled backup time. It won't do a back up while the computer is being used but it will remined me later I haven't had a back up.
Once a month (kind of)
by lcarsdata - 4/7/07 3:08 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I try to backup my computers and websites about once a month. I don't have lots of data so it doesn't take that much time. Firstly I put a backup on my USB external hard drive and then take it to my other PC and copy it onto there. If I had a better internet connection I would consider using an online service as well, however I am concerned at sensitive data being stolen that way - so encryption would be a must.
What method to backup computer
by neilcamp - 4/7/07 4:44 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Acronis True Image Home ver 10. It backs up the entire hard drive including Win XP and can do a full backup or an incremental backup. It is fantastic and I can easily restore even single files.
computer backup
by murman - 4/7/07 6:19 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I back up to another external and internal harddrive from time to time. I've made a set of dvd backup disks as well. I use acronis 9. It's saved my bacon many a time.
Boy have I Learned...
by JCFG89 - 4/7/07 6:23 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Back in the day (the mid 80's) when I wrote essays on my C64 (commodore 64 for all you young uns) I lost an essay because I didn't back it up as I was working on it. Six hours of hard work ended at 3 or 4 AM and nearly reduced this university junior to tears. I learned my lesson (boy did I ever) and after much caffeine and countless saves to my 5 and 1/4 inch drive (sigh remember those?) I stumbled into class with my C+ paper (or was it a B- err I can't remember)
Fast-forward to a few years ago and my (then) recently built (by a buddy and me) Athlon 2800 with all the trimmings. I was happily loading all my software and picked up a comic book database and catalogued hundreds of books with scanned covers (a pain in the butt let me tell you) plus some articles I had written and my contacts list for business and my adult sports teams.
I noticed that a fan was buzzing in my case so I took a look inside noticing that one of my hard drives cables had become entangled in a mess of other wires near and around the fan. I had now entered the mistake zone. "Power down and unplug your computer!" didn't even cross my mind so withought thinking I pulled the wire and unplugged the fan while the computer was still on (big mistake) as it was in tight with the hard drive cable. So I unplugged that and ZZZZTT! black screen!! NOOOOO!!! A power spike, a static charge, a dumb move? Yes to all. I connected my drive and fan with the power off and unplugged and my system wouldn't reboot. I tried to recover data but I went through a lot of headaches I lost 90 percent of data on the main drive. I also lost some blocks on my drive to my stupidity/laziness.
Now I use Second Copy back up software and I set it to back up certain files as I work. It is as detailed or basic as you want it to be.
Bottom line don't be lazy and back up your term papers becausein the end it will only hurt you.
Backup
by wildxcat - 4/7/07 6:43 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Acronis, Ghost, Outlook Express Freebie Backup, SyncBack are what I use daily. Quicken Data is updated on 2 networked computers every time I use it which is more than once a day.
Acronis and Ghost are automated. The others I do manually as needed.
just have to remember to turn on the necessary external drives when backeing up to other than internal ones.
Backup my computer
by LynneM - 4/7/07 6:58 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I try to back up at least once a month. If I put new programs on the machine, I back up in order to avoid problems. I bought Acronis True Image because I want one that will do the job and allow me to retrieve information singly or by the bunch. I tried M---S--T backup, but it doesn't do a good job. I could set the program to automatically do the backup, but I am not on the machine that much, and when I am off the machine - the machine is off, too. I don't leave it running and open to attacks. I have a lot of pictures on my machine, too, so I bought an external drive (USB) that I use to store the pictures on. I initally put them on the machine and then copy them to the external drive. This way I always have a backup copy of the picture.
backup as needed
by bobc47 - 4/7/07 7:42 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I back up data from my 5 computers to a 250GB usb drive by running batch files on each machine. I do it anywhere from once every few days to once a month depending on how much I use the particular computer. With the exception of my music files this amounts to a few GB at best.
I also have ghost images of each computer but these are basically of a clean OS install with all patches and basic software installed (office and my collection of utilities).
What I HAVE to do is to buy another hard drive and clone my usb drive so I can keep that at work in case of a disaster of some sort.
Do you back up your computer data?
by C.D.1966 - 4/7/07 9:59 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I actually have a second physical hard drive inside my computer so I save EVERYTHING to it instead of my main drive. I also have the contents of my Slave drive burned to CD which came in handy recently when BOTH drives had to be replaced.
Do it from time to time
by sntholiday - 4/7/07 10:58 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Files that are important to me, such as pictures, I burn onto CD. I don't have a lot of important files. If I decide to download music I burn it onto CD as well, but most of the time I just buy the CD. I rarely have any important documents that need backup, and all my financial information can be accessed from the bank's website.
Not really anymore
by Colin Hogan - 4/7/07 11:16 AM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I used to, but then I got lazy. I only back up my documents and pictures when I'm about to change something, or when I replaced my hard drive a couple months ago.
Automomatic backup
by Michelney - 4/7/07 3:13 PM In reply to: Do you backup your computer data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Acronis Drive inage, and both an external USB hard drive and a second internal disk. I do a daily automatic backup of my main drive onto the second internal disk, and weekly backups onto the external hard drive.
Any problems with my computer I restore to the previous day's backup.
Michel
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