Storage: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data?
- 8/1/08 10:29 AM
Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 8/1/08 10:29 AM
Be honest: do you back up your important data?
Yes. (How often, and what's your method?)
No. (Why not?)
I don't know how to.
Not as I should...
by Willy - 8/1/08 10:44 AM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Just snippets of data, the real important stuff to me. many times, a h/w failures poops out the system or testing a component brings it down. I like to use CDs and DVDs whenever possible. I DON'T USE an ext. HD, I find they're capable of failing at the least desirable moment.
tada -----Willy
external h.d is like having exactly what it is..
by JOJOHAZE - 8/14/08 6:50 PM In reply to: Not as I should... by Willyif you could have two brains...one to think,and one for memory...it is the best thing you can have...with a good turbo range also..treat it like a child so to speak..safe from harm and flu(virus)..and it will keep all you precious memories/data etc...and dont forget all that time you spent getting those music/photos/films..all media & personal data etc...you can afford to buy...but never to lose...lol
Everyday
by msecour - 8/1/08 7:02 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
In years past I used to back-up important data to floppies, then tape, then CDs. At present, with a wireless home network, a primary desktop, an old desktop, and a laptop, I synchonize critical documents and financial files daily and all documents weekly on the three computers. It is easier than ever. The laptop always accompanies me so I have effective "off-site" storage in the event of a home catastrophe.
Backup Data
by brupub - 8/1/08 7:15 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have had too many hard drive failures over the years to not back up. I recommend Genie Soft software to back up to an external drive at least weekly and Carbonite for unlimited on-line automatic secure storage for Desktops and laptops and Sprite Software for PDA's. Keeps me sane.
Backup of important data
by rono.gray - 8/1/08 7:34 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do on the last day of every month, both my wife's HP Pavilion dv4018AP - XP SP3, & my HP Slimline desktop Vista Premium SP1.
ronyh.gray
Why I do not backup
by darow1 - 8/1/08 7:51 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Simple I have dual servers both running raided boot and data drives additional backup would be overkill if a drive goes down the second server is kept down until rebuild is complete. I would have to lose 4 drives at once to lose data.
Retrospect
by Qwerty Cake - 8/1/08 7:53 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use EMC Retrospect to back up nightly to an external HDD and also monthly to a progressive DVD set.
Backup using Mac OS
by Sugith1 - 8/1/08 7:56 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I clone my HD to a Lacie firewire drive at 4 AM using Silverkeeper (Lacie backup software) and use Time Machine to back up everything to a Lacie USB drive.
I also copy pictures and videos to DVD.
Yes, I know there's more I should do!
Backup.
by billyfridge - 8/1/08 8:01 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Your subject of backing up, today, has got me thinking.
I have got a new 80gig SATA external h/d that i'm using for backup now, but i have a couple of good healthy IDE h/d that i could use for backing up my back up, all i need is an external IDE box then i can use both the spares.
Thanx for the idea guys.
back up to second HD
by Dennis Flacy - 8/2/08 7:45 AM In reply to: Backup. by billyfridgeI back up to a second HD using Norton's Ghost 2002. To make it easy I bought a slide in tray holder and a tray that holds my HD #2 for about $20.00. As a precaution I bought a second tray ($15 +-)for my backup # 2 and alternate between them so if one backup HD fails I have another that is a clone of my primary HD just a few days different.
It takes about 12-15 minutes to backup 10 GB, depending on the speed of the HD you are backinkg up to.
I then have two HD's, clones of my pri . HD,
that I can store elswhere.
In the past I have only backed up "vital " files, but when it took most of a week to reinstall the op. sys.and many of the programs I switched to the present system.
External Backup vs. Online Storage
by pollytreasures - 8/1/08 8:04 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Backing up was too much hassle so I just crossed my fingers. About 6 months ago, conscious of my aging computer, I subscribed to an online storage for under $5 a month. It backs up my entire system daily or weekly based on my preset schedule. I started with a free online storage, but soon found I had more data than could fit.
I'm considering this...
by Rivergal49 - 8/2/08 8:28 AM In reply to: External Backup vs. Online Storage by pollytreasuresMay I ask which one you are using? I tried out X-Drive several years ago, and it seemed to work just fine.
Backup
by Jeshimon - 8/1/08 8:23 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Windows Home Server backs up our computers here at home EVERY night. I have used the restore to migrate to a new hard drive and it is quick and painless. Occasionally I run migration wizard just in case a new motherboard is mandated.
Daily backups using AllwaySync Pro
by huizhe2 - 8/1/08 8:39 PM In reply to: Poll: Be honest: do you back up your important data? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I back up my important data at least once a day, and I do it every time I turn off my PC. On my desktop, I use AllwaySync Pro for this. I backup first to an internal HDD and second to a USB flash drive. My work drive is a portable USB HDD. I'm an editor, so the important stuff is the manuscripts that clients send me and the revisions that I make. Because I do everything by email, I also keep backup copies of everything in a few email programs: Thunderbird on my PC, Gmail on the Web, and my university account. My clients sometimes "lose" the emails that I send them, so I have to have backups to resend. Sometimes they send me manuscripts that they think I've edited but actually haven't, so I need to keep copies of everything. I also have a second USB HDD that I sometimes use as a backup HDD. For this one, though, I just copy everything on my main work disk to this disk: no sync program and no compressed backup files, which I used to use but found too annoying once storage costs dropped to the sub-basement a few years ago. Finally, every so often, I burn old and edited manuscripts to a DVD. I have no desire to spend a lot of money on backup systems and no patience to burn CDs (I used to) or DVDs every day, and I've found that the internal and external HDD plus USB flash drive (8 GB) plus the Gmail solution to be reliable enough. Gmail also allows me to retrieve everything I've done from any computer anywhere in the world -- as long as I can connect to the Web, that is. I always carry my 8-GB USB flash backup drive with me when I leave the house.
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