Storage: Poll: What do you back up your data to?
- 8/1/08 10:27 AM
I drag and drop them to an internal drive
by Dango517 - 8/1/08 9:07 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
using a mounted drive. We create very little material to backup so this method works for us. We started doing this after repeated failures using CDs/DVDs and Acronis. Takes about 10 minutes and can backup everything but settings and programs, Emails are a little more complicated but everything else is very simple and quick to backup.
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copy to a NAS
by robgagne - 8/1/08 9:16 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do use DOS scripts with Robocopy to synchronize my data to a D-Link DNS-323 NAS, this have two seagates 500Gig in raid 1 and when this is done i also synchronize it with another low cost ADSTech 320Gig NAS. This last one is small and portable so i can carry it with me.
Having a NAS on network is more interesting than having a USB drive because it can be accessed from any computer on the network at the same time. Differents share can be done for every user and they can do their own backup to their shares.
time capsule
by cnetjunkie - 8/1/08 9:53 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've only quickly scanned these discussions but I can believe that I haven't yet seen any mention of Apple's Time Capsule. It's a wireless NAS solution that's platform neutral. And if you happen to have a mac with leopard, backups are automatic with Time Machine.
My house has both Macs and PCs so this was the only thing that I could find where we could access files- with any relative ease - from both platforms... love it. It's another great product from Apple.
External Drive
by Zortop1 - 8/2/08 12:05 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I used an external drive until last year when the drive was hit by a power surge and I lost everything including up to 12,000 photos. Hence I do not recommend this type of backup. I now use DVD.
Online Storage & CD or DVD disc
by Gemkeepur - 8/2/08 2:26 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hi,
I have been using and subcribing to an online backup company called Carbonite. It simply works exactly as it says and is so unobtrusive and seamless in its operation.
I seldom if ever recommend many products but this one is by far one of the best I've seen or indeed tried. I used BT DigitalVault before but that was so user unfriemdly if you needed to restore, whereas Carbonite is as easy as reading your own drives in explorer. Added to which I do not think there is any limit to the amount of storage and I'm over 20GB now.
The one big drawback i see with carbonite is that it, as yet, does not support removable storage I have a 500GB USB hardrive which it cannot see or recognise and so i have to be careful what i store on this drive, but I do understand that this may be resolved in the future realese.
The cost of a years subscription to Carbonite is really so cheap it far outweighs buying another hard drive for backup purposes and as I have aready mentioned in the subject line. If its critical stuff then simply burn copies to CD or DVD disc's.
Cheers
2nd Internal Hard Drive
by wexmary - 8/2/08 3:06 AM In reply to: Online Storage & CD or DVD disc by GemkeepurI do use an old external Iomega 160GB hard drive as one.
But why don't people, especially those who can go inside the case of a PC, add a 2nd hard drive and also back up there. That is what I do as well.
Another one for Carbonite
by wpavlik2 - 8/2/08 8:26 AM In reply to: Online Storage & CD or DVD disc by GemkeepurWe also use Carbonite to keep data backed up.
I especially like that it just works in the background. Similar to having a network file server backed up each night.
I've also been known to backup stuff to DVDs to keep copies of our important files, pictures, etc.
I've never thought of external HD as being a "Backup" method for me.
CDROM -- like this
by MichieS - 8/2/08 8:19 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
(Sorry, this is a duplicate post to the first poll message, didn't know about the 'how' poll til later).
I use/make at least two CDs (using a different manufacturer's CD for each, to lessen any potential writing problems). Then I read each (in another CD reader), and get copy of its contents (using CMD (or, COMMAND ) DIR /s /s > filenameDateETC.xxx).
The contents file provides a neat way to search for a specific file, when I need to find it).
Online backup
by kjacobson2 - 8/2/08 10:17 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use an external hard drive and also use Mozy, an online backup. I do not need a huge amount of backing up, so Mozy has worked great for me. I have always had at least two ways of backing up.
Backup
by pacaron - 8/2/08 11:12 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
External: 250gb Fantom Drive via Firewire, Time Machine, automatically hourly.
Nothing better..
Highly sensitive data, etc. are also dragged to a 500gb SATA drive.
Need to create Time Machine for the PC
What do you back up your data to?
by mick2222 - 8/2/08 2:55 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do a full backup of my data to DVD, every week.
My backup program, is Genie Backup Manager Pro v7.0 (www.genie-soft.com).
I love GBMP, because it it also copies a Restore Executable along with the data, onto the DVD.
This lets me restore data directly from the archive DVD...
mick2222
I use DVDs and external hard drives
by benallgor - 8/2/08 5:10 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I save a drive image to external hard drives once a week with daily incrementals. I also save all of my data to dual layer DVD once a month with weekly incrmentals. The DVDs contain ZIP files so no special software is required to recover the data.
I have restored my system from a drive image one time, and it took a couple of hours. I have also recovered old data from the DVDs. The DVDs are the best, because I can go back to any time in the last four years. I have tapes from before that, but I no longer have the software or the drive so they are worthless.
internal, external hard drive, and USB travel drives
by skettie66 - 8/3/08 8:45 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a 2nd hard drive in my computer that I use to back up with the program Acronis, once a month. I also have an external hard drive (250 g) to back up certain data and photos , plus certain things I back up onto smaller usb drives. I do all this because I have a very slow internet connection due to living in the country, and had problems with my computer with me ending up reformating the computer about every 3 months and then the awful updating of windows, etc online. The problem ended up being a power supply that just wasn't powerful enough for the computer. Most of those problems ended once I got a better power supply. Now it's just when I do something stupid.
Back up, External NO MORE
by djmaynyrd - 8/3/08 10:13 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you back up your data to? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I wish this had come up for you when it did for me, 2 weeks ago.
I am a DJ with tons of music and HAD it all backed up on a WD external..
I have used this process for years, but just a couple weeks ago, (1 year and 1 month after it's purchase, it stopped. I hook up, it "clicks" 3 times, and that's it. No "running" or "spinning" sounds at all, and obviously my Hp/ompaq presario, with Vista, doesn't recognize THAT activity.
Ironically, this external has NEVER, had a jolt, (drop, slap, punch, bump, spill, etc).... but the Iomega I had for about six years, had been Dropped hard, from at least waist high, on concrete, at least 4-5 times....and I never had a problem with it. as a matter of fact I just recently gave it away because it was still going after all this time, but it was too small.
Now, I believe I have decided to put all the music on DVD's. Not as convenient, but it is when you consider the loss of ALL your data.
If you can't tell, I am not sure I have made the right choice yet, so please chime in, and let me know, What is the best method.
By the way, so that i am not bashing WD.... they did offer a $15.00 coupon... LOL I WAS 30 DAYS PASSED THE WARRANTY!!!!!!!
Just to clarify
by samkh - 8/3/08 12:26 PM In reply to: Back up, External NO MORE by djmaynyrdwhen you say "...HAD it all backed up on a WD external.." do you mean you had it all **stored** on a WD external with no copy remaining on your PC's main drive?
I raise the point because I am finding more people confusing "storing" versus "backup".
If the WD held just the backup copy, so what if it crashed? You are justified to be po'd at WD and you have to buy a replacement, but you haven't lost any files.
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