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Title: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: bsfins on September 03, 2008, 09:55:44 pm I'm wondering if I'm a little too anal about this,But I back up to an exteranl hard drive every week (My Documents) and burn off to DVD's monthly....
I'm of the thinking, I spend hours drawing,and doing projects in photoshop,iillustrator,and other 3d programs...I don't want to lose them because something happens.....I overwrite the old data each time I save to the harddrive,and add the new stuff... Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: Brian Fein on September 03, 2008, 10:19:20 pm I'm really bad at doing stuff regularly. I use external hard drives almost exclusively as my storage method so I hope I don't need to back them up. I'm probably foolish for thinking that, though.
Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: StL FinFan on September 03, 2008, 10:22:54 pm I have lost stuff doing refrags and such. I back up my music and photos, but that's it.
Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: SportsChick on September 03, 2008, 10:24:00 pm I've got my photos backing up now. I used to be better about putting them onto DVDs, I think I need a new set.
I have my photos on my laptop HD and on 2 EHDs. My digi-scrapbooking supplies are on the 2 EHDs and so is my music Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: Phishfan on September 04, 2008, 12:00:21 am I don't save anything so I don't back anything up.
Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: Frimp on September 04, 2008, 12:16:32 am Music, and photos...about once a month
Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: run_to_win on September 04, 2008, 01:45:43 am I'm glad you broached this subject.
I think it's wise to back up as often as you can. How often to internal non-boot drives and external boot drives go bad? "C" is my boot drive. I save all my files to my "D" drive. I periodically back them up to a external drive. I've had boot drives go bad but never an auxillary drive. When my boot drive goes bad all I lose is email and my email settings (such as sending emails from certain senders to specific folders rather than my inbox). Is there any simply way to get around this? (I back up my address book periodically so that's not an issue). Now to put Lil B's claims of being anal to shame... :-[ I'm strongly considering burning files to DVD and storing them at relative's homes in case of fire, theft or natural disaster. I'm also going through and our scanning all our pre-digital camera photos for the same reason. Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: Buddhagirl on September 04, 2008, 06:22:09 am I don't really back up anything other than my Quickbooks files and my website files that I have on my computer. All of my pictures are uploaded on my server and all of my music is on my iPod.
Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: Dave Gray on September 04, 2008, 07:33:05 am I back up very infrequently, which is dumb. I'm all set up for it, but I rarely do it.
Probably once every 6 months or so. Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: cyan on September 04, 2008, 10:20:39 am B, just set up a Raid 1 drive array. Infinite automatic backups.
Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: SportsChick on September 04, 2008, 10:26:00 am Does anyone use Carbonite or a similar service?
Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: fyo on September 04, 2008, 10:26:21 am B, just set up a Raid 1 drive array. Infinite automatic backups. Two identical drives in the same computer are VERY likely to die within hours of each other, so make sure you pull the data off your second drive immediately if the first one fails! You're also not protected from theft, fire, flooding etc. There's also the risk of accidentally deleting something important and not discovering it in time - or maybe getting hit by a virus of some sort. RAID 1 really isn't a good backup policy. Title: Re: How often do you back up your stuff? Post by: bsfins on September 04, 2008, 10:38:12 am Now to put Lil B's claims of being anal to shame... :-[ I'm strongly considering burning files to DVD and storing them at relative's homes in case of fire, theft or natural disaster. I'm also going through and our scanning all our pre-digital camera photos for the same reason. I've already done that Twice...All the old family albums I scanned in,burnt to DVD's, and Mailed them to my sisters...I've got My Truck titles,My insurance Policies,and stuff Scanned in also,and burnt to DVD's... I'm not sure If I'd want to go with a Raid Drive I've looked at things Like Drobo before...I'cve Got lot's of old hard rives that I've wiped with lots of space,I consolidated all of them into one drive recently...Now I have Back up space Galore! Hmm I'm suprised, I figured there would be more people,back up more often.... |