Public service message - when did you last do a backup?
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I've been backing up 11gb of pictures, video etc. tonight, and I got wondering how often people think of doing backups on their home PC's.

How much hassle would it be if you lost all the stuff you've accumulated over the months/years?

Go on - do a backup :)

What have you been backing it up onto?
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Dave

by 'etc' do you really mean porn?

lets call a spade a spade eh neil :)

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beent alking to ant about this earlier tonight saying how much shit we'd got that could do with backing up.

i've got about 20gb of mp3's, about 10gb of pics and video's and another 20gb or so of rythym literature, lol.

Dont talk to me about backups... shudders, got too much to backup, 10+ of pics, 20+ of music, then there is documents and other things. I need another hard drive.

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Hi,
I cheat, everythings on the server running RAID and a Tape backup
About 60 gig in MP3 and pics
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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Edited by Sprocket on 20th Sep, 2007.

On 20th of Sep, 2007 at 10:50pm Bat said:
Hi,
I cheat, everythings on the server running RAID and a Tape backup
About 60 gig in MP3 and porn
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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Denis O'Brien.

i do something similar with laptop and pc

I have 3 years worth of PhD research on my laptop. Yesterday the fire alram went off when I was out anyway so I came back and couldn't get in. My PhD! If there was a fire (there nearly was) I would be through those windows so fast to get my laptop. It's all backed up now though!

Same as bat and evolution. Take all the data from my desktop put it on my linux server. Dont worry to much about viruses running linux :)

i always back the laptop up now, every week :)

every since i lost 2 years worth of accounts for my girlfriends salon.......

took 3 weeks to sort out lol

I dont trust USB Sticks for backups - had too many break in the past.

My backups are done on external HDDs and via syncing with other PCs around the house, usually got more than 1 copy of everything. Only thing I dont backup is my photography, because its fookin' huge. (average of 2-3.5gb per event)

If you want to get really technical you should have your backups in a different building(garage or shed) in case of a fire.

I'm trying to pursuade Axel to buy one of these http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/T7-HSA.html and then have that backup to our existing nas box. We originally had a linux box with everything on but using the nas is a bit more green.

^^^ He likes spending my money.

Good idea though. The other advantage is that we should be able to access it over a VPN.

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Bit better than these celebs backing up their photos to icloud

David.

Dont just backup.

For basic stuff, do a Windows File transfer thingy, as if you were transferring to a new computer.

That will cover most things in the event of a new computer or install, and restore the computer to the same sort of layout you had previously.

Or better still, get some software like Acronis, and do a full clone of your main C Drive.
And keep a regular monthly clone going.

That way if anything happened and you needed a new drive, you just transfer the clone to the new drive and again, the computer will be 100% as you had been using it.

Storage these days is dirt cheap, even a 3TB NAS drive is well under £100

Also worth backing up Windows Live Mail if you use that email client on the computer. The actual folder where it stores everything, not just the file transfer thingy

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