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How often do you back up?
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Toxteth_OGrady
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.......do a full back up your PC?
The reason I ask is I see so many problems on here that seemingly take forever to resolve, whereas with the big 'if only' of having a back up available, a fix would have been simple.
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TOG
The reason I ask is I see so many problems on here that seemingly take forever to resolve, whereas with the big 'if only' of having a back up available, a fix would have been simple.
:cool:
TOG
604!
How often do you back up your PC? 223 votes
Daily
9%
21 votes
Weekly
11%
26 votes
Monthly
13%
30 votes
Once in a blue moon if you remember
26%
60 votes
Only after you've just learned the hard way the disadvantage of not doing it
11%
26 votes
Never
26%
60 votes
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back up my spreadsheets and a few finance related documents. Possibly about once a month if that. Everything else is left as is. 98% problems sorted by windows restore system thingy0
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never, still cant find an way to do it easy on XP - where have they hidden the one touch backup button?0
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Decided to restore my computer yesterday - I'm always trying out new programs then unistalling them so i thought it was about time for a clean start.
Used Restore disks, added SP2, updated everything, removed free trials
then took an image using Acronis True Image
then put on the latest versions of Media players, Firefox, Office and most the other software I use.
then took a second image
The idea is that after any problems I can very quickly restore the second image, stick the backup of my My Document files on it and off I go
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@sra
If you do incremental images after the initial full, you can go back in time to any one of the incremental images and it will fully restore your disk up to that point in time.
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TOG604!0 -
I'm reasonably savvy with computers but even I took a few days to realise that my new PC had a buit in function to make a full set of recover CD's and DVD's as the paperwork totally neglects to mention it !!
I wonder how many other people have the same option on their PC and are blissfully unaware !!Ex forum ambassador
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Toxteth_OGrady wrote:@sra
If you do incremental images after the initial full, you can go back in time to any one of the incremental images and it will fully restore your disk up to that point in time.
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TOG
Unfortunately my Acronis is one I got from the coverdisc of a magazine and not the most recent version.
It's all or nothing with this one - no incrementals
When it was mentioned on a thread the other day I checked out the prices on Amazon and I'll probably get the most recent versions soon since it works so well
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sra555 wrote:I checked out the prices on Amazon and I'll probably get the most recent versions soon since it works so well
It's worth every single cent.
I use it all the time to do scheduled incremental back-ups to different network drives spread around the rigs on my network.
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Never, for the simple reason that despite having over 250gb of data very little of it is irreplaceable and most of the rest is static data so only needs backing up once (well actually at least twice) and then never again.do a full back up your PC?
Now a better question would be -
How many of you have used your backed up data to recreate a PC0 -
I only backup personal files (e-mails, spreadsheets, documents & images). The reason for this is simple, I have become lazy. By not creating backups it requires me to more frequently reinstall my system ( 30 minutes every 4 to 6 months) as apposed to hours spent backing up & recovering data.
A computers performance is affected with time, so carrying out full installs means I have a top performing machine at all time.0 -
Browntoa wrote:I'm reasonably savvy with computers but even I took a few days to realise that my new PC had a buit in function to make a full set of recover CD's and DVD's as the paperwork totally neglects to mention it !!
I wonder how many other people have the same option on their PC and are blissfully unaware !!
hmmm... can you expand on the built in function pls? ..and how would I go about restoring a PC from the backups?0
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