Why you back up...

stevemcol

KillerWatt wrote: »

Let me know when Apple release a 2TB iPod, although that would only (just about) cover my music collection :rotfl:

How much of that was legally downloaded / ripped?

Stompa

It's all very well having multiple backups, but if they're all at the same location (your house for example) and it were to burn down (say) you've lost the lot.

tronator

boyse7en wrote: »

Oh, while we're on the subject, can anyone recommend a really simple backup program that I can set to backup my parent's computer to an external HD overnight?

Syncback

http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/

spud17

+1 for syncback.

Mention of NAS and also old small capacity HDs, made oi laugh.
At the weekend had a look at Freenas, old p3 processor etc, bunged in what I thought was a 60 Gb HD, turned out it was 640MB, note to self, must wear glasses more often.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS

Aiadi

boyse7en wrote: »

Oh, while we're on the subject, can anyone recommend a really simple backup program that I can set to backup my parent's computer to an external HD overnight?

The best thing I've ever used (and I have tried loads of them things):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

closed

Disk imaging is always the best way to backup and restore a working pc quickly (when your hard disk fails, pc gets a virus, windows won't start up)

Western digital drives

http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&type=download&wdc_lang=en

Seagate/Maxtor drives

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=MaxBlast_5&vgnextoid=7add8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

Any Brand

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Then use DVD's for a second copy of all those really important files.