How often do you back up?

fayraz

charlieheard wrote: »

Hmmm. I now know quite a few people online who recommend it, and power users on sites such as Windows Weekly and WinSuperSite. I can confirm that I've used it to back-up 7.5Gb of family photos from my desktop to the laptop without problem (apart from the bandwidth :eek:) as well as several work folders to the online desktop as well as the laptop.

I'd agree that, apart from the initial loading, I'm not a heavy user: but it works fine for me

I use it to backup and sync all my data files and it works brilliantly but on the weekend I tried to sync about 9GB worth of pics to another desktop and it was taking forever so I just cancelled it. So the P2P sharing aspect needs to be improved it is a lot faster with my data files because they are getting synced to the online desktop and each machine is downloading the changes from there I guess.

So I am just going to use it to sync and backup my data files and use 123 Drive to backup my pics.

jaygomez

I don't back up regularly but I have my important documents/files on a DVD's so just in case my PC crashed or something I still haev 95 percent of my files. The only files thats at risk are those new ones.

brianabbott

Hi,

Here's a free tool if your backup requirements are no larger than 2Gb

http://www.mozy.com

If you have higher requirements, it's very cheap to increase capacity.

It's very easy yo configure and to use.

Backups can be automated.

Regards,

Brian

Otis215

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superscaper

Otis215 wrote: »

There is a very simple and cheap sterilising unit available which sterilises in just a few minutes in the microwave. Money well spent!

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And the winner of the oddest most off topic response goes to....

By the way you're not allowed links in signatures (certainly not advertising).

MikeWhitehead

Funnily enough, as an IT engineer you tend to find we preach about it to people on a daily basis, but never tend to do it yourselves.

I can't remember the last time I done a personal back-up! *Queue drive failure*

Aisley

Twice in a year.

[Deleted User]

Most of my pc maintenance tasks are done when there's something good on tv that I want to watch and I don't mind being away from the desktop. This week is an especially good one for my computer as Nat Geo is doing a Space week, so there's a lot of interesting programmes on.

smartguy411

I have a dell that has a symantec system restore and i keep all my personal stuff on 2nd Hard drive. In case something goes wrong, i just restore my main drive to factory default and still have all my files on 2nd HD. Now, i am thinking if i should just backup my 2nd HD just to be safe...

superscaper

smartguy411 wrote: »

I have a dell that has a symantec system restore and i keep all my personal stuff on 2nd Hard drive. In case something goes wrong, i just restore my main drive to factory default and still have all my files on 2nd HD. Now, i am thinking if i should just backup my 2nd HD just to be safe...

Well if you had power surge etc that took out both drives then I'd say you'd be better off having a more comprehensive backing up strategy. Backing up to a hard drive is something I do but I don't consider that even a main backing up method. Backing up is more than simply making a single copy of something.

As an example here's an entire blogging company that after 6 years collapsed overnight because their only backup was copying to another hard drive: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/03/journalspace-drama-all-data-lost-without-backup-company-deadpooled/