How often do you back up?

Scubamartin

Id say around once every two month for my photos and documents

nomoneytoday

Scubamartin wrote: »

Id say around once every two month for my photos and documents

About the same here, and then once in while do another copy of the important stuff and store it "off site" (round mum's house)

gs08

I never get round to backing up the most imprtant stuff, i used to do it all the time before but ive just gotten lazy and have left it. I might start using google to backup important documents.

Savy_Spender_UK

Hi

I was always putting off backing up and then returned to my house one day to find we'd been broken in to and the laptops had all been stolen.

I now use an Apple MacBook Pro that comes with software called Time Machine - this backs up everything automatically, as frequently as you want, to an external hard drive that you have to buy separately. However, it can be done wirelessly. Make sure you hide the hard drive somewhere safe - you wouldn't want that to be stolen too!

I am absolutely confident Windows will have similar software and features, however the Apple version is wonderfully simple.

Back up now - don't put it off!

From Savy Spender UK
A Consumer Reviewer

pauldreed

brianabbott wrote: »

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

The Mozy solution is really good, once you get the set up configured - and it's free!
The first backup takes an age to complete, but thereafter it backs-up every couple of weeks, and only encrypts and transfers any new or changed files

LouBlue

pauldreed wrote: »

The Mozy solution is really good, once you get the set up configured - and it's free!
The first backup takes an age to complete, but thereafter it backs-up every couple of weeks, and only encrypts and transfers any new or changed files

That is what I use. The initial back-up obviously takes some time but after that, it backs up for me automatically every night and takes about 2 minutes.

stee01

Anything im working on gets backed up to my pen drive. I dont take a lot of photos and as a student, most of them are on facebook. I can afford to lose any video media from my machine as most of it is recorded tv in media center, which I have either watched or can get from most places e.g iplayer 4od. I have system restore enabled and a full backup of windows settings burnt onto a dual layer dvd from when i had most of the essentials installed on it.

The only thing i dont back up is my bookmarks in firefox, but by the time my computer normally decides to play up its overclutted anyway.

free4440273

Incremental back-ups onto an external hard-drive here:)

alanjuk

stee01 wrote: »

The only thing i dont back up is my bookmarks in firefox, but by the time my computer normally decides to play up its overclutted anyway.

Use the foxmarks extension its great for backing up your bookmarks

king-arthur

My files are backed up every second of every day without hitting a button. Hard disks are partitioned in 2 with a boot partition for the OS / applications and the other partition for all personal, media and business files. This is then configured using RAID so if one hard disk fails the machine carries on running and nothing is lost.

If the OS becomes corrupt I have an image of the C drive which can be copied across in less than 25 minutes without losing any favourites or re-installing absolutely anything. I have found this a good method although obviously this may go way beyond the computer skills of most users.