How often do you back up?

fuzzball172

My PC is constantly backing up, I use Carbonite online backup.

The_JinJ

I used to never backup but have now setup a NAS/backup machine that I use daily

RyanJoshua

I back up daily. Once you get into the habit of it, it's not so bad. I dropped my Seagate hardrive and it had a repair cost of £600 so I recommend getting Toughdrives with rubber casing if like me you drop things

Wiggynut

I have time machine on my imac which is a god send! My imac's hard drive died and needed replacing... I then reinstalled via the hard drive and within minutes everthing was back up and nothing lost! hoorah!

I do forget to plug my laptop into it to back that up but as most of my stuff is taken from the imac to the laptop it doesn't really need it - I also have mobileme which has 20gb online so I can add things on there too!

I do burn major projects to CD so that I don't use up the external hard drive or imac memory up (I deal with hi-res photography and have recently been using video which can take up a huge amount of space) so I'm pretty good at backing up now!


I did have a pc before and I could never find the option of creating a start up disc... myfriend has the same issue and has vista... anyone know how to do this? (how many discs does it need?)

Jaffa.

Wiggynut wrote: »

I did have a pc before and I could never find the option of creating a start up disc... myfriend has the same issue and has vista... anyone know how to do this? (how many discs does it need?)

Should be in the Start Menu under "System Recovery" or something similar.

Takes about 3 DVD's

RD444

i use Macrium reflect

daily

i tried all the major backups

Macrium schedules nicely and creates incremental

set up - forget - get peace of mind

tog22

I use the BaseCamp feature in Mac OS X, so automatically every hour (or whenever I have my external hard drive plugged in)

himynameisJohn

I never use to back-up. Then one day, the inevitable occured - Broken hard drive, dead computer! NIGHTMARE. Since then, I have a lil black box I back up to everynight because it is only a couple of minutes than can spare you weeks/months/YEARS of lost work.

How many times should you back up? I think that depends on how much work you complete on your PC and then work out if I lost work from the past X days/weeks/months - have I got time to redo? I complete a lot of work on a daily basis on my 'puter, so backing up daily for me is a must as I never want to have to complete the same day over again!

buono

I am pleased with my backup regime on my mac.

Time Machine backups when it deems necessary, cloned hard drive once a month and a mic of Apple iDisk and the wonderful Dropbox.

I have symlinks to my iDisk folders in my dropbox folder which means that when I make a change to my iDisk, that change is reflected in Dropbox.

Not bombproof but will allow me to recover from most disasters.

hansi

I keep important files on a memory stick, and put all work that I can't afford to lose into My Documents, and back that up to an external hard drive every week.