How often do you back up?

mightylesmond

I back up the most vital files (the ones that change a lot) to a USB flash drive twice a day, to two on-site external hard disks & a NAS box before I go home at night, my server has a RAID array and an external hard drive which takes a complete disk image every evening. Not to mention cloud storage! I own & run a computer repair company, and tell people almost daily "you've lost all your files, because your hard drive is scrap metal, and you've no backup"

Pinkypants

Back up every day at work.

Once in a blue moon at home.

bunny99

I have an external disk which I used to backup all my stuff (probably once a month), but that disk no longer works so I think I'll be getting myself another one before my PC dies!!

busenbust

bunny99 wrote: »

I have an external disk which I used to backup all my stuff (probably once a month), but that disk no longer works so I think I'll be getting myself another one before my PC dies!!

This is what I have -- and it's great.

Russel245

Rarely to be honest, I don't tend to have much data that really matters, only things I do keep multiple copies of is things like photographs, which I store on several different hard drives and the best ones in photo albums, but that's done as soon as they're off the camera.

aardvaak

I've got an external hard drive that backs up every evening at 10pm

But

My emails in Outlook Express do not back up.

Can someone please tell me how to?

closed

use disk imaging software

cloudwalker_3

I'm a Mac user but the strategy I describe should work with any computer in principle.

Email clients are fairly fiddly to back as as a separate entity. I think you'll probably find that the easiest and simplest way to deal with a potential loss of email is to back up your entire HD on a regular basis.

The way that I do this is by using a double back up strategy.

I have two HDs attached to my computer.

One of them makes an hourly incremental backup on a rolling basis, (I use the Time Machine utility [http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html] in Mac OS X for this but I'm sure there are PC programs that will perform a similar function if you search for them).

The other one makes a duplicate, (and bootable - meaning I can start up from it) copy of the entire drive every night. I do this using a program called SuperDuper, (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html). This is a Mac only bit of software but it's brilliant and it would really surprise me if someone doesn't produce a similar bit of software for the PC.

I hope this is helpful.

justmore

I never back up LOL

busenbust

justmore wrote: »

I never back up LOL

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