How often do you back up?

Richie-from-the-Boro

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TOG

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Kerrypaty

I back up every weekend; it goes to an external drive which every so often I back up on another computer. Been stung by the good ole HD disk errors before...

Gavin83

I have my HDD set up in RAID 1 so effectively my PC is constantly being backed up. I also stick really important stuff on an external drive when I can be bothered.

Always backup though. You never know when your hard drive might fail.

an4rew

I never backup now because i got a SSD for my windows installation and use my old Hard Drive for keeping stuff safe.

banger9365

i use windows home server to back up my pc and my laptop every night

peteburns

I back up weekly. All my work goes from my main hard drive, to 2 externals and then to Dropbox too, whilst I backup my photos every time I take new ones, but they just get copied to my 2 externals.. and all made easy with Microsofts synctoy program

free4440273

peteburns wrote: »

I back up weekly. All my work goes from my main hard drive, to 2 externals and then to Dropbox too, whilst I backup my photos every time I take new ones, but they just get copied to my 2 externals.. and all made easy with Microsofts synctoy program

hi Pete and welcome to mse :wave:

peteburns

free4440273 wrote: »

hi Pete and welcome to mse :wave:

Thanks just finding my way around the place :wave:

Ibelieveanything

peteburns wrote: »

I back up weekly. All my work goes from my main hard drive, to 2 externals and then to Dropbox too, whilst I backup my photos every time I take new ones, but they just get copied to my 2 externals.. and all made easy with Microsofts synctoy program

That Sounds Good to Me

aintshesweet

Tony_H wrote: »

I only backup personal files (e-mails, spreadsheets, documents & images). The reason for this is simple, I have become lazy. By not creating backups it requires me to more frequently reinstall my system ( 30 minutes every 4 to 6 months) as apposed to hours spent backing up & recovering data.

A computers performance is affected with time, so carrying out full installs means I have a top performing machine at all time.

You reinstall your OS every 4-6 months? That's crazy talk and unneccessary.

As long as you clear your folders and keep everything organised, get rid of programs you longer use, you don't need to reinstall everything. I used to go in and edit the registry every once in a while to keep things clean but even that's not really necessary unless you're OCD about your computer.

I've been pretty lazy recently about backing up photos but most of them are backed up so it's not too bad. They're backed up on an external harddrive and CDs, and some of them are also uploaded online so I at least have that copy if anything goes hideously wrong.
All my music is backed up or on my ipod.

I do it every few months really, because I've almost always managed to recover the files, either by reinstalling the OS over the old one, or lots of time spent fiddling to access the files from corrupt harddrives. Or connect the harddrive to another PC if the computer processor/motherboard is screwed up.

There's very little that can't be recovered.... remember that when you have dodgy stuff on your PC