How often do you back up?

MacAttack

I back up (Well Time Machine) backs up every thing for me onto an external hard drive.
I need not worry as once the HDD is near full it removes the oldest backup to make room.

my Mac

Aubrey_Thompson

My answer is "Only after I've just learned the hard way the disadvantage of not doing it". Because unfortunately I lost all the files on my laptop when it needs to reformat due to some virus.

sonic55_2

I back up weekly, although I don't use backup software as such. Instead, as I'm on windows, I use synctoy to create a mirror of the drive I am backing up.

I also carry an encrypted USB and I use this daily. I back this up daily.

Better safe than sorry - If I lost my data I would be in a real mess.

karl-123

windows 7`s back up has rave reviews do a factory reinstall off your laptop
my acer 3820tz has one
then backup windows 7 using the back up tool to an external hard drive
i use a 1tb internl hard drive in my pc and a 1tb hard drive in an external docking station £10 ebuyer
i have a thermaltake blacx £15 amazon ( bargain ) for movies /music/doc`s ect both hard drives cost me £35 they are recertified ones had them about a year i reckon " yes " enterprise class hard drives are the best but they are dear..as a technician people say asrock motherboards are crap,i have never had a problem with them,
and if you google neweggawards you can see they just won a best buy on a socket 1155 board karl....

Daryn

After dropping my external hard drive and losing the lot Ive started backing everything up. On line storage discs etc I also find facebook a good way of backing up my photos for free

ada1988

I think is much too necessary for us to have a backup.
last time i have lost most of my figures.that's really frustrating.
so i do back up almost one month a time.

charlieheard

carlpayne wrote: »

Only when my system is acting differently, I will Back-up my system else I will not.

I will be using AVG Anti-virus regularly updated and my system will have a scheduled scanning.

Backing up is like insurance - you hope you never need it, but you're grateful when you do. You're saying you wouldn't bother with insurance till it looks like you're about to have an accident. Problem is, things don't always tell you when they're about to go wrong. So you can hope nothing goes wrong or get an automated backup in place. I know which I'd rather do...

So I backup continuously to the cloud using Carbonite's unlimited online storage (though I'm starting to look at DropBox as well, as it seems easier to use mobile), daily to a separate internal disk and weekly to DVDs. It's all automatic, and the only thing I have to remember to do is change the DVD/RW every week. In fact, that reminds me...

mkw87

Every week, unless I've made a major update. Copies are on pen drives/ external HDD/ g-mail storage.


Had a major scare a few months ago- PSU failed then motherboard CMOS reset, losing the RAID setup. Thought I'd have to reinstall windows when I read that line "Operating System not found..."

rmg1

I'm reading this thread with interest as I've just used Acronis to make a full back-up of my machine (it created 6 files on my external HDD with a .tif extension). I can't find the paperwork for it (I've filed it in a safe place), so my question now is how do I do the restore?
Do I need to have Acronis installed on the machine prior or is there another method?

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you need the boot cd, which you can create in the program if you don't have the original