How often do you back up?

Danorak

I have Apple Time Machine running on an external HD, but I also have a clone which is backed up to a separate external HD. As I'm super paranoid (and having learnt the hard way), I also have a 1TB portable HD (partitioned into 3), that has a clone of my music and photo library, as well as another clone of the HD which I keep off site (incase of fire or burglary).

I clone everything once a week and although the initial clones take a while, as it only updates the changes the following time further backups aren't as time consuming.

I learnt once when my internal HD packed up and I lost a large amount of college work, music and photo's. Never again, and with HD's getting cheaper, it really is quite cheap to do (I know money is relative, it's only cheap if you have the spare cash to do it!).

chrisv24

Im a once in a blue moon type person. I should backup more regularly though

tpi_176

I back up once a month, good thing I do because I'm suing a backup PC right now as my 2TB HDD went POP and I would have lost everything if it wasn't for my trusty external HDD

quatrofromageo

After years of losing all my data, I now backup every month religiously.

cleg100

I save important file to Sky Drive or Dropbox so they are uploaded and saved online almost instantly.

JesicaDavid

I get my backups daily. The reason is I rarely do my office work at home. But in case if I had to do an emergency thing then there will be no way of coming back to the office and do the whole work. So I am ready to face any kind of emergency matter. When I talk about my home PC. I take backups weekly. I know my machine is performing well. But we can’t be 100% sure about the machines. Because I have faced a very disappointment incident a few years back. Now this has been one of my habits.

womble12345

I use Crashplan to backup to an external HDD, Crashplan is free.

blizeH

I don't back up nearly as often as I should do - my main problem is that I don't like having the external hard drive connected all the time (OCD means I keep it tucked away in the drawer) and I probably haven't backed up for almost a year now. Really need to sort that out, especially since Microsoft's SyncToy makes it so easy!

For my girlfriend, who only has around 3GB of data to backup, I installed Dropbox for her and then created symlinks for her which means that her Desktop, Documents and Photo folders are constantly backed up and in sync. Really nice and seamless solution, though I'd need a paid plan right now to fit all of my data onto there.

charlieheard

JesicaDavid wrote: »

I get my backups daily. The reason is I rarely do my office work at home. But in case if I had to do an emergency thing then there will be no way of coming back to the office and do the whole work. So I am ready to face any kind of emergency matter. When I talk about my home PC. I take backups weekly. I know my machine is performing well. But we can’t be 100% sure about the machines. Because I have faced a very disappointment incident a few years back. Now this has been one of my habits.

I use cloud backups to do this. My whole PC is backed up using paid-for Carbonite, and I can access any of the files backed up from anywhere via the internet, including on my phone. No problems about leaving stuff...

I also use free Skydrive to share documents with committee (for editing) and parents (read-only) for our local swimming club. Then I use free Dropbox to share stuff with family members. It's slightly complicated, but it's good to keep a separation between work, home and leisure...

fridgeracer

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

.......do a full back up your PC?

The reason I ask is I see so many problems on here that seemingly take forever to resolve, whereas with the big 'if only' of having a back up available, a fix would have been simple.

:cool:

TOG

never.

why? because i have a NAS - network assisted storage. Mine is a synology one. you just take normal 3.5 inch hard disks and put them in it and you access it via your router / switch, whatever your hub is for your internet.

i put all my stuff on there and simply go into my computer on the pc (windows) and just make a permanent network drive connection to each folder of the NAS, i.e. videos, music, photos and so on. so if my pc goes bang it does not matter to me because none of my stuff is on the pc, just installed programs which i can reinstall. all data is away on the NAS and can always access it all.

try that, so long as anything you get new and any old data you have sits on there you`ll never need to backup.

also great if you have an android or apple smartphone - you can get synology apps that let you connect to your nas sitting at home while you are away or even on holiday. so long as you have a good stable wifi connection you could watch movies and listen to your own music sitting at home and not physically on your phone.