Backing Up

charlieheard

loopy_lass wrote: »

hey guys, sorry for the trouble and thanks for the help, ill go look at an appropriate thread if someone could post a link. thanks

loops

Hi loops - no trouble. Thanks for understanding.

You don't need to find an existing thread, unless there's an obvious one already. Just start a new thread in the "Techie Stuff" forum (here) with an appropriate title and you'll find there will be several people happy to help. I've done the same a few times and always had helpful replies (and fixed the problem). You could stick a post in here to let people know what you've called it.

Good luck!

rose28454

I have never backed up mine or my daughters computers before but as I lost all my data it seems I need to. So yesterday I though ok I will back up to disk. I did mine which took 2 cds but as daughters has all of her data on it I got to disk 10 before running out of disks. It obviously saved everything including software. Is there a simpler way of just saving documents and pictures. The data is important but not life threatening if we lose it so the simplest method possible. I think from reading this it may be just copying on to a CD. If so do I need rewritables?

Aiadi

rose28454 wrote: »

I have never backed up mine or my daughters computers before but as I lost all my data it seems I need to. So yesterday I though ok I will back up to disk. I did mine which took 2 cds but as daughters has all of her data on it I got to disk 10 before running out of disks. It obviously saved everything including software. Is there a simpler way of just saving documents and pictures. The data is important but not life threatening if we lose it so the simplest method possible. I think from reading this it may be just copying on to a CD. If so do I need rewritables?

The easiest way is to get yourself an external hard-drive (they are quite cheap nowadays), stick all you important files, videos, photos and documents into a single folder on your computer and then copy this folder into your external hard drive.

In the future when you add, delete or change anything in your parent folder (the one on your computer), then use this to keep the two folders ( the one on your computer and the one on your external drive) in complete sync:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/

Hope this helps.

rose28454

Thanks for the advice. I am a bit short of cash at present but as soon as I have funds I will get one. In the meantime I bought some CDs and copied the data across from my daughters computer to start with. It was easy and will do mine tonight aswell. Many thanks to all on MSE who have made me much more confident with my computer.

closed

1 DVD can hold the same amount of data as 7 cd's, and are about the same price if you buy in bulk (50's).

loopy_lass

TOOS at moment but may have them in store, was cheaper than amazon. http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.205-0171.aspx

hth loops

Aiadi

loopy_lass wrote: »

TOOS at moment but may have them in store, was cheaper than amazon. http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.205-0171.aspx

hth loops

Cheaper ones here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Elements-Desktop-External/dp/B002E7HEVU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1269130093&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=Hitachi+LS-1000-EMEA+3.5-inch&x=0&y=0

PJB

closed wrote: »

pjb, macrium reflect free, maxblast. driveimagexml.

Thanks, used m$ system image but managed to hack iso for W7 so could update rather than clean install!

PJB

closed wrote: »

1 DVD can hold the same amount of data as 7 cd's, and are about the same price if you buy in bulk (50's).

Better off buying hard drive and enclosure and will hold . . .. . . .. . ..loads!

And, alot more reliable!

Marty_J

Lifehacker recently did a roundup of the best 5 off-line backup solutions:

http://lifehacker.com/5498381/five-best-offline-backup-tools