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How do YOU backup your data?

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TechHead87

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I just started my backing up spree last nite. I'm gonna make over 20 cd's of mp3's, photos, documents, etc, etc.

How do you go about backing up your stuff?
 
Depends. If it's freqently used & modified stuff I save it to a network drive. If it's something that I downloaded or am archiving then I do batch burns to DVD.
 
Originally posted by: TechHead87
I just started my backing up spree last nite. I'm gonna make over 20 cd's of mp3's, photos, documents, etc, etc.

How do you go about backing up your stuff?
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Could you not back it up to a separate hd?
 
Originally posted by: Kaspian
Originally posted by: TechHead87
I just started my backing up spree last nite. I'm gonna make over 20 cd's of mp3's, photos, documents, etc, etc.

How do you go about backing up your stuff?
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Could you not back it up to a separate hd?
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I could, but my backup is a Maxtor.
 
Funny enough, I was very serious about backup back in college. I *had* to preserve all those precious MP3's, porn jpegs, term papers and various miscellania that i had picked up over countless late nights on the internet. I backed up to CD-RW w/out fail.

Two years later, and I haven't the foggies clue where all those CD-RW's are. 😉
 
2nd IDE HD (for high-priority items)
DVD/CD (permanent backups)
External USB HD (temporary backup...used until I get enough data to fill a DVD)
 
my documents (files, pictures, not music) nightly backup to file server, usually a monthly burn to dvd, but I've been slacking on that part.
music is on another HD, and it's also backed up nightly to the file server, really need to put all this on DVD too one day..
 
I do a number of things. I back up to a 2ndary HDD, I put some stuff on my laptop and my laptop stuff on my PC. I also put some stuff on my FTP. Either way I don't have that much mission critical stuff since I graduated. I don't do any real work with my PC now. Just game and surf.
 
I have a partition that includes my "archives" directory, and within that are several categories, such as Text, Graphics, Game files, Drivers & executables, and so on, with audio files on still another partition.

My text based applications are configured so that the backups are saved in a suitable directory within the Text directory, etc. If a directory becomes larger than the remote disk that I burn a backup to then I either do some pruning, or add another directory.

Essentially the same things I've been doing ever since my backup was a Zip disk drive, and it only takes a few minutes to update my backups. I will eventually keep redundant backups on another hard drive, but so far feel more comfortable with this method. Solid state devices will probably become more appealing before long.
 
I take an image of my data partition on my primary 160Gb SATA drive and save it on my old 80Gb drive using Acronis.

Makes backing up a whole lot faster and more accurate.

I learned my lesson putting all my data on DVD-RWs, not only was it a maticulous and slow process, but come time I had to actually use my backup DVD-RWs to retrieve data, several of them were scratched up and/or corrupted and I ended up SOL.

When I get a larger case here soon, I'm probably going to buy a couple new drives and set up a RAID 0+1 and see how well that works for me.
 
Not very well, my backups all go to a large hard disk in one of my machines via a custom script. I'm too lazy to split the data up to be burnt to DVDs, not that I'd like to try to burn off ~70 DVDs to back all of it up anyway. I've been extremely lucky that smartd has let me know ahead of time before my drive has died so I've had no problems moving the data to the replacement.

 
Originally posted by: TechHead87
Originally posted by: Kaspian
Originally posted by: TechHead87
I just started my backing up spree last nite. I'm gonna make over 20 cd's of mp3's, photos, documents, etc, etc.

How do you go about backing up your stuff?
Click to expand...


Could you not back it up to a separate hd?
Click to expand...

I could, but my backup is a Maxtor.
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So?

I have an old P III that holds 2 HDDs of each 80GB (Maxtors as a matter of fact) and configured it like this:

1-C = 20 GB for OS and apps
1-D = 60 GB B for data backup
2-E = 60 GB for data
2-F = 20 GB for OS and apps backup

I am having trouble making a decent backup of the C:. Still haven't figured that one out. One of the downfalls of being a noob 😉

I do back-up photos and mp3s to CD-R. Some other critical stuff I keep at my yahoo account.


 
Quicken I always back up to my 2nd hard drive and my old USB zip drive every time I use it.

Outlook and my docs, pictures etc... all get backed up to a couple of old drives that I have in a firewire enclosure every week or two. That will protect me if my power supply decides to fry all my internal hard drives one day, which has happened to a friend of mine.

I also dump all my pictures from my compact flash card from my camera to a CD-R before deleting them. That way I should have all of my photos in 3 places.
 
I make Norton Ghost backup images of my OS parition to another partition.

For my personal data I run NoHandsBackup to copy favorites to an internal data HDD then I have an equal sized External data backup HDD that I have NoHandsBackup sync.

I sync them about once a week or every other week.
 
acronis true image to a mapped drive on the server, then that hdd gets backed up to another one in the server. in theory i would need 3 hdds to fail at the same time to lose all of my data.
 
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