How do you backup your data?

[HansXP]

Title says it all. What hardware do you use to backup your data, how often do you do it, do you use any software to automate the process? Feel free to add anything else you want to share

 

[yoyo25]

Norton Ghost is pretty good. I usually just make an image of my hard drive. There are two ways for this. Ghost only allows you to make the image file onto another hardrive (one you are not making an image of), or via network to another computer. I use the over the network way. It also does some compression, not much. Then, I store that image file either on the other computer or burn them once in a while(not very likely that both computers could die at once). Then to restore you basically load up Ghost on the dead computer and restore the image. I should probably backup my stuff more often, but I think I avg like once or twice a year.

 

[tcsenter]

Microsoft Backup for Win98 will burn straight to CD-RW, interestingly enough. I have a restore CD which is essentially just a fresh Windows install, which I then used Ghost to create an image of. Once I get Windows up-and-running, I use Microsoft backup to restore my data.

 

[AnimeKnight]

I love norton ghost..
just last week my computer died.. thank god for ghost.. i had my computer back up less than an hour with everything installed.. all the updates, drivers, programs

 

[woodie1]

I have my OS on another partition via Drive Copy. In 10 minutes I have a fresh start. Have two other partitions for backing up other data. Try to remember to do daily backups but nothing is automated.

 

[erikiksaz]

<--- fresh win2k install on my backup drives via Ghost.

 

[kami]

temporary backup: external 40gig 7200rpm firewire hard drive (love that thing)
permanent backup: CDs....mountains and mountains of CDs

 

[Jgtdragon]

I back it up to my 2GB JAZ drive. Got couple of those 2 GB cart. Also burn it on a cd.

 

[Nefrodite]

yup ghost is a wonderful timesaver, just make sure to keep your boot partition reasonable and free of junk

 

[tallest1]

I use a program called Burn to the Brim to split my collection of MP3s and stuff into 700MB segments to burn to CDR. I make sure to burn my softwarez onto CD and beyond that, I just hope nothing goes wrong

 

[ElFenix]

backed up once a day to another partition on this computer plus another drive on another computer.

i don't like losing my email, and its happened too many times.

 

[monto]

are there any special settings in Ghost that are necessary to be compatible with win2000? last time i tried it last year, my image was not usable cause after reverting the image, upon bootup there was some pagefile.sys error (i'm assuming some dumb security thing with the swap) anyhow, the strange thing is, i have my pagefile on a completely different partition so i dunno why i got it

anyhow, i haven't tried it since

 

[kduncan5]

I don't backup. If corruption occurs, I try to isolate and correct. But if all else fails, I reformat & reinstall. Works for me. -kd5-