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How do you backup?

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archcommus

Diamond Member
Just interested in how others do it.

I personally make an effort to store ALL documents in D:\My Documents (its own partition), and back that up to an external HDD. I also back up crucial .doc files and my MS Money file to a floppy.

How 'bout you?
 
I push the clutch all the way down, move the shifter into reverse, look in mirrors/over shoulder, proceed to back up.

Oh...um, I make occasional trueimage's, burn to DVD, and then burn all important files (videos, exe's, etc) onto separate DVDs.
 
I let it accumulate for a while and then burn to DVD although that's mainly freeware downloads and such. For critical stuff I backup to my fileserver or burn to CD immediately.
 
I have chosen the HDD as the primary method because it allows for easy overwriting and changing. I've never wanted CDs because if I no longer want something, it's stuck on the CD anyway. And I've never really trusted CD-RWs.

The floppy can't be beat for very quick backups of the crucials.
 
doe anyone use a backup program?

(i don't backup but i should... 680gb of mess needs to desperately be organized)
 
I currently back up on CD-Rs, but need to examine some higher-capacity storage medium because the CD-Rs are too small and kind of tedious.

Edit: anybody use tape at home? Recommend me a drive, it might be what I need... 🙂
 
Originally posted by: nsafreak
680 gigabytes of data? Jeeez. I have some good guesses as to what's in those files too 😛
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You don't backup porn. You build a 1TB raid 5 Array for that stuff.
 
I have an extra HDD to set up a RAID array, if that's what it's called.....whichever one writes the same data to 2 drives in case one fails.....one day I'll read the instructions on how to set it up.
 
Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Edit: anybody use tape at home? Recommend me a drive, it might be what I need... 🙂
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I use a DLT 7000 drive, but that's because I already have the drives and a few hundred DLT IV tapes for them. Usually, I'll copy the backup set onto another computer first, then run the tape drive from that.
 
I use an SCSI, external Dell DLT drive. 40GB native. I use a 4 tape set. I picked up the drive and tapes off of Ebay fairly cheap and I bought the Ultra 160 card of ATFS/T.

It works great, and its as reliable as possible. There is a big upside to enterprise technology at home.
 
Originally posted by: tami
doe anyone use a backup program?

(i don't backup but i should... 680gb of mess needs to desperately be organized)
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I use Seagate BackupExec for my tape drive. A lot of people hate it, but it always works for me.
 
Originally posted by: nsafreak
680 gigabytes of data? Jeeez. I have some good guesses as to what's in those files too 😛
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1. i'm female.
2. i'm almost married. (in 5 weeks.)
3. i don't do porn.

think again!

(it's actually a lot of backed up harddrives when they were failing... i did a lot of copying over.. like i said, 680gb of mess... ugh i need to figure out how to find multiple directories and stuff among the various harddrives -- i have 6.)
 
My backup HDD now needs backing up too. 🙁
Looks like DVD burning is the only cheap & reliable long term solution. Now if only I could get around to buying a burner...
 
Originally posted by: ming2020
My backup HDD now needs backing up too. 🙁
Looks like DVD burning is the only cheap & reliable long term solution. Now if only I could get around to buying a burner...
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reliable? meh. I don't trust any type of media actually. I've had media burned and verified in one drive, only to be readable in that drive (this was a pioneer 104 drive.. damn thing wouldn't read in my 106!). But I backup my documents folder, and mp3 folder nightly to my file server. I have a partial backup of my mp3's on dvd, gotta update that. And every few weeks I burn a dvd of my documents folders.

also, at the time, I got a 160GB seagate for $50/$60, it was cheaper than high quality DVD media, and a hell of a lot faster to backup 🙂
 
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