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How often do you backup?

I work on a rather large embedded software project (C sources alone are about 2.3MB at the moment). I back up these files at the end of every day I work on them by sending a ZIP to my gmail account.

For the rest, once a year or so. But I try to keep all my important stuff on my gmail too. I don't have pictures or important documents stored locally.

 
I don't have anything important enough to backup... What exactly do you guys backup? I keep my resume in lingo on gmail, along with my budget spreadsheets and such.
 
Make clone copies of the C: (OS & Apps) & D: (data, mydocs, etc) drives once a week.
Make copies of client project files daily.
 
Originally posted by: altonb1
So for those that perform backups, what method do you use? Burn to CD? Another hard drive? Tape?
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important stuff like financial records, email, projects I'm working on, etc. I burn to DVD-RW every week, alternating between two discs. for music and media I just got a WD 320GB external hd. I would die if I had to re-rip all my cd's.
 
Music gets sycned with another computer every time I make a change.

My system gets backed up once after I install Windows and all my programs.

 
I don't really have a lot that isn't replaceable. Nevertheless, I backup it up to dvd or cd as soon as I finish the download. Or soon thereafter.

Bookmarks, cookies and my Thunderchicken e-mail accounts are backed up to another hard drive (same computer) weekly.
 
Daily. I went through an unrecoverable hard drive crash a couple of years ago without proper backup. I never want that to happen again.
 
I'll burn my digital camera pics and important docs maybe twice a year, but beyond that pretty much never.

All my digital music and movies are replaceable so I don't feel as much of a need to back them up.

If money wasn't an issue I'd probably back everything up more regularly though.

 
documents/music/pictures/video backed up nightly to my fileserver (which is a central backup essentially, and where my xbox gets it's media). pictures are also duplicated on flickr.

I had burned a dvd monthly of the documents, but I've been slacking on that. Trying to figure out a decent remote backup option. this looks rather interesting, but I'm not sure I like the idea of handing all my data over to another company. I might start doing a mirror of my backup server using an external HD monthly and just taking it to work.

 
SyncToy is a great utility for backup and FREE!

I backup important stuff to a third internal HDD. I can't remember how often I set it to do that though...
 
i have an additional drive, so right before i reformat, i just backup stuff to there.

so i would say...once every couple of months.
 
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