I rarely backup...

[Warrenton]

But today I installed PacketCD for the heck of it and backed all but my MP3 collection up. A vast majority of my MP3 collection is also mirrored on another machine (the one I am on right now).

Well I was putting win2k on my main system and accidentally deleted the wrong partition. There went EVERYTHING. No way to recover (except lost&found) and thats not worth the waste.

So today, by pure luck I had a backup copy of everything important. All my MP3's I ripped myself, so I can recover them by ripping again.

God Job!

 

[dennilfloss]

I back up about 2-3 times a month, just in case.

Another One Bites The Dust (Queen)

 

[yakko]

I only back up when I can't drive forward.

 

[Warrenton]

Well, I usually don't backup, ever. I think from now on I will be a little more serious about it though, at least archiving to my server.

 

[Ausm]

I back up 2 a week

Ausm

 

[ratkil]

I always try to back up right before my hard drive crashes.........

 

[DAM]

i back up about once a month, but at work i back up 5 times a week





dam()

 

[JellyBaby]

About once a month here (full backup). Today's systems are much more reliable than just 10 years ago. In 1990 a hard drive's FAT could be ruined by simply looking at it. I haven't had to do a full restore in a loooooooong time! Still, my stuff's too valuable to risk data loss or theft.

 

[Thunderbooty]

only when I eat taco bell.


Sorry, are fake answers ok?

 

[Viper GTS]

Couldn't you have recovered the partition using Partition Magic, or something like that?

Viper GTS

 

[Warrenton]

Viper I am sure I could have, but the only thing lost was about 10 albums of MP3's. Thats about 2 hours to rerip, and i can take my time and do it when I am bored. I didn't think it was worth messing with.