Poll: Your method of backing up your system?

[Dee67]

I was curious, since it seems tape drive support is dwindling..

Tape? CD? Another Hard drive? none? other?

 

[iamwiz82]

i back up my registry, and a few documents on CDRW. I would like a DLT tape drive, though.

 

[RichieZ]

Onto CD's w/ Plextor CDR-RESQ, i think its ghost w/ cdr support.

 

[Russ]

Zip drive and batch files; one for each data category. Click, done. The only other step I take is to backup the business books (VERY important) to the secondary hard drive on my admin system, so that I have two backups of it. Batch file; click, done.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Talon]

Zip drive

 

[circlek]

Was using Syquest EZflyer which was FAST, now using CD with CD Res-Q because I needed a burner.

 

[shiznut123]

Cd's

 

[yakko]

Since I have nothing real important I don't really do a backup.

 

[Valhalla1]

see-dees

 

[dabuddha]

i've got 2 different batch files i run backing up my essentials to my zip drive and my cdrw
came in real real handy when i was setting up my raid array and "accidently" made a boo boo

 

[Dan]

Back in the days of 3 & 4GB hard drives I backed up to tape. Now I use CD's.

 

[JellyBaby]

Tape. "When it absolutely, positively has to be backed up overnight."

 

[burnedout]

1. CD-Rs/RWs
2. Secondary drive in one of the 'puters on the home network.

 

[Heretik]

Zip drive and extra hard drive (for backups only) on home network.

 

[Tates]

I xcopy32 to my secondary drive.

 

[Renob]

You mean we are suposed to back stuff up??????????????

 

[konichiwa]

HDD image every week.

 

[Rastus]

I just talk about doing backups, then when the crash happens, I end up losing it all.

 

[Tominator]

I never back up...I've trouble enough going forward!

Sold my tape drive a while ago. I have the option to backup to CD, but my system has been so stable and trouble free I've neglected this troublesome task....course I have a second comp networked to my primary and regularly transfer critical files to it...

One of five on my home network btw.

 

[goldboyd]

backup?

well i back up my bookmark.htm to a few shell accounts i have. and nothing else is really backed up well. i have my main hd into 2 partitions and store everything but the os on the d: partition. so in a format i'm ok, but if the drive dies, i'm sol.

 

[Windogg]

10/20GB TR5 Travan and 4/8GB DAT Tape.

Windogg

 

[DABANSHEE]

Simple just right click drag & copy the folders with the important crap across all the hard drives, including windows/application data & windows/favorites. Only thing is I'm useally to lazy to delete old backups, so when I fo through a reformat/reinstall windows routine, I have to spend 20 mins going through my extra hard drives working out which is the latest windows/application data backup & which is the latest windows/favorites backup to drag across into my new c/windows folder.

Documents I always keep on my F drive & on my myspace.com online folder & sometimes on my D drive too. MP3s are backed up on a old conner drive - I have a CD caddie system, as I have 6 have drives. Most of the hard drives are Xerox OEM printer hard drive seconds, that were freebes. Xerox uses (or use to use) a propietry file format which would only let them be reformatted 3 times (or more likely Xerox support has a policy of not reformatting them more than 3 times), but there's no problem reformatting them with FAT32, HPFS, NTFS, Ext2 or BeIncs EB BeOS file sytem as many times as you want.

Someday I'll get orginised & make a freshly orginised backup tree of everything, then I'll delete all these old duplicate files all over the place. Maybe I'll mirror the freshly orginised backup tree on another hard drive too.

 

[IamDavid]

I use Drive Image Pro to make Images of my system and then put them on CD's

 

[AngelOfDeath]

I don't. Partioned my HD's so most of the private stuff goes there instead of be placed on C:. If window$ doesn't please me I reinstall. When running win98 I used Ghost.

AoD

 

[cpars]

Zip for single programs,network drive for business, and full backup on cdrw.