Who just uses the ol' copy, paste from one drive to another for backups?

[jtusa]

Was thinking about putting together a RAID5 setup, already have the harddrives(four 160gb Maxtors), but I reading horror stories about the controllers dieing has made me reluctant to go that route.

So I'm wondering who just copies and pastes stuff from one HD to another(or uses an app that does essentially the same thing) for their backups?

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

I usually just copy over my documents folder to a backup hard-drive. Try to do it every few days. I will backup my data files to CD (no DVD burner lol) once every week to two weeks. I do use MS backup program to backup my computer once per week to another external hard-drive

 

[Alaska]

AT work I use a batch file and task scheduler to do backups of new data every 3 hours. It is basically an xcopy command saved as a batch file which backs up all data that have been modified since the last run.

 

[wfn]

get one of them 1gb thumbdrives, the more advanced ones come with synchronization software that automatically backs up My Documents, Favorites, Cookies and what ever else you tell the program to back up so in essence you can carry your identity with you. first i was like bah.. that stuff is for mac peeps i'm oldschool and hardcore but then i realized just how convenient it was.

 

[jtusa]

Originally posted by: wfn
get one of them 1gb thumbdrives, the more advanced ones come with synchronization software that automatically backs up My Documents, Favorites, Cookies and what ever else you tell the program to back up so in essence you can carry your identity with you. first i was like bah.. that stuff is for mac peeps i'm oldschool and hardcore but then i realized just how convenient it was.

Well what I'm backing up is a bit more than 1gig. Try about 150 times that.

 

[wfn]

well if your data is valuable make raid 1 with write trough cache. you'll be protected extremely well. keep in mind that actual raid set data is stored on the drives themselves so even if you lose the raid card or eprom settings on it due to power failure you can restore your config from the drives.

 

[bjc112]

If it's just raw data; Pics;contacts;MP3 I just drag and drop!