Features - QOTW: Do you create regular backups?

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Be honest, do you practise safe computing?

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[Valinor]

Err... I have a DVD backup of some documents from around 4 years ago, does that count?

Seriously though, I haven't ever really bothered backing anything up, except for music which I've downloaded (paid for, from Amazon usually) which I whack onto Dropbox.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I copy over the entire of My Documents, Music, Videos (not photos though, for some reason) to my other computer at my dad's. I never really thought of it as backing up, more as just convenient, but I guess it counts.

[Roobubba]

I create many, many orthogonal backups at work, because the macs are so damned unreliable. At home, I am currently looking to get a NAS so when Baby Roo comes along (any day now) and I take lots of photos, I don't risk losing them if my machine blows up taking the 3 separate backup hard disks (which are plugged into the same machine) with it... Now that HDD costs have begun to come back down again, I'll be looking to buy/put together a NAS with 2x3TB disks in the first instance. This NAS will then sit in a mate's house, and his NAS will sit in my house and we will do regular and frequent backups by rsync. Just in case the house burns down

Can't be too careful!

[Hicks12]

I need to get into the habit of making backups but i tend to just make a backup every other week but sometimes i end up waiting months! Not much data to worry about now though, its only my documents (game saves) and my actual work which is always on dropbox and skydrive along with my uni system so data redundancy is quite strong for the important stuff, the only annoyance in data loss for me would be reinstalling everything but ive got a mirror of a day 1 machine so its quick to sort if ever needed but fingers crossed, ive only had 1 dead hard drive(that was in use) and that was 7 years ago .

[Will404]

My desktop syncs my Documents and Photos with my laptop and does a daily backup to a seperate internal disk daily, if that counts

[Moby-Dick]

I work for a Backup vendor , so yes

[leepen@scan]

Acronis scheduled tasks takes care of this for me every week with my data and my OS is cloned nightly onto a portable

[Allen]

About 500 backup sets per day.....

I work for a Backup vendor , so yes

Ditto.

Personally, I have no backups apart from stuff replicated on local storage. If my PC died I would have no losses, if the flat burnt down I would lose it, but what's on a HDD would be the least of my worries.

[Firejack]

On my main machine where I store all my stuff. I'm running Windows 7 Backup to backup my Network Shares and Files to a second internal hard disk daily.

I also have Windows Home Server creating backups daily of each computer depending if the computer is online or not.

[finlay666]

Depends on the type of backup

Complete backups... no (my scrub drives get used and abused and i dont want that stuff backed up)

Important stuff... 2 locations and potentially a cloud one to come (daily + weekly currently)

Anything I dont mind losing isnt saved, stuff like code I have written that is in source control in the cloud for example (so all I lose are changes)

[mark22]

Music to google music.

Photos to dropbox and picasa.

Most other documents etc. to dropbox.

Occasionally I bulk copy the hard drive storage partition to a portable drive.

[DDY]

I have Win 7 make backups of my user folders to my file server every day and a drive image weekly, these are then mirrored to another file server at another location over the internet every two weeks.

Very important work is backed up on a revision basis to my Universitiy storage space over SFTP.

That's the automatic bit, important things are manually backed up on HDDs and locked in a fireproof safe.

[edvinasm]

Nothing reliable to backup on atm. External drive just like NAS are great but not in the area I am in. They can just 'walk' away any day, never mind technical issues. Online backup would be my preferred but my ISP is not that fast just yet and I haven't found a decent on-line source for backup yet (Google gives quite a bit space but wants to control all data, Microsoft is ok with 24GB I think but uploads are cumbersome, looks like some email..). So for now.. DVD/External drive and PC. Any ideas on on-line backup (up to €50 a year and reliable)?

[OilSheikh]

C: \ users \ me \ My docs, desktop, music, pics > Backup drive ( 2.5" SATA Seagate HDD in a USB3.0 caddy ) via USB 3.0 on my ASUS P67.

[Brewster0101]

Backup daily to my NAS box, or if I don't use the computer for a day or two then its backed up automatically on next start up. No excuse not too with a NAS box and modern software that does it for you.

[FRISH]

Backed a few stuff on dropbox and usb, nothing else that I'm that bothered about.