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    Question Are you backed up?

    Just wondering if and how Hexites backup thier data. Now being 'probably' the greatest techy forum on the net, there's going to be a lot of peeps doing it properly either with nas/tape/off-site storage/fire safe etc. But there's going to be a good proportion that back up their data irregularly, and indeed, if at all.

    Personally I have 2 1tb nas boxes running weekly backups alternately, plus another just for music, personal stuff like docs & photo's & digital downloads. Plus all that is backed up off-site via online storage incrementally every week.

    So, are you properly backed up? How? & if not, why not?
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    Re: Are you backed up?

    No backup. Too lazy! Though I did learn a lesson about a month ago when I lost everything. (As a webdesigner, I lost alot of my portfolio ) The only thing that is priceless on the computer to me, is all my photos of friends and family. But I keep those on a 2gb SD card, just incase of a HD fail.

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    Re: Are you backed up?

    I use DVDs for back up but now that HDDs are cheap I can just buy another and stick it in an external enclosure and only use it to make a ghost image of my main HDD.

    I don't feel (at he moment but someone could prove me wrong) that the data I have at the moment is super duper critical. It's more social/fun stuff that I would be upset at losing but wouldn't be the end of the world.

    I would at some point like to have some sort of NAS box or alternate method of backing up but there are so many methods and they could all still fail...

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    Re: Are you backed up?

    i have a copy of important stuff spread across logical and physical drives

    (i.e. Music, is on drive1 on logicals c and e, and it is also on drive2 logical z, and then there is an external copy on drive3 (removable 500GB) and another copy on drive4 (removable 160GB))

    the logic being: if my PSU blows and takes everything out, i have 2 external backups
    if one drive dies, i have an internal backup
    and if a logical drive is corrupted then i have a quickly copyable on the same drive (yeah, the two logical's make no sense...)

    i have been considering an external enclosure for an old 80GB, for another backup..

    so i have multiple copys on multiple drives internal and external and in different areas of the house


    it's just cheaper and more efficient to backup on drives than DVD-DL as i would need 100+ for a decent backup
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    Re: Are you backed up?

    Anyone got any experience of using Drobo's?

    http://www.k-forcecomponents.co.uk/i...oduct_id=30036

    I'm waiting for it to come back in stock but would like to hear if anyone has any suggestions to similar products.

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    Re: Are you backed up?

    Photos and documents I have in two locations - PC and NAS

    But no "backup" as such. Everything els eon the NAS boxes isn't backed up as I don't have the storage space, if i loose it I can alsoways re-create it. Although I am going to get another external drive to backup my music to, that would take far too long to rip again.

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    Re: Are you backed up?

    Quote Originally Posted by yid0 View Post
    Anyone got any experience of using Drobo's?

    http://www.k-forcecomponents.co.uk/i...oduct_id=30036

    I'm waiting for it to come back in stock but would like to hear if anyone has any suggestions to similar products.
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    Re: Are you backed up?

    I've used Micro$oft's Skydrive for a fair bit of stuff too. 5gb free online storage, sharing facilities. Not bad for nowt.

    My most precious stuff tho is probably my photo's, 8 odd years of the kids lifes in jpeg & video Absolutely priceless.

    What really did it for me was dragging out some reely old back up cd's which were unreadable. Made me realise the fragility of optical media as a long-term solution.
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    Re: Are you backed up?

    I use a Windows Home Server that creates incremental images of all 5 or so pcs in the house each day. I also have duplicated folders for photos and more important stuff (so it keeps copies on seperate drives), finally I have an external drive to backup the important stuff from the server onto.

    I used to back things up onto DVD's but it just too onerous for large amounts of data these days and I've noticed some of my older disks have become unreadable. I'm happy with my current setup as it requires very little maintenance, other than adding more storage once in a while.

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    Re: Are you backed up?

    I like to archive important stuff to DVD-R, using a RAID5 array for resilience in day-to-day operation.

    If you do archive to DVD, I would recommend using QuickPar, SmartPar or another alternative to ensure that any errors that appear on the disks over time do not end up destroying your data.

    Even if you use a 100% overhead, its worth it when you consider the costs of DVD-Rs and the speed at which you can write them these days.
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    Re: Are you backed up?

    It's all stuff you can't afford to lose, and not something that seems important 'at the time'.
    Like checking whether your household contents insurance covers digital purchases & downloads...
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    Re: Are you backed up?

    I don't bother, don't have anything worth backing up. My computer has music and that is about it which I can easily replace.

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    Re: Are you backed up?

    I backup all my stuff to a 1tb external HDD every week or 2, had considered some more realtime resilience such as RAID5, but not really worth it for me.

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    Re: Are you backed up?

    my home server has 7tb space and 5tb worth of data already used. im about 90% backed up

    Aint had time to backup new stuff etc due to uni!
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    Re: Are you backed up?

    I take a weekly image of my gaming rig, the missus' rig and the 2 laptops. All those get dumped on a NAS and rotated on a 4 weekly basis.

    Important documents and photos (stuff that I've deemed too important to risk) is backed up to the DAS for an onsite backup using a script which pulls the data together, and also to Amazon S3 for offsites - this job is agent based on one of the virtual Server 2003 boxes and runs continuously.

    That's it for me.

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    Re: Are you backed up?

    nah not really. Not got much id be botherd about other than my music and boxing vids and my music is on CD so would just take time to get that back on my 'puter. Maybe i should burn the boxing tho now i think about it...

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