Do you backup your data?

[DigitalFusio]

still rocking XP Pro here. I havent found a good way to do backups other than manual, which is a royal pain in the arse.

[karnautrahl]

I keep adding drives and filling them up-backing up would be a chore and then some. At this time to backup everything I wanted to keep would be about 50% of the 600gb of nonsense I've got.

My documents just gets plastered across all the drives-duplicated big time.

My business on the other hand-it's all online. Database hosted, emails duplicated on hotmail and a private Infusion dB. So it dying would need to fry all drives and would still leave me with my business able to continue elsewhere (gotta love internet homeworking!).

[propaintball]

i dont think i ever backup anything, maybe i should start, knowing my luck something will die lol

[Odanez]

im gonna get myself one of these

http://www.acryan.com/alubox/ACR-HD51776.shtml

and put two old drives in it, and call it my backup module

[Citat3962]

Originally Posted by WiCKeD

...and of course there is always the freezer trick.

which like.... never works...

I use Symantec Ghost Solutions Suite at work and create Disk images for mission critical PCs and use the profile Migration wizard to make periodical backups of my core profile files.

The Solution Suite lets you schedule the profile backups regularly so you can set a task to backup my laptop over the weekend and it'll do it while I'm not there. It all gets dropped on the 3 LaCie 2TB External Drives... 6TB rool: funny thing is the backup thing is just a proof of concept project... everything on my laptop is pretty easy to replace. I'm pushing to get our offices setup with regular workstation backups so when one ****s the bed all I have to do is push last nights image down to it... or if the hardware is trashed restore it to a VMWare Virtual machine and pull the data off or allow the user to use terminal services for the day while we arrange hardware replacement or repair...

Pretty cool stuff!

at home I have about 800GB of HDD space 300 in my Game PC and 500 in my storage server.. The storage server is where I store my TV Movies, music, Pictures, Application installs and ISO images so I can just take my original CDs/DVDs and store them in huge wallets in my closet.

But realistically I'd need a full TB to make a "Backup" of everything at home and that's just not practical.

Since the server is 4 different drives I have some insurance..

In the future I plan to build a Ghost image for my game PC with just the core APPS and no Video Card drivers installed for a quicker OS refresh when I upgrade stuff... Which reminds me I REALLY need an OS rebuild :-(

[propaintball]

Originally Posted by Citat3962

I use Symantec Ghost Solutions Suite at work and create Disk images for mission critical PCs and use the profile Migration wizard to make periodical backups of my core profile files.

WOW.....i bet you thought THAT sounded good rofl

[Citat3962]

Originally Posted by propaintball

WOW.....i bet you thought THAT sounded good rofl

wish I knew exactly what you meant by that... Sarcasm isn't best transmitted via Intarweb.

Besides I ripped that from my proposal to management... They don't get it unless you use Wired Magazine style Buzz words. I'm the backup guy at work what do you want from me.... gotta make it interesting somehow.... If you don't like my terminology you can stick it where the sun don't shine :-0

[propaintball]

Originally Posted by Citat3962

wish I knew exactly what you meant by that... Sarcasm isn't best transmitted via Intarweb.

Besides I ripped that from my proposal to management... They don't get it unless you use Wired Magazine style Buzz words. I'm the backup guy at work what do you want from me.... gotta make it interesting somehow.... If you don't like my terminology you can stick it where the sun don't shine :-0

lol calm down it was a joke

[Rugmonster]

I have a Linux server running RAID5 that holds all of the media (music, videos, cd images, etc) and acts as a shared storage for important documents. In addition to that, I have a pair of 80GB drives in RAID1 in that box solely for backups.

My business's linux server and the file server both backup to that volume. My desktop, which primarily runs Linux, backs itself up nightly to that volume using dar, a very nice little backup utility. Since my Windows installs don't have anything important, they are ignored. My wife's XP desktop backs itself up to the backup volume across the network nightly with the Windows backup utility.

I run my backups on a weekly schedule, full backups on Sundays and incrementals each following day. I keep the previous two weeks worth of backups, just in case. For added paranoia, I will periodically create an archive of super important stuff, encrypt it and throw it out on an Internet based backup account I have as part of my hosting package.

[Silent1]

with windows i never backed my stuff up, with mac os x tiger I used ibackup at home and at work. With leopard i still use ibackup but trying out time machine but never had to restore anything just yet.

[Holdolin]

I only back up my PC when we put new pics on it, as they're the only thing non-replacable. I know, bad policy...i'm a slacker

[Rilla927]

I chose Regularly. I'm backed up 24/7 with Shadow Protect. It's set to take a full image once a week on Sundays and then Mon-Sat it takes incremental every 15 minutes. Images are stored on a 750gig internal.

I also have a virgin image of OS with updates and necessary drivers, no software installed except for Shadow Protect and First Defence-ISR, reason being is because these two programs are the heart and soul of my system that I rely heavily on.

[bmxfelon420]

oddly, i've never heard of either of those programs. id run imaging software if i had the space to keep a boot drive image

[Rilla927]

Ya, you need the room to store the images. These are the best two programs that I ever spent money on. If anything conflicts with them it gets tossed.

Shadow Protect Desktop Edition is fairly new and aimed at home users. Storage Craft has always catered to IT Corporate, so this is just a scaled down version and it saves me when ever I need it.
http://www.storagecraft.com/products...rotectDesktop/

First Defense- ISR is going through a big change right now so none of us know what's going to happen yet. It holds 10 snapshots that are bootable. If you have a snafu in the Primary you boot to the Secondary and do a copy/ update to the Primary and everything is gone. It's the only software of it's kind that works reliablely. You can archive snapshots to internal, external drives also. I done a review on this program and I'm really amazed that more people wouldn't want to use it. It sure can make life a lot easier and save time and headaches.
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic80585.html

[Superip342]

There's nothing worth saving on my PC, or if it is worth saving I trust it's karma for bootleggin'. :P

[Zer010]

I don't use software. I just do it manually. I haven't found a software package that can intelligently tell me the differences in my files, do merges or replaces.

I just store things in an easy to read and easy to do back up format. Takes a few hours to back up my 750 external to my server (Raid0+1) :P

[2500]

I don't really backup anything but music mainly(that stuff is precious).
My brother has all the games backed up, so i don't worry about that.

[Aikidoka]

Have managed to get by, by using only C: for OS and OS related stuff.
Although I have seen HD's totally fail at work... Guess I've been lucky (and stoopid)

[BRONiUS]

Nah, I don't back-up my stuff. I have 160 GB with 2 partitions: C for Windows, D for everything else.

[MrSeanKon]

I bought yesterday two USB RAM sticks!
Moreover I grabbed an old WD IDE 80 GB disk from by brother.
Therefore I can sleep without dreaming nightmares!