How do you backup your data?

[badb0y]

Because of one previous HDD failure which Cost me 500 Gigs of my precious data, Now i backup every few days.

So how do you backup your data? Just copy paste to backup source? or Encrypt it using some software? and is there some automatic backup software?

thanks

[Hum]

I don't know what OS you have, but both Win XP and Windows 7 have built-in Backup utilities.

You can set it up to backup at certain times to your external hard drive, or device of your choice.

There are many freeware programs as well.

Example:

http://www.tucows.com/preview/323898/BackUp-Maker?q=backup

[Detection]

I look at my 1TB worth of important data, I look at my 17.3GB of free space spread over 3 drives and magically fit everything onto it

Not sure how it works, but it's been my proven backup system for years :p

[neo1911]

Windows 7/8 backup and restore wizard for files. I also create a system image of Windows partition at month end.

[mps69]

It's all done manually for me backing up stuff periodically.

Most of my documents, but not all, are stored in the cloud, either Drop Box or Ubuntu One.

Plus I have 3x1TB external hard drives each dedicated to music, photographs and movies.

[Mystic Mungis]

All of my stuff automatically backs itself up to an external hard drive every Sunday at 12am

[f0rk_b0mb]

RAID 5 server with 60 GB SSD (OS) and 2 2TB drives (Mirrored data) running Windows 7 Ultimate. I also have a 2TB external HDD.

[Haggis Veteran]

I had 3 external drives with stuff on them each one had different stuff

one failed the other day and i lost 500gb of data

do need to think of more ways so i have multiple backups

[BetaAddict]

A bit off-topic, but how do you guys have so much data? Editing movie files?

[Haggis Veteran]

although in saying that all the stuff on the hard drives is replaceable all my important docs are in the cloud

[Haggis Veteran]

A bit off-topic, but how do you guys have so much data? Editing movie files?

Most of mine is Photographs lol

[badb0y]

I m on Windows 8 RP.

So do you keep your External Backup drive always connected to your PC/ Laptop?

[BetaAddict]

Most of mine is Photographs lol

Yeah, it had to be either that or p0rn. :D

[kInG aLeXo]

For really important stuff Dropbox/Google Drive. Others copied on an external HDD from time to time.

[JamesCherrill]

Windows home server. Brilliant.

[theyarecomingforyou]

I've converted my drives to Storage Spaces in Windows 8, which means that if any single drive fails I won't lose any data. In addition to that I use SkyDrive to backup important documents, images and files online. To be honest though most of my data really isn't that valuable. I've had a few occasions in the past where a drive failed or I accidentally formatted the wrong drive and I just shrug is off.

[McKay]

I back up a full system image onto an external HDD every week.

[Hum]

Most of mine is Photographs lol

Of people ? With clothes on ? :shifty:

[einsteinbqat]

I should backup, but I would need another huge hard drive.

Let's talk total size (not used space):

• My iMac has a 1 TB drive, and I assigned an external 1 TB drive for Time Machine for backup. So this is fine.
  
• My iTunes Media has an external 4TB drive, and there is no backup. This is not so good.
  
• My downloads and Dropbox reside on an external 500 GB drive, and there is no backup. I don't mind losing data on this drive if it fails. They are my Dropbox, but that's is in the cloud, so I won't lose anything. And the downloads are mostly DMG, ZIP, and install files that I'm too lazy to just delete.
  

All the external drives are G-Technology's. They have not failed me yet. The 1TB is 6 years old, the 4TB, 3 years old and 500 GB, 3 years old. I should probably get another 4TB drive to backup the iTunes Media, but it would mean another external drive on the desk?

[xdot.tk]

This image should explain everything. I use Beyond Compare sync feature daily.

[metallithrax]

What is this strange thing you talk of? "Back up"?

[Haggis Veteran]

Of people ? With clothes on ? :shifty:

yeah of people

family mostly

animals

scenery

a few weddings i did

lol

[Bulldozer]

I do it on physical hard disks but I'm thinking of putting some data on the cloud soon for extra security.

[The King of GnG]

Right now I use Macrium Reflect to backup my Windows partition every now and then, and Dirsync Directory Synchronizer to do the same with Firefox, Thunderbird profiles, stuff I write, my personal software archive, music archive etc.

[scumdogmillionaire]

I was using Windows Home Server 2011 for client computers, but since that is going away and likely won't support Windows 8 once it's out, I've done a RAID 1 in my new computer... and that's about as far as I've gotten. Need to figure something else out.