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[American Mafia]

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.co...-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

[+sanke1]

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.

[ThunderBuddy]

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

[Tyler R.]

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]

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]

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

[Haggis]

BetaAddict, on 22 July 2012 - 15:39, said:

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

Most of mine is Photographs lol

[American Mafia]

I m on Windows 8 RP.

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

[BetaAddict]

Haggis, on 22 July 2012 - 15:40, said:

Most of mine is Photographs lol

Yeah, it had to be either that or p0rn.

[kInG aLeXo]

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

[JamesCherrill]

Windows home server. Brilliant.