Now i remember from last month some people took exception to how i used the term 'backing up' but i'll just go with what the average joe on the street would call it - simply making a copy of the stuff you have on your PC for example, be that dragging and dropping to an external HDD, using something like Acronis to make an image or whatever.
This question leans more towards the making an image option, but it just applies to making a copy in general.
Question is how do you avoid bad backups?
I know some of you have setups where one hard drive will mirror another. Others of you have a copy at home, a copy at your parents house, one in your mother in laws house, another in a bunker 100ft below ground etc.
The reason i ask this stems from an issue i had with an iPhone backup lately. Now if i'm going to do anything major to my phone (such as erasing it before sending it in to a store) i'll make 6 backups. 3 backups on my PC via 3 different USB ports and the same on the laptop.
Now i know one of the bigger members on this board was mocking that idea because they liked to pretend it took a ton of time out of my schedule (like clicking backup and walking away for 20 minutes is really time consuming!) but i did this to minimise any 'bad' backups. The one time i did only 1 backup and i can't restore from it because it's faulty.
Now you could backup the PC, make images of, whatever, and then make copies of those backups but if the original backups are duff in any way then your copy of the backup is also going to be duff.
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Now i remember from last month some people took exception to how i used the term 'backing up' but i'll just go with what the average joe on the street would call it - simply making a copy of the stuff you have on your PC for example, be that dragging and dropping to an external HDD, using something like Acronis to make an image or whatever.
This question leans more towards the making an image option, but it just applies to making a copy in general.
Question is how do you avoid bad backups?
I know some of you have setups where one hard drive will mirror another. Others of you have a copy at home, a copy at your parents house, one in your mother in laws house, another in a bunker 100ft below ground etc.
The reason i ask this stems from an issue i had with an iPhone backup lately. Now if i'm going to do anything major to my phone (such as erasing it before sending it in to a store) i'll make 6 backups. 3 backups on my PC via 3 different USB ports and the same on the laptop.
Now i know one of the bigger members on this board was mocking that idea because they liked to pretend it took a ton of time out of my schedule (like clicking backup and walking away for 20 minutes is really time consuming!) but i did this to minimise any 'bad' backups. The one time i did only 1 backup and i can't restore from it because it's faulty.
Now you could backup the PC, make images of, whatever, and then make copies of those backups but if the original backups are duff in any way then your copy of the backup is also going to be duff.
Just wondering how you minimise that risk?
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