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I have to admit that at the moment I do not have a backup strategy. My computer is just over a year old and I have not had a serious problem with it. Perhaps you have lost data and wished you had done backups. Convince me that I should do it.

Yes, and it's not fun. I backup everything to my file server nightly and burn a weekly backup. Also critical files get uploaded to the laptop daily.

I recommend using a CD-R or DVD-R and NTI's BackupNow! software. Works like a tape backup program with scheduling, but supports CD-R and DVD-R.

Even if you backup there is no guarantee you still won't lose your info. I've had backups before, and for some bonehead reason, deleted my backup.

I am hooked on Norton's Ghost. It has saved my bacon more times than I can count. The new version is a breeze to use and has never failed me. Only takes a couple of minutes to back things up and about the same to restore things if s pouch the system. Just does not make sense not to.

No, I've never lost data thanks to not backing up, never have. :;

See, I usually used my second hard drive for backups and never considered what if I lose both. The second one didn't die, but it had many files corrupted and therefore, lost data. In the end I did manage to get some data from the dead hard drive. But I was lucky.

I do back up some on cdr, just haven't done it in months. But, now I'll change my plan and do it more often on cdrs. Main thing I need is my address book, emails, bookmarks and cookies (I like cookies).

I just put important things on my external drive. its better then doing nothing, but like others said, drives do die.

Greg

mmmmmm Cookies....

Yeah, I am just relying on the fact that my 40 gb deskstar has yet to die and will NEVER die. I know, I'm beginning to get a little nervous. I plan on burning some of my really important information soon, so if it does die, I'm not screwed over too bad.

Yeah, I am just relying on the fact that my 40 gb deskstar has yet to die and will NEVER die.

Now that is funny!!!! thanks for the laugh Sean

Originally posted by Sean
Yeah, I am just relying on the fact that my 40 gb deathstar has yet to die and will NEVER die.

The Dark Side of the Force Is Strong In That one!

My god you people, where's your sense of adventure? I suppose you all wear condoms when you're with a lady of questionable virtue.

To answer the question, yes I have lost a lot of data and no I still haven't learned.

lol i just pray my 120 gigger don't die or i'll lose close to 60 gigs of music

Yep. I was the treasurer of our high school student council a few years back, and kept all of our financial information, including our Quicken file and completed deposit forms, on our notebook computer. Thankfully, I had printed hard copies of all of our deposit forms, and kept all of our receipts and bank statements organized in a file, but neglected to back up our Quicken file. Sure enough, the notebook's hard drive failed one day. To make a long story short, endless hours of work were lost. Back up, dammit!

i lost all of my data once...self induced when i was a complete newb. i added a new hard drive to my rig and was in FDISK...didn't know at the time that windows partition drive letters don't always jive with what DOS says. hahahaha! ended up formating my existing partitions!

i used a data recovery program to pull the data off of the freshly deleted partitions (i think i even formatted it). it was actually frightening what the file recovery software pulled off of the drive. tons of stuff deleted months and months ago. hehe

lesson learned!


backups now are kind of a challenge...it's more of a "save the most important" because i have waaaay too much data now. 55GB+ of mp3's, dozens of ripped dvd movies, etc.

Originally posted by Sean
mmmmmm Cookies....

Yeah, I am just relying on the fact that my 40 gb deskstar has yet to die and will NEVER die. I know, I'm beginning to get a little nervous. I plan on burning some of my really important information soon, so if it does die, I'm not screwed over too bad.

LOL I have one of these 40 gig DeathStar drives also, and it's still going strong. In September, it will be 2 years old.

one of my clients just lost the main hard drive for their pbx auditing computer... now they gotta drop a grand + to try and recover the stuff. that's what they get for being too cheap to buy the tape backup i recommended.