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| Thread ID: 22755 | 2002-07-29 22:12:00 | Out of interest.. | honeylaser (814) | Press F1 |
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| 66546 | 2002-07-30 23:01:00 | Maybe i'm not a typical home user, however i have a large amount of application software, plus video and mp3s, plus about five years worth of work for a bachelors degree in IS/IT. This used to be stored on a 40gig drive, however my brother was doing a case mod and re-wired his molex wrong. He then plugged in my drive to his newly modded pc, and poof out came the magic smoke. All my last years data was destroyed. I had a backup from about mid-year, however I had done a lot of important coding and documentation in the 2nd semester which I no longer have access to - it costs from $1000 on up to recover from a blown hdd and me being a poor student. Needless to say, I backup my apps and data regularly now - every time i get enough to fill a cd, i burn it off. Not the most scientific method, but writing off data from a 60gb drive isn't really practical without getting a dedicated backup drive or tape system. My original drive is still sitting around waiting for me to get the cash up to get the data off it... hth, markOS X |
markOS X (494) | ||
| 66547 | 2002-07-31 03:01:00 | After I've done my invoices I fill a cdr with business,my documents-which includes AZZ cardfile backups,photos,but not all my wifes pictures! Otherwise if I've downloaded something I want to keep safe,I do a save of it onto a cdrw.or direct cd so I can keep saving to that disc. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 66548 | 2002-07-31 03:10:00 | markOS X: And your brother lost various dangly bits last year too? Suddenly? Or extremely painfully and very slowly? | Graham L (2) | ||
| 66549 | 2002-07-31 03:19:00 | I never back up anything, well Win98se looks after the Registry and I don't use the comp for anything like work. Emails, PressF1, a few searches, bit of surfing. Nothing's critical. I'm not contantly installing/uninstalling stuff, just minimum/standard utilities like ZoneAlarm and AVG. Ws_ftp, Winzip. Keep it simple, do Safe Mode Maintenance regularly, run RegClean after an uninstall, keep AVG up to date, keep out of the back streets, easy peasy. Only stuff I would loose is email addys and half the time Yahoo's address book doesn't work anyway. Cautious use+good maintenance=no probs. Mark :) (must learn another emoticon) | mark c (247) | ||
| 66550 | 2002-07-31 03:28:00 | I'm a historian and genealogist, so backups are important and I have three sets. I have a 4GB C: drive and 1.2GB slave, plus 100MB Zip drive. All my data goes into folders Data 1 Data 2 etc., and I save emails in Word. When any data folder gets bigger than 95MB I create another. Using PowerDesk 4, I simply copy any new or changed files to the slave drive daily, and if it's particularly important, onto a Zip Disk. About 2-monthly (or whenever I record anything important) I redo all Zip disks (again, just deleting then copying using PowerDesk 4), and keep one set in a back shed, because I live in a 40-year-old house where the fire risk is greater. That way, if my PC gets stolen or trashed, I have two sets of zip disks, and even if I lose the ones inside, there's the set outside. Fortunately, I've never had the click of death from the Zip drive. Have only had to reformat once in 6 years, and learned through that, that it's a good thing to keep a list in Excel as to which CD-ROM (NZ PC World, PC User etc.) has a particular application on it that I use. I keep an updated printout of it. |
Deebee (1184) | ||
| 66551 | 2002-07-31 03:40:00 | am in the process of getting up some funds to buy norton ghost, and PLAN to do reasonably regular backups. Have had to reformat my lovely new PC (just got in January) half a dozen times since I've had it... admittedly I did a few stupid things, accidentally lost a few partitions, did some more stupid things, did a few "wonder what this does things" etc. I like to play round with things ;) all my data is stored on a separate partitions. Mostly though it not IMPORTANT stuff. It's usually uni assignments that have previously been handed in, music, graphics i've made etc. Most my stuff has sentimental value rather than $ value. |
loser (538) | ||
| 66552 | 2002-07-31 04:24:00 | Also something just as important as backing up is verification. I burnt some data I wanted to keep on to a magmedia cd-r & when I tried to access the files on it no go :-( Lucky I hadn't suffered a crash & still had original data on hard drive :-) I must admit this has happened a few times with flopy discs too. Cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 66553 | 2002-07-31 08:20:00 | Day-to-day stuff that I chnage alot gets the old flick to floppy, and sometimes uploaded to my universties webserver if it is work I need access to at uni. mp3's are backed up onto 20 odd cdrs (all verified) Clean install is drive imaged onto a second HD, and spanned accross two CDR's (Power Quest Drive Image 2000) - had Ghost, but like DI better. Monthly backup of OS partition onto second HD - previous images onto different partition of main drive (as far as three months back). Fortnightly to monthly image of data partition onto second HD and same procedure for old images onto separate partition on main drive. I also use WinRAR to backup favourites, Save My Settings Wizard for Office settings (including Outlook), and passwords backd up from keywallet with blowfish encryption. All of this is on data partition which is of course imaged. So, I don't think there is much chance of losing anything important - I just have to be a bit more disciplined about the regularity, but I am at most a couple of weeks behind - most important stuff that I am working on at the mo is on a CD hat I use to transfer stuff from home to work to school etc, so I should be right. Hope I don't sound too boring. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
| 66554 | 2002-07-31 10:16:00 | To be honest, I don't do backups... never have. But then again, I've got nothing really that *needs* backing up - really I only stick stuff on disk if I want to make room on my HDD for something else :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 66555 | 2002-07-31 10:54:00 | No one will want to know my boring routine. I just copy the stuff I can't be without onto CDs (3, just to be sure). Don't do it as often as I should but the most important stuff is safe (I hope). Before the CD writer it was a real pain backing up onto a dozen floppies. I had to choose the really really important stuff and keep my fingers crossed about the rest. No worries about leaving things out now. What I'd like to know is how does one verify data on CDs? After copying I open a few files to see if they work, and they do, but I can't check the whole 600MB or so. I use Nero and InCD and Nero's Help says that using the verification will confirm that the CD is readable and that all the files have been written correctly. But can we really trust that? |
Susan B (19) | ||
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