Back up

[happytraveller]

I was reading the post about Madkudu's laptop dying and it was a good reminder that a full back up was due. Got me wondering about how long it was since I did a FULL back up (not just FSX).

When was the last time that you did a FULL back up of your hard drives?

Answers on a postcard........

Not a question of IF it will fail, but WHEN it will fail. Back up now, tomorrow can be too late.

smooth landings.

[madkudu]

Yes, too true, BACKUP!!!

I was actually extremely lucky in my case, because it was a graphics/video card failure, somehow(?)I decided to conect my laptop to my TV screen and for some reason it kindof worked, I could actually see the windows screen in 'safemode' however it was wildly distorted and was extremely hard to make out anything, but I could access the files so I took the chance to backup my important files onto my trusty external HD, Lucky I did that because next time I tried to connect to my TV it didnt work at all....it died

As HappyT said, you never know when, but it WILL happen, as it did to me

Cheers, Jimmy

[gojozoom]

I make a full backup every 2 weeks. But that's normal for someone who works in IT and rebuilds servers which didn't have a proper backup solution day-by-day. I think the best way for home PC users is to create a full image of your hardrive (Acronis or Norton Ghost). Easy to use, fast, and it makes a perfect compressed clone of your hardrive.

[pilot.masman]

yea or for the completely lazy (i confess i do this) just setup a few hard disks in raid 5 (or raid 1)

i never find i have anything on my harddisks that i cant get back by logging into steam and re-downloading or reinstalling with a fresh OS. i kinda like reinstalling the OS keeps it clean and fresh, until it gets bogged down again hence why ill be buying my first SSD next week to try it out

[Chairman]

Belt and braces, every time I shut down the computer, after losing 2 years of my photos

I have a batch file that uses winsin to mirror a couple of dozen folders onto a second internal hard drive, then it mirrors that hard drive onto an external hard drive, then it shuts the computer down. I use that instead of a shutdown command. I can also run it without the shutdown after doing anything important.

I have 2 external hard drives, the second one lives at mum and dads and the theory is that every week I swap them over so I always have the internal backup, the external backup, and last weeks external backup offsite. In practise th externals only get swapped occasionally.

When I moved my XP c:\ drive into the beast it killed XP and I had to do a fresh install of windows 7. A week later I had to do a reinstall, this time windows 7 64bit. Didn't lose a single piece of data.

Gary

[Bushmaster]

I have never done a backup...