NZFF

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.

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

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.

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

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

I have never done a backup...