back up your data

[circles]

My computer almost crashed tonight. Heart attack averted.

 

[Skit]

I'm glad to hear you didn't lose any of your files circles. That would be a bummer. I have never had to use any backups but I do back up on two internal hard drives (1 SS and 1 TB platter drive) and one 2TB external. I'd rather have it and not need it than to lose it all. Oh yeah, I also have a bunch of stuff on some 64GB thumb drives.

 

[RichBrew]

Done regularly, courtesy of Time Machine.

RichBrew

 

[Laggspike]

Real men dont backup, they cry!

 

[Stage Fright]

I have an external HDD that I leave unplugged in case of lightning. I plug it in every month or so and back up new files. I have a second external HDD that stays in a box and I update it every year or so. I will take them both if we have another Katrina hurricane. I have tons of family pictures plus all of my songs and other database and website work.

 

[Howard2k]

I keep three backup drives. One on my desk, turned off. One in a fire/water resistant lock box, and one in my overnight bag for if I'm away from home.

I use a Mac, so I just plug them in now and then and Time Machine takes care of ensuring that everything is backed up for me.

I did have my primary HDD fail and had to replace it. It was a triviality getting all my data back though.

Paranoid? No, I've actually had to use my backups. I have around 300GB of photos and I can't go back in time and take all of those again!

 

[Gary]

My tower has two drives. One with the OS and one where all my data is saved. I back it up to an external HDD every six months.

 

[TheX]

In these modern times I can't see any reason for data to be lost. There are too many easy (built in) ways to do it in virtually every OS.

 

[kevinpaul]

I went back to paper 100% after I got hacked a couple years ago. No banking or any thing I need is on my computers. I write on my computer and print the pages in case it get fried by a electrical spike. I did loose enough stuff that it took a year or so to fix everything.

 

[MenaceMartin]

Yip. I can't suggest it enough.

I keep backups on my secondary internal HDD, aswell as my external HDD which is disconnected and kept in my safe when not used.

There's a lot of data that can't be replaced and costly if lost, so it makes sense to keep two backups, one of which is off-pc incase a PSU failure/surge kills all my internal drives.

I'm even contemplating writing all of my music onto some DVD's aswell... just incase. But that may be going too far...

 

[igore67]

Doing it now, thanks for the reminder. Haven't backed up since last year.

 

[TheX]

I backup 1.4 PB a week across two datacenters. That's 1,400,000 gig. Losing data is BAD.

 

[Pal]

Just a month ago one of the four hard drives on my home Mac (none of them backed up) decided to quit living. 3 TBs consisting of my music library and personal photos. I was able to get almost everything back by cloning and rebuilding the drive but my iTunes library had to be rebuilt from the ground up. I along with two people who work for me took over a week to get it back together. In the end I lost about 200 songs and 1000 photos.

 

[wizard1183]

Anyone know where I can buy a petabyte Flashdrive? I think I could back up my data for life with one without worry. Come on. Anyone?

 

[Byron999]

 

[MooCheng]

reminds me, must do it, usualy back up once a month,

anything I'm currently working on, after each session I back up onto a thumbdrive incl' any temp files the DAW makes and there location. Reinstate them in the wrong location Ardours never gonna find them

 

[foxtrot]

 

[Ghostman]

My hard drive bricked about two weeks ago. All my recordings are gone.

 

[spitfire]

I have two backup servers; one at home, and one at my office. I back up all the office PCs to both the office and home servers. I also backup my home computers to both the home and office servers.

Short of a giant meteor taking out the city, I figured I'm covered.

I do a full backup every month, and incremental backups each day.

Never had a HD crash (ever), but the backups have helped when for some bonehead reason or another I've managed to F-up a file doing something stupid.

Even won some brownie points with the wife. She had spent several days entering data into Quicken (she balances the checkbook every 6 months whether it needs it or not). Somehow she managed to screw the file up the day after she had spent hours entering new data, but I was able to bring up the backup from the previous day and she was fine.

I think it's much more likely to lose data to human error than hardware failure. Both can and do happen. So back up early and often.