Do you backup your data?

Oh yeah. Working with Enterprise storage systems, years ago, taught me that a single copy of a file may as well not exist. Not backing up is like putting your files on Death Row.

I have some everyday stuff synced with Dropbox, nothing really private. I keep all my "Documents" synced between two different computers, using a program called Unison. (Windows users can do this with Microsoft SyncToy.) Then I have the "bulk" stuff (music, movies, app installs), on my big laptop and a couple of external drives in a caddy, and that gets regularly backed up to another big external drive. I haven't accidentally lost a file since 1999. :cool:

I normally have anything important on cloud storage as well as my lappy. Films/music etc I cba with, can get them again, I normally download a film to watch it and delete it after to free up space anyway.

Biggins wrote: »

The Genie Timeline system (in its options - which you can turn off) is set to keep earlier versions.
I utterly recommend this product alone for anyone serious about saving their work.

' WORK ? ' what is this word ?

My pc crashed last year. I lost loads of stuff I had for years,passwords for forums that were linked to defunct emails.

Cost a couple of hundred quid to retrieve the rest.

It's external hard drive back ups for me now.

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I don't really have any important files that need I need to backup. The only thing I'd hate to lose is nature photographs that I've taken since about 2008. I have all of those on an external hard drive and I recently copied them to another hard drive in case the first one ever breaks down. I'm not particularly computer savvy though so I just dragged the folder of photos to the second hard drive. There's almost 200 gigabytes of photos so there's probably a better way that would take up less space but I can't figure it out.

Get a load of blank DVDs and start copying. Could take a long time but as soon as you burn them, label them and put them away somewhere really safe.

I lost hundreds of photos/vids a few years ago and since then I keep regular backups. Normally backup data to external hdds and really important stuff to dvds. By now have over 100 dvds of stuff - don't care because if I lost them it would kill me - so many damn important pics and so on never to be seen again.

What I tell customers - if it's important, back it up.....if it's really important, back it up again

Yup, I do although seems to me a lot of people don't

On my uni placement in a school (IT Admin) at the minute and the amount of people coming to you over lost work is unbelievable, especially since many of them have been round multiple times -.-

Stupid backups, in my attempt to add more back ups at work yesterday I broke the main database.

RVP 11 wrote: »

Yes!
3 x 3TB for main use and 2 x 3TB backups

That's not really a backup if it's on the same machine and in the same house.

That 38% doesn't back up their data is a little scary but explain the many threads in Tech along the lines of
"My hard drive crashed, how do I recover the data help help"
And also why companies can charge 100s of euros to fix it. Easy money.