Data Backup
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| Backing up my data - photographs at the moment...One of those tasks we sometimes put off, but it's very important...Just a friendly reminder :) |
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| I keep my stuff on a NAS (2 x 4TB RAID1) which does an automated weekly cloud backup for the really important life-or-death stuff. The first backup took 17 hours but the weekly ones are scheduled for 2am or something and complete in 10 mins or so. |
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| I backup my datas on 4 different disks (hard disk, usb, sd) regularly and on dvd rom occasionally... No worry on my side ;) (just make sure that, after the copy, the size in (octets/bytes) of the files is the same on all disks, else you think you have made backup but they may not be reliable/corrupted) |
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| I always remember Antony Flack losing literally everything in a house fire. Hence the cloud backup. |
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| The most precious files I ever lost were photographs of my late Father...I haven't lost a file since. Yes, cloud backup/in another location are very important too. |
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| For the UK be aware when using the cloud that there are few territorial laws that be coming into strong effect within the next few years... especially so for business. I imagine other territories will do something similar in due course. |
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| I backup my datas on 4 different disks (hard disk, usb, sd) regularly and on dvd rom occasionally... No worry on my side ;) Unless you also store things off-site, you're still one fire away from losing everything. :-? |
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| one is in my car, one is in my room, one is in my pocket, one is in another place. (all hidden of course) i do not trust the cloud because i don't know who can access the files... |
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| i do not trust the cloud because i don't know who can access the files... "in the cloud" just means "on someone else's computer", with all the downsides of that. |
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| "in the cloud" just means "on someone else's computer", with all the downsides of that. Despite their importance to me, my files will actually be worthless to pretty much anybody else. |
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| In case It helps. I use a free program called SyncFolders to backup my important stuff (also use dropbox). It's also quite common to find the Acronis backup software on sale. Currently it's $10 from newegg.com with a rebate. Reviews are generally pretty good for it. |
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| Despite their importance to me, my files will actually be worthless to pretty much anybody else. same thing here, i backup my files (including installers and license keys) so that it is quicker to have a similar computer if my computer crashes/becomes broken/is stolen... |
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| Backup to cloud, DVD-R, USBKey, SDCard, put it on external server. Backing up is VERY important I once lost a weeks work due to harddisk failure back when 40Mb was a lot and to be honest been backing up ever since. If you cant afford to lose it back it up. |
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