How often do you back up your data?

[Welshwatchman]

If your PC/Mac's drive frazzled just now would you be in an "oh sh!t" situation?

Someone I know had an inadequately sturdy data backup system back in the 90's and a catastrophic failure coupled with insufficiently verified off site data backups left them in a rather big hole, with three months worth of coding (plus a customer) lost, costing him £200,000+ all told.

I have learned from this occurrence and have my bases covered as far as precious data is concerned.

How 'bout you?

[idk01]

Hi Paul,

I back up too often here at home, have an array of external usb drives for the daily stuff, on the pc's I use Acronis true image home for imaging the c: drive incrementally on a weekly basis. all other drives are backed up to the server and then onto my Nas

For all our photos, they are backed up on NAS and synchronized constantly :-) 11 years of photos and my wife scrapbooks digitally. although I periodically burn the photos to DL DVD and send them up north to my parents to store in case of total disaster, we have three full copies of out data here sync'd at any time and accessible on any machine or vpn out and about :-)

For the mac I mainly just copy important data across the network to a folder :-) again most docs/photos are on the server so are accessed via mapped drive :-)

I do lower end data recovery on badly damaged hard drives and know the time involved and have many clients who rarely even never back up.

I may be a little overboard with the backups here better safe than sorry.

*phew*



Dave.

[Jimbits76]

Difficult really as all my date at home sits on a WD MyBook drive anyway.

However, I only back up our photos, videos, music etc once every six months to dvd so I should do it more often!

At work, our stuff is backed up to external server and head office nightly!

J

[wantonebad]

Originally Posted by idk01

I use Acronis true image home for imaging the c: drive incrementally on a weekly basis. all other drives are backed up to the server and then onto my Nas

X2, well sort of

I use simple batch programs to incrementally back up data to my server from my media center and my various laptops/desktops in the house a couple of times a week. They are scheduled tasks programmed to run automatically so they're kind of idiot proof which is a requisite. The server gets backed up off site once a week.

[Rockrolex]

I back up one data set religiously. That's my Quicken data. I back up to two places on my HD and to two separate SD cards. Periodically, I also back it all up to a CD. If I ever lost it, I'd be SOL.

I keep my photos on two separate HDs. Other than that, I don't have much that's worth backing up or that couldn't be easily replaced.

[idk01]

Originally Posted by wantonebad

X2, well sort of

I use simple batch programs to incrementally back up data to my server from my media center and my various laptops/desktops in the house a couple of times a week. They are scheduled tasks programmed to run automatically so they're kind of idiot proof which is a requisite. The server gets backed up off site once a week.

Its crazy when you think about it, but I have seen many clients with one notebook and it contains all history photos you name it, hard drive croaks it then they panic, and I'm on their case constantly, but I get told its a waste of cash :-)

In the case of some smaller businesses, I tell them they lose the data,drawings and accounting info you might as well close your doors, all is gone :-(

I'm even a little anal about my iTunes collection

[seedgun]

If you have a Mac, get a time capsul. Wireless full time backup. It is seemless and you never even have to think about it till the inevitable occurs.
ANdy

[Gedanken]

I back up onto two USB drives - one sits on my desk at home and the other goes in the satchel that I take to work.

[Gedanken]

Originally Posted by seedgun

If you have a Mac, get a time capsul. Wireless full time backup. It is seemless and you never even have to think about it till the inevitable occurs.
ANdy

Sounds like a great concept, but my boss has time capsule at home and every time I hear about it, it seems something or other has gone wrong - either it isn't backing up, or when it is, the print server's gone funny or something else.

[redshirt1957]

Business...every day with off site storage.

Personal...never.