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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Computer and Electronics => Topic started by: landbeforetimelover on July 01, 2007, 06:20:07 PM

Title: Back it Up!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on July 01, 2007, 06:20:07 PM

I am always surprised at how many of my clients don't back up their data.  When their computer crashes, they lose all of their files.  I always back up my data, usually on external hard drives, but also online.  What do you use to back up your data?  If you don't back up your data, why not?  Which method do you prefer?  Do you have a lot of files so you need an external hard drives to store everything, or do you have so little to back up that you use a 1gb flash drive?  How often do you back up?  Daily?  Weekly?  Monthly?  What files are you most afraid of losing?

Title: Back it Up!
Post by: Tails_155 on July 01, 2007, 06:30:59 PM

I can't afford external HDs and don't have a working burner =\ =/ darn doghair

Title: Back it Up!
Post by: TheNumberOneShmuck on July 01, 2007, 06:36:24 PM

Quote from: Tails_155,Jul 1 2007 on  03:30 PM

I can't afford external HDs and don't have a working burner =\ =/ darn doghair

This. Needs me a job.

Title: Back it Up!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on July 01, 2007, 06:51:20 PM

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I can't afford external HDs

You can get a 500gb for only $120 usually.  Not that big of a deal.  That's almost how much I pay for internet each month.

Title: Back it Up!
Post by: Tails_155 on July 01, 2007, 07:02:04 PM

my first goal is a RAM upgrade, I only got 512 meg

Title: Back it Up!
Post by: landbeforetimelover on July 01, 2007, 07:06:42 PM

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I only got 512 meg

:lol That's what I'd do too.

If you're having problems with ram, try increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file.

It changes some of your hard drive space into ram.  You can add up to 4gb of ram without buying anything!  If you have 2 hard drives, you can add up to 8gb or ram!

If you have 2gb of ram or more, I wouldn't suggest doing this.  Your computer can only use so much.  I have 8gb of ram in mine (I actually spent money for the chips) and I probably only use 1gb normally.  Except when making icons.  That can take up to 5gb of ram right there!

Title: Back it Up!
Post by: Petrie. on July 01, 2007, 09:24:11 PM

Hit or miss on backups....usually my laptop harddrive and external one are identical save for some music/video files because they're just eating away at valuable space.  If not that, I've done cd/dvd-r backups.

Title: Back it Up!
Post by: action9000 on July 02, 2007, 12:03:22 AM

Thankfully I have enough spare computers that I can backup on other machines without losing valuable space, so I do so.

I have 2 or 3 copies of my music collection, project files, and any irreplaceable data, with each copy being on a different hard drive (for sure) or even on a different computer.  My web server currently doubles as a backup machine.  I never sit at it, but it's running 24/7, allowing me to copy anything I want to it, in private folders.

If any of my computers decided to die right now, I wouldn't actually lose anything except the time to reinstall.