OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files

[Kamog]

Well, at work I back up my stuff about once a week. At home, I hardly ever back up. A long time ago, I used to back stuff up on floppy disks. It was a good thing I did that because a few years ago, both my computers got stolen when someone broke into the house. I still have my data because of those floppy disks. But now with file sizes getting bigger, floppy disks are just too small. I don't have a CD burner so I don't have a good way to back stuff up. Maybe I'll buy a flash card reader and a bunch of 256-MB flash memory cards or something to back stuff up on, I don't know yet. Or I guess I might get a CD burner.

[Atrocities]

I should get into the habit of backing up files at least once a week. But how can aford CD/RW disks.

I want DVDR.

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
What do you guys think about portable Hard Drives?

They are great, My brother has an 80gig external USB HD that he uses for backups. Actually it's one of those universal USB caddy units that can hold any standard PC IDE unit like a HD, ZipDrive, Floppy, even a removable HD unit. It simply has it's own power cord and hooks up to the PC via a USB cable. Plug it in and it works like any other drive. It appears in 'explorer' as "USB External Drive (F" (or what ever letter follows the Last Local drive on your system.)

..and they are portable enough to take with you anywhere. Now that is a very good thing. The only downside is that the transfer rate is something like 128kb/sec (aka 10 megabits per second) but for backup, that's not too bad.

Nuf said, Cheers!

[ March 18, 2004, 11:27: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I should get into the habit of backing up files at least once a week. But how can aford CD/RW disks.

I want DVDR.

CD/RW? Why? CDR's are cheap, around 50 cents each when you buy 50 or hundred packs.

DVDR's are still around $12-$16 a piece (they hold the equivalent to about 8-10 CDR's) so value wise CDR's are still the way to go.

Cheers!

[Cipher7071]

Even if you don't have a CD burner, you can still send backup files to some willing person for safekeeping. No system is failsafe, but the safest backups are always off site.

[Atrocities]

"Ok here is a copy of my important data including my bank PW's and on line account info. Please keep it in a safe place."

Do you trust any one with that information?

[The FryeR K]

I have a new jump drive a protable 256MB harddisk.
Solid state, I back my stuff up a toss it in a fire proof container, the drive is water proof by itsself.
Nice to have a new toy