OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files

[dogscoff]

Most of my creative output (stories, shipsets) are backed up Online- If my computer exploded I could just download it all back off my website.

Stuff in-progress is found on my PC and also on my USB memory stick, which goes most places with me.

But no, I don't often back up although having said that I spent a whole day yesterday burning my music&video collection onto 13 CDs...

BUt yeah, I really ought to back up other files more often. Like, ever...

[ March 15, 2004, 22:16: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[tesco samoa]

dailys are incrimental
weeklys are full

4 week rotation

and then 6 monthlys

[Atrocities]

But do the fire proof safes work? I mean what good is a back up if it burns up or is stolen along with your computer?

on line back ups are great. That is what I do with the STM.

[Thermodyne]

Weekly full backups and incremental (changed/unmarked) daily. And now and again I’ll burn a full to DVD set. I was using tape, but recently I moved to an IDE backup solution. I was testing/debugging it for a client, and it was so fast and so easy that I kept the test rig for myself. IDE drives are dirt cheap right now. I back up system state to CD and store that out in the garage with the DVDs. And I burn the Ghost Cast images to CD sets and keep them in the garage too. All workstations use home folders on the file server, so other than an occasional GC, I don’t worry with the workstations.

If it’s other people’s money, then I push SCSI raid 5’s and big tape. But for me, IDE is cheaper and faster.

[tesco samoa]

i off site at a friends house on the weeklys... he does the same

[Ed Kolis]

Why should I tell you? Then you'll know exactly when to hack into my computer!

[Gandalph]

I have a RAID 5 server with 2 RAID 0+1 workstations set to sync with my server twice daily. The chances of all hard drives failing at once are infintesimal (that would be slim and none with slim already leaving town). I would think all IT guys out there would have similar setups.