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How do you back up your files?

post #1 of 13
3/27/12 at 9:36am
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So, now that I have three cameras on different mediums (I've discovered that my tablet takes better photos and videos than my 5-year-old digital camera.), I've had the hardest time trying to consolidate images onto one drive. I've been backing up my files as I can, whenever I get a chance to use something with a USB drive, but want more freedom!

Someone suggested Dropbox.com to me.

What do you all use?
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post #2 of 13
3/27/12 at 9:39am
Novastor backup.
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post #3 of 13
3/27/12 at 12:16pm
I have backed up files as much as 4 times on different formats (cds, dvds, hds etc) so if ones goes missing or broke, then I always have another one just in case.

I made the mistake once of backing up many important files on just one external hd drive, the thing for no reason whatsoever didn't work one day and never came to its regular self, and I ended up missing it all there.

As far as videos go, i had them on betamax and vhs and on other formats and had them all digitized and backed up in many other forms as well, again, just in case, same with some dvds (created multiple copies if one doesn't work).

On the other hand, I have both a rolodex and some "paper agendas" from the 70s 80s, etc and they still are here with me after all these years.


cheers
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post #4 of 13
3/29/12 at 5:46pm
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Originally Posted by castorpollux View Post

On the other hand, I have both a rolodex and some "paper agendas" from the 70s 80s, etc and they still are here with me after all these years.

Me too. Funny how that works out, huh?
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post #5 of 13
3/29/12 at 6:48pm
Apple's backup stuff is pretty painless. MS isn't bad, either, nowadays. I used to roll my own, but I think Time Machine is so much easier. And now that you can put stuff in the cloud, there's always that, too. It's like free disaster recovery.
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post #6 of 13
3/29/12 at 9:36pm
I have an external harddrive hooked up to my Apple wireless router. I save stuff from both my Macs onto that harddrive via WiFi. Also there is iCloud, which is nice.
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post #7 of 13
3/30/12 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by castorpollux View Post

I have backed up files as much as 4 times on different formats (cds, dvds, hds etc) so if ones goes missing or broke, then I always have another one just in case.

I made the mistake once of backing up many important files on just one external hd drive, the thing for no reason whatsoever didn't work one day and never came to its regular self, and I ended up missing it all there.

As far as videos go, i had them on betamax and vhs and on other formats and had them all digitized and backed up in many other forms as well, again, just in case, same with some dvds (created multiple copies if one doesn't work).

On the other hand, I have both a rolodex and some "paper agendas" from the 70s 80s, etc and they still are here with me after all these years.

cheers

But if you backed it up to 'just one' external HDD, you had a copy, when the original didn't work anymore
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post #8 of 13
3/30/12 at 11:07am
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Originally Posted by CHSeifert View Post

But if you backed it up to 'just one' external HDD, you had a copy, when the original didn't work anymore

I guess I forgot to mention that i didn't have the original(s) anymore, so I was using the HDD copy, still I lost everything. Massive mistake on my part.
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post #9 of 13
4/1/12 at 7:08am
Always have at least 2 backups.
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post #10 of 13
4/1/12 at 8:35am
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Originally Posted by hedonist222 View Post

Always have at least 2 backups.

Yes! I have a Time Capsule at home which backups automatically once an hour, and an external HDD at the office which I clone/backup to regularly. I can't afford any lengthy downtime, I need to be up and running asap if a disk crashes or something.

I also have two disks in my laptop (one running Lion and the other Snow Leopard which I still need for some tasks), so if one fails I can simply boot from the other and continue working with minimal effort.
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post #11 of 13
4/1/12 at 8:56am
As a regular IT professional:

No backups of nothing
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post #12 of 13
4/4/12 at 12:47pm
Probably living on the edge, but I keep nothing backed up really.

I have all my media on a 1TB harddrive in my computer, and a boot drive for my OS. If the OS dies, I do still have all my files at least.
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post #13 of 13
4/4/12 at 2:17pm
I am very ocd about this. I have multiple 32GB and 64GB jumpdrives for on the go as well as a 1TB portable drive. But for my home, I have 6TB worth of drive space for backups, of everything I own.
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