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[Ever Ready]

Well do you back up all your precious porn data or do you fly by the seat of your tighty whiteys?

This Thursday (a few days from now) I will do my annual back up to 387 5.25'' well floppy discs

Have to keep those pics of Methuselah for posterity or is it posterior? oh arse I can never remember

[AndyRoid]

My backups take place as soon as the data is moved to my NAS, and my current setup allows for 3 hard drives to fail simultaneously (a highly unlikely situation) while still maintaining data integrity.

[Ever Ready]

My backups take place as soon as the data is moved to my NAS, and my current setup allows for 3 hard drives to fail simultaneously (a highly unlikely situation) while still maintaining data integrity.

You've gone and done it now   expect your three drives to spontaneously combust any time   Only joking.........I hope 

[AndyRoid]

You've gone and done it now   expect your three drives to spontaneously combust any time   Only joking.........I hope 

I've had 2 drives fail simultaneously (well, the second one fell over approx an hour after the first one) which would generally be considered a rare occurrence, but if 3 ever fall over at once then I'd be very surprised (although my data will still be there so I won't care too much  )   

[pscocoa]

Back up always - pc and phone. Phone pics go to cloud immediately as do contacts etc. Pc I think is 9pm daily - must check

[Ever Ready]

I also use WHS which backups and then backups the back up  not invincible but I also have family photos etc on several other pc's both here and off site

[Stemo]

I have nothing that's worth backing up. 

[TheBoy]

My backups take place as soon as the data is moved to my NAS, and my current setup allows for 3 hard drives to fail simultaneously (a highly unlikely situation) while still maintaining data integrity.

Except that doesn't cover from disk corruption or user error.  The former was the cause of the huge outage we had early December, when an HP SMART Array card decided it was bored migrating from one RAID level to another, and decided to lock up part way through

[TheBoy]

To the OP, the reason for the outage today was to replace the tape drive's controller card to a higher performing one.

So, yes, I do back up to tape. On top of that, I do a lot of offsite backups for important data that I'd be seriously miffed if I lost.

[cleggy]

I backup weekly to an external hard drive 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I have nothing that's worth backing up. 

I thought you'd lost the ability to 'back up'? 

[bigegg]

important files backed up to "dropbox" which has six computers linked across four sites (home, work, mums, friends).
some of which only attached/syncd once a week.

[TheBoy]

important files backed up to "dropbox" which has six computers linked across four sites (home, work, mums, friends).
some of which only attached/syncd once a week.

If its important, worth considering another solution (in addition), as you still have a single point of failure - Dropbox. The connected machines will sync with what is on Dropbox, so a cock-up their end (I know of one major UK based cloud storage solution losing a load of customer data) or user error your side, will impact all files. I know you say some are only attached at certain times, but thats not foolproof.

A 2nd cloud storage account syncing the same local folder is not the answer either, for the same reason. Thats the downside of syncing, as opposed to copying

Obviously, it depends on the definition of "important files" as to the lengths you want to go to. But cloud storage (via automatic syncing) isn't really a viable safe backup solution. There are cloud based backup solutions that can work, using processes not dissimilar to traditional backup methods, but these tend to be quite expensive for usable amounts of capacity.

[Rods2]

Use mirrored drives on my server and will do the same with my next PC which I'm putting together at the moment and also the regular backup of important data.

[Webby the Bear]

All my photos are on photobucket..... that way I can always remotely access them if my PC decides it would prefer to be a potato for any reason