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How often do you back up your computer?
« on: 12 September 2009, 06:34:52 »
I used to back up mine when I thought about it, but, after having problems just over a week ago, which took me two days to sort out, fortunately without loss of any data, I've set a schedule to auto backup twice a week.
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #1 on: 12 September 2009, 07:02:25 »
I don't, there's nothing worth backing up :)
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #2 on: 12 September 2009, 07:04:26 »
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I used to back up mine when I thought about it, but, after having problems just over a week ago, which took me two days to sort out, fortunately without loss of any data, I've set a schedule to auto backup twice a week.

once a month me

but i guess it all depends on what you are doing to how often you need to back up the comp :y
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #3 on: 12 September 2009, 07:10:29 »
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I used to back up mine when I thought about it, but, after having problems just over a week ago, which took me two days to sort out, fortunately without loss of any data, I've set a schedule to auto backup twice a week.

once a month me

but i guess it all depends on what you are doing to how often you need to back up the comp :y

Mrs AA does a lot of work on it for her job, plus there are all the e-mails.
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« Reply #4 on: 12 September 2009, 07:20:07 »
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I used to back up mine when I thought about it, but, after having problems just over a week ago, which took me two days to sort out, fortunately without loss of any data, I've set a schedule to auto backup twice a week.

once a month me

but i guess it all depends on what you are doing to how often you need to back up the comp :y

Mrs AA does a lot of work on it for her job, plus there are all the e-mails.

yes i can see why you do yours twice a week
better safe than sorry :y
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #5 on: 12 September 2009, 07:48:24 »
Mine gets backed up on the fly
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #6 on: 12 September 2009, 07:52:25 »
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Mine gets backed up on the portable disc :D
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #7 on: 12 September 2009, 08:42:04 »
I have a second HDD that hold things I want to keep, photos etc once every 6 months I back it up to DVD but monitor the health of the drive using Ashampoo HDD control  :y
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #8 on: 12 September 2009, 08:50:57 »
monthly.. anyway I have many copies of backup on all pcs,servers hard drives , cds, dvds,removable disks etc etc..

but if I'm writing a new code, daily..



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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #9 on: 12 September 2009, 09:12:36 »
When I remember,  :-[ 

On the plus side though, most of "MDocuments" are backed up on several other computers, depending on which one I am working on.  Butmain server has not been plugged in since I moved, so nearly 4 months since a major back up.

So thats todays job after the F1 qualifying. :y :y :y   Just got to find it now.
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #10 on: 12 September 2009, 09:16:38 »
I dont, I only do a restore point once a weak.
if it does crash big style then I kill it and do a new install. never had to do it though in the last couple of years :y
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #11 on: 12 September 2009, 09:31:25 »
every 24 hours, i use time machine with my mac, it automatically does it in the back ground, and it does a full backup first time you use it, then an incremental one every 24 hours after that.

Got a 1 terabyte drive backing up my mac and 2 other external drives.
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #12 on: 12 September 2009, 09:32:59 »
i dont but a timely reminder as i have all family photos on
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #13 on: 12 September 2009, 09:35:23 »
I back up on line automatically
http://www.redstor.com/onlinebackup.html

Will cost a little though
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Re: How often do you back up your computer?
« Reply #14 on: 12 September 2009, 19:17:03 »
Having lost H/D in the past with lots of data on them. I now have a server which runs Microsoft home server. This will back up all of my PC's and laptops when connected to the network, usually every few days or so. It is very easy to restore a PC back to it state before failed.

I also use a service called Carbonite as an off site backup of my document file and other important directory's, at the moment  it holds 65gigs of data.

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