It's important to have backups.

dragon · 25-04-2009, 13:06

As I found out a moment ago as I managed to lose all my photos.etc from the pc when going off to try Windows7

(i think its becuase the upgrade failed and instead of letting it rollback i did a clean install)

Thankfully I had an online backup of the files lost and was able to restore them.

I think I may also ensure I keep more backups as well just in case something goes wrong with the online backup

Pushkar · 25-04-2009, 14:17

Remember, one backup is no backup.

dragon · 25-04-2009, 14:34

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Originally Posted by TaiLZ

Remember, one backup is no backup.

interesting quote, and somewhat true.

Techincally 1 backup is just that a single backup, although if something was to happen to it then youd still have lost the data.

It is of course advisiable to have multiple backups.

Halcyon · 25-04-2009, 14:37

Definately agree with you. Backups should be done regularly. Data is too important to lose.

25-04-2009, 14:38

everything important to me I have backed up in a few places

dragon · 25-04-2009, 14:42

I really need to get around to rebuilding my network storage server.

I used to have one but it was a power hugry beast of a machine, got a little atom sitting around not doing much will probably recase that

AndyCambs · 25-04-2009, 15:37

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Originally Posted by TaiLZ

Remember, one backup is no backup.

One back-up is nevertheless better than no back-ups!
I used to copy my photos to CD, but I think they degraded in the sunshine - now I copy to a shared drive as well as the CD, and make use of the VStuff...

dilli-theclaw · 25-04-2009, 15:40

Photo's Yeah. I lost all mine once. Now I do a new backup once a month of them and they get stored at my dad's just in case.

AbyssUnderground · 25-04-2009, 15:43

You can never have enough backups. Fact. I have 4 copies of my website data, and 3 copies of photos/documents. My server also does auto backups every 2 days of photos and documents, and hourly backups of the websites.

I should also point out that you should never keep any personal data like documents/photos on your boot partition for the exact reason above. If you ever have to format the partition because the OS has gone bonkers, you won't lose anything if its on another partition or drive. Simple really, but remember you still have to do backups.

Halcyon · 25-04-2009, 16:37

If you have more than one backup however, you need to make sure they are well synchronized or else you will end up with different versions of data and get completly lost.

dragon · 25-04-2009, 19:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndyCambs

One back-up is nevertheless better than no back-ups!
I used to copy my photos to CD, but I think they degraded in the sunshine - now I copy to a shared drive as well as the CD, and make use of the VStuff...

My offsite backup is stored on a cloud storage provider that claim to have the data in multiple locations.

I've just recased my D945GCLF2 board from the mini case it was in into a 4u rackmount case I hadn't gotten around to trashing yet (Used to have an althon MP in it but gave the board/cpus to a mate as it spent most of its time idling eating power)

Will have 3 x 160gb drives in a softraid 5 shortly which I will probably use to keep a local backup on. (I trust linux's software raid implementation a lot more than fakeraid controllers, also Can mix IDE and Sata drives in software raid

) Not bad for using up spare parts

I'd rather not lose the photos/docs but i'm only prepared to go so far and at the end of the day although it would be a shame to lose them there are far worse things that could happen.

dragon · 26-04-2009, 00:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragon

My offsite backup is stored on a cloud storage provider that claim to have the data in multiple locations.

I've just recased my D945GCLF2 board from the mini case it was in into a 4u rackmount case I hadn't gotten around to trashing yet (Used to have an althon MP in it but gave the board/cpus to a mate as it spent most of its time idling eating power)

Will have 3 x 160gb drives in a softraid 5 shortly which I will probably use to keep a local backup on. (I trust linux's software raid implementation a lot more than fakeraid controllers, also Can mix IDE and Sata drives in software raid

) Not bad for using up spare parts

I'd rather not lose the photos/docs but i'm only prepared to go so far and at the end of the day although it would be a shame to lose them there are far worse things that could happen.

Well I might if i can ever get the box to behave itself

nemesis01 · 27-04-2009, 07:51

I have Acronis TI and it does a complete backup of my windows partition daily at 6AM, to my 1TB storage HD, all my important files are kept on that drive permanantly aswell so if windows does go tits up there is no real damage, and it only takes a few minutes to restore the image VIA recovery CD.