Backups

[ktmrider530]

This seems like common sense. But you would be surprised how many webmasters don't backup there server, I have been in many web servers, it's just amazing how lazy people are. Like the club penguin hack, no backups at all. Site was down for weeks.

[Viciousness]

I keep all of my music, operating systems, serials, text files, pictures, games, and videos on my flash drives.

Seems to work for me.

[UID=0]

I keep all of my music, operating systems, serials, text files, pictures, games, and videos on my flash drives.

Seems to work for me.

Those flash drives, are they quite large?

I'm only asking, because my music files, take up 34 GB at the moment.

20 GB of that is for music video's, the other 14 GB is for MP3's.

It's probably not as much as some people have,
with 507 video's and 3074 MP3's, but I haven't downloaded any music files, for about 18 months now,
maybe a little lomger, if I had been doing it constantly, then it could be much more than that.

That doesn't include the 1000's of audio samples I have,
ones I have made myself or otherwise, nor the 1000's of pictures either,
some original and some not, or the many GB's of graphics and audio applications as well,
not forgetting the GB's of other applications/games and text/HTML files etc too.

[Extasey]

I make plenty of backups, but I never use them!

Whenever I run into a problem I just roll it back to a system restore point or format the entire drive! Haha, I'd rather format and start fresh. All my important data is saved on a seperate drive so I don't have to worry about the loss of it!

[Idiot #1]

I use a different OS every week and format so I don't backup.

[Viciousness]

Those flash drives, are they quite large?

I'm only asking, because my music files, take up 34 GB at the moment.

20 GB of that is for music video's, the other 14 GB is for MP3's.

It's probably not as much as some people have,
with 507 video's and 3074 MP3's, but I haven't downloaded any music files, for about 18 months now,
maybe a little lomger, if I had been doing it constantly, then it could be much more than that.

That doesn't include the 1000's of audio samples I have,
ones I have made myself or otherwise, nor the 1000's of pictures either,
some original and some not, or the many GB's of graphics and audio applications as well,
not forgetting the GB's of other applications/games and text/HTML files etc too.

This and my 32GB Ipod.

I've also started to move a lot of my stuff to my desktop over the network. I don't really use it as it's running XP and only has 1GB of RAM, but has about 500GB of storage to waste, so yeah. Kind of my own little server.

[Omniscient]

I have a 300GB external. It's off mostly. I turn it on and perform manually backups of my main work folders. Programs and stuff aren't a problem to recover. It's my coding and design work that if lost would need to be redone from scratch.

I also have a secondary internal drive on my computer which I also clone certain folders.

Lastly I make hard copies onto DVD every couple months of my most precious material which mainly consists of complete site backups. All the databases and filesystems.

I am not concerned about my music (40GB) since I have it all on CD (over 1000 discs).

My family photos are backed up occassonially onto DVD as well.

I have special recovery programs that even under a drive failure would allow me near complete recovery of data. I have used it before very successfully. So that doesn't worry me. Drives also tend to give you hints about it's coming demise. If it starts to be noisy or you begin having crashes that's a sign of a drive problem. A good time to do a complete backup and buy a new drive. It's rare they just stop one day without hints of a problem.

[DAMINK™]

Agree totally with ya Omni. I think just having a harddrive spooling all the time. (Installed harddrive) Will always die before an external that you can simply turn on now and again.
I have actually had a near new 400 gig harddrive die on me (8 months old) with no ability to recover. I even removed the cover to try free it up enough to rip some data. Lost all my website related folders. Very big loss. I still have not recovered from it to be honest.
People need to understand. If you put hard hrs into coding or creating things then they need to be backed up in a way you cant loose them. Even backed up and then the backup backed up again. Just so you dont loose important data. On seperate drives ofcourse!!
Seriously i lost months of hard work through one bad harddrive and my over confident belief in the new drive.

[UID=0]

This and my 32GB Ipod.

I've also started to move a lot of my stuff to my desktop over the network. I don't really use it as it's running XP and only has 1GB of RAM, but has about 500GB of storage to waste, so yeah. Kind of my own little server.

Ahh, that's 96 GB total, which is large enough I guess for portable drives like that.

Hehe, my memory stick is only 2 GB, but that got quickly forgotten about, when I got a 400 GB USB drive recently,
but the 2 GB stick was still quite useful though, enabling me to download stuff from web cafe's when I was not online myself.

Yeah, it's handy to have another PC, on a little network, that you can use for storage as well.

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I have a 300GB external. It's off mostly. I turn it on and perform manually backups of my main work folders. Programs and stuff aren't a problem to recover. It's my coding and design work that if lost would need to be redone from scratch.

I can imagine that scenario would be a real nightmare, but I just can't imagine you losing any of your stuff though.