backup data for arcade cab?

[nickynooch]

Just curious what do you guys use to back up your data for your arcade cab?

I'm doing a manual copy and paste to an external hard drive, but I didn't know if anyone has a better method to recommend.

[gryhnd]

Cab is set in BIOS to turn itself on once a month. Scheduled backup (XP-Pros own built in backup) fires up and backs up over my network to a NAS.  Cab then shuts itself off via DShutdown

More than 1x/month was overkill for me, as not a lot changes in there.

[Havok]

I do an Acronis image of my drive whenever anything changes (which is fairly rare) to a NAS.

[Benevolance]

I like to live on the edge. No back ups for me.

[eds1275]

I have SO MANY DVDS. I keep my roms + CHDs on there, and then my mala layout is saved on a few different compys on my home network. I manually back it up if I make a change.

[Thenasty]

I also use ACRONIS and make an exact copy of the HD i'm using to another HD which is inside the machine UNPLUG. So when the HD i'm using goes bad, just switcht eh cables to the other one, Game Time in 10 secs.

[Havok]

I also use ACRONIS and make an exact copy of the HD i'm using to another HD which is inside the machine UNPLUG. So when the HD i'm using goes bad, just switcht eh cables to the other one, Game Time in 10 secs.

That's a great idea. The only reason I use my NAS is that it's a central backup for the whole family and is RAID 5 so even if a drive goes, I've still got backups of everything in one place.

[romshark]

My cab is on the network, and I have a Windows Home Server. So I back up the actual OS stuff, emulators, configs, ect. ROMS are not included in the backup, as I have complete backups of them on an external hard drive, my main desktop, my notebook PC, and a folder on the server.

The Home Server is not programmed to back up the cab every night (it would fail anyway since the computer is completely turned off when I'm done). I initialize the backup manually when major changes occur (Windows updates, major changes to front ends).

[Havok]

Oohh - a Hero Jr!

 

I built a Hero 1 back in high school Robotics class. Good times...

[BobA]

Picked up an Acer ah340 home server and backup could not be simpler.   It is trouble free except for one thing.   You have to get rid of McAfee as soon as you get the server. An update to McAfee has made it incompatible with the Windows Home Server so you have to remove it by logging on remotely after your server is setup. The Acer ah 340 is priced way lower then the HP home servers and is much better than a simple NAS solution.   It comes with a 1 TB drive and WHS so it costs very little for the hardware if you consider the costs of these items.

[jasonbar]

I plug in my external 500GB HD every now & then & drag 'n' drop all the important folders.

-Jason

[enchntr]

I've backed up my MAME directory to my NAS, which is then replicated to another NAS.

Now to just get an offsite backup.  Although, it would probably be a good idea for me to get a bare metal backup of the system.

[RobbyMac]

I just do a mirror backup using xcopy and task scheduler to my fileserver once in a great while.

[retrometro]

I use robocopy to another computer on the network as well as to a second internal hdd.  Robocopy like rsync can be setup to copy just the files that change.

[protokatie]

I just do a mirror backup using xcopy and task scheduler to my fileserver once in a great while.

Same here with all of my backups. When it comes to backing up via xcopy to a NAS (IE my fileserver), I generally do a network mapped drive on the computer (say to drive letter Z) for where I want it to go. Then I write a batch file with something along the lines of "xcopy c:\blah\ z:\ /d /e /v /i /c /y /f" to do the work.

Not quite as easy as clicking on options, but much more configurable.