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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Blanka on September 08, 2010, 05:42:32 am ---
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on September 07, 2010, 08:35:55 pm ---I keep everything I would hate to lose in one folder, and copy that onto a removable USB drive
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Sounds like one instance too little, and just one location?
Also manual copying is very prone to human errors. With a good syncing app you are less likely to destroy your data yourself.

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Well, everything precious is on an internal slave drive (it would have been simpler if I had just made a partition for it, but whatever). Then I back that folder up (two actually, one is called music, the other is called 'stuff worth keeping'!). On the USB drive. I merely change the name of the folder on the USB drive so that when I copy and paste onto it, it's a completely new copy. therefore bypassing all that tedious 'folder already contains blah, do you want to replace'. Later I delete the old folder off the USB drive, leaving the latest. Like I say, sounds crude, but there's almost no way I can ---fudgesicle--- it up. At any time, there's at least two up-to-date copies (one on the PC and one on the USB drive) and one slightly out of date copy on the USB drive until I delete it.

So that's two completely physically different locations. I keep that USB drive away from the PC when I'm not using it. If there's a fire for instance, I can grab that in two seconds and run like hell  ;D

If I'm burgled, there is a chance one copy might be stolen but not both, since they are two different things. I kinda wish someone WOULD steal this piece of poo PC though...

shateredsoul:
I'm with Danny_galaga

I find that doing it manually is the only fool proof way to do this.  My most important stuff is about 1gb of stuff (papers, files, work stuff), that I rar and upload to megaupload and my flash about once a month. 

I back up my game and music stuff at cirtical points on an external that's put away when not in use. 

I tried doing that online backup with 200 gbs in music, ---fudgesicle--- that

patrickl:
A client of mine bought an external harddisk which came with some software that automatically starts running backup software once it's connected.

Cakemeister:
I use Syncback and I backup my wife' computer to mine and mine to hers. I also email myself irreplaceable files (encrypted, you never know who's going to be snooping) for offsite backup. Music is not irreplaceable. I'm too lazy to rip MP3s, I just listen to my CDs. If a CD goes bad I guess I can invoke fair use and get a backup copy. Some of my VHS and audio cassette tapes are going bad, especially the audio tracks on the VHS, so I may need to do that for those, too.

massive88:

--- Quote from: Cakemeister on September 10, 2010, 02:42:45 pm ---I use Syncback and I backup my wife' computer to mine and mine to hers.

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I also use SyncBack.  I have any data that I want to back up backs up to my Nas weekly, and then to my webhost weekly.  Both through FTP.  I used to just back up to my arcade machine, but then my wife got worried about a potential house disaster and wanted her stuff backed up offsite as well.  Makes sense I suppose.

The first backup was a ---smurfette--- (we have about 40 gigs worth of stuff we back up), but after that it only backs up data if it changes, so its usually not a ton in any one sitting.  It starts itself at 1am on weeknights anyway, and my upstream is 1.5 Mbps.  Course, I dont take 16 gigs worth of pictures at a time.

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