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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: massive88 on September 10, 2010, 04:09:13 pm ---  I used to just back up to my arcade machine

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Hehe. Just recently I accidentally reformatted my secondary drive, and my computer is playing up, so I've been backing up on my mame machine (",)

Santoro:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 05, 2010, 10:50:45 am ---I wouldn't worry about it.  Simply put us IT people don't need to backup our data as much because we know what we are doing.  If our computers start acting up we attend to it before they get to the breaking point.  If they DO break it's very unlikely that the harddrive itself will be completely unusable and we are competant enough to pull important data off the HDD of a dead computer. 

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Gotta strongly disagree with that sentiment Howard.  Nothing can save an IT guy from a disk head crash for example - short of a $2000 professional recovery job you are hosed.   God forbid you have a housefire!

I go to the other extreme, probably overboard.

1) Every PC in the house is backed up nightly to a Windows Home Server.  I have recovered important files at least 6 times from the WHS. It's awesome.
2) The WHS shares are duplicated on separate disks in case of failure.  It's not RAID, but it's close enough for me.
3) The documents on my pc (financial, work, and photos) are backed uo to Mozy every night.  (I have FIOS so this is reasonably fast.  The first backup took a few days, and the nightly incrementals go quickly
4) Every year or so I burn a few DVDs (blu-rays now) of vital stuff and throw it in my safe deposit box. This is the only step that takes my own time.

I highly recommend a Windows Home Server to anyone with multiple PCs to back up.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Santoro on September 10, 2010, 10:21:30 pm ---  Nothing can save an IT guy from a disk head crash for example - short of a $2000 professional recovery job you are hosed. 

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This happened to me once :(

Hence the habit of having a secondary drive.

patrickl:
I once got hired to recover as much as possible from a crashed disk. He didn't wan't to bring the disk to some unkown firm (it had confidential files on it).

It's amazing how much you can actually still get off of these disks if you find the right software. The software cost a fortune, but luckily they gave me a trial key so I could use it for free for a month.

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