Do you actually backup?

[vibrokatana]

I was going through my monthy task of tarballing my various files and was wondering if anyone else actually does backups.

If not, why

 

[SirThom]

Indeed I do. I take a full back up of my local computer roughly every month, and it all fits on one CD. Also, I have an auto-playlist in iTunes that holds the purchased music I have not yet backed up (this is what I used before iTunes 7 introduced the Backup Library feature).

I also try to make a backup of my web sites every once in a while. A few of them e-mail me database backups to me daily.

 

[vibrokatana]

There are two types of people, people who back up, and people who havent had a hard drive die.

I didnt have a drive go yet, but my dad's old computer decided it didnt need an ide controller any more and conveniently stopped using it.

 

[SirThom]

I've had a hard drive die twice on me. I learned my lesson.

 

[Pelagrin]

I don't do regular backups, but if I can't afford to lose it, it's saved redunantly. I guess you argue that would be an ongoing backup.

 

[vibrokatana]

If I can't afford to lose it, it's saved redunantly anyway

even tho it may be redundant, it isnt saved from accidental deletion and little kids learning how to use the delete key.

 

[Strong Fortress]

We recently set up our new computer and copied our info from our old computer which was on life support. We did a backup right off, but this is the first one we have ever done.

As to why we had not before...too lazy or didn't care enough.

I'll tell you a more common problem I have had to deal with and learn from is saving often. I can't tell you how many papers I have had to start over because I had not saved it and the program crashed.

 

[Pelagrin]

even tho it may be redundant, it isnt saved from accidental deletion and little kids learning how to use the delete key.

Sure it is! What do you think redundant means

 

[Talon]

Yes, I backup my documents and most games every 3-5 days to my Raid 1 array on my dedicated file server. Rest of my family I usually force to do a backup once a month. I also backup critical data on my website (usually the mysql databases) and weekly backups of the game servers I manage downloaded to my Raid 1 array.

 

[Whon]

my computer doesn't hold much at all for data, it's pure gaming and music. all my music is backed up (didn't before and I lost 15,000+ songs) but other then that I don't bother as there really isnt' anything of none replaceable value on it.

 

[Zeena]

I dunno how..

When I attempted to do so (more than once, I might add) I was deterred..

Win XP Pro asked me to write the data to floppies-lol
(That would have been HOW many floppies for a 120GB HDD?-LOL)

I never did figure out how to write to DvD/CD..

 

[Pilgrim]

I need to start backing up regularily, all my music and game files, as well as my documents and websites.

 

[vibrokatana]

I love the tar command, it flippin' pwns.

 

[Atown]

200gb hd, and 2 file servers