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Old 09-29-2010, 11:48 AM  
96ukssob
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:stop Backup Your Sh*t! You Will Thank Me One Day!

Back a few years ago, I lost EVERYTHING I had on a HDD that crashed and was not able to recover other than a few txt files. It was a bit devastating and I learned a pretty hard lesson from it.

Since then I have backed up my computers and laptops pretty often, but of course never often enough. Last week I decided to move all my iTunes, picutres, home movies (not those kind pervs!... ok, well some where ) and other important files because I'm selling my laptop.

While at BestBuy, I decided to buy another HDD to only find the current setup in my PC (bought it from my brother) was a RAID0 setup with 2 80GB drives. Once I got things moved over, the first thing I did was back up the whole PC as an image and then certain files directly.

Well, on Friday evening I find my computer has some error message about windows not being able to start up... Long story short, one of the drives in the RAID setup died and I would of had NO access to that data.

For the $100 cost for a 1TB drive and a few mouse clicks saved me a ton of headaches. I'm looking into a setup that will automagically backup my PC on a regular basis as a mirror drive incase this happens, its an easy swith... now I just have to figure out how to turn an image of my drives into another one, but at least I have the data.

Turst me, one day you will thank me if your not doing this
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