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 :1orglaugh) 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 :2 cents:

And your offsite solution is what?

Or do you think you'll never be robbed or have a fire?

:D

i backup everything to my local network and at 5am it backs that up to my one server located offsite.

a backup of a backup just encase in that event.

Good advice - you never know when your computer's going to die.

I just went through a hard drive this morning with 5 years of data on it. I have all my stuff backed up in several locations thankfully. The local pc place took a look at it and can try to recover the missing data for 2k. I was only out about 2 hours of extra work to get the 4 design previews I promised clients today. Backing your stuff up is a must for everyone. This is your business so protect it at any cost.

I've got backups of my backups. I learned my lesson. Ruined 2 main drives installing to a defective motherboard. $1000 each to have each drive restored and I was lucky to get the data back. I've got usb drives everywhere now.

few months ago my hdd crashed..
thank you apple for timemachine - lovely tool <3

Monday I had a blue screen for me with a bad drive. Glad I could back it up before it died in full hours later. Still it's awfull to install a new PC and put data back. Shit takes like 3 days to get 90% back up and running. Such a waste of time and energy.

Make a full image of the OS and everything on the drive with Acronis. If I lose my C: drive I can restore from an image and be right back where I left off with applications, settings, My Docs, etc. :thumbsup

I started doing that when I heard the dreaded clicking one evening. I was able to image the drive before it died completely. I considered that a warning shot. Now I have my Acronis backups completely automated.

My critical stuff goes to Amazon S3. I have irreplaceable things on Amazon S3 as well as on a few DL-DVDs in my safe deposit box at the bank. Can't beat that for redundancy.

One of the best things that every got my money is mozy.com :thumbsup

If you use Ubuntu or other Linux distro then you can tar all files and even on an other pc you can restore all files. Up and running in no time with all
your settings.

time machine rocks :thumbsup

I've lost whole disks before, it really sucks. I keep a backup on an external drive at home, and I also keep a backup offsite. My servers get backed up in 2 locations as well.

I had a scary situation today. Put my notebook into hybernation mode and it would not start again.
Taking out the battery helped.

You use a hardware RAID under windows? Or is there a software solution?

thankyou for editing the word shit on go fuck yourself or I might have been offended... :winkwink:

i actually just bought a program last night that will help recover files on a HDD that are not corrupt. Only cost about $90 but is definitely worth it as there was a proposal I was working on before this happened and would of set me back a day or so.

if you want the info, hit me up or ill post it here later when I get home

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh i thought of that after i hit enter

if you use windows, just spend a few bucks on mozy

Oh fuck yes, back that shit up. BACK IT UP. Advice that could have come in handy had I taken it myself.

are you steve thraser???

Please shoot me an e-mail when you have time.

Amazon S3 server is a great idea, for $0.15 /gb a month you can have your shit on Amazon's world class data center, and if something fails, you won't even know, they'll just have it fixed.

Honestly nowadays with Gmail and Google Apps, if I lose even my OS HDD it's not a big deal.

I've been running pretty much everything from the ghost. I've been using google business suite for years.

+1 for Amazon S3. It's fucking sweet!
It you run WordPress there are a couple of plugins that automatically backsup for you.

just put 3 drives in raid1, problem solved

And then your house burns down on your computer gets jacked. :-p

If you really want to be safe you backup Onsite/Offsite/Cloud

If your shit's backed up, take Ex-Lax...You will thank me someday!

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Time Machine w/ Time Capsule rocks!!! :thumbsup

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most are pretty easy to install if you already have a server. the software (freeware to so +1) will take a folder and upload it to a directory via FTP. I dont recall the name but you have to have it running on a machine for it to work. luckily the NAS drive I have will also run some applications, but it was sure a pain in the ass to setup