Backing up hard drives

[Blondie]

Originally Posted by Zambini

To store all of my photos it would take 5 of those 750mb zippies.

ps: I still haven't installed a backup utility. I had bounceback from my old drive....that worth re-installing or should I try to pick up ghost?

Right now I'm using about 14 750's that are not full. I back up according to category

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by duckingzebra

whats a zip drive , lol?

External


Internal

[Zambini]

think of it as a bigass floppy :)

[extremely_volatile_ant]

backing up to hard drive is good, but i feel cross-media backups are the best way to go. right now i have my data on the main drive, a backup drive, a second backup drive and DVD RW's.

sure it may seem like overkill, but after being burned by two drives failing a day apart (the main and the single backup drive) i decided there is no such thing as overkill when it comes to backing up important files.

[Quakindude]

Originally Posted by extremely_volatile_ant

backing up to hard drive is good, but i feel cross-media backups are the best way to go. right now i have my data on the main drive, a backup drive, a second backup drive and DVD RW's.

sure it may seem like overkill, but after being burned by two drives failing a day apart (the main and the single backup drive) i decided there is no such thing as overkill when it comes to backing up important files.

Truer words haven't been spoken. Nor truer practices...er...practiced!

[Zambini]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

Truer words haven't been spoken. Nor truer practices...er...practiced!

If it's ever my job data that I have on my hard drive, I'm going to have 1 main drive, 1 internal backup, one external backup, one flash backup (cuz they'll be 80gb by then) and I'll rent a backup server to upload files to.

[Blondie]

Originally Posted by Zambini

If it's ever my job data that I have on my hard drive, I'm going to have 1 main drive, 1 internal backup, one external backup, one flash backup (cuz they'll be 80gb by then) and I'll rent a backup server to upload files to.

A few months ago I had my medical stuff on my thumb drive, so that I could work on it where ever I was. Of course I never took it off of the thumb drive; one day it died.

Thankfully it was nothing that couldn't be rebuilt, but what an inconvenience.

[Zambini]

I don't think flash drives are good for storing of really important things.. They are meant for quick transfer or movement of data (hence 'flash' drives, and not 'something-with-a-slower-name' drives)

lol