When did you last backup your machine?

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Oct 18, 2002 | 11:49 AM

MarkO

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Just burning my weekly backup of my laptop data to CD, and wondered how many people here regularly back up their home machine?

I had a nasty scare a couple of weeks ago, when I accidentally deleted a load of stuff from DOS when a batch file got confused with its parameters and 'went postal'. Luckily, my backup meant I didn't lose any data.

Have you backed your crucial data up recently?

Oct 18, 2002 | 11:53 AM

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Have you backed your crucial data up recently

Yup did it 2 nights ago!

Oct 18, 2002 | 11:58 AM

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Once a week to a Zip Drive

Oct 18, 2002 | 12:02 PM

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you guys will be telling me you read manuals next!

Oct 18, 2002 | 12:06 PM

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never.

Oct 18, 2002 | 12:08 PM

IanW

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No Andy, for me to read a manual means something has gone SERIOUSLY wrong though!

Oct 18, 2002 | 12:11 PM

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Monday. Backed up my MS Money files, Outlook PST and all my digital photo's from a mate's wedding onto CD-R.

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Oct 18, 2002 | 12:46 PM

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dam right, too much pain from previous losses. So every week now to CDR and CDRW, packetCDs own me

Oct 18, 2002 | 12:47 PM

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I back up my photos, the rest can go if it likes.

Oct 18, 2002 | 12:49 PM

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I back up my photos, the rest can go if it likes.

You don't bother backing up the movies?

Oh, hang on - you mean personal photos....

Oct 18, 2002 | 01:06 PM

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Nice reminder MarkO, i havent backed up for ages.

Oh, and the work servers..... Oh well, i'm redundant at the EOM
so they can just call me up and pay!!!

Will be burning ROMs tonite, cheers

BB

Oct 18, 2002 | 02:25 PM

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Once a week to a DAT drive.

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Oct 18, 2002 | 03:14 PM

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Depends if you count pr0n as "data" - so no. Got a ghost image of the OS with basic configuration and a few apps which does fine.

Oct 18, 2002 | 07:11 PM

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I have a DDS-3 here at home, but am far too lazy to ever use it!

Must be a candidate for world's least used DAT drive

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Oct 18, 2002 | 08:50 PM

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Backup.....isn't that what police are always calling for?

Oct 18, 2002 | 08:58 PM

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MarkO

Backup is for wimps !

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Copies laptop "My Documents" to server anyway

Oct 18, 2002 | 09:06 PM

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Once a month i do mine but i also do Ad-ware too.
also norton up dates every day and norton scans every week, plus fire wall is allways on.
We are not really obsessed or are we ?

chel xxx

Oct 18, 2002 | 09:36 PM

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I lost just over 30gigs of mp3's and a similar amount of pr0n when my IBM deskstar went **** up last year [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] will never forget that sinking feeling when I realised it had all gone

Now have two 120gig Ibm's with a carbon copy on the slave drive, never ever want to go through that again, now upto 35gigs of mp3's and 50gigs of pr0n in just over 12 months, poor old Nildram,