When did you last backup your machine?

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18 October 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?

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18 October 2002, 11:53 AM

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Have you backed your crucial data up recently

Yup did it 2 nights ago!

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18 October 2002, 11:58 AM

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Once a week to a Zip Drive

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18 October 2002, 12:02 PM

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you guys will be telling me you read manuals next!

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18 October 2002, 12:06 PM

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never.

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18 October 2002, 12:08 PM

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

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18 October 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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18 October 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

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18 October 2002, 12:47 PM

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

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18 October 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....

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18 October 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

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18 October 2002, 02:25 PM

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Once a week to a DAT drive.

Rob
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18 October 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.

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18 October 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

Cheers,

Nick

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18 October 2002, 08:50 PM

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

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18 October 2002, 08:58 PM

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MarkO

Backup is for wimps !

Deano

Copies laptop "My Documents" to server anyway

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18 October 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

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18 October 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,