Backups

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How many of you back up your data? and how many have learned the lesson the hard way ?

 

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At work backup is high on the list of important jobs, but at home!! Well thats a different story. You'll be happy to know that I back up the forum data once a week, sometimes more so at least I'm not too much of a Doh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at home.

SimonV

 

Good to hear Si.

I have had a few Doh!!!!! encounters and still only back up when i remember

 

I firmly believe "it will never happen to me"


I backup maybe once a year

It does help that I have a copy of most stuff on my laptop and desktop - but still not the best for someone hoping to be in the IT trade

 

At work, I'm in charge of changing the backup tapes on two of the servers. At home....Doh!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I got caught out twice last year the second time was when I'd left my HDD hanging out the side of my PC while I rebuilt it, I wandered off doing other stuff.......for several months. I then clumsily dropped another Hard drive on top of it - clumsy oaf. Now that was a real DOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! moment

and I still haven't learned.

 

Jeez, am I some kind of angel here ???

I mean, although I don't work in IT, at home I backup at least once a fortnight, or whenever I add and significant docs/apps to my system.

Saying that, I just run the backup, then generally fire it across the network to another machine - seldom on to disk (unless it's really important)

And apps, drivers, etc I make disk copies of ....am I some kind of wierdo ????

 

Well, after reading some of your posts in other threads, I can't really call you an angel...

 

<not happy>

 

Hey, I didn't mean it in a bad way. Really, you're kinda nice...

 

Heck, Trip - you are NOT handling this innuendo coaching very well, are you ????

:P Let's draw a discreet veil over this one, eh ?

 

:hhhmmm

 

ROTL !

I'll spend time thinking over this at work tomorrow, then post a Thread specially for you on this subject, Trip

<note to Phil:> Sorry for me and Trip hijacking your Poll (oooo-err, Missus !!!)

 

As soon as I set up a simple workgroup, which usually takes me a whole evening these days

 

:roll:
I like to do a whole drive image but it is only as I think about it.

 

Hey littlebud, welcome to CertForums. Why not drop a post in the New Members forum and tell us a little about yourself. Good to have you onboard.

SimonV

 

I couldn't have put it better myself, Si.

 

I always tell my lesser computer savvy mate to backup regularly, but do I do it myself?

Do I heck. I may be tempting fate here, fingers crossed, touching wood, I've had no catastrophic comp failures where I've loads of data.

I'll now probably disappear for a couple for a couple days after my hard drive starts making strange noises.

 

Um, I backup to tape (200GB Ultrium drive) twice a year maybe? (it costs about 300 quid a time on tapes!! lol)
I generally just dump everything on my file server, with some local copies of important docs, drivers and stuff i can re download, all i keep on CD is the ethernet drivers just incase

it gets quite a hassle backing up constnatly when you have almost 2TB of crap to keep an eye on

at work it was even more of a pain, we could go through 5 or 6 200gb tapes a day, and there pushing 80 quid each, and the backups took over 13 hours :/
tried to get them to hook the library up directly to the SAN, but they never did lol