Describe your backup method

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PanicByte

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So, describe what method you use for backing up your data. What software do you use, and what type of media do you use to backup to?

I typically backup manually by uploading files to other computers and NAS devices via FTP in my house, and occasionally burn a CD or DVD with my important data.

I do most of my backups manually without any automation. I backup whenever it seems like it's been a while since i've done one. I don't backup as often as I should.
 
ALL of my data (music, text, downloaded webpages, software, Windows updates, graphics, you name it) is backed up onto DVD+RWs, using Nero Burning ROM. I do this every three weeks or so. It takes me roughly two hours max to do it all.

Has it come in handy? You bet it has! When I reformatted and installed XP Home, I had all my data replaced on my drive in less than 30 minutes.

Tom
 
Any photos, programs, music, etc... I store on my external 80GB drive. Every so often, I'll copy the info onto DVDs. Yes, I have quite a few duplicates of stuff laying around. I've lost a good bit of infomation in the past due to crummy hard drives, so I don't risk it anymore.
 
I only back up when I am about to reformat, I have a new hard drive that I had another xp install on, need to format and back it up there, but I use my ipod to back up my data when necessary, in fact one time I had backed up data from my grandpa, uncle and myself on my ipod, good old 30GB ipod video.
 
Depending on the type of backup I generally burn data dvds on the "R" not rw type media with one of a few different programs. Since B's Recorder GOLD 5.0 doesn't support dvd burning and never getting the upgrade there the next option when needing to burn Linux iso images was to buy Roxio'x Easy Media Creator 8.0 which includes burning bootable dvds as well as data backup disks.

With one then one drive folders are duplicated on the storage partition seen on the second drive along with a pair of Linux distros in progress. Music files are simply dragged into the library on a fresh install and converted to mp3s for playback with either WMP 10 or Cyberlink's PowerDVD 6.0. Updates, bmps, wavs, screen shots, game saves, freewares of all types(almost), and a long list of anything else is periodically burned on a data dvd.

Freewares for burning cd or dvd backups like DeepBurner, BurnOn, and a few others to consider are being tried out for backing up Linux files. Most of the backups made are custom selected files for different types of backups when they are spread over more then one disk.
 
It really depends on the files you have and how important they are. If you have a long list of personal files and items that are hard to replace or not even replaceable then frequents backups and verification of file integrity is one thing to consider. For common downloads like storing drivers updates that are readily available at a support site the backups made to removeable media is more of a last minute thought when planning a drive change or reformat.
 
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