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QOTW: Do you create regular backups?

by Parm Mann on 25 May 2012, 17:00

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Backups. We all know we ought to do them, but how many of us actually take the time to preserve our valuable data and information in case of a hardware failure or theft?

Today, more users have a greater amount of data to lose - your digital music library is probably much bigger now than it was a decade ago - and there are many more devices that need backing up. Whereas creating a copy of your My Documents folder to a blank CD was once ample protection for most, today's consumers need to consider ways of protecting everything from laptops to tablets and smartphones.

Question is, how many of you actually create backups, and of what kind? Do you only backup certain devices, do you trust the cloud as a backup destination, or do you run the risk of not creating any backups at all? Let us know in the comments below.



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Err… I have a DVD backup of some documents from around 4 years ago, does that count?

Seriously though, I haven't ever really bothered backing anything up, except for music which I've downloaded (paid for, from Amazon usually) which I whack onto Dropbox.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I copy over the entire of My Documents, Music, Videos (not photos though, for some reason) to my other computer at my dad's. I never really thought of it as backing up, more as just convenient, but I guess it counts.
I create many, many orthogonal backups at work, because the macs are so damned unreliable. At home, I am currently looking to get a NAS so when Baby Roo comes along (any day now) and I take lots of photos, I don't risk losing them if my machine blows up taking the 3 separate backup hard disks (which are plugged into the same machine) with it… Now that HDD costs have begun to come back down again, I'll be looking to buy/put together a NAS with 2x3TB disks in the first instance. This NAS will then sit in a mate's house, and his NAS will sit in my house and we will do regular and frequent backups by rsync. Just in case the house burns down :)

Can't be too careful!
I need to get into the habit of making backups but i tend to just make a backup every other week but sometimes i end up waiting months! Not much data to worry about now though, its only my documents (game saves) and my actual work which is always on dropbox and skydrive along with my uni system so data redundancy is quite strong for the important stuff, the only annoyance in data loss for me would be reinstalling everything but ive got a mirror of a day 1 machine so its quick to sort if ever needed but fingers crossed, ive only had 1 dead hard drive(that was in use) and that was 7 years ago :D.
My desktop syncs my Documents and Photos with my laptop and does a daily backup to a seperate internal disk daily, if that counts
I work for a Backup vendor , so yes ;)