Do you back up your data?
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Do you back up your data?
If not, why not?!
How would you feel if your windows died, or your harddisk decided to corrupt itself one day randomly?
My XP was installed in 2003 and has been 100% stable ever since, I have tons of programs installed, and over 150GB of data.
Yesterday my harddisk decided to corrupt itself and now windows wont boot.
What would you do if it was you, and you didnt have a back up of all of those mp3s you love, all those pictures/photos you could never replace?
Thankfully, I planned for this and have all my data on a seperate drive, (and dvd backups) so I can install windows on a new drive, and still have all my data.
Its surprising how many people dont have backups of their most important data, or never think to do it.
I had it drummed into me when I worked as a computer engineer, it was always hard not to laugh when when seeing a managers face when going to a site to fix a system, ask for the backup to restore the data and to be told they hadnt done one!
You have been warned!!
How would you feel if your windows died, or your harddisk decided to corrupt itself one day randomly?
My XP was installed in 2003 and has been 100% stable ever since, I have tons of programs installed, and over 150GB of data.
Yesterday my harddisk decided to corrupt itself and now windows wont boot.
What would you do if it was you, and you didnt have a back up of all of those mp3s you love, all those pictures/photos you could never replace?
Thankfully, I planned for this and have all my data on a seperate drive, (and dvd backups) so I can install windows on a new drive, and still have all my data.
Its surprising how many people dont have backups of their most important data, or never think to do it.
I had it drummed into me when I worked as a computer engineer, it was always hard not to laugh when when seeing a managers face when going to a site to fix a system, ask for the backup to restore the data and to be told they hadnt done one!
You have been warned!!
Re: Do you back up your data?
Originally Posted by Martyn
If not, why not?!
How would you feel if your windows died, or your harddisk decided to corrupt itself one day randomly?
My XP was installed in 2003 and has been 100% stable ever since, I have tons of programs installed, and over 150GB of data.
Yesterday my harddisk decided to corrupt itself and now windows wont boot.
What would you do if it was you, and you didnt have a back up of all of those mp3s you love, all those pictures/photos you could never replace?
Thankfully, I planned for this and have all my data on a seperate drive, (and dvd backups) so I can install windows on a new drive, and still have all my data.
Its surprising how many people dont have backups of their most important data, or never think to do it.
I had it drummed into me when I worked as a computer engineer, it was always hard not to laugh when when seeing a managers face when going to a site to fix a system, ask for the backup to restore the data and to be told they hadnt done one!
You have been warned!!
How would you feel if your windows died, or your harddisk decided to corrupt itself one day randomly?
My XP was installed in 2003 and has been 100% stable ever since, I have tons of programs installed, and over 150GB of data.
Yesterday my harddisk decided to corrupt itself and now windows wont boot.
What would you do if it was you, and you didnt have a back up of all of those mp3s you love, all those pictures/photos you could never replace?
Thankfully, I planned for this and have all my data on a seperate drive, (and dvd backups) so I can install windows on a new drive, and still have all my data.
Its surprising how many people dont have backups of their most important data, or never think to do it.
I had it drummed into me when I worked as a computer engineer, it was always hard not to laugh when when seeing a managers face when going to a site to fix a system, ask for the backup to restore the data and to be told they hadnt done one!
You have been warned!!
But as i have done before it the hdd craches and i have a spare disk (as i have) i will install win on that then connect the hdd that craches as disk nr 2 then i just get the files out.
some times i also format the disk but also then i have to install win on an other disk the i use a recovery tool and get it all out!
thats the easiest way
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backups
i learnt the hard way 
but since then i do a full backup to another drive at least once every few months using acronis. It stores a mirror image of my c drive to another drive (uses about 10 gig to do it) so last time my drive became corrupt i just formatted it completely and rebooted/installed XP etc from d drive using boot disk that it creates for such occaissions and voila everything as it was within about 1 hour.
Steve
but since then i do a full backup to another drive at least once every few months using acronis. It stores a mirror image of my c drive to another drive (uses about 10 gig to do it) so last time my drive became corrupt i just formatted it completely and rebooted/installed XP etc from d drive using boot disk that it creates for such occaissions and voila everything as it was within about 1 hour.
Steve
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I work in IT, used to work in a computer shop, 9 times out of 10 the customer wouldn't have a backup. Often you can get files back but not if the harddrive is completely dead,. Had to deliver the news several times to customers who generally felt is was our fault that they had lost their data!!
I also remember a funny story of a customer having a backup on discs, but they'd used a backup program to make the backup rather than copy the files. When the PC died and was replaced or repaired i got the discs from them but they didn't know what program they'd used to create the backup so I couldn't restore it! Tried heaps, eventually gave up!
I also remember a funny story of a customer having a backup on discs, but they'd used a backup program to make the backup rather than copy the files. When the PC died and was replaced or repaired i got the discs from them but they didn't know what program they'd used to create the backup so I couldn't restore it! Tried heaps, eventually gave up!
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I had a partition error back in 2000 and lost all my mp3's
Nothing on this earth prepared me for it, and I was gutted. So now I have about 6 hard drives spare with stuff backed up, and a 500 gig external one
Nothing on this earth prepared me for it, and I was gutted. So now I have about 6 hard drives spare with stuff backed up, and a 500 gig external one
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tell me about it, had a nightmare over christmas, lost some really sentimental stuff from my laptop that I could quite easily have tied to my synchronized account on works server but never got round to doing 
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