Thread: Seriousness How do you back-up your 'stuff'?
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Old 10-29-2009, 09:22 AM   #7
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I have an external hard drive doing an incremental back-up every hour. (Mac OS X Leopard's Time Machine - excellent)

I also have an old Machine running as a Retrospect server, backing up the user folders from every machine in the house every day to a monthly set of tapes.

Every so often, I take a set of tapes off-site. But perhaps not as often as I should.

And I really ought to be backing up some of the most important data (source code, photos, created documents) to DVD-R, but I'm not doing so on any regular basis at present.

My tape backup is currently to SDLT tapes - 110MB per tape + compression. But tapes aren't getting much cheaper and hard disks are - I've given serious though to moving over to just using a hard disk. A 250MB hard disk is only a little more than two 110MB tapes, and a lot faster access!

The one certain thing about hard disks is that they all break down at some point. You need to be sure that when yours breaks, you won't lose much.

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma View Post
So.....its time to do a little backing up. I have over 700 books on Calibre, also in mobipocket reader, plus all my other unimportant to anyone but me stuff on my laptop.

How do you back up your data? Do you use a program like Carbonite or do you use a external drive? Or..something else?

Is it easy? Worth the money? Pros and Cons?

Love to hear everyone's opinions. Thanks!
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