Back up your computer

[ArcticLight]

I preach this to EVERYBODY. I preach that I have 3 backups...

Well some weird crap happened today and Windows 7 let me delete my profile while I was logged in. I think I had over-cleaned the registry a while back.

I hadn't backed up my outlook.pst file for 2 weeks and lost a couple of important emails.


Back your stuff up!

FYI I ran File Scavenger and was able to undelete the old email file but it was corrupted.

I may actually be losing a hard drive so these issues are understandable.

Full backup tonight for sure.


There's a website that gives 5 gigs of free backup space, http://www.idrive.com - I actually paid the $55 for the 150 gigs of space....AWESOME way to go.

It's 256 bit encrypted, YOu hold the private key, they cannot recover your files if you lose it (Password)..

IF you join PM me before ya do, we both get extra space if I refer you.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, more profile configuring to do...

 

[Badshot308]

Re: Back up your computer

Good advise.

Question, if you back up data onto a removeable hard drive and store it away, how long does the data remain viable before it corrupts? Someone told me that if a hard drive isn't connected and powered up every so often,the magnetic recording on the platter begins to degrade.

 

[ArcticLight]

Re: Back up your computer

I've never had that problem, got a drive that i powered up after 12 years and it came right to life.

10 years, burned DVD's may lose their microscopic holes as they fill back in...

Back up and change it out once a year...

 

[ubet]

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I got a virus a month ago LOST EVERYTHING, why because hell I dont need back up, well yeah, I did. My dumbass still hasnt backed up my comp though.....

 

[Lowlight]

Re: Back up your computer

Mac = Time Machine = Does it for you = No drama,

Insert disc, Boot to disc, choose back up from Time Machine, 30 minutes or less your computer is right where you left it before you fucked it up.

Not that I need to go mucking around in places on a mac I don't have too.

 

[The Mechanic]

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I use a SATA dock with a WD black 1TB and use Western Digitals Acronis. I just make a clone drive and have a third 1TB for a full backup and then do a my docs backup on the same drive.

 

[KillShot]

Re: Back up your computer

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Mac = Time Machine = Does it for you = No drama,

Insert disc, Boot to disc, choose back up from Time Machine, 30 minutes or less your computer is right where you left it before you fucked it up.

Not that I need to go mucking around in places on a mac I don't have too.

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Windows 7 has the same function, being able to create a boot disc and create an image.

I store all of my files, no matter how insignificant, on a Western Digital MyBook 1TB. The only thing I have on this PC are my OS and programs running on four Western Digital 300GB VelociRaptors in a RAID-1 config.

 

[ubet]

Re: Back up your computer

LL, KS, fuck I must be in the stone ages cause that alien. I only go to 3 sites on the web, here, cal guns, and any free porno site I can find, and not in that order

 

[ArcticLight]

Re: Back up your computer

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lowlight</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Mac = Time Machine = Does it for you = No drama,

Insert disc, Boot to disc, choose back up from Time Machine, 30 minutes or less your computer is right where you left it before you fucked it up.

Not that I need to go mucking around in places on a mac I don't have too.

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Windows has that as well, but if a MAC hard drive or a Windows hard drive goes bad - the result is the same.

this box has been so damn reliable but hardware is hardware.

I back everythign up to idrive.com as well as my server, and an external USB device...