How do you organize, backup your computer datas ?

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:42 pm

::BLM:: wrote:you put your entire computer into an image file? How do I do that?

http://www.symantec.com/business/ghost-solution-suite

sorgenkind · Post by **sorgenkind** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:09 pm

::BLM:: wrote:you put your entire computer into an image file? How do I do that?

or look for acronis on the internet:
http://www.acronis.com/page.html

lem · Post by **lem** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:38 pm

Don't bother with RAID. It only protects against hardware failiure not data corruption.

I use a external hard drive and backup using Time Machine on osx.
It really easy...
Thats all you will need!

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:27 pm

lem wrote:Don't bother with RAID. It only protects against hardware failiure not data corruption.

I use a external hard drive and backup using Time Machine on osx.
It really easy...
Thats all you will need!

What he said.

Casanova808 · Post by **Casanova808** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:42 pm

and remember to store your really important stuff on a drive outside of your home. Backing your data up across several hard drives is worthless if they all burn in a house fire.

Granted, if you lose everything in a house fire your mp3 collection might not be your greatest concern.

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:24 pm

Casanova808 wrote:and remember to store your really important stuff on a drive outside of your home. Backing your data up across several hard drives is worthless if they all burn in a house fire.

Granted, if you lose everything in a house fire your mp3 collection might not be your greatest concern.

That's true, maybe for really important things, use an online backup service, they are quite cheap now a days.

www.mozy.com is recommend.

mclean1979 · Post by **mclean1979** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:55 pm

As long as my data exists in more than one place I am happy. I just have a second Hard drive on my desktop system which I copy everything to it about once a week. The chances of two hard drive failing at the same time are extremely slim.

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:23 pm

mclean1979 wrote:As long as my data exists in more than one place I am happy. I just have a second Hard drive on my desktop system which I copy everything to it about once a week. The chances of two hard drive failing at the same time are extremely slim.

That's true, but as hotlatino808 writes, it's of no need if there's a fire at your place