How often do you backup?

[dzammit]

Do you perform regular backup? How often do you backup ?

 

[MustISO]

Important stuff once a month. Porn and music, never.

 

[effowe]

Never, need to start doing that.

 

[NathanBWF]

Everynight. Batch files FTW!

 

[SamurAchzar]

I work on a rather large embedded software project (C sources alone are about 2.3MB at the moment). I back up these files at the end of every day I work on them by sending a ZIP to my gmail account.

For the rest, once a year or so. But I try to keep all my important stuff on my gmail too. I don't have pictures or important documents stored locally.

 

[Ika]

Never. I should, but I don't have any place to put the backups.

 

[altonb1]

So for those that perform backups, what method do you use? Burn to CD? Another hard drive? Tape?

 

[ViviTheMage]

100% of the time.

 

[ChaoZ]

Right before I reformat.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Never, unless I'm formatting.

 

[Pastore]

I don't have anything important enough to backup... What exactly do you guys backup? I keep my resume in lingo on gmail, along with my budget spreadsheets and such.

 

[WildHorse]

Make clone copies of the C: (OS & Apps) & D: (data, mydocs, etc) drives once a week.
Make copies of client project files daily.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: altonb1
So for those that perform backups, what method do you use? Burn to CD? Another hard drive? Tape?

important stuff like financial records, email, projects I'm working on, etc. I burn to DVD-RW every week, alternating between two discs. for music and media I just got a WD 320GB external hd. I would die if I had to re-rip all my cd's.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I backup every day. I hate pulling into parking spots head-first.

 

[Leros]

Music gets sycned with another computer every time I make a change.

My system gets backed up once after I install Windows and all my programs.

 

[Eos]

I don't really have a lot that isn't replaceable. Nevertheless, I backup it up to dvd or cd as soon as I finish the download. Or soon thereafter.

Bookmarks, cookies and my Thunderchicken e-mail accounts are backed up to another hard drive (same computer) weekly.

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: effowe
Never, need to start doing that.

 

[Midlander]

Daily. I went through an unrecoverable hard drive crash a couple of years ago without proper backup. I never want that to happen again.

 

[lokiju]

I'll burn my digital camera pics and important docs maybe twice a year, but beyond that pretty much never.

All my digital music and movies are replaceable so I don't feel as much of a need to back them up.

If money wasn't an issue I'd probably back everything up more regularly though.

 

[randomlinh]

documents/music/pictures/video backed up nightly to my fileserver (which is a central backup essentially, and where my xbox gets it's media). pictures are also duplicated on flickr.

I had burned a dvd monthly of the documents, but I've been slacking on that. Trying to figure out a decent remote backup option. this looks rather interesting, but I'm not sure I like the idea of handing all my data over to another company. I might start doing a mirror of my backup server using an external HD monthly and just taking it to work.

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

Never

 

[slightlyhuman]

i have a 2nd partition with my music/pics/progs but i also burn it all to DVD every 6 months.

 

[homestarmy]

SyncToy is a great utility for backup and FREE!

I backup important stuff to a third internal HDD. I can't remember how often I set it to do that though...

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: effowe
Never, need to start doing that.

 

[secretanchitman]

i have an additional drive, so right before i reformat, i just backup stuff to there.

so i would say...once every couple of months.