Have you done a back up lately?

Post by **Phineus** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:52 am

Don't wait until you lose valuable files and work.

Things to back up might include

- bookmarks
- address book
- preferences (for any programs you use)
- passwords
- mtm stuff (of course)
- home files, letters, business docs, accounting, etc
- photos and graphics
- media files

Places to back up to

- floppies (yea right)
- cd or dvd
- another hard drive
- another computer
- tapes (I hear they work too)
- a web site (why not, eh?)

Back ups are our friends. Don't get caught short.

(this has been an mtmg public service announcement)

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:04 pm

I hope you didn't experience an "event" that promoted the need to post this [:P]

I have 2 comps networked together that I save duplicate of my irreplacable files to, AND I burn all my valuable files to CD on occasion....

I learned my lesson when I made my dragon model for a track last year, then lost it days later when my drive went kaboom....

The only problem I have now is I have a large quanity of CD's with backup files, and I have to do some research to find if the CD I'm using has the latest version of a backed-up file, or an older copy.

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Post by **Phineus** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:36 pm

No, no events. I was doing a couple backups and thought a reminder never hurt anybody. Sometimes we take things for granted when we shouldn't.

Psyco · Post by **Psyco** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:37 pm

My problem is when I start backing things up... I never get everything I want... then its lost in the reformatt...

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:53 pm

get a cheapo dvd burner psyco... 4.7 gb per disc sure comes in handy..

I've been puting it off too long so I'll be backing up this weekend.. sure would hate to loose all them thar sotw's

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 11:43 pm

The cheapest dvd burner I've seen is $120 for a no-name brand, and you can burn up those $2-3 blanks getting things working right...a friend of mine is having that "pleasure even now" (bought his drive on Monday...wasted his 5-pack of blanks already)

it might be cheaper to buy a second hard drive and copy EVERYTHING to it, then copy back what you want when the system is restored.....EVERY THING gets saved that way.

Many hard drives are available for less than $1-per-gig now...Frys has 80 gig drives for $69 after rebate.....a little more if you don't like rebates (I don't)...maybe $89 in that case...either way, it can be cheaper and more reliable than burned DVDs for now (that will change in time, I'm sure)

I've back-up files on CDs before, only to find that the CD was no longer readable when I went to recover those files.....DVDs will be touch and go for awhile, especially with all the different formats....(dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rom, and all the RW formats)

Heh heh...I'm taking no chances with my song collection......I have it all backed up on a Seagate 80-gig second drive, AND burned to about 27-30 CDs.....I USED to have them on my Pent-2 machine as well, but it only has a 27 gig drive for now, and I needed the space ( the MP3s alone take up nearly 16 gigs, and that doesn't include comedy stuff and other non-music tracks.)

Psyco · Post by **Psyco** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:26 am

Mal... its not a question of space... its a question of remembering everything....

Kruzr · Post by **Kruzr** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:36 am

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I dont do backups. I usally forget where I put the backups. Only thing I do is save updates of programs on CDs. Have all the bookmarks, emails addys written down on paper.
Never trust your computer!!! It will turn on you when you least expect it.
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