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General discussion

Poll: How do you back up your personal data?

Jan 6, 2012 7:35AM PST
How do you back up your personal data?

-- Additional internal hard drive
-- External hard drive
-- Memory card
-- Network-attached storage device
-- Online backup service
-- Optical disc
-- Tape
-- USB thumb drive
-- Others (What is it?)
-- What backup? (Oh boy!)

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The Power Of 3
Jan 6, 2012 7:51AM PST

We use have our information backed up three ways-

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Online Backup
Jan 6, 2012 4:26PM PST

Preference will be as follows,

- Online Backup
- Remote Backup
- Network-attached storage device
- External hard drive
- Additional internal hard drive

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My plan-B
Jan 9, 2012 12:07AM PST

All super critical data is saved on discs, like CD/DVD and flash drives. No other method is used for my needs. There are multiple copies and usually the amount of data is greatly reduced to the current needs, rather than a prolonged storage overs yrs. as example. I do however, like the fact, that once I upgrade to a new HD, I keep the old HD "as is" for several months not only as a safe return if something happens on new HD install but as a back-up version as well. Once safe and sound, that old HD gets re-used.

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Acronis - True Image Home Backup (Windows 7)
Jan 12, 2012 11:41AM PST

Use Acronis - Home Backup
- Scheduled Daily to backup personal stuff (incremental) to a local 2nd drive.
- Every week or two I do a full Image Backup, using same software Acronis.

Very easy to use. Never done a restore, but there is a restore dvd that I created and should work fine :-/

Restoring a file from backups is just toooo easy. Just dive into the backup file, and browse round to the dated version that you want. Cool

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HD
Jan 15, 2012 4:33AM PST

I use SyncBack frequently to backup my data to an external HD and also to transfer my work between computers.
But I am told I should also make a system image so I just bought some DVDs to record one on. Might also try a data backup to CD or DVD.

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too much
Jan 15, 2012 10:55AM PST

I found out my complete image backup would take up 15 DVDs or 700 floppies, so an external HD is more practical.