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A few years ago one of my hard drives crashed—it just stopped spinning. I learnt from that experience, bought a big enough drive to do a daily backup. And have done this ever since—added a hard drive to the computer—for the backup. And felt save.
Until last week—when my machine miserably crashed. Both hard drives lived a short life and have caused me some headaches.
I’ve added a backup server to my network. It’s not only backing up the data but will also burn the backups weekly on DVD. At least I am not loosing more then a week. Except of course the hard drives and the DVD fail…
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A few years ago one of my hard drives crashed—it just stopped spinning. I learnt from that experience, bought a big enough drive to do a daily backup. And have done this ever since—added a hard drive to the computer—for the backup. And felt save.
Until last week—when my machine miserably crashed. Both hard drives lived a short life and have caused me some headaches.
I’ve added a backup server to my network. It’s not only backing up the data but will also burn the backups weekly on DVD. At least I am not loosing more then a week. Except of course the hard drives and the DVD fail…
How do you back your data up?
And how often do you check if you backup can be restored?
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20:40 on Thursday, January 19th, 2006
I also backup my domain onto CD ROM about twice a month. I have copies of everything offline. I virtually maintain nothing on a harddrive except programs and blog posts. I also backup blog posts to CD once I fill a floppy disk…
Q…
13:37 on Friday, January 27th, 2006
I am self employed and my PC is my Staff.
I now keep important stuff on my Lap Top and desk top.
And I bought a 80 Gig External hard drive for programs and photos,
Very easy to use, and if something ever happens again…it is all on my external hard drive
Nice Blog!
Ben