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How often do you back up those files that you consider 'very important?'
1/1: How often do you back up those files that you consider 'very important?'
Other polls | 2,562 votes | 20 comments
Backup?
I do it yearly...but feel guilty about it. The "Macs never crash" option is also a good one...and fairly true. The OS may not crash...but hardware does fail...as I found out when my iBook's hard drive froze up and died a few months ago. Backup is definately a must...even with a stable OS...because you may get the one in a thousand hard drive that dies.
25% of polled never backup!
Looks like about 25% never backup their files. Those folks are definitely living on the edge --
EVERY hard drive dies
True, I do have some old Conner drives from very old Macs, and they're still working. But it would be just a matter of time before they died if I kept using them. ALL drives die, eventually. This is the reality. It's best to face up to it and use RAID for your very important files.
RAID
The forms of RAID which duplicate files across disks (mirroring, RAID5, etc) should NOT be considered "backing up".
If, through carelessness or anger, an employee should delete files on a mirrored disk, they're just as deleted on one disk as they are on its mirrors. These are complementary approaches to data integrity. One CANNOT replace the other. --Richard
Ok, I'm paranoid :)
But after last year, when my server's harddrive went bursar, I've been a little edgy about data safety. So, now everyone of my workstations have RAIDed (mirror) harddrives, and they automatically (two times a day) backup important data to server, which of course also has RAIDed storage.
Paranoia increases with experience
I'm a writer. I hate losing text! So, I have several methods all running concurrently.
Paranoia increases with experience
If you've ever lost important files (I did; once) then it's not excessive. I find the belts-and-suspenders approach to be the best for backups. It has saved my butt several times.
Paranoia increases with experience
Too right. TechTool Deluxe, that free AppleCare bonus, killed my hdd yesterday. Without my backup, I would have lost everything. I, too, use Deja Vu, which is a Preference Pane, so very accessible (especially if you use Prefs Menu
TechTool?? You fool!!
I suffered more than enough with TechTool years ago (OS 9 era). I tried to fix some minor problem on my hard drive - TechTool hung after some HOURS and I was unable to boot. I managed to boot from a removable drive and run again TechTool - after more than a day of "work" it stopped responding.
:°°°-( I didn't backup enough...
...and last month I lost 60 GB of data... not all was valuable, but some very...
The data's priceless, so I back it up weekly
Great poll!
I back up weekly.. I store all of my data in one folder, then just copy that one folder to a 160GB external Firewire HDD every Sunday.
I used to use Disk Copy to create an image file of this folder (with "compressed" & "AES-128 encryption" set) and use that file as my backup, but it took a long time to produce and recently crashes with error 999 (maybe cause the folder is 12GB in size), so now I just copy it over. As with most people here, the data in my computer (Powerbook G4 12") is worth more than the computer itself, so I at least duplicate the data. Which reminds me.. I have to back up my Email, iTunes, and iPhoto also! I guess I'll copy over my home folder.. I'll do that monthly tho; I'm too lazy. :O)
Daily incrementals
I've got a perl script that I created back in my Linux days that runs daily from a cron job. Does incremental backups and copies everything to a samba share on another computer. I lose my resource forks, but I'm not really worried about that.
Different files at different times
Like many other people, I back up different files at different frequencies. This ranges from daily (working files) to never (system files). Working with a laptop in a semi-public location, I'm mostly paranoid about theft. I'd be much more depressed about the lost work than the lost hardware.
Different files at different times
Oooh, I have to keep all my files backed up all the time-once I have some!
Whatever
Sorry..........that shouldn't have been written. It's been a whole week, but the poll is so yesterday. When are we getting a new one?
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Hopes for Tiger
I noticed that Apple said that Tiger's UNIX utilities will handle forks, thus making tar and other archivers feasable options for backup. I'm eagerly awaiting that, however, what I really want is for dump and restore to work.
BACK UP
Every time I do anything important I back up the body of work. If you dont you will end up in a very bad situation. Address book etc I back up every month depending on how many new people I aquire. Ive seen the night mares this can cause in production so I choose not to have these problems.
Depends
Vital projects I'm working on get backed up constantly. Basically, any time I make significant changes to something, I back it up. While using Word I constantly hit the save icon; I've had it crash before, and even rewriting <b>one</b> really good paragraph sucks. Some things you just can rewrite, especially if you were in a certain mood when writing it.
Shame on me..
I don't back up enough. Semi-weekly is about the best I can manage.
Importance of "off-site" backup
I have two hard drives in my Windows desktop. Each night, data is synced from one hard drive to the other (including a bootable version of the OS). The theory was that if one drive died, I could boot and retrieve data from the second. This has served me well for many years. That is until I accidentally wiped (using DoD standards) BOTH drives on my desktop. Please, don't ask ;) |
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