Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
 

I should get into the habit of backing up files at least once a week. But how can aford CD/RW disks.

I want DVDR.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">They are great, My brother has an 80gig external USB HD that he uses for backups. Actually it's one of those universal USB caddy units that can hold any standard PC IDE unit like a HD, ZipDrive, Floppy, even a removable HD unit. It simply has it's own power cord and hooks up to the PC via a USB cable. Plug it in and it works like any other drive. It appears in 'explorer' as "USB External Drive (F:)" (or what ever letter follows the Last Local drive on your system.)

..and they are portable enough to take with you anywhere. Now that is a very good thing. The only downside is that the transfer rate is something like 128kb/sec (aka 10 megabits per second) but for backup, that's not too bad.

Nuf said, Cheers!

[ March 18, 2004, 11:27: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">CD/RW? Why? CDR's are cheap, around 50 cents each when you buy 50 or hundred packs.

DVDR's are still around $12-$16 a piece (they hold the equivalent to about 8-10 CDR's) so value wise CDR's are still the way to go.

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Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
 

Even if you don't have a CD burner, you can still send backup files to some willing person for safekeeping. No system is failsafe, but the safest backups are always off site.

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"Ok here is a copy of my important data including my bank PW's and on line account info. Please keep it in a safe place."

Do you trust any one with that information?

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I have a new jump drive a protable 256MB harddisk.
Solid state, I back my stuff up a toss it in a fire proof container, the drive is water proof by itsself.
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">50 cents?!? Even in Canadian money... you have been ripped off my friend! The most I ever pay for them is 10 cents US each! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">2 solutions:
-put that information on a second disc (even a floppy) and keep it somewhere else.

-encrypt the information first. Just a password-protected zip will be enough to keep ppl honest.

But yes, there are plenty of people I would trust with that information.

Re: OT: How Often Do You Back Up Your Files
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Mine was great until it got zapped by lightning. I'm still hoping the guy I gave it to can recover most of the files on there, but he's been pretty busy. But darn, it's been almost a year since I gave it to him. If I can afford it, I'll get another one. My 40 gb hd is getting kind of full.

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good thing i back files up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif