Comments on: Doing Daily Backups? I Hope So!

By: Mattaw - Moneybites

Mattaw - Moneybites — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:53:19 +0000

Its been a while since I backed up thanks for the reminder doing it now. I need to figure how to schedule bi weekly backups.

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:41:27 +0000

It’s been a while that I have a backup.. will do some research on an automated sync to an online storage later

By: vance

vance — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:46:23 +0000

As the experts always says Back Up! Back Up! Back Up!

You can not depend on one backup source! You have to do multiple backups; External Drives, DVDs, and off-shore backups (online and other sources).. This way no matter what happens you’ll never lose your files.

By: Curt Despres

Curt Despres — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:04:47 +0000

Hi LJP. Sorry to hear of your misfortune.

I know I’ve had trouble with a Maxtor drive in the past.

By: LJP

LJP — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:53:08 +0000

I have been using an external hard drive for backups (Maxtor) but last week the icon disappeared, then it couldn’t be accessed, data would need to be retrieved file by file and there were at least 300,000 files on there!!

Do a DVD backup from your external hard drive as well. That’s what I’ve learned recently

By: Curt Despres

Curt Despres — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:29:44 +0000

Good point Vance about the DROBO. It would be a great option, but as you point out, very expensive. Especially with networking costs.

Once again, most people just put it off. I have a lot of client based files that would cause some serious problems if they were lost.

By: Jodith

Jodith — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:55:26 +0000

I’m really bad about backing up regularly. I really need to do better about it. It’s not like I don’t have the tools at hand, it’s just that I’m basically lazy about it *laughs*. I need to get back to my daily backups.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:41:33 +0000

Thanks for reminding me…

By: vance

vance — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:07:35 +0000

You can setup yourself a FreeNAS. One good thing of having NAS is that you can share to anyone in you network.

Another good investment would be DROBO, if you can afford one. It cost about $500 without the drives and it needs 2 drives. Whats create about DROBO is its fully automated you don’t have to set it up. If one of your drives goes down, all the files contained it that drive will be scattered to the other working drives.

I personally don’t a backup system because I can’t afford to buy or build one myself.

By: Curt

Curt — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:15 +0000

Just as I thought, most people let a daily backup routine slide by the wayside.

Like LGR commented, just setup and forget. (Maybe check on it once in a while though!)