Comments on: Computer Backup

By: Jason Patterson

Jason Patterson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:10:07 +0000

I think that the most important aspects of backup are that it should happen automatically, and that it should be kept off-site.

If it isn’t automatic, then the chances are that it won’t be done at all. And if it isn’t offsite, then there is a good chance that the backup will be destroyed by the same event that destroyed the original data. This could be something major like a hurricane or wildfire, or just something mundane like a power surge or a computer virus. In any case, an offsite backup should survive.

By: Ransomware and the Importance of Backup - Norton Protection Blog - Norton Community

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:13:23 +0000

[...] covered the importance of backing up important files earlier this year and gives some good tips here. I know that I primarily think of backup as being my failsafe in the event of a hardware failure [...]

By: mrp92a

mrp92a — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:08:16 +0000

Not Funny.

By: mrp92a

mrp92a — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:08:16 +0000

Not Funny.

By: DetroitDerold

DetroitDerold — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:40:07 +0000

thanks

By: 4score20

4score20 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:28:50 +0000

mmm…ice cream. I’ve got some “backed up” in my freezer. ;)

By: luda06

luda06 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:58:33 +0000

Damn how come I can never full screen any of your videos!!?

By: AndyCR512

AndyCR512 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:49:48 +0000

Rdiff-backup hourly for me, along with SSH access and rsync over an SSH tunnel for remote access to all backups, ever… Life is good.

By: Tic_Tac

Tic_Tac — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:51:02 +0000

I don’t want to spend money on buying a new hard drive. I would rather partition or if i format my whole hard drive then store all my files on my old computer.

By: bayoujim

bayoujim — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:48:26 +0000

I know the importance of making backups for short term use of files. But for long term use of backups I no longer use. Because the backed up files change and new versions come out.

When I worked in Computer Operations at the Univ. of Houston we backed up the main frames every night, and also performed weekly, and monthly backups of the Univ. data. These backups were kept in an offsite storage area.

Backups are good and can save time after a system crash.

Today I will explore backups on my new operating system Ubuntu Linux.
2 days ago Microsuck notified me that my legally owned Windows XP pro disk could not be activated because I have activated it too many times. I have owned the XP pro disk since 2001 and over the years because of Windows crashes and hardware failures have reinstalled many times.

I completely changed over to Ubuntu linux 2 days ago.

I will never use a Microsoft product again. Microsoft should not and will not tell me anymore that I cannot use a product that I bought and paid for
and is in my own home.

By: JayzChang

JayzChang — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:56:05 +0000

well now with time machine i backup every hour. I am grateful that it exists.

By: Michael Hallsted

Michael Hallsted — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:30:15 +0000

Internal hard drives are a good initial place to backup, BUT… and I have personally seen this on 2 different occasions, computer power supplies can short out and literally fry the internals of a computer.

During my days as tech support, a person pushed the computer’s on button, there was a flash, a loud spark, and then smoke came pouring out of the power supply. When I tried to fix the computer, the video/sound/network cards were toast, both hard drives were toast, but the processor and the memory were fine. I thought for sure that the memory would be toast, but it worked just fine. And this computer was plugged into a very nice UPS battery backup.

An external hard drive is absolutely necessary if you value your files. Sure, backup to an internal drive first, but then you need to backup to an external drive. And I would recommend that the external drive is turned off except for making the backups and when recovery is necessary.

And I would get firewire. USB2 is ok, but firewire400 is as fast as USB2, and firewire800 is twice as fast as either of them. Once you have used firewire800, USB2 just seems so slow for backing up large amounts of data. IEEE1394a -> firewire400 and IEEE1394b -> firewire800

By: trevmister8

trevmister8 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:26:44 +0000

I am talking about my camera drivers…

By: r thomson

r thomson — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:15:57 +0000

I prefer to make an exact clone of my drive to another drive (internal in my case) and just have a perfect/complete backup “system” that I can go to by changing the boot order in the bios and booting to the backup drive. Replace the bad drive and clone it from the backup and your done in short order.
Backing up to the same drive is much akin to ‘re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titianic…’

By: josh198869

josh198869 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:27:56 +0000

thats your porb and after you install xp again you can get the drivers by windows updates alot of times anyways so about the other stuff your shit out of luck lol