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Sure, we all back-up the contents of our 'My Documents' folder and all the pictures and movies we've downloaded from our cameras and digital camcorders, but...what happens if your backup is destroyed as well? Whether it's fire damage, water damage or your kid decided to 'fix it' for you, what steps does everyone take to make sure your data is safe? Do you take these kinds of precautions?

A buddy of mine recently got hit with a boot sector virus and lost all of their pictures from the family vacation to Walt Disney World. That got us to talking and he's been looking at mozy.com.

Anyone out there have experience with personal disaster recovery (not to be confused with backup!)?

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.

So... confused! Must.... delete....spammer.....

what if the servers at mozy.com blow up...what then....

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The Cord
Occasional Caretaker of the Horde Maelstrom Guild
Ex-Section 3 Director

I guess personally there is very little on my computer that I would die without...be slightly inconvenienced but not die...Hell computer disasters are a nice house cleaning tool...

Seriously though I have an external and 2 flash drives anything I really need is on those, including my music, important docs, class work/papers, pictures I probably dont update my backup that much but...meh

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Ryric Krael
Former Vice President AGN
Former Director, Section 6
Former Head of Department of the Treasury
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"Gone Section Five"

I lost 25Gb of files once when I had a power cut while trying to repartition my hard drive. No back ups of any sort. Started making backups after that point!

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I don’t backup enough. But when I do, I store the data on the relatively new hard drive in my third PC. It is my oldest PC that I rarely use. I figured the odds of loosing data on both machines are low. However I’m not protected from physical disasters like fires or floods as both PCs are in the same room.

Crap, now you have me paranoid!

I never back anything up, and disaster recovery is defined as going and buying another PC. Lost files? oh well.

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anything on any hard drive can be recovered. even through fire/water damage, most of it is still readable.

just depends on how much you are willing to spend on it.


personally, i use a spare hard drive and just dump everything i want on to it every so often.

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2 Locks, 2 Pally's, 1 Priest, 1 Warrior, 1 Hunter and 1 Mage walk into a bar...

Heard about it. The worst case was a harddrive that had been underwater for three years because the yatch burned and took the computer down with it. Cost the guy about 3000 US$

He got 75% of his family/vacation pictures.

But this is unconfirmed...

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1st Feb 2008

My computer needs a reformat and I've been thinking how I want to backup my stuff.

Is there a good way to hook up an external hard drive or something? Is that economical and/or convenient?

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian

USB harddrives are relatively cheap and as long as they're USB 2.0, the speed is not a problem.

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.

Yeah, external harddrives are pretty cheap nowadays. If you want, get a solid state drive, they don't break down as quickly as conventional harddrives and use less power... although they will be more expensive for less capacity since it's a relatively new technology.

Or if you already have a dvd-burner and don't wanna shell out big bucks for an external drive, just burn things to dvds. =P

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Not to sound like a shill for the site, by mozy.com (mentioned above) offers 2GB of space free of charge. I'm going to go with the $4.95 a month and get unlimited storage space.

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.

i wouldnt buy an actual "external drive". They seem sub-par. Buy a really nice SATA drive, then buy an enclosure for it. It may up the overall price just a bit, but you will have much better performance, and space, depending on what you buy.

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2 Locks, 2 Pally's, 1 Priest, 1 Warrior, 1 Hunter and 1 Mage walk into a bar...

Sorry for the lack of details, but aren't there apps that turn Gmail into a free file repository?

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A Firefox application. Is mentioned somewhere on this forum...
Dunno where, can't remember.

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1st Feb 2008

Yak posted about it so do a search for his posts!

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