Comments on: Backup, Backup, Cause It’s On

By: John A

John A — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:38:02 +0000

Yep seperate hard drive for backups would be nice.

My setup is fairly stable. I have a second internal hard-drive which I store all my documents, etc. Windows and application installs are all on the first hard-drive. When I need to re-format (which I like to do often), I just wipe the first one … and all my documents, etc are safe on the second.

Also, the speed in which I am up and going again is pretty fast. I also store all my commonly used program setup files on the second hard-drive. So I can install just about everything I use in a few minutes.

The second hard-drive could fail at some point. So I should probably be making a backup on a regular basis…

By: texture

texture — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:36:39 +0000

I’d suggest having a hard drive soley for backing up important things – external from your main drive. Or just don’t keep sentimental things, that works too.

By: rjmartino

rjmartino — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:06:12 +0000

I don’t know what I’ll do now. I have limited disk space so I can’t keep 10 full backups.

The neat thing about incremental backups is that they’re small and you can have 20 days worth of backups. If you create 10 full backups it’s huge.

I think the best way to do it is have a one full backup every other week and incremental backups each day.

I really like that MSFT has a built in backup utility… I hate installing software. So, I always use things that are built-in (ie, notepad, etc.)

By: John A

John A — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:34:24 +0000

Ouch … moral of the story, dont rely on Microsoft Windows! I think thats a fair assessment…

So what are you going to do now? Do a full backup once a month, then incremental every other day?

By: texture

texture — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:14:02 +0000

I was upset about this – that was a big part of my life deleted too. : /