Yes, my data is in my external hard disk drive.

I sometimes backup my internal hard drive into my external one, but I have data in it too that should be backed up as well. If this drive breaks, I lose ~100 Gb of music.

I should consider buying another drive for backup purpose.

I backup my programs but not my entire hard drive on my 120 GB Portable HD since I barely have any room on it.

I have never done a backup with my newest computer. I have lots of files on it though...

just backing up right now, this thread gave me inspiration to fresh it up

I haven't backed up for a few months or so. I don't know why but I just haven't done that. I maybe should back up my data soon.

I know i should make frequent backups, but, after 9 years, several computers, and various OSs, i never lost any byte of info (except when i [censored] up Windows and i had to boot up my faithful knoppix CD)

i put my new programs/games/videos/music on my external harddrive as soon as i plug it in the next time (or when i run out of space on my regular hard drive), but i never really made a complete backup of my disk or needed one.

when my computer runs too slow or some suspicious things happen on it, i format my drive and reinstall windows und search for the most improtant things on my ext. drive to copy back, end of story

I bought my first pc (an acer aspire 5515 notebook) back in 1/09, and I haven't backed it up since.

Thanks for reminding me; when I come into funds early next year, a big portable hard drive will be #1 on my list.

I do not back up, only when reinstalling operation system

can't, Ever tried to backup 140 Gigs of ISOs along with 60 Gigs of program installers on to 20 Gb.Travan tapes? This is the only way I have to backup. I gave up after day 3, tape 5.

I have always been a manual backer upper (if that's a word) . Meaning I would just copy paste important root directories onto various external drives and what-not. Just this past month however, I set up a backup on all laptops in the house that I use.

(A305Satellite)
(HP 6910p)
(HP 6730b)
(HPmini 5150)
(Gateway NV52) *wifes

They are all set to back up off the network, each one with its own schedule. I setup a 320GB Seagate Drive in my i7 rig/server just for that sole purpose. I have really enjoyed it so far, haven't had to use any yet, but it is functioning very well and I pretty much forgot it was happening until I read this thread.

I am really glad that I finally gave windows backup a try, doing it over network was alot faster than I expected it to be, the i7 is a gigabit line, but the router does not support it, and all the computers backing up are wireless. I definitely recommend trying it if you haven't already!

-ML

since my new harddrive, i could backup my files from my system partition. finally, i can change my system to win7.

I never backup my PC's
I believe in UPS and RAID
I'm stupid, i know

anyone ever back up their phones? Who knows what will happen to it... (most people don't plan on having their phones stolen)

Good point, in this case sync.

Just backed up today my pictures, work stuff and my mom‘s computer since my last backup is over a month ago.
This time I did not back up the Backup folder since it has already been backed up

I have never backed up - I should, but I don't have the money, haha.

There are plenty of Internet based backup sites, like dropbox. All you need is a little patience to upload your files.

Thanks.

I'm a student so I do back up my assignments and stuff, usually once a month or so when I go home, have a 500gb external hdd that is solely for this purpose, I only have 300gb of stuff so I dont need anything more, I also backup to an old computer with 160gb hdd for music and my parents laptop for my school/university work over the years, therefore I have information at least 3 times stored. I should have an online storage solution but the internet in the UK is too slow for this to be effective as uploading will take months.


Yes! Thanksfully before I started Uni i made an Excel list of all my numbers on my phone,
came in handy when all the buttons stopped working and having to send it back to Sony Ericsson for a reset and new case

I've never done a backup because all of my important files are on the Internet.
*Cries*

I am REALLY BAD at backing up (REAL back up) so I'm just putting the most most MOST important files (and the files that takes the most place) on my 250 GB harddrive.

I have an UltraBay hard drive I swap out with the optical drive on my ThinkPad and let it back up usually once a week. ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery works beautifully for bare metal backup and restores.

No, never since 2004, because i just transfert betwin HDD by Ethernet...