err HUGE RAID server?

I have a 1TB backup server in this house... my data center has... multiple 2TB servers.

Its all automaic backup - works out well AFAIK.

Not that I am concerned, but nowadays, hardly back up anything.

All my stuff is on my Portable 40GB HDD, Work, Piccies, etc.

Every three months I do burn it onto DVDs for archival purposes, but nothing on the huge scale of others, including our admins. I should probably do something at the very least back it up when I plug it into my dell.

Yeah, well it's quite easy with small amounts of data... if all you got is pics, docs etc on a 40GB drive then it's very cheap to make a backup... and if people lose data over 40GB then it's just pure laziness (unless they consider that data non-important). But try to backup data that exceeds any size of modern storage medium today. The largest drive you can get today as a consumer is 2TB. After a quick count I counted to approximately 48TB here. How do you backup that easily? And I do want to keep all of it, about 90% of it is critical. Storage media sure is behind in terms of technology AND reliability.

Tape backups can store much more. The technology is even older than harddrive technology, but the prices are off the chart and not even proportional to the amount of data it stores. Unfortunately these solutions follow the standard consumer<>corporate formula, if the product aims towards a business then charge 10 times more for it. Preferrably even more. So as consumers we are stuck with unreliable harddrive backups.

But I'll be making my manual backups and hope nothing happens. Along the road I might change the file system on the drives to a more robust system (such as ZFS or perhaps Ext4 if it pans out to be good, perhaps even HFS+ on a Mac), and hopefully we'll get larger harddrives soon. Too bad my data amounts grow faster than the storage media available.

This is the problem these days, there's too much data to lose easily. I'm just lucky all my data is either valuable and backed up and small, or not as valuable and disposable.

I backup every few weeks, I've set a calendar alarm on my iPhone which tells me when to backup my stuff. I use a WD My Book 500GB

I had it coming, and it just hit me hard

My external HDD gone buggered itself up somehow. As a result, Windows want's me to format the disk, and OS X, well what hard disk?

Sweet

Linux reads my [censored] up drives better than windows, try puppy linux live cd and plug it in and see if you can copy the data. (I have done that a couple of times)

OK the NTFS filesystem is damaged (how I have no damn idea)

Now I got to find some way to either restore the filesystem, etc.

I got a backup of most things on my dell anyway. Documents haven't changed hardly since last month. Pictures, got backups, can always re-import them. Websites, well they are either uploaded, or I can forget about them.

File Scavenger (what mrpijey used) finds all the files, in the folders etc etc, only snag is I can't afford the licence, I got no money at this moment in time.


Sucks to be me

In general I do try to backup my most sensitive data and things I wish to keep (such as freelance projects and the hundreds of gigabytes of assorted OS ISOs I download) though I have on numerous occasions lost everything after corrupting encrypted harddrives!

I have an SMB share called "File Pot" that I regularly manually backup to... I tried setting up Windows Seven Build 7100 to backup to this automatically but --every-- time without fail it would cause a stop error! Since then I've been getting regular BSODs (2+ a day) with Build 7100 and it's driving me to distraction!

Backups are certainly something prominent on my mind..

PS: This post is a re-write! First time round I got another stop error!!!!

I don't really backup things as other family members keep all the photos and videos on an 1TB WD hard drive with remote access.

I back up whenever I have any important files and I place them on DVD-R's. I may consider either using SkyDrive to backup or a external hard disk...

I've only sort of backed up. I used the Windows Easy Transfer thing to save my Windows 7 User Account and data, but that only sort of counts as a backup I suppose.

I back up every so often to a 500Gb Seagate External HD. This is kinda off topic but is 7-11Mb/s slow for USB 2.0

Do some kernel debugging, it helps when you have Stop Errors/BugChecks.

I don't have the habit of backup because it is not necessary.

Say that when your hard drive fails

Due to my off-site backup server I had to turn my old gaming comp into a makeshift server
To backup the backup drive, and its backs up weekly and only ever switch on at weekends. Works a treat.

I haven't backed up lately because I recently lost a bunch of files to hard drive failure. If only I didn't wait until the weekend...

I regulary back-up all my stuff even my 3TB of stuff because in the past i have had a 500GB External Hard Drive fail.
Now i backup once a week and back-up my local C drive weekly aswell.

I keep my important files on atleast 2 computers in two different buildings, PLUS on my external Hard-Drive. I backup my Desktop before and after LAN Parties. And I am probably going to backup my desktop using Acronis so I can swap Motherboards and CPU, but I'll check if it will work first using Google.

This might not work, since the HAL (hardware abstraction layer) might be different on the replacement motherboard, and this will cause Windows to BSOD as soon as you try to load it. The only way around it is a reinstall. It's pot luck whether it works or not. Also, after you change it and it does end up working, you'll have lots of drivers trying to load that it has no hardware for so you might see a huge performance hit.

I'm changing from AMD to Intel. The backup is so I can Revert changes if it doesn't go to plan. Acronis doesn't let you swap from IDE to SATA drives either unless you uninstall the Hard-drive controllers. Luckily I'm not doing that.

The only thing i backup is my system drive, using Norton Ghost. In result i have a 2-3 GB image.

I have a partition for my documents on the PC's hard drive. I almost lost it all (many years of architecture and design work) with a hard disk failure, so I did the following thing:

Bought a 500MB WD external disk, and placed in that disk an XP's "briefcase" folder with the contents of the documents partition, which I update whenever necessary.

I find this method perfect as the "briefcase" folder acts as a regular folder on other computers and other OSs (it's not in cryptic hard to get formats as in other backup applications), and I do the update/backup when I find it should be done (when I finish an important document, for instance).

The problem with automatic backups is that when something bad happens to the source or if something is deleted, we risk seeing it reproduced on the backup, losing information and rendering the backup useless.

The problem with ANYTHING automatic is that you loose your control over what happens. It's like one of the updates for the EEE PC running xandros. Instead of adding files all it did was delete them.

I was going to do a backup yesterday, But I'm waiting to get my 2 sata drives back so I can back them up at the same time.