Backing Up / File Storage

mr.miyagi · **Backing Up / File Storage -** 11-13-2005, 10:31 AM

I'm just wondering what you guys do to back up important files/folders on your computers as my PC has been acting a little strangely of late and to be honest all i've been doing is creating the odd restore point (other than it automatically doing it every few days).

I have around 60gigs of music which I really don't wanna lose. As well as some documents and imagery collected over a long time (no, not pron)

I mean I've thought of the whole external hard drive stuff but is that really the only thing I can do? I really wanna free up some space so I need something to store into.

Any suggestions for backing stuff up? what do you do?

Answers/help needed soon as I don't know how much longer this thang will stay stable....... mwah:

Poseidon · 11-13-2005, 10:34 AM

I have a partition of my hard drive where i store all my backup programs and files.

I'd advise a second hard drive -internal/external and unplug it once everything is backed up (incase the comp is screwed by a nasty virus).

geRV · **Re: Backing Up / File Storage -** 11-13-2005, 10:43 AM

[quote="mr.miyagi":545ac]I'm just wondering what you guys do to back up important files/folders on your computers as my PC has been acting a little strangely of late and to be honest all i've been doing is creating the odd restore point (other than it automatically doing it every few days).

I have around 60gigs of music which I really don't wanna lose. As well as some documents and imagery collected over a long time (no, not pron)

I mean I've thought of the whole external hard drive stuff but is that really the only thing I can do? I really wanna free up some space so I need something to store into.

Any suggestions for backing stuff up? what do you do?

Answers/help needed soon as I don't know how much longer this thang will stay stable....... mwah:[/quote:545ac]

60 gigs of music eek: , i think you meant porn?

Usually i just burn the essential shit to dvd. But lately ive ben considering making a little file server pc with a big hard drive to back my stuff up on.

mr.miyagi · 11-13-2005, 10:49 AM

heh, no, definately music.

Right well I think getting an external would be the best option. A 160gb for around £90.

I've never had a 2nd HD tho, can they just plug in to my PC via USB? can they just be removed and/or plugged in at any time like a USB memory stick can?
Hopefully they aren't alot of hassle......to transfer files to my external does it take a while, i'm guessing it depends on the HD speed....

cheers for the help btw

Nyck · 11-13-2005, 10:51 AM

Im pretty sure an external hd can. Just plugs in via usb/firewire and you can attach it when you want.

Judas · 11-13-2005, 11:02 AM

thats what i did to store my music (external hd)... close to 50 gigs now.

and yeah you can plug and unplug whenever ... i just leave mine attached tho, but i dont install shit to it.

mr.miyagi · 11-13-2005, 11:17 AM

I think [url=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRAND-NEW-USB-External-Portable-160GB-Hard-Drive-UK-C_W0QQitemZ8718477864QQcategoryZ16178QQrdZ1QQcmdZV iewItem:a2d27]this Maxtor External HD will do the job[/url:a2d27]

Has a cooling fan inside, 160gb, Maxtor and its USB too.

Edit: Just bought it, £75 delivered w00t!

My student loan going to good use rock:

Nyck · 11-13-2005, 12:48 PM

[quote="mr.miyagi":cd881]I think [url=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRAND-NEW-USB-External-Portable-160GB-Hard-Drive-UK-C_W0QQitemZ8718477864QQcategoryZ16178QQrdZ1QQcmdZV iewItem:cd881]this Maxtor External HD will do the job[/url:cd881]

Has a cooling fan inside, 160gb, Maxtor and its USB too.

Edit: Just bought it, £75 delivered w00t!

My student loan going to good use rock:[/quote:cd881]

Nice rock:

Bucknub · 11-13-2005, 12:52 PM

I have a second harddrive which is 120gigs and thats wher i store all my media on (music, warez, pr0n, and other vids) and I use my primary 40gig for my OS and to isntall games and programs on.

Nyck · 11-13-2005, 12:57 PM

Ims till rocking a 80 gig HD...I need to get a back up one at some point

CoMaToSe · 11-13-2005, 02:50 PM

ctrl-c
ctrl-v

oOo:

Akuma · 11-13-2005, 02:55 PM

Depends how much you love your music.

Personally I have most of my collection (other than a few new additions) all burned to dual layer DVDs. My favorite albums are also bunt on to a seperate DVD. You can't trust HDs to last forever.

My entire collection is the only thing on a 60GB HD, with about half of the stuff that I really like also backed up on my OS drive. And the whole thing is also backed up on a 200GB external...

Then there is also my ipod, but that would make me have to go through and re-organize everything.

If you really want protection, set up a file server with 200GB SATAs in RAID5.

SoLiDUS · 11-13-2005, 04:57 PM

You can...

1. Purchase a HDD specifically for backup purposes (put it in, backup, take it out, store in safe place)

2. Use DVD media

3. Ghosting software along with 1 or 2...