PSA: Back up your computer!

[dmann]

That is all. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

DM

[RAMd®d]

Time change already?!

[Grateful11]

Sounds like dmann had a bad day.

[Paul F.]

After helping my dad through a hard drive crash a couple weeks ago, AGAIN with no backup, I just wanted to add;

"Yeah.. what Dmann said..."

:agree: :agree: :agree:

[kj4btkljv]

I'll add one more step to the backup advice - test and make sure your backups work!

Nothing sucks more than relying on a backup system (software and hardware) only to find out it wasn't working when the backup was really needed.

I'm just sayin', 'cause it has happened to me.

Jeff

[wurm]

While I do back up regularly, I have come to the conclusion that (and I know I'm just tempting fate by saying this) I really don't think it would be a tragedy if I didn't. Yes, it would be inconvenient for a while, but there's nothing I have on my computer that I would be overly stressed out about losing. In fact, my trial of Backblaze just expired and I can think of a good reason to pay the $5/mo to keep it going.

That said, I am aware that I may be unique in that regard, so as others have mentioned...back up now while you're thinking of it.

[PeterB]

OK, dmann's post has me nervous. Exactly what kind(s) of backup are we talking here? Full clone? Time Machine? etc.

[dmann]

No problems on my end at all (knock wood!) Just wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder to run a backup in case it has been a while.

Consider it my little gift to the forum.

DM

[Grateful11]

I'm using SuperDuper on my MacBook and Time Machine on my Mini. The one thing with TM is that
it does it in the background and unless I see the little TM clock turning I never know it's happening.
TM has already paid off for me once in that I was able to go back and pull an old iPod Touch backup
off of it and restore all my settings after I neglected to secure a good backup before Formatting my
Mini. I realize it's not really suppose to be used in this manner but it worked. Also I think the TM
interface is pretty cool! I'm probably going switch over to TM on my MacBook as it was also recently
formatted and it's running fine so I can blank out the 100G partition on my portable HD and set it up
for TM.

I agree with "wurm" I don't really have anything that cause the world to end if I lost it. My photos are
loaded up in 4 places, my Mini's HD, the Mini's FW external HD, my MacBook and my MacBooks
portable HD. My photos would be my biggest heartbreak.

[PeterB]

dmann wrote:
No problems on my end at all (knock wood!) Just wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder to run a backup in case it has been a while.

Consider it my little gift to the forum.

DM

Thanks Deborah, but what I meant by my post was actually: what kind(s) of backup should we all have? A full clone? Time Machine? etc.