FishingBuds Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 Back up your files on your computer! I didn't for the last 6 months, Friday morning my computer Fried Lost all my BR info notes and my favorites and our last two vacations pictures :'( I need to get into the habbit of doing it monthly or weekly :-/ Well it sucked tho, s-u-c-k-e-d!!!! Quote
Super User Long Mike Posted February 17, 2008 Super User Posted February 17, 2008 Your computer may be fried, but there is a very good chance that your hard drive is still intact. Take your computer to a pro. There's a very good possibility that all of your data can be recovered. Quote
Fishin-Psyantist Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 Your computer may be fried, but there is a very good chance that your hard drive is still intact. Take your computer to a pro. There's a very good possibility that all of your data can be recovered. Ill 2nd that. Quote
FishingBuds Posted February 17, 2008 Author Posted February 17, 2008 Your computer may be fried, but there is a very good chance that your hard drive is still intact. Take your computer to a pro. There's a very good possibility that all of your data can be recovered. Yep I agree, gotta find one first, last year I went to one here in our small town, I got my computer back and my GB memory card was missen, I called him up and went and got it back, now I would like to suggest it was an over sight by him, but I found it in a pile of other stuff-looked like a catch it all bucket. un-cool-no trusty him anymore. other problem now is I bought anonymous surfing (by SmithMicro software) and I'm having a heck of a time getting to log into their server. At one point I turned everything off so's not to interfear with it logging in still nothen. called to take it back and of course they don't once its open, only exchange it for the samething. should've gotten the $80.00 dollar box :-/ Quote
Dean Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 Good point, How do you do it? There are different ways with different price tags... Option #1-External Harddrive The cost the most, but you can get a decent one between $100-$200. It's bascially another harddrive, outside of you computer, that you save your files to. But if anyone were to steal it, tough luck lol. Option #2-Online Storage There are free sites and sites that charge you to store your files online. It's pretty simple, you just upload them to their site and into your selected folder. Just do a google search for "online file storing" . Option#3-Storing Your Files on Disks This is what I call the lazy person way. Just buy a giant pack of rewritable cd-roms, and everytime you want to save somethings, you save it right to the disk. Its a fast and easy way, but you'll end up with a lot of disks. Hope this helps. Quote
BUCKEYEone Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 Avid- external hard drive has been great for me. I save all my pictures/videos and important files on my external, and it has saved me a couple times. Keeps free space on your computer hard drive, and when you buy a new computer...everything is there. The prices arent too bad now either! Quote
ejtaylor822 Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 Backups are critical. May I recommend Dantz Retrospect - now EMC Insignia. The software use to be provided with WD external drives. Its very easy to use, can be totally automated, password protected and provides compression of data. Provides a continuous incremental backup - backs up every file it finds and keeps it in the backup set. Makes a snapshot for each backup for complete restores. When I first started using it, tried to make it like the systems have used at work with complex scheduling and backup sets - but - there is no need for it, define a script and schedule and just let it run. I backup to external 300GB and 500GB drives on my PCs. Don't mess with the backups until a drive fills up. I rotate the drives out and store the old one. Its a great piece of software and having lost two PCs over the years has been a life saver. Have been using it for years on all my home PCs. Couple of months ago, lost both internal drives in the PC in my office. Was able to get everything back from my backups - email, docs and my iTunes library which is over 100 GB. Took almost a day to restore but when complete everything was there. Quote
michbass Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 yes even a small backup for the important stuff is a great idea and can be done for 50 or so. Pictures seem to be the main thing I back up. Also you can almost always recover your harddrive . Quote
Super User Sam Posted February 17, 2008 Super User Posted February 17, 2008 Son got me a Sync Toy that I use to back up the computer at home wiht the one at the office. So I have my files in four places: Home computer Office computer Sync Toy 2nd office computer Can't have too many backups. Sorry to hear your computer crashed. It is my worse nightmare regarding this machine. As someone told me, your computer will crash. You just don't know when it will happen. Quote
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