Black Rose Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Imagine this: You go to turn your computer on and nothing happens, the hard drive has given up the ghost, pictures, documents, videos, music, all lost. Something silly happens and you get attacked by the Cryptolocker virus which encrypts your computer files and demands money to be released? So how often do you backup your computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tash Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Whenver Row's computer crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcam Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Whenever the bloody computer does it by itself without asking :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Thrice a year. And I've got an external hard drive on which I save the most important things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 How do you back up? How long does it take? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tash Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 And I've got an external hard drive on which I save the most important things. Same here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 How do you back up? How long does it take? Depends on how much you've installed on your backup. If it's just a few basic programs/drivers it takes maybe 5-10 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Crieff Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Never, I like to live dangerously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiOli05 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Never, I like to live dangerously. DAMN! I came here just to say that... -.-'.... I have an external HD though :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comicforce Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Whenver Row's computer crashes. haha :D Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Crieff Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 DAMN! I came here just to say that... -.-'.... I have an external HD though :) :P I have my pictures and music on a usb, but I might lose all the concerts I downloaded D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyan Kat Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 my laptop is starting to die on me but i'm just too lazy so i'm going to be doomed pretty soon and it's all my lazy ass fault :sad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comicforce Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I lost ALL my stuff two weeks ago when my hard drive on my laptop died. Fortunately I am married to a geek and he managed to get all my stuff off the fried hard drive. My laptop still needed a new hard drive. But I can now re-install it all, thanks to him. I have hundreds of photos and lots of downloaded videos.. it would have been tragic. I have an external hard drive that I back up infrequently on. Two days before my hard drive died, In a fit of brilliance I wiped the external drive, ready to back up again.. :embarrassed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 you guys make me wanna back-up my cpu now :p guess i'll do it tomorrow :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyan Kat Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 what's the easiest way to back up like 250GB of data Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Crieff Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I think I'm going to upload all my stuff to mediafire ot something like that :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Final Track Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Started doing it more after to harddrive crashes the last couple of years. Bought an external haddrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 you guys make me wanna back-up my cpu now :p guess i'll do it tomorrow :) Excuse me... sir... I haven't done a backup for the laptop yet but I have to set up some proper maintenance for it once classes are over this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Magpie Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 Um, once a year, consindering my hard drive failed last year. I haven't done another backup since but I've been thinking about it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted November 23, 2013 Author Share Posted November 23, 2013 what's the easiest way to back up like 250GB of data External hard-drive Copy and paste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted November 23, 2013 Author Share Posted November 23, 2013 How do you back up? How long does it take? Normally 7/8 hours to do a complete back-up (just shy of 500GB of data), I normally allow it to copy and paste overnight or over the day if I'm out/computer is available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matter-Eater Lad Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 I backed a ton of files using the amazon cloud and it won't let me download all them at once. I have to individually select each one...for thousands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted November 23, 2013 Author Share Posted November 23, 2013 That's the problem of uploading to the cloud, is being able to get the files back again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matter-Eater Lad Posted November 24, 2013 Share Posted November 24, 2013 Is that a common problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted November 24, 2013 Author Share Posted November 24, 2013 Is that a common problem? It is, as you will need to keep paying for the service if it's not free, or you are banking on the company not going bankrupted or being raided by the FBI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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