Best Way To Back-Up Your Files

by Michael Lee

Posted: 15 years ago 14 replies

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Hi Warriors,

In your opinion or experience, what is the best way to back-up your files?

A good friend recommend I buy another hard disk, then save my files into it.
However, do you recommend I do this or simply use an online back-up service?

What are the pros and cons of using an online service vs. an external hard drive?

Thanks for your advice,
Michael

#backup #files

Dan C. Rinnert 15 years ago

I prefer external hard drives, with occasional archiving to CD or DVD.

The benefit of online backups is off-site storage of your data, but there are ways of doing that with hard drives or CD/DVD as well.

I haven't and probably wouldn't use an online backup service for my files. Who really knows who would have access to your data if stored elsewhere, not to mention the increased risk of hacking by having data stored someplace accessible online.
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- radhika 15 years ago
  
  Local PC files - to an external hard drive.
  
  Web site backups - I pay to a service and they do weekly backups of my VPS.
  
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  rosetrees 15 years ago
  
  I recently started using an online backup. It backups continually - as soon as a document/email/photo is added it is backed up without me having to think about it (the lazy person's approach to backups!).
  
  I also use an external hard drive - but as I use a laptop this isn't permanently attached.
  
  Occasionally I also backup the most important stuff to a memory stick too.
  
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  Thomas Smale 15 years ago
  
  I agree - you can pick up an external hard drive cheap and backing up your websites is essential (trust me!)
  
  Originally Posted by radhika
  
  Local PC files - to an external hard drive.
  
  Web site backups - I pay to a service and they do weekly backups of my VPS.
  
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  aggajwz 15 years ago
  
  Ex HD and trough backup dvds
  
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RobinSkeen

15 years ago

What are the best online backup services? I've looked at carbonite. I like the lazy feature. When you say non sensitive, do you mean don't backup your last year's tax return?

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Scott Ames

15 years ago

Originally Posted by RobinSkeen

What are the best online backup services? I've looked at carbonite. I like the lazy feature. When you say non sensitive, do you mean don't backup your last year's tax return?

Best not to back up your illegal drug contact list or the blueprints to your home made nuclear device or the love letters from your recent affairs.

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mannex 15 years ago

External hard drive AND online backup service. I prefer Mozy.com to Carbonite. Mozy enables you to get your backups sent back to you on a DVD overnight (for an extra fee).
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LegitBlogger 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

Best not to back up your illegal drug contact list or the blueprints to your home made nuclear device or the love letters from your recent affairs.

Ha ha ha, this made me LOL. Hilarious but yes, you
are right - better to keep sensitive and secret info
off the online storage sites.
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- RobinSkeen 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by James Lancaster
  
  I recommend external USB hard drive to backup your files. They usually weight around 160 gigs which I believe is enough for a backup.
  
  I have done that of course. However, my computer caught a virus (that I didn't know about and norton didn't catch) and the virus is still on the external HD. Also, I would probably need a 1T external HD. That 160 was full and I was no where near done.
  
  So, having done the external HD route, was wondering what is the best and easiest online backup that people have been using.
  
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  beninewie 15 years ago
  
  So, having done the external HD route, was wondering what is the best and easiest online backup that people have been using.
  
  I use jungledisk. Reasonable price, easy to use and I can automate my backups.
  
  My most important files I also backup on an external hard-drive, have another copy on a usb-stick, also have them on another server located at my university and have another copy on my other pc..... hmmmm think I need to burn a DVD as well :p
  
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  Kevin AKA Hubcap 15 years ago
  
  I use MOZY online backup as well as an external hard drive. Also,I'll store products that are completed such as the PDF and source file for a written guide, audio, video etc on its own separate CD/DVD.
  
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Lyn Woodring 15 years ago

Is it better to back up files or just copy them. I backed up my files using nero and when I got a different computer found that the new copy of nero I could use to restore them because I has used the compression utility. It seems that I may need the same version of nero to restore them.
I then bought a IUD USB adapter to connect my old hard drive and I can't get the computer to reconize it as a hard drive only a USB mass storage device.
Any suggestions?
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