backed up your harddrive lately

[mikeschn]

I hate it when stuff happens...

I was typing an email, to Andrew of all people, when all of a sudden poof! Everything went black.

A puff of smoke came out of the hard drive controller card, and then nothing but silence.

I can't remember the last time I backed up my email.

Oh, and Andrew never got his email...

I'll be back in town Sunday... I'll load the OS then, but it could take days before I get all my apps loaded, and all my config files set the way I like them.

If you haven't backed up lately... do it now...!

Mike...

P.S. Oh Andrew, can you email me that PDF again...?

[irondance2003]

I have 2 external hard drives that back up my doc's.
BUT how do you back up the Email??
Last crash just had to start again

[mikeschn]

Well, yea, I keep all my data on an external drive, and that's fine...

I just lost all my apps, and my email.

I use outlook, and to back it up I just save everything to a .pst file. (Which I haven't done in ages.)

I use "Allways Sync" http://www.allwaysync.com/ to back up my external harddrive.

Hope that helps.

Mike...

[Arne]

I do a lot of investing development work.. after my last crash (luckily I had that work on a cd), I now have 2 external h/d's and do alternate backups after downloading a lot of pics or doing a lot of updates...

Now I just hope lightning doesn't hit the computer and fry everything...

yes, after the crash, it took days to get things back... and it is a definitely frustrating and avoidable situation...

Oh, I use acronis and do all full backups... not incremental.. I erase a lot of files I use for testing, so don't want all that space tied up if I have to do a reload. I have a 80 gig h/d that is 25% used, and one ext h/d is 250 and the other is 300, so can keep lots of full image b/u's....

[Podunkfla]

I hate it when stuff happens...

I was typing an email, to Andrew of all people, when all of a sudden poof! Everything went black.

A puff of smoke came out of the hard drive controller card, and then nothing but silence.

I can't remember the last time I backed up my email.

Oh, and Andrew never got his email...

I'll be back in town Sunday... I'll load the OS then, but it could take days before I get all my apps loaded, and all my config files set the way I like them.

If you haven't backed up lately... do it now...!

Mike...

Wow... I hate it when they croak like that... No warning.

Glad you reminded me... So I'm doing an Outlook Express backup as I'm typing this... For those who don't know how, here's Microsoft's page on it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670
It's a shame they don't make it easier? But, that's Microsoft for ya...

I use Cobian Backup for the full HD backups... It's a good freebie:
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/index.htm

PS: I'm going to check out "Allways Sync" http://www.allwaysync.com/
Looks like it may be simpler than CobianBackup... Thanks

[dovaka]

i run a microsoft exchange server in my house so i could essentially throw my laptop into a lake and i wouldnt only lose whatever i had done since i was last online which generally isnt much
it also helps that the server has 3.5 terabytes of disk space in raid 5

[dovaka]

p.s. http://carbonite.com/ is very good for this type of stuff for cheap money and it also covers you for "catastrophic failure" like your house burning down or something else major

[asianflava]

I store my Pics and MP3s on an external HD. Everything is expendable, a crashed HD means reformat and I get to start over.

[halfdome, Danny]

I have 2 internal hard drives one for back up. I also have two burners and Occasionally I'll burn all my pictures and documents on a CD. I just did a picture CD the other day. Danny

[Arne]

That is good info on outlook express.. thank you... One less step(s) to deal with when (not if), the time comes, even if just getting a new computer...

All that re-set up is very frustrating and time consuming....

I don't care about messages, but do about address book and account information (5 ids).. not hard, just a pain.

[SaGR]

I Ghost my machines weekly and backup daily.

I have a server at home and several external hard drives. Disk space is cheap in the grand scheme of things.

[Arne]

I just used the instructions and did a b/u of my accounts and address book.. then backed up h/d.... took 15 easy minutes... might save several hard days down the road.