Hard Disk Crash Survival Kit

[thillntn]

I backup several different ways. Pendrives are good for COPIES of important stuff. Encryption is preferred in case you lose them. Acronis isn't mentioned but works with vista and 7 and is network aware for image dumps. DVD are still preferred when someone wants to borrow something. After all if all your flicks are on a raid 1 partition they can wait 10 minutes for a disc to burn .But that's just how I do it, everyone has their own method, or they should anyway. Decent article for beginners.

 

[ricky_75]

Backingup files or data is the only way of keeping files secure incase of a computer or hard drive crash.I use my external hard drive and the online backup software i have installed on my computer called Safecopy backup.So this has saved me from spending tons of money.

 

[webgrunt]

I'm sure CBL is very good, but NASA's first choice was Ontrack (now Kroll Ontrack) for recovering the hard drives from the space shuttle Columbia after it exploded. They recovered the data.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/disaster_recovery/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207602714

 

[webgrunt]

Here's a link to an article about it.

 

[bobwya]

@THG

I re-read this article today. I have to say your suggested on-line storage firm is very expensive. $2.00/Gb - you must be having a laugh...

Jungle Disk offers much cheaper (as recommended by Tekzilla - as I recall):
https://www.jungledisk.com/personal/simply_backup/pricing/

 

[Guest]

did this guy just write an article about home/personal data backup at $2 a GB? That is insane. go checkout mozy, carbonite, or crashplan. All offer around $50 - $60 a YEAR for unlimited data backup. $2 a GB - what a scam. Is this was for business, or professional data that price is even way overboard. go do some research before writing these articles please.