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What is your current backup plan for your computer?

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What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

pictures from trips

How would this prize package help you?

have a backup

Q:What is your current backup plan for your computer?

It's really horrible but all I have are a pack of unopened CDs. The plan is to be backing up throughout much of my winter break but really, I'm holding my breath.

Q:What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

I suffer from having a huge variety of interests so all my work as a film student (screenplays, films), a writer (articles), a photographer (photography projects, scans), and a magazine editor (absolutely essential information on how the magazine runs, big InDesign & Photoshop files) being lost would definitely be painful. Also, I have some over 4000 songs that would be horrible to lose.

...Man, I really need to back up my work.

Q:How would this prize package help you?

Being in college basically translates into my being extremely poor (seriously, I can only take so much Subway) and never having much time for proper computer maintenance. That second part is largely my own responsibility but getting the hard drives would help me in a huge way. I'd be able to save all the things I mentioned in the previous question that I KNOW will be important to me later on down the road and I'd look good doing it, ha.

But no, I've really been looking to get an external hard drive for awhile but haven't been able to scrap the money together to get one. I'd truly appreciate it if I won.

Thanks for doing this!

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
My back up plan right now are blank cds and dvds.

What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?
everthing on my computer would be a devastating loss.


How would this prize package help you?
this package would help me with clearly up all my space on my computer right now to make it faster. If i had these hard drives now i wouldn't have to re-install all my music and movies back onto my computer after it crashed the other night.

My current backup plan involves a thumbdrive and all of my MOST important documents. It is 8Gb so it can only hold so much.

If my hard drive crashed, I would lose ALL of my MUSIC (~40Gb), PHOTOS (including some from my honeymoon) and all of my less important documents.

This prize would be awesome as it would allow me to have both a travelling backup AND an at home super backup where I can backup various editions of files, and backup both my files AND MY wifes.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

Right now i don't backup my hard drive because i don't have any other storage device.

What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?

my pictures, music, videos and lots of my school work.

How would this prize package help you?

This will help me backup my important files and it will give me more storage space to work with because i only have 60GB in my computer. I want to purchase a hard drive but i can't afford to spend money right now because its really hard for me and my family to spend money.

Q: What is your current backup plan for your computer?
A: I usually backup all of my important files onto DVDs about once every six months. However, I always back up my family pictures/videos to DVDs as soon as I create or upload them. In regards to my important files I usually back them up to a 1GB flash drive and to another computer in my home. Since my hard drive is not very large, I cannot backup my files every month.


Q: What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?
A: If my hard drive ever failed the most devastating loss of data would probably be my business' files (invoice, payroll, brochures, etc) and my C++ files that I write for my little programming addiction.


Q: How would this prize package help you?
A: This package would enable me to backup my files on a regular basis without eating up my hard drive.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
Right now I have a SMALL external hard drive that's only 40G, and I try to keep only the most important files on it. I also am forced to burn CDs which is a pain to back up my stuff.

What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?
This actually already happened to me once. Since I'm a student right now, my most important documents are all my papers and research stuff for school, and I lost ALL my data once. It was a pain to try to track down everything again!! That's years of hard work right there.

How would this prize package help you?
It would definitely help me to back up my important documents, and I'll be able to keep more files than I do now!

Q: What is your current backup plan for your computer?
A: I backup some of my important data online continuously. However, I do not back up my music and video files because of their size. They reside, instead on a 1 TB Western Digital NAS. I back those up rarely to several smaller remote USB drives. Scary, I know.


Q: What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?
A: My music and my movies.

Q: How would this prize package help you?
A: This package would enable me to backup all of these files on a regularly basis.

My current backup plan: I really don't have one, I try to put my data on cd's or dvd's or if I really need back up but I don't have cd's or dvd's I put my information in email's. I plan to have an external hard drive but at the moment I can´t get it.

The most devastating loss of data: pictures, school's files and music. The most important data are my pictores those that I got with my camera and represent sentimental value.

If my hard drive failed or the data was deleted? How would this prize package help me? I will have place were put my new data and wait to get help and don't overwritte in my hard drive.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?


My current backup plan directly relates to my user name on here so please don't start calling Mr. Urkel

Also please keep in mind that other than the Windows OS, everything was given to me or found through various resources like our local FreeCycle groups in the area. Keep in mind that I did receive an A.S. Degree in Internet Technologies.

Now here is my plan:


I have a computer with only XP pro on it and it has two large hard drives on it (I think over 200GB each), the sole purpose of this computer is to serve as a backup server.

On the dual boot system, it is pretty much automated since Linux is the default system, at a scheduled day and time, a some scripts are run that basically unmounts the Windows partition, Wakes up the backup server, mounts the backup volume read,write using smbfs then uses partimage and command line and redirection to copy an image of the Windows partition to the server. When this is done, the image file is also copied to the second drive on the server (via a automatically scheduled task via a program on the server. On my laptop which only has Windows on it (due to small hard drive), I use a Knoppix Live CD and image it manually to the server. I keep about 5 weeks of backups on the server, then they are rotated (told ya that my handle here had a relation!)



Since I use smb, my Linux OS'es don't really contain any important info as I can save files on my Windows partition from the OS.



What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted? Probably my technical journals, special programs that I use, articles on how to fix certain problems and some important stuff I have NDA's for. I don't realy worry about it because of question 1.



How would this prize package help you? It would help me in my side Pizza money making business where I do tech support (not repair as in cpu/motherboard upgrades) as I do install Hard Drives and do data migration from old to new drive and this would help a lot in this respect. On top of that, in my spare time and as a hobby, I piece together computer systems and throw a decent version of Linux on it and give the system away, the prize would also greatly assist me in this regard as well. I have never sold a computer I put together.

I don't really have a backup plan currently haha...I have a tiny USB to hold somethings. The biggest problem is that I have lots and lots of photos that I love and store on my pc...I could desparately use this prize to secure my photos. I'd be so sad if I lost them all!

My backup plan is using external hard drives to back up multiple, rolling copies of my critical data.
My most critical form of data are my pictures. As a semi-professional photographer, loss of my photos would be devastating.
This prize pack would help me deepen my back-up capacity significantly.

Current Back-up Plan: Unfortunately I don't have one... I have some pictures uploaded to various websites, I have some music on MP3 players, I have some documents on a jump drive, but nothing cohesive that I can keep up to date. Pretty pathetic...especially when my computer crashed about a month ago

Most devistating loss: Definately my pictures. My dad passed away last year and I have years worth of picture of us on my computer. I literally cried when my computer died! (Thank heavens for the tech guy at school who is amazing and recovered them all... Now I really need this to back everything up!) Another loss is all my e-mails I didn't recover them and can't believe how much information I lost!

How would it help: I would give me a place to keep all of my precious information so that if my computer decideds to say there is "no hard drive" ever again, I won't panic.

What is your current backup plan for your computer? What would be the most devastating loss of data (ie. pictures, email, music, etc) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted? How would this prize package help you?

I currently back up my workstations to my home server, which is backed up using BOTH a Netgear NAS device, and Carbonite online backup service. The most devastating loss of data for myself would include all my business data - client files, invoices, quickbooks accounting files, and some things i find irreplaceable, pictures, video and music files, and applications I have spent the last 12 years of my life acquiring!

This prize package would allow yet another step of "security" to my current backup schema, as we all know, you can never have too much redundancy with the way electronics fail without warning!

I currently just use a flash drive to back up data. My most important items on my computer right now aare irreplaceable family pictures. I would like to have a more formal system in place that will help to motivate me to back-up frequently. This system looks like it would do the trick for me.