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What is your current backup plan for your computer?

I back up weekly to an external HD using Acronis True Image and backup MS Money every time I use it.


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?

The MS Money data would most likely be impossible to reconstruct back over 15 years and my address book would both be very difficult to reconstruct. The music is replaceable, as are some of the photos.


How would this prize package help you?

Rather than backup repeatedly to one external HD, I would have additional HD's to use as backups.

Q1-What is your current backup plan for your computer?

A1-Really, nothing. I will backup any pictures or music to a dvd every once in a while, but that's it.



Q2-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?

A2-Right now, it would be my wedding pictures. All photos from my wedding are on computer, and haven't got to back them up yet.



Q3-How would this prize package help you?

A2-I would have plenty of space to back up any and all photos that i take, and can get more music. Also, it would make it a lot easier to share photos with my family.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

Current plan is a scheduled task that runs on Fridays that formats and external 20GB harddrive that I removed from an old
laptop and then copies my select parts of my school folder to that. [I am a design student, lots of vector graphics.]



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?

Most devastating would be loss of some of my best works that I spent a lot of time on and that am quite proud of. ^^



How would this prize package help you?

Wooww, 1TB, I could not only properly backup my school stuff but could actually watch a few movies.

Cheers

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

Using Backup feature included in Windows Vista... New backup once a month... Files are copied to the local hard drive (around 110GB)...

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?

Documents related to work and studies...

How would this prize package help you?

I haven't ever used external drives for a backup... I guess it's more secure... So I would probably make backup copies more often and would feel more secure... ..

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

I usually backup my file to my 120gb and 80gb portable hard drives. I usually copy every important document and save it there.

Leaving my laptop an ample amount 110gb of free space.

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?

My research papers, pictures and my linux Vbox images.

Q: How would this prize package help you?

Well, I can save a lot of things in there. It is also easier to carry one harddrive than bringing two.

Mark

Thanks to BC for organising this giveaway

I may as well have a go

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There's not much important stuff to back up as I have all the disks for my software. The things I do backup include pictures, work. The way I do this is by using first a USB stick and I also back up to disc (CD-R)

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I would have to say pictures. As photo taking has moved from hard copy to digital storage, most of our family photos are now on my pc. If I were to lose this permanently (no backups) then it would mean a loss of valuable memories. Ok, memories can be generated by your mind but pictures do spark memories better.

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An external hard drive would significantly help me mainly due to backup storage. Its much safer to have your images and work on 2 hard drives rather than the one. Another reason would be for a general hard drive space increase. I only have 40GB on this laptop, an external hard drive would therefore prove very useful.

What is the backup plan for your computer?

I have overall (In my Desktop PC) 2 S-ATA (Serial ATA) drives. One is my main Windows Drive (500GB) my Second drive is a small (20GB) backup drive. that backs up data every 5 mins. I find this useful, as i can get the data, when i need it.

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 had a HD failure about 6 Months ago on my Desktop, and i couldn't get my School work, Apps, and Personal Info, having re-installing Windows i'd lost everything. But, i never had my backup drive until about 2 Weeks later.

How would this prize package help you?

This would help me have a better drive so i can back more stuff up. My 20GB is currently at 19.4GBs and is nearly full, so if i did have a HD failure, i wouldn't be able to get ALL of my data back, and most is for school and info (Such as Logins, Personal Info etc.) so having a bigger drive, would help me a "lot of a bunch" More.


Big thanks to Grinler for posting the topic and BleepingComputer for having this contest!!

This post has been edited by XxGam3rFr3akxX: 27 November 2008 - 12:14 PM

1. What is your current backup plan for your computer?
I have 3 Drives in RAID 5
2.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?
Hmm, I would have to say all my school work, saved games, custom made programs... Erm... Registry? Oh! And my site is hosted off my compy.
3.How would this prize package help you?
You never can have too much backup, I would back up my important files.

This post has been edited by xXAlphaXx: 27 November 2008 - 12:17 PM

I have a small external drive that I use now. I would probably give the other drives to my daughter so that she can have a back up plan at college. I think the worst thing to lose is our picture files, because it has already happened to us once. That was depressing!

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
At present I just use Erunt whenever changing settings or installing a program which I may want to remove if it doesn't do what I hoped it would , and save my System settings with a backup program I picked up for free from somewhere . I'd like to do my system settings weekly but always seems to be fortnightly or longer . Any media , Video , Music , Audio I try to get onto a CD-RW or ROM , I haven't graduated to a DVD burner as yet . Also tempory storage on USB flash drives .
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?
Honestly I think my notes that I take constantly about Computer maintenance and Fixes which go back over six years or more . Irreplaceable information for a Technician and Malware fighter . Plus Bookmarks . All Bookmarks and regularly used notes I keep in the 'Cloud' .
How would this prize package help you?
I could get a good nights sleep and stop having heart palpitations

Hello

Don't know if I qualify but.... (EDIT: Are staff eligible?)

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
I use a disk imaging program, Acronis True Image to an external disk... but that disk is not large enough to be an effective backup. A large amount of data is in unprotected areas. (Most notably all of my Virtual Machines)
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?
Family vacation pictures going back to 2001. (But this data is currently backed up) Outside of that, it'd have to be my Virtual Machines.
How would this prize package help you?
I would be able to back up all, rather than some, of my data. (Most importantly the VMs)

Billy3

This post has been edited by Billy O'Neal: 27 November 2008 - 12:45 PM

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?



1.Well if you really want to laugh at the answer to the 1st question I'll tell

you.I would freak out at first, and then run around in circles in the lounge room

postulating, "what am I gonna do, what am I gonna do"! Then I would jump in my 500$

car and drive 28 kilometers to the nearest 'elcheapo' auto electonics store that sells

cheap discs, at which point I would purchase 50 generic brand dvds and 50 generic brand

cds and rush back home via the pharmacy where I would purchase some over the

counter 'high strength' caffeine tablets and sit at home for 72 hours in 40 degree heat,

unscrew the sides of my computer, place a fan [on 3] on the floor aimed directly at the

cpu, and god dam burn that 160 gigs of data to disc until I was done, and then probably

collapse with relief.


2. I have all my music on hard disc, so no loss there. My email is

external so that wouldn't be affected. But yeah, those jpegs are so memory hungry and

they just sit there, so if they went, it would be pretty devastating as "reproducing the past

is tricky". And I have a lot of them, and home movies/kids etc. But what would really erk

me off is that cause I am on dial up, it can take hours to download big apps like itunes

etc. The overnight sessions I've had and the endless hours I've waited to install big apps,

days, weeks, years of waiting, waiting for downloads to complete. Now to have all that

time and effort just go up in 'zzzzfffzzit'................................well that's got to hurt!!



3. Well these prize items sound like luxuries to me. So as we all

know - luxury increases your quality of life, stress is markedly reduced, so I guess if I

won, I would actually live longer. But really, I would be able to download and or 'get'

HUGE apps and then have them sitting there for use by myself, friends and family. I

could like turn into a 'resource'! Wow, it's exciting just thinking about it. Also at long last I

would have a home for all my vob files which are numerous and like the jpegs, are

hungry memory eaters. AVI's are good but they still take up space. I spose I could chuck

all my cds on it as well, which would be a nice backup. Just think, all those apps in 1

place, fat photo editing apps, home music studio apps, home video editing suites, I mean

you could start up an independent TV station with that kind of power!



4. And did I hear something about an apple laptop? Well as a uni

student it would be a great learning aid, allowing me to research data bases and

'compute' in the comfort of the outdoor environment. A laptop also has high portability

advantages [e.g. you're in a tute/lecture, the lecturer is boring and you can't hear

properly cause your up the back, so,.............. you open your laptop, log on to say

HARVARD university, look up the corresponding course/lecture to the one your missing

and download the [free] mp3 or even better a AVI FILE of it on the wireless network, plug

in your headphones and just smile as your I.Q. increases at a dramatic rate, WHY?

Because you have a laptop! Also their are a number of privacy issues at uni that really

erk me. When 'one' has a laptop, one can say good-bye to people standing behind

watching your: log on passwords, private email details, assignments and private study

themes, structures, mechanisms and just plain data. I mean if they can see it they will

plagiarize you and relieve you of your creativity that that took you 2 months of blood

sweat and tears to formulate. Also lap tops add to your sex appeal, and that's

go to be a plus.Yeah,..high social status, sex appeal and privacy.............in my dreams.

This post has been edited by hjregt349672kmfg7643: 27 November 2008 - 01:01 PM

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

Believe it or not, I have twenty-nine (yes, 29) 2 GB thumb drives that I "backup" to. Each one is marked for certain projects, files, folders, etc. I then "catalog" each drive and store them next to my computer for easy and quick access.

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?

It would be the CAD drawings. Some are too big to store on my thumb drives so they are stored on my unit's internal 500GB HD. Right now, they take up about 179 gig of space. Next would have to be all the pictures that I have stored (about 2500). They include old photos of my family that I had scanned into digital images. Some of the actual photos are 60+ years old and I don't have the originals.


How would this prize package help you?

I could get rid of my "catalog" system, store everything on the external drive and make room for another computer that I would like to devote strictly to F@H.

Right now I use a small portable drive to backup the most important files on a daily basis. Then I have a 1TB drive to backup everything weekly and another 1TB as a redundant drive (backup drives fail too!). Winning the seagate drive would allow me to upgrade my aging drives and keep my photos, music, personal files... basically my life (I'm all digital...) from getting lost.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

I currently back up most stuff to a networked hard drive. Any super important stuff is basically stuck on that and I sweat over it, trust me.


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?

Hundreds of pictures, many that only exist in digital format, backups of home videos (all clean!! Holidays and so on) and a copy of the website I'm trying to make a go of. It's a community resource for disability issues and will soon be up and running fingers crossed.

How would this prize package help you?

Many ways.

A secure non-networked storage facility for the website as it's developed (either using the old drive or a new one)

A secure back-up for my OS

Same for photo's/videos.

A transport device for any important documents - marketing plans, presentations, general business docs.

Secure storage for same.

Less important but very convenient for portable video storage to allow longer and better organised filming sessions. Would make edits much easier.


And of course it would look fantastic!! All sleek, shiny and metallic.....none of this dull plastic rubbish I have to look at currently. My friends would come round just to gaze admiringly at their sophisticated gadgety goodness.