BleepingComputer.com: BC Giveaway: Win one of 10 1TB + 500GB Seagate Free Agent Drive Bundles!

My current backup plan is I backup to DVDs. Not as often as I should though.

I would be most devastated is I lost my photos, videos, and music.

This prize package would help because it has so much storage space and it's easier to backup to than DVD so I would do it regularly.

This is such a great prize, thank you for the giveaway.

My current backup plan is, when I remember, compress important files and burn them to CD.

The most devastating loss would be photos of the new baby of the family. Irreplaceable.

The prize would help me to have a real-time backup of my important data.

Currently backups are placed onto multiple external hard drives.
My DVD and small music collections would probably be the worst to lose only because of the time they would take to put back.
1.5TB worth of drives would be useful to duplicate data among.

Grinler, on Nov 26 2008, 09:26 PM, said:

I currently back up my documents and other important files on my external harddrive, usb, and on google docs account for word docs. In the past, I have also stored things such as photos on cds, but that takes a lot of time and preparation.

I would be devastated if I lose my pictures and my collection of music. Ever since purchasing a digital camera, my family and I have not really printed any pictures (mainly because we see how ugly they are beforehand and are reluctant to print out those magnified pimples and blemishes), but, seriously, we do not really have the time and money to do much with them except look at them once in a while on the computer. We need to take time to print the ones we love. With that said, we have lost a whole collection of photos before. It was our first family digital camera and dad's first laptop. The laptop suddenly crashed after the trip, and we had not backed up the data. Fortunately, we also brought a camera that used eh, regular film, so we had some pictures and memories of the trip. That was a sad day in the household.

The collection of music contains all my favorites when I was a wee little second grade till now. It also contains some of my mom's favorites, which I find amusing at times.

With an external hard drive, I could easy sync a folder (or will learn), such as my pictures folder, to the drive so they would be safe if any thing happens to my computer. I would also be nice to carry important files that would not fit in my usb around in a separate location for backup.

Thanks for the opportunity. Peace.

My back up plan?
I know I should have one, but I don't. I'm pretty much self taught with what I do know that I haven't taught myself anything about back ups. I have 1 old laptop I store photos on of my kids and such, and one that's a couple years old use for browsing etc.
My biggest lose?
Photos of my family that have already passed on. Photos of my kids. I guess I've kind of took it for granted that the photos would always be there.
Would it help me?
No doubt, that's such a cool idea.

Peace

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
I have a small 160 GB Seagate External Harddrive that i occasionally back up files to, about every 3 months or so. I tend to backup my photos, music and movies first, and then take a selection of my other files. I do not have enough space to continually backup all of my files through auto-backup spoftware, otherwise i would.

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?
In 2004, my family went on a "Cross Country" trip around the United States (23 states in 33 days!). We took approximately 2500 to 3000 photos, and we printed off most of the good ones, but I know they won't last. I have an old Dell Dimension desktop that I made a copy on, and another on the 160 external. However, I fear losing the files on the Dell, as it is getting old, and then the only copy I would have is the external. On my laptop, which has 80 GB, I backed up part of it, but unfortunately, when I booted it up one day, it wouldn't go into windows, and I had to write an essay for the next day, and so I had to do a full restore, losing all of my files (luckily only old school documents), because I didn't have time to try to recover it.

How would this prize package help you?
This prize would help me immensly. I would take a copy of the files, and send it to my dads' house, where I could have an off-site backup, and then have a solid backup plan, using auto-backups. I also love the Seagate harddrives, they've always been reliable, so I know it would hold strong. I also listen to many podcasts, which rack up during the school year, and I would get to listen to them all during the summer, so I don't have to re-download them.

Thank you BleepingComputer!

My current backup plan is to back up personal documents such as photos of our young son (currently 15 months) to a second computer on a regular basis. These are obviously irreplaceable and would cause both myself and my wife considerable distress if we lost them. On a more practical basis I have many free (legal) programs from giveawayoftheday.com and I would either have to wait for them to be re-offered or even if I considered them really essential now - buy.

With the reliability of a Seagate drive I know that even if I did suffer a complete unit failure (both computers are now a few years old) at least I would be able to recover our photos (most important) and hopefully restore my operating system.

Thank you

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

I've backedup some of the information on DVD's and DVD DL.


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?

All unique files that only I have, like personal photos that aren't uploaded to some online photo gallery, personal work files and some very rare downloaded programs...


How would this prize package help you?

Oh, I shall use it for instant backup of my entire 320GB Seagate hard drive that I have now.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
I don't have a backup plan, sometimes on cd which is always unreliable.

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 most devastating loss of data would be my work, all the graphic and website i have designed and developed.


How would this prize package help you?
I would be relaxed and not worry of my data as i do now.

1. What is your current backup plan for your computer?

I maintain 3 home computers, and currently make manual incremental back-ups of pics, and docs by sorting files by date, zipping them and storing them on a web server. The pics are also burned to a CD periodically. I'm confident I have copies of important files stored *somewhere*, the problem is finding them if anything goes awry.

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?

My youngest daughter is visually impaired, and her computer has special screen reading software and applications to enable her to use it efficiently. Unfortunately her computer is the oldest of the 3. A data or program loss on her machine would be devastating, in that the down time involved to reinstall and retore all of her files would be substantial.

3. How would this prize package help you?

I'm moderately competant technically, and realize there are better ways to archive information. Unfortunately I don't have the time or money to remedy the situation at present. Receiving 2 external drives would help bring me into the 21st century, and save me a substantial amount of time!

Mike

I would love to win these Seagate FreeAgent external hard drives. Because of my financial situation I do not have a backup and if I were to lose my music I would be totally devastated. I have not had an extra penny to buy anything extra and this year is even worse than last. If I were to win I would back up my music and my childrens photos. Also my son is autistic and his computer is his world (literally) and he also does not have backup for his extensive gaming & photo collection. He would be absolutely frantic in the case of a loss. Some things are backed up on dvd but not much and where are they? Winning these would be awesome!!

Thanks

barbara

This post has been edited by bcordone: 02 December 2008 - 07:55 AM

1. Current backup is just burning to cd-See why I need to win this contest?
2. I would be devastated to lose family pics and my music files. My parents recently passed on and my brother has the hard copy of family pics, I only have scans.
3. This would help me so I don't have to try to replace all those mentioned in #2.

My current backup plan for your computer is to image my data on cds every now and then. how ever I am getting to a point of having too many cds each image session and too many old images to sift through. The most devastating loss of data would be the pictures, while music can be shared among friends and document are usually forgotten, Pictures are hard to recreate. This prize package help you by allowing me to back up a set daily and the other I would backup everything one in a while and put in a static bag and placed into a safe deposit box.

I had a great plan until my back up drive died and left me dead in the water. It sure would be nice to bring home a new friend to pick up the pieces.

My current backup plan is this:
Firstly, a prayer to merciful Minerva that nothing will ever go wrong with my laptop and that it will never get stolen or damaged, despite the amount of travelling I do.
Secondly, if anything should ever go wrong, God forbid, I would check that all my music and photos are still on A-drive, where I deposited them for free several months ago and then completely forgot about. I would, of course, lose anything added to my laptop since I uploaded them, but there you go.
Thirdly, I would root out the DVDs to which I copied the same music and photos, just in case. I'm pretty sure I backed them up properly...Once again, anything added in the past half year would be lost.

So, I think I have most of the things that I would hate to lose backed up, even if it is in a rather half-arsed fashion. Whether I still have the registration numbers for various software I'm running, I couldn't say for sure. Either way, it would be annoying to have to search out and download the relevant software that it has taken me a while to put together from various free offers. (I wonder where those registration numbers are?)

If I had a genuinely safe backup I would, for the first time in my life, do a Dell System Restore. I think I have accumulated so much trash over the years, both in the registry and everywhere else, that the thought of having my laptop back to its pristine condition is really very attractive. This time I would know how to look after it from the get-go, not like when I first got it. Until now I have never dared try a system restore, just in case something goes horribly wrong, A-Drive goes bust on the same day and my backup DVDs turn out to contain only error messages.

More than anything, having an external drive big enough to take not only a copy of the contents of my own laptop, but also perhaps a copy of my mum's and girlfriend's computers as well, would make me feel less nervous about my amateurish attempts to make either of them load in less than 20 minutes on startup.