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

Great giveaway -- thanks!

My current backup plan is to use CDs and DVDs.

My critical data to backup is photos and videos & video projects.

These products would help me because, in my opinion, backing up to another hard drive is easier, and therefore more likely to happen regularly, than backing up to discs.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
i've always used cds and thumb drives to backup my files but when major reformatting is needed for my pc, i spend a lot of my time transfering my files from that computer to another by using rewritable cds and thumbdrives.

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?
aside from my music files which i have gathered althroughout these years and family pictures, my AutoCAD files and 3D drawings are the most important data i have on my laptop and i cant afford to lose them cause it would mean doing everything again. that have always been the problem for me since college because my computer had suuper low specs so i've always needed to store my files on some other place instead. and now that i am an interior designer who does most of my work on my computer, i need to always guard my files cause if i lose anything, it might mean losing important measurements, drawings, plans, and most importantly contract documents. i could end up in jail if i fail to submit required work due to lost data


How would this prize package help you?
it would be easier for me to store important files without having to buy loads of CDS and making sure they are kept safe. i also have a baby brother at home (he's 3yo) who loves using my computer and it would surely be a disaster if he messes with my important files. also as an interior designer who is ultra dependent on my laptop, i need to keep my client profiles, portfolios, projects, etc always safe and stored for future reference.

I’ve got basically everything that you can imagine scanned or otherwise in native digital format - from tax returns, to x-rays, to entire literature that i’ve written.
Lost a lot of important data on my own fault. Didn’t backup at all and once I was upgrading my PC, forgot to *manually* do things. Lost a lot of college stuff in the process… but this was before the day when people stored everything (photos, video, music) on HDDs and DVDs.
Current backup is synching a 500GB drive that's pretty full as it is...

I have two 200gb usb drives setup as a NAS on my network. One drive is for the mp3 collection and one is for my data files/photos.

I use the Microsoft's backup program to image both drives to 2nd hard drives on two of my desktops.

The 1tb drive would be great since I could make that my master network backup, and the 500gb portable would allow me to take a copy of my files offsite for additional protection.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
None. Attempting to install ubuntu and hooked up some drives....it is not going well.

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?
Not sure if there would be anything totally lost, pictures ya, music I have on cd.


How would this prize package help you?It would definitely give me room to backup. And perhaps I'd actually backup.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
Right now I have all of my back ups on CD roms


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 thing I would miss most would be pictures of my family that I could not get back.

How would this prize package help you?
I would not have to contiue to use countless numbers of CD-Roms for back ups and I could possibly be able to learn to partition drives to futher my education and gain computer skills I don't currently have.

Thank you for this opportunity.
wargin_m

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
I currently use a 250GB FreeAgent that is holding up remarkably well. I back up all of my music and all of my web server files to this drive. It is getting quite full, I have some video and family pictures on it currently but much more of it sits on my un-backed up desktop.

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?
Definitely my photos and videos. I would be extremely bummed. I've tried to keep a decent backup but, as with most people, I do not do it nearly often enough, and because of my limited space, I have to make decisions on what save and what not to save.

How would this prize package help you?
I would probably put video on the 1TB and photos on the 500GB. I would like to do more video editing in the future and the 1TB would definitely be a great storage solution for that.

My current backup plan consists of USB drives, CDs and DVDs.

Actually, I am just getting started with the process of backing up my data, pictures, documents, family history, and so forth. I have hard copies of these items, so I can not say that it would be devastating.

Knowledge of how to install and use backup systems would be very valuable to me, and I would be able to pass it on.

Thanks.
Adon
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1.- What is your current backup plan for your computer?
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?
3.- How would this prize package help you?

1) I work with many documents, and to protect the information I need to be copied and taking it to another computer, which I call "Computer security".

2)Most of the programs that are installed on my computer does not have installers, because I lose or forget where they are ... because if my hard drive failed was a big problem in my job for lack of programs that I use every day.

3)would help me in the best possible way, because that would not be carrying my information to another machine, again and again, it could save each of the programs I use and would know where to find them ..., I would make life easier in all the senses!

What is your current backup plan for your computer? I use Time Machine that's connected to a 320 gb freeagent.

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 has to be my music.

How would this prize package help you? This prize would help because it would be like having 2 backups. Aside from winning a 1TB ext HD, you get a 500 GB hd. Twice the storage power!

What is your current backup plan for your computer?

In two words: constantly changing. I always attempt new backup solutions, but haven't found the perfect one yet. I try to upload my important data to an ftp site I host at least monthly. Most of my documents are hosted on google docs. I switched from locally stored Thunderbird to Gmail for my email. And now ALL of my digital pictures are hosted on Flickr.

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?

Media can always be retrievable, but data that I create is the most cherished. Photos & Genealogy data will be the most devastating to loss.

How would this prize package help you?
This package will finally get me to store daily backup copies to an external drive that I haven't been able to offload into the cloud.

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

SyncBack to a 320GB NAS. Separate twice weekly incremental backups for system and data.

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?

Pictures of the 4 kids would be irreplaceable. I could handle losing my travel shots (even if I never get back to Praque) and I could one of the kids to re-rip my hundreds for CDs. But I would be devastated to lose the family shots....

3. How would this prize package help you?

Safer backups - scheduled full backups with offsite storage (at my office). Ability to backup more than one machine.

What is your current backup plan for your computer?
Unfortunately, I would not say that it's a cohesive plan. It's burning the occasional DVD and swapping any essential files to another computer.

What would be the most devastating loss of data (pictures, email, music, etc.) for you, if your hard drive failed or the data was deleted?
It would be a combination of all the stored media (music, photos, & videos). I don't have the patience to back everything up to DVD and don't have a large external hard drive to simplify the process. While I have most family photos on CDs there is not single place I could go to restore all the music, photos, or videos.

How would this prize package help you?
I could finally have an external with enough memory space to image the entire hard drive and run incremental backups of new data.

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 do not have a backup plan for my computer, other than burning an occassional DVD. I have all my critical work documents online somewhere, and really don't worry about my email because its all on gmail.

However, my most devastating loss would be my photos and videos. I have, for the past 8 years, not developed one photo. Everything is gigital. There are far too many to use an online service and they just move from Windows install to Windows install, all whilst I pray they survive. As it is, we already lost the first 8 months of baby photos of my son from a hard drive crash which occured 8 months after my last DVD burn

This package would help me by giving me an easily accessible portable location to backup my photos, and other media, where I could share it with my wife and we would have the redundancy we needed to feel comfortable.

Dear BleepingComputer,

"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?"

My current method for backup is nothing more than to save critical information to a CD. Very cumbersome and (I fear) incomplete. Needless to say that it is a tedious undertakng altpgether!
The most devastating losses would be in losing my photos and documents. I would also bemoan the loss of a number of programs I have downloaded form the internet over a considerable length of time and trouble to myself.
Winning the Seagate external harddrive would enormously simplify my back up procedure and guarantee a full and complete recovery of all my records and system files. I could live without fear of permenant data loss due to mishaps, viruses, etc.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this contest.

Sincerely,
Cory McKelvey