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[Ipheuria]

I'm always surprised with the cheap prices of external hard drives and Vista/Windows 7 bringing great built-in backup that people never have a backup setup. So what is your backup setup? hardware, software, etc?

My setup
I have two 1 TB external drives, one for computer backup and one for file storage. So as soon as there is a new computer I do a fresh backup as a point of restore if I want to do a fresh installation. Then I setup Windows backup to backup once a month on each machine. Then on the second drive I have files and duplicates of local files atleast once a month. I also have both Norton Ghost and Acronis for friends/Family computers I work on.

[OlegWasHere]

as of right now i have

1Tb Seagate External(Backup for laptop)
3Tb Seagate External Usb 3.0(File Storage)
500gb sata (backup on desktop)

[Ipheuria]

What kind of laptop and what software do you use for the backup?

[Squeeze Play]

I use Altaro's BackupFS.

[OlegWasHere]

Originally Posted by Ipheuria

What kind of laptop and what software do you use for the backup?

It's a toshiba portege r835 p50
Bought at best buy
Came with 500gb internal and 4gb of ram upgradable to 8 I believe


And my desktop I have two
Dell dimension 3000 from like 8 years ago with windows 7 2gb ram 40gb and 320 and second desktop it's a Inspiron s with a 320gb main harddrive 4gb of ram

I just use the norton backup that comes with norton360 from Comcast

[Ipheuria]

Originally Posted by OlegWasHere

It's a toshiba portege r835 p50
Bought at best buy
Came with 500gb internal and 4gb of ram upgradable to 8 I believe


And my desktop I have two
Dell dimension 3000 from like 8 years ago with windows 7 2gb ram 40gb and 320 and second desktop it's a Inspiron s with a 320gb main harddrive 4gb of ram

I just use the norton backup that comes with norton360 from Comcast

How does it work for you? I like Norton stuff I use Ghost frequently at work.

[OlegWasHere]

Originally Posted by Ipheuria

How does it work for you? I like Norton stuff I use Ghost frequently at work.

It works like its supposed to I guess. Backs up either the whole drive which I do or directories that you can choose.

Yeah ghost is good for updating multiple machines.
Back a few years ago I used to play around with it at school. (I went to a voc school)
Now a+ certified and on my last semester of a comp sci degree

[Nanci]

I am using Carbonite. I don't even have to think about it. It's $5/month. I've had an external drive that I was using for music storage die on me a few years ago.

[Ipheuria]

I used Carbonite before but there is just something I couldn't get down with paying that money monthly and not having anything physical. I like the control I have with my hard drives and my backup software, yes they can die and if I was backing up more than just my own machine that might bother me. However all my data resides in the cloud and on other external drives so even if my backup image went poof it wouldn't be the end of my day.

[ashu44]

Please give me some information about this....