Comments on: MUO Polls: Do you Backup Important Files? How?

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By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:46:44 +0000

I use Cobian Backup 9 (freeware). I like the “Special” feature, which allow you to include/exclude specific files from any folder. I also like the “Events” feature, which can execute various “Before backup” events, like closing open programs that be running and “After backup” events, like shutting down the PC when backup is complete.

By: Alisha

Alisha — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:44:10 +0000

I’m surprised Norton Ghost isn’t on this list. I have tried a lot of others, but Ghost seemed to do the best job and was easier to schedule backups and stay out of my way without slowing down the system.

By: Lethann

Lethann — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:15:44 +0000

While I mostly use my external harddrive, I just had it critically fail due to physical defects on the drive, so fare warning to anyone who does the same exclusively. However, I do make use of Dropbox for somethings, and after this I might start doing a bit more especially with some of my more critical files.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:34:49 +0000

I oticed that a few people mentioned Cobian Backup as their backup software of choice. My bad for not mentioning that popular backup tool. In case anyone interested here is the link to its website

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

By: kc0eks

kc0eks — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:32:29 +0000

Jungledisk is my savior when it comes to this. Synctoy works well for local stuff

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:28:25 +0000

well if someone wipes out all magnetic media on earth there won;t be much to browse.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:26:06 +0000

Welcome

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:22:28 +0000

I head lots of complaints about ADrive recently.How did it work for you? Any issues?

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:18:10 +0000

Oh man how did I forget that one , thanks for heads up

By: Simon Mills

Simon Mills — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:12:43 +0000

i use both mozy and drop box

By: Steven Jones

Steven Jones — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:31:59 +0000

I’ve created my own scheduled backup process via a batch file which makes use of 7zip and PAR archives to create DVD sized backup files and a set of PAR records incase of future dataloss from any of the individual archives.

By: Crazy

Crazy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:50:55 +0000

I’m amazed I haven’t seen NomaDesk anywhere yet.
It’s a client app that allows you to synchronize files between multiiple computers. All data is stored on a server. They don’t have any size, storage or bandwidth limit and to top it off, because it’s still beta it’s free!(but more then stable enough, especially with the new release).

A couple of days ago the free tail got extended indefinatly.

Although the main target for NomaDesk is ppl that work in team and travel around allot and need to share the data + off line availability it can be used for so much more.
Being it you need to ‘back up’ your data, sync your data between your own computers or work in a team. NomaDesk is fit for all of those

The Dashboard, that is the client application responsible for keeping the files in sync between your local pc and the server, lets you manage everything very easily
It mounts a windows drive in your explorer and lets you use it just like it was another partition on your hard drive.

Anyway, just check it out on http://nomadesk.com
Might be just what you’re looking for , I haven’t even scrashed the surface of the features nomadesk can offer, so definatly worth a look

By: Filip

Filip — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:10:20 +0000

Hi Aibek. Full disclosure here: I work for http://www.nomadesk.com, which offers small businesses (or nomadic professionals, as we like to call ourselves) an innovative way to share documents and work together on a “virtual fileserver.” I read your post on online backup with great interest, and just wanted to add NomaDesk to the discussion – although we are much more than a backup solution.
Actually, NomaDesk comes with a feature set specifically geared toward the digital nomad, such as local encryption and “remote shredding” with TheftGuard. Furthermore we impose no limits on storage and bandwidth. I would appreciate your review.

Thanks!

By: -=Ben=-

-=Ben=- — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:42:50 +0000

I am with @Richard:
I use Retrospect since 2004
No problems, only awesome compression!

By: Janet Barclay

Janet Barclay — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:59:15 +0000

I use Norton 360, not necessarily because I love it, but I bought it for the security features, and there’s no way to disable the backup function without it warning you that you need to do a backup – and if you just ignore it, you won’t see any other warnings.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:56:22 +0000

I find hard drives easier and faster to maintain than CDs or DVDs. Also depending on what quality your discs are, they may not even last longer than the average hard drive (~5 years). That’s why I personally prefer to backup to hard drives.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:52:48 +0000

I’m also using Cobian Backup.

By: Dave Drager

Dave Drager — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:35:20 +0000

I have a three step process:

1. Daily backups – I use SyncBack SE to automatically backup my photos and documents nightly to a server in a datacenter.

2. Monthly – I have a portable harddrive that I plug in roughly monthly to backup everything onto. My goal is to eventually store this in a safety deposit box.

3. Yearly – Burn to CD. I do this because of the off chance there is some crazy war with EMPs that wipe out all magnetic media on earth. Yeah, I’m a little crazy.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:57:21 +0000

I use Jungledisk – $20 then just Amazon S3 fees for storage – very cheap, reliable and accessible anywhere if needed. I haven’t had any speed problems with S3 in the 6 months I’ve been using it.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:47:21 +0000

I use SpiderOak, and it’s awesome. Use it to back up 3 computers all under the same account. It’s $10 a month for 100GBs, once you get to the 100GB mark you can pay another $10 and get another 100GB.

Nice thing about it is it has versioning built in, share your files you back up with people if you choose to, completely encrypted back ups, and easy recovery … VERY easy.

I tried going the S3 route but it’s too slow and end up being too expensive.

I do keep a local weekly backup but my SpiderOak is my main backup.

By: Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:44:21 +0000

Make Use Of turned me on to Comodo backup recently and it works great. Thanks guys!

By: curts

curts — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:36:55 +0000

Still using BackupMyPC 6.0 for a full backup (ripped music excluded) every weekend of the WinXP box that currently doubles as my home server. I use Clonzilla to periodically image my WinXP gaming rig and System Restore’s PartImage to image my Linux system partitions. I use ‘rsync’ to mirror the music collection on the home server to the Linux box. Still need to implement a backup solution other than ‘tar’ for my personal files that are local to the Linux box (i.e. not on the home server).

By: Jack Wallace

Jack Wallace — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:38:15 +0000

I use a shareware program called Second Copy. (http://www.secondcopy.com) It is very easy to use and reliable. I synchronize my desktop with laptop, and also backup data files to an external USB drive using Second Copy. It has never missed a beat

Jack

By: phil

phil — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:18:51 +0000

For the PC, I use the ASR backup for the C drive, SyncToy2 to back up documents (mostly photos) to two different network storage servers, and manual backups for other stuff. On the Mac, I back up the main drive to external storage using SuperDuper, but I’ll be switching to Time Machine soon.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:39:03 +0000

I backup pictures, small videoclips, small unimportant documents, e-books, web bookmarks, small audio files and so on to various Gmail accounts using “Backup to Email”. The rest gets burnt to DVD disks and stored in metal boxes. I am not a big believer in keeping a lot of stuff on my actual hard drive.

By: JT

JT — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:36:53 +0000

I use ViceVersa to backup to an external hard drive. Works fast, has some good options.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:28:29 +0000

Microsoft SyncToy here, just to an external USB HDD.

By: Vic Peters

Vic Peters — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:53:54 +0000

I use Second Copy 7 from Centered Systems.