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By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:44:57 +0000

CrashPlan looks interesting. It looks like you backup to a friend or family member’s computer (or your own, if you have a second computer elsewhere), if I understand their site right? Do they have an option where they provide storage?

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:51:09 +0000

CrashPlan for local backup to external hard drive and their online servers. Otherwise, Windows Home Server, done!

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By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:17:17 +0000

It sounds like you are much more disciplined than I am. If I tried to do it manually, I’d invariably forget and lose something important. For a couple of years, I was doing some modding for a game that involved hours of work at a time, so I made sure I automated backing that up because it would have been a disaster if I lost any of it, and sometimes I worked on it several evenings in a row.
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By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:14:47 +0000

Shame on you! At the very least, you should really take a look at the free version of Syncback if you have anything of importance on your computer, and just sync it to an external drive. I guess I’m paranoid, which is why I have Carbonite as well.

One thing I didn’t discuss are some free tools that allow two people to use each other as a sync destination. The programs encrypt your data, and then sync it over the internet to someone else’s machine, and they do the same. I haven’t tried anything like that, because Carbonite works so well for under $5 a month.
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By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:55:25 +0000

I back up manually. I have an external hard drive on the main computer, and try to copy stuff there on a regular basis. I also back up critical stuff (photos of my daughter, for example) to DVD on a regular basis. I keep the DVDs in a drawer at work (thus, an “off site backup”)

I noticed that you added CommentLuv – very cool!
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By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:24:23 +0000

Honestly, I am bad with the backups… I did do a full image backup with Acronis TrueImage when I upgraded to the Windows 7RC from Vista and XP though. It was easy to use and seemed effective.

…haven’t had the occasion to do a restore though.