Do it now

[Ed62]

Just a reminder to back up your hard drive. I just finished mine.

Ed

[pelligrini]

Thanks for the reminder. I need to start a semi quarterly DVD archive of my office servers. The daily tape and weekly USB ought to be done by now. I've been forgetting for too long.

[crokett]

My data directories get backed up nightly. System gets a full backup once a week on Sundays and incremental once a week on Wednesdays. Now that I have most of the apps reinstalled, it won't need much more than that.

[final_t]

Acronis True Image + Buffalo Linkstation for the win. Nightly diff'ng backups of the in-work stuff, weekly of the entire harddrive. Already saved my bacon more than once. Makes upgrading to a bigger drive cake, too.

[dbhost]

I need some new DRD-RW media. My existing ones are getting worn out...

My fulls are taken to external HDDs that I take with me during emergencies.

Incrementals are done to DVD-RW media.

I am using Backula on CentOS, and Microsoft Backup on Windows XP...

[jcjrsmith]

I have an HP Media Smart server on my home network (http://www.hp.com/united-states/camp...c=DSp149325143). I have the EX variety. It backs up the hard drives on my desktop PC and my kids PC every night.

[poolhound]

I also use Acronis and backup across the network to a system I use only as a data/media server and also to a secondary 1Tb drive in my main system.

[pelligrini]

I still like doing a seperate copy every once in a while. I have automated backups at home and on my servers at work, but the retention period on the various media is only about a month. Sometimes it is nice to be able to get to an older backup when necessary.

[gerti]

I got a Mac.

[pelligrini]

Mac drives don't fail? Mac users don't delete files accidentally? Cool!

[final_t]

I think he's referring to some program call "Time Capsule" which is like the nasty VMS file change revision stuff from decades ago.