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How do you backup your PC's?
- Thread starter Razorguns
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mrplunkey
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Holy hell! This thread got me thinking about doing systematic backups. Have you seen Apple's "Time Machine" utility? This thing is amazing. Pick a network drive, click. done. Each computer on the network gets hourly backups for each 24 hours, daily backups for the past month and weekly backups until the disk is full.
Mac wins again!
Mac wins again!
Is it just for networks though........and is the backup space recycled or does it store each backup on top of the previous ones, using up unnecessary space?
Windows still pwns for sheer variety of solutions available.
mrplunkey
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It fills the disk with backups and starts deleting weekly backups as it needs space for fresh ones.
Razorguns
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Yeah I'm probably gonna just buy a huge firewire drive, and then use the software it comes up with to auto-backup files (incremental) every few days overnight.
I may do a complete o/s backup. Only cuz if my hd took a dive, i got sooo many applications, customized, configured, links, shortcuts, it would take me weeks to do a new install and get it up 100% back up to what it is (i do music, visual fx, 3d, sound mastering, graphics, small business stuff, business letters, blah blah blah all on one machine).
But in reality - i'm gonna make a huge document explaining everything on my system, how it's configured, where everything goes, where all the utils I need to dl are located, etc. So it'll be much easier to do a complete rebuild if i have to. I just have to ensure my critical data gets backed up every couple of days. I just now have to find a good low-cost and fast and best external storage device now!
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I may do a complete o/s backup. Only cuz if my hd took a dive, i got sooo many applications, customized, configured, links, shortcuts, it would take me weeks to do a new install and get it up 100% back up to what it is (i do music, visual fx, 3d, sound mastering, graphics, small business stuff, business letters, blah blah blah all on one machine).
But in reality - i'm gonna make a huge document explaining everything on my system, how it's configured, where everything goes, where all the utils I need to dl are located, etc. So it'll be much easier to do a complete rebuild if i have to. I just have to ensure my critical data gets backed up every couple of days. I just now have to find a good low-cost and fast and best external storage device now!
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mrplunkey
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I wish I could show you guys the "Time Machine" screen. When you click on it, it pushes your screen down and slides a new screen in place. It shows your hard drive directories in a Mac folder (i.e. desktop, documents, users, etc. etc.) -- but they are stacked on top of each other. So you see: "Today at 7:05". Scroll to the next one and it says: "Today at 6:05", etc. etc. Its like freeze-frames of your computer stacked on top of each other. I could see myself accidentally overwriting a file and wanting to scroll an hour or so back to get the original.
I'm impressed!
I'm impressed!
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