gooner_47
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Registered: 20th Jul 04
Location: Bexhill/Croydon
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What do you guys do in terms of backups? I've basically got everything on a 1TB drive at the moment, and I have a 500GB drive which I compress the whole of D onto to back it up, however it's getting to a point now where there's so much on D that E will fill up long before all the data has been backed up.
As far as I can see it, the only surefire way of doing it would be to have a drive exactly the same size and just mirror it, but I really don't want to buy a shiny new 1TB drive, only to have to use it for backing up which would (sort of) seem like a waste of money, because I wouldn't just be able to use it as my new porno drive 
Plus I've got a media center setup planned in my future, when I intend to have a LOT of movies over a LOT of drives... to back those up in the same way as described as above would be serious money. What other options are there? Do any of you even bother with backups or just run the risk that if a drive fails, it fails?
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
Location: Derby
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If it fails it fails, most of the stuff I have is replacable, movies etc, can easily re-download them anyway.
Anything important is small enough to fit onto a memory card, or dvd anyway.
Touch wood i've only had a minor fail on one HDD which I managed to recover the majority of information off anyway. That's in the last 10 years or so.
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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Backup anything that can't be replaced, i.e. photos. Keep a backup of what is on each drive, that way if one fails, you know exactly what was on it (i.e. what films) and you can re-download them.
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BlueCorsa
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Registered: 14th Jan 04
Location: Midlands Drives: MB SLK250 CDI
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Windows Home Server to do daily/weekly backups and a couple of USB hard drives for second copies just in case
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