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Poll: What do you use for data backup?
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 09:58 AM   #1
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What do you use for data backup?
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 10:03 AM   #2
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I got a DVD_RW drive. Don't have any blank media though
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 10:05 AM   #3
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 10:20 AM   #4
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ive got a 2nd computer here that my family uses. almost nothing gets installed to it, and its got a 100gig HD on it so i just transfer everything to that.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 10:34 AM   #5
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i use a DVD burner and 2 200gb and a 160gb maxtor DM 10 HD for backup
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 11:09 AM   #6
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at the moment just a DVD-Writer till i get another HD.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 11:27 AM   #7
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short term: copy to second IDE harddrive
long term: burn to DVD

for serial #s, policy #s, etc for insurance/warranties I send an e-mail to myself -- that way if my house burns down its stored offsite. i may have lost the paper copies, but at least i have a record of the unique identifiers.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 11:30 AM   #8
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anything i can use......DVD, CD, HDD, flash drive, etc.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 11:41 AM   #9
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I use a 250 gig Firewire HD... But I never need anything that badly that I burn them on DVD!
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 12:47 PM   #10
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 12:52 PM   #11
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CD, getting a DVD soon though..
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 01:03 PM   #12
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CD, I should get a DVD-writer but im waiting for next gen (i had DVD already thou)
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 01:16 PM   #13
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i used my dads external maxtor disk 120 gb for backups and stuff and to store stuff but it crashed, the only thing it does now is beeping so im f*cked =P
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 01:26 PM   #14
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dvd drive for sure i used to have a cd drive and it would take soooo long and id have like 20 different cd's and now i can use 1 or 2 dvd's to backup all the stuff that i need
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 01:29 PM   #15
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I use a combination of a second Hard Drive with a CD writer drive, I shall upgrade to a DVD recorder when needs be, until then Im happy
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 02:11 PM   #16
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i burn all my dvd:s but i have a 200gb mediadrive and a 200gb game/insallalionfiles drive... 10gb in partition for system... and.... a 300gb external drive......... so i guess it will do for now
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 03:12 PM   #17
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I voted DVD Burner but I use Power Quest Deploy Centre to keep x64 and 32 bit images on my second hard drive. When it takes my fancy I re-image my computer using boot floppies in a couple of minutes. I keep meaning to burn a copy of these images to DVD.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 03:13 PM   #18
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DVD RW all the time......works fine with enough storage space for my needs.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 04:06 PM   #19
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250Gb SATA Drive as storage, DVD for Archival and 1Gb flashdrive or various sizes of SD Cards for transport.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 04:58 PM   #20
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I just use a couple other partitions for important stuff. Now that I have a dvd rw, I will probably start using that.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 06:25 PM   #21
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Short term copy to other computer and second compy to backup internal drive. Long term DVD's kept in safe .... 3 months of images from when my daughter was orn 12 week early i keep those really safe!
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 06:25 PM   #22
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I usually don't backup, but since my secondary drive is larger then my Boot drive, I use that when I need to. Like I will soon, since I'm moving over to PCIe, rather cheaply too.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 06:42 PM   #23
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I just use a couple other partitions for important stuff.

Yeah I do that too.. Always have actually.. Forgot to mention that.
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 07:51 PM   #24
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I also use a combo of slower backup hard drives and DVDs for my backups...
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 09:01 PM   #25
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Combination of DVD Writer and 40GB IDE HDD.

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Old Jun 30, 2005, 10:32 PM   #26
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Old Jun 30, 2005, 11:49 PM   #27
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Cool! Internal Storage.
I have 4 internal HD's. So I use my 30GB for Windows, 80GB for games, 60GB for all of my files, and my 40GB I have partitioned into 2-20GB, one for WinXP64 and the other for "let's test this OS".

I am looking to get a 200GB network HD to put all my files, so my GF and I can access all the files in one location.
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Old Jul 1, 2005, 12:12 AM   #28
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Useally CDRs and DVDRs, I also some times use a secondary partition
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