How does everybody backup their data?

2x data drives which are backed up daily using Syncovery to the same size backup drives.

My unrecoverable data (photos, documents, etc.) is all sent up to CrashPlan along with a list of all my movies & music so I can use that list to re-get if something happens. It's a real time backup with versioning etc. so also nice for documents I'm working on.
 
Microserver running Ubuntu with 2x 3TB WD Reds in RAID 1 serving out Samba for Windows clients and running Netatalk/AFP/Bonjour for Time Machine clients.

Soon to upgraded to hardware RAID and a couple more Reds.
 
I have a drive in a USB external caddy which I Robocopy my internal HDD's to using batch files three or four times a week. I don't backup my System SSD but I do backup my desktop the same way.

I also have a hotswap bay & exact duplicates of my internal HDD's that I also Robocopy every Saturday.

This is so I have three copies of everything. This way at no point do I not have a backup detached from my system. Yes my Japanese Porn collection means that much to me, hehe.
 
From experience I'm now a believer in backing up your backup!

Main PC with several TB of data, all files backed up using Carbonite unlimited online storage and I'm going to use my new Microserver to act as an onsite backup once OC have a juicy deal on some 3tb WD reds (hint hint!)

Also have certain other key documents in other cloud storage.
 
My PC, Laptop and Tablet all running windows 8.1 are backed up to my SBS 2012 essentials home server. All documents are stored in One Drive along with all my photos that are in jpeg format, also on flickr. My RAW files are too large for my Onedrive account so are stored on the server. I have 2 2TB drives in raid on my server. Plus another 4TB drive these back up to as part of the servers backup programme. The server takes regular back ups of the machines and snapshots of the machines once a fortnight.

This I what I use but a lot of people would be happy with just an external hard drive linked to there router like a Seagate Central NAS drive or a WD myBook drive. But the asustor and Drobo and Qnap machines are all good.
 
I use my Microserver and Windows 8.1 built in document backup to backup my documents to a drive on the server, also sync everything to OneDrive. And then every few weeks I image my SSD to the server just incase I need to roll back my windows install.
I dont have much data that needs backing up bar photos which are all stored on my onedrive mainly.
 
I will have a look and see about some juicy deals for the future but for the moment I do have a very good price on them at £89.99 and I believe forum members get free delivery.
 
I use 2 4TB USB3 hard drives for backup. This backs up my Server 2012 server which has 4 x 3TB drives in in a storage pool with parity, so I am actually a little short on backup space currently but I'm not really all that near filling my storage so it's still enough right now.

I wish I could use cloud storage, but it's just not practical for this volume of data, it would take me a very, very long time to upload all my data, not to mention if I was going to do that it would need to be encrypted and should I need access to it, this would add an extra level of pita.
 
abarrass said:
I will have a look and see about some juicy deals for the future but for the moment I do have a very good price on them at £89.99 and I believe forum members get free delivery.
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That is cheaper than I paid, think I paid £97.99 before the prices got silly. Good to see them back down to a good level.
 
I use a "cheap" buffalo NAS, which is set up in RAID1. It was cheaper than buying 2x2tb drives on their own at the time and so far has been rock solid :)
 
photos/docs/work stuff on dropbox which syncs to a couple of different machines, rarely take an image of my OSdrive onto an external or something. Have RAID arrays for performance, one raid array for redundancy. Most of what is on those raid arrays is all "linux distro's" so idgaf if i lose it, other than that its all steam games and i can always re download them if need be.

Suppose I would be a little miffed if I had to re copy all my CD's and take new images of my game CD/DVD's to have them in a useful format.

Now that single drives are getting huge, soon I will buy a couple and stick them in my caddies and have stuff mirrored over.
 
important documents on memory sticks and sometimes saved in gmail account passworded rars...

media same as guy above 2 of every hard drive 1 inside pc 1 outside dont botherwithraid just manually backup at endof month takes about 5mins to switch pc off and plug in a backup drive than copy past overnight

i do try to get an extra hard drive in the loop as otherwise could delete all data from drive 1 backup, then if drive 1 fails before copying to the backup your bolloxed, could do it file by file or run a script, but i find it quicker to do it manually

i like to have a floating extra drive so old drive 1 backup then becomes new drive 2 backup and so on... can be tricky with different size drives

did consider raid. but would still want a seperate copyincase tower blew

got a ups which should save pc from electricity spikes and also gives an hour or so of runtime to shutdown if powercut... there issome software to tell pc to shutdown once battery backup gieslow but i havent set uit up yet
powerchute iirc
 
Up until recently I didn't really have much in the way of back up but with lots of irreplaceable baby pictures and video I've pretty much got a blank cheque from the other half to safeguard it all :D

All irreplaceable data is stored on 2x 3TB WD Reds setup in a mirrored, Storage Space (~2.7 TB usable) which provides redundancy and additional protection against data corruption by using the ReFS file system.

This is then backed up locally to an external hard drive using Windows File History which covers accidental deletion/modification.

And in the case my house burns down or my PSU kills all my drives it all backs up off site via CrashPlan.
 
I try every week to 'back up' my data but i keep failing all the time!!

I start at the waist but cant get any further past my shoulder blades!!
 
4 drives

SSD - Main OS
2TB - Backup OS + Storage
2TB - Storage
2TB - Drive images

All in the same case.

I use permanent images and temporary images when installing anything new.

Use Acronis for all my imaging and tinkering needs.
 
I'm not sure Dropbox is great for backups..as it backs up across multiple machines, if someone was to maliciously get hold of one of these machines:, phone, ipad, etc and delete the contents, thats it, your data is gone right?

The more devices you have the more "at risk" you are? Or can you recover deleted files in DB?
 
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