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Anya
Posts: 4032/5337 |
Usually when something major is about to happen (ie hurricanes) or when I go on a trip or move to a new place.
Last back-up was last hurricane season, before the 1st one hit here.
I really don't back up my music, since most of them are already on CDs anyway, and it would take up too much time and space. |
Emptyeye
Posts: 1371/2273 |
Not often enough, and I'll leave it at that.  |
Prier
Posts: 5052/8392 |
I need to make a few CDs soon though anyways...especially if I have a drive go out on me again or something. I dunno if the current CDs I have will be enough. Not like I can do disc to disc copying that well on this comp. |
Colin
Posts: 6474/11302 |
I don't really like wasting time/effort on backing up stuff. I'll occasionally toss some one-of-a-kind items onto a CD but that's about it. |
mrmenz
Posts: 241/347 |
Upon the exact moment of creation I backup a file, if I wanna keep it I make sure theres a copy on both of my hard drives. Im big on Fault Tolerance, most of what I backup is either anime or programs I dont have disks for. |
Tamarin Calanis
Posts: 300/1802 |
Most of the stuff that I put on my computer, like all the roms, I have to have on CD/floppy first anyway, since that one's not online. And most of the other stuff I have on that one I can easily get again... some SPCs, a few signatures and an animation I made (that I have on my geoshitties account)... so it doesn't bother me much. |
Jizuko
Posts: 1010/1191 |
I only backup stuff when I'm about to reinstall XP and format C:\ 
I don't have another drive to backup on anyway. If i'd have a dvdburner I'd probably back up some stuff like anime, but mainly to clear space on the hd. |
Tarale
Posts: 1152/2720 |
Back..... up?
I understand the importance of backing up some of my data, and I do make sure I keep a backup of the stuff that's **really** important, but in general the vast majority of my hard drive(s) are not backed up and will not be backed up. In fact, if I lose things -- HOORAY -- I probably needed a fucken' clean up anyways.
I keep too much crap, and I have a hard time cleaning things out. Mass deletion of data would actually probably be a GOOD thing for me. The things I *really* need are backed up somewhere. The rest is crap that I horde for no good reason. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 3022/8210 |
My computer's a horribly slow piece of crap, so it takes forever to back up, so I usually only do so when reformatting (which is uncommon). I do back up source codes of my programs and my hacks regularly when I work on them though. Really, most of what I have can easily be re-downloaded. |
Bowser
Posts: 26/29 |
Once a week, i backup my stuff to CD. I've never lost anything ever since  . |
Ran-chan
Posts: 6771/12781 |
Originally posted by Ailure
Althought I have been planning to burn my whole picture collection to DVD (no, not porn) so I won't lose it...
No, not porn. Just catgirls. Why don |
BMF98567
Posts: 585/1261 |
Generally, about once or twice a year. I've been pretty lucky when it comes to hard drive failures and viruses (only dealt with two viruses since ~1993, first one messed up my floppies, and the second one only affected my new computer, which was easily wiped/reinstalled), though I really need to change my habits. My brother and I plan to split the price of an external DVD burner soon, which should make things a lot easier. |
Prier
Posts: 4853/8392 |
Vast majority of my backing up is done bi-annually really. Large amount of CDs go into it. That's the only real reason my comp survived the first hard drive kick. |
Ailure
Posts: 7305/11162 |
I sorta did a backup once, I did transfer some files to the other computer so I had them on both. Just to be safe.
Althought I have been planning to burn my whole picture collection to DVD (no, not porn) so I won't lose it... |
Uly
Posts: 59/104 |
Originally posted by FreeDOS
I lost all my stuff twice, but I still don't back up. meh
I only did it once, I lost over 24000 MIDI files, houndreds of scanned pictures, 6 Games made with Game Maker (That I never released), over 600 WMA/MP3/Soundrack files, over 200 text/doc/xls files that I used to rule my life, and other files that I edited... Like my All New Units Addon for Dark Reign 2, maps for Age of Empires, and others CD Games (But I can install them again).
After that, I had to eat PROZAC for over 8 months... (Ok, so the reason of my mental illness is still unknown, lots of things happened, and I just have my split personality disorder to dealt with)...
OOC: Ask Zapotech... |
Sokarhacd
Posts: 991/1757 |
What backups....never...nope i never back anything up...too lazy. |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1027/1657 |
I lost all my stuff twice, but I still don't back up. meh |
DarkSlaya
Posts: 3274/4249 |
Unless it's important (school work, mainly), I don't care about it (especially cracked software).
I never did a full backup and probably never will (if my computer decided to be a bitch, then so be it.) |
Ran-chan
Posts: 6749/12781 |
I would backup them pretty often on an external HD if I had one.
I only have DVD discs and I wanna use them for other stuff. |
Karadur
Posts: 638/1192 |
Honestly, never on our current computer  I backed up some stuff onto CDs on our old one, and I still have them now, but they're full of stuff I considered valuable then, and that I could care less about now  Most of the stuff on this computer has been downloaded, so I figure if I ever have to format for some reason, I can go back to the sites I found the files at before, and get them again.
I may seem pretty lazy in that respect, but so far the only computer problems I've had were fixable with a System Restore. I suppose once I have a problem that isn't fixable except through formatting, I'll regret not backing files up, but for now, I don't see too much need to |
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