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MrBumpnGrind
Illegitimate Luongo Child
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 299
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what do you guys use? online? backup HD?
was thinking of using Mozy.com to back up my files, ive got thousands and thousands of photos that i would like backup on more then just DVD's
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Captain Chaos
(Formerly Lieutenant Chaos)
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 412
Location: Vancouver
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| I use an external hard drive connected by USB and do automatic back-ups with Titan Backup. |
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Grgecko
Drunken Lout
Joined: 19 Oct 2007
Posts: 112
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Got a fancy External HD enclosure as a present a few years ago, which I connect to my PC via external SATA. I love it, it is awesome.
I use a really simple, no frills piece of freeware called "karen's replicator" to do a weekly file-copy backup, which, since my computer is more a toy than a tool, is really all I need.
Obviously the on-line backup idea would be more fool-proof, since an external hard drive can crash as easily as an internal one, and in any case wouldn't help much if the apartment burned down, the whole computer got stolen, or something else equally catastrophic happened. I just like to feel like I am in control of my data's destiny, for good or for ill.
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the New Cunning Linguist
Like a good neighbor, but not
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 1668
Location: I'm here, aren't I?
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Bot a Maxtor 500gb USB external; it backs up weekly and works quite well. If you time it right, you can pick one up for under $100 on eCost.com.
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Jyrki21
Rebel Sell + Moneyball = Life
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 1864
Location: Ottawa, ON
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SmartDisk FireLite.
I like it because it gives the Firewire port on my iBook a raison d'être.
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E.L.3000
Big in Japan
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 1580
Location: MTL Police: stay out ma bizness
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| I like it because it gives the Firewire port on my iBook a raison d'être. |
I have a firewire port on my custom PC. It doesn't get enough love.
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harmfuljays
King of Men
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 1273
Location: Djibouti
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I've had several Maxtor drives crash out on me so I use Western Digital Backups.....
I also bought a Fantom drive which is about $30 cheaper and I haven't had any issues yet.
I haven't even thought about using online storage.
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Hounsy
Reigning King of One-Liners
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
Posts: 1250
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External USB drive with weekly XCOPY based batch files running the backup.
I'm old school like that. 
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