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How do you backup your computer data?

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badval:

--- Quote ---We back up data files only.  You really dont have chance of restoring a complete system from tape or an external drive.  
You might want to look at Symantec Ghost to create am image of your drive.  Use that to restore your system, then restore your data files from your external drive and you are good to go.
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If you're going through the trouble of making ghost images, why not include the data files too?  If you're going to restore your OS and programs from the ghost image, may as well let restore the data files too?

Or do you mean you only ghost it after the system is set up initially & afterwards only backup data files?

NE-Phil:
I use a usb drive enclosure and DriveImage XML about once a month to create a copy of my primary hard drive. I'm not creating too many documents at home, so once a month is fine.
Simple and quick.

Phil

GoBlue:

--- Quote ---
--- Quote ---We back up data files only.  You really dont have chance of restoring a complete system from tape or an external drive.  
You might want to look at Symantec Ghost to create am image of your drive.  Use that to restore your system, then restore your data files from your external drive and you are good to go.
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Or do you mean you only ghost it after the system is set up initially & afterwards only backup data files?
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That's what I mean.  I only ghost after I do a major system change and everything seems to be working correctly.  But I do data backups almost daily.

svspa:
gombo,

Secondary internal drive for routine backup of data only. Important data files (family pictures and videos) copied to DVD.

I am also in the process of copying the family pictures and videos over to my media center PC. I still have about 120 DVDs of home video that are housed in a 300 disk DVD changer that need to get copied over to the external HDDs attached to the media center pc. Then I can stash the DVDs in a safe place.

Steve

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