losing almost everything on your hd

[RoniMan]

a couple weeks ago, my housemate got a virus on his comp that wiped everything out. so i thought i better back up all my stuff just in case.

too much pix/data () to fit on one cd, so i thought i would be a genius and zip it up and copy it onto one cd.

one week later, our comp got infected with trojan, and had to completely reformat.

i popped the cd i made back in, and NOTHING...the zipped file is there, but there's nothing when i unzip the file...

sigh. good thing i was careful and copied some of the more important stuff on another cd. but i still lost a lot of imp stuff.

how do you guys backup your data?

[revil]

i burn a dvd with all of my important data and i also have copies of them on multiple computers. now i just need to find some software that will sync up all those copies.

[PCC]

Travan T4 tape...

[Markel]

Spare hard drive(s) in drive bay cartridges. Pop in a cartridge, put Ghost to work. Bingo.

[Ladogaboy]

I don't. Nothing I have is important enough to back up.

[Joshua]

2nd drive.

[djradam]

what sucks is when you have a harddrive hanging outside your case and you see a small spark... then you realize you moved all your data from the past 2 years (HS, beginning of college) to that harddrive.


i told maxtor it just stopped working, so i got a new drive, but that info is gone :-/

[RoniMan]

Originally posted by djradam
what sucks is when you have a harddrive hanging outside your case and you see a small spark... then you realize you moved all your data from the past 2 years (HS, beginning of college) to that harddrive.


i told maxtor it just stopped working, so i got a new drive, but that info is gone :-/

i feel your pain. when i FIRST got a computer (good ole 286! lol), i was a big nerd (wait, i stil am, but that's not the point). my mom wouldn't let me buy any ad&d books, so i would borrow my friends, and type/create all the charts/tables in players and dm guide. then i did the same for the star wars role playing game as well. some one told me that becareful with putting data on a harddrive b/c they lost it all when it crashed. so it scared me, and i moved it all to a floppy disk. (mind you, i deleted the ones on the hd). you guessed it, after about 3 months, i tried reloading the data, and it wouldn't....

sigh....now i'm still the nerd, but without the books still....

[RoniMan]

so what you're saying is...what i'm sorry?

i'm actually quite illiterate when it comes to hardware...what am i saying? i don't know much about software either.

i was told (by a more comp-literate friend) that partitioning a disk isn't a good idea. tho he never said why. if you, or anyone else, wouldn't mind, can you explain to me? thanx

[Merlin]

Originally posted by DarkFury
Those few minutes ahead can save you HOURS on the back end.

Hey now spending hours on the back end can be fun!

I've recently had a similiar problem and what I'm in the process of implementing is... I've gotten an external firewire/usb drive and dropped a 15gig spare HD in it...I plan on writing a little batch file that will copy the documents and setting folder as well as the Quicken folder over to the external drive (these two directories/trees should contain all of my data that I want saved/protected)...Once that is done I'll just schedule it in the task scheduler to run once a week. Hopefully this will work for me. With it set up as a file like this I can always backup with just one click which will come in handy the next time in need to start poking aroun inside my case. The only thing I have to given too much thought to is off site storage. That is how to keep the porn safe and sound even if there is a fire in my apartment.