Comments on: How I Backup Everything

By: Saint

Saint — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:27:36 +0000

Lost 5 years of emails last week because I only backed up my data files .

Thanks for the tips and trying SyncToy as I type.

By: Huken

Huken — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:31:35 +0000

Backup is very important :) Thanks for this post!

By: Charles Brindle

Charles Brindle — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:21:22 +0000

Vista’s backup software included with Windows Ultimate and Business has done the job for me. I wish I knew how to restore MySQL databases though. Was able to figure out how to make a backup, but I client crashed his and I couldn’t quite figure out how to restore it. A MySQL database backup and repair/restore blog entry would be very nice ^_^

PS New portfolio in the works http://www.ashbluewebdesign.com

By: Patrick Daly

Patrick Daly — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:56:12 +0000

Doktor, sure sounds like you’ve been burned one too many times. My Microsoft experience hasn’t been quite as riddled with unpleasantness. My recent HD failure on by Dell and Seagate’s part.

Nevertheless, I don’t make a point of promoting MS and am certainly not an advocate for Apple either. I simply use the best, most affordable soft/hardware available to me and within my knowledge.

By: Doktor Thomas

Doktor Thomas — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:46:32 +0000

An MSFT back-up program? You are a gambler. My experience with MSFT is consistent since 1987, whenever under the gun, facing a deadline, or in an emergency, their software fails. (your HD?)

MSFT software and OS is unstable, insecure, continuously up-dated, patch work, lacking imagination, bloated, error-ridden, over-priced, without logic in user interfaces, writes too many temp files, leaves trash all over the HD, crashes, locks up, and is just plain annoying.

The worst is having their licensed software (Office 2007, for example) and trying to re-install only to get a message that a crucial OS file is missing. Go to download that file and another error message, that drives me up the wall, is “you must up-date to file version X.y. When you try to download that, there is another error message that you cannot because you have a more recent version of that file already installed. (True experience.) Or, how about having to read through 6 or 7 pages mundane senseless dribble and irrelevant downloads to find a short hidden reference to the fact that you cannot have Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed on the same drive. (Yet, I just had that for years.) Does anyone at MSFT even think? I’ll take WordPerfect 8.0 (their worse version) over Office any day of the week and twice on weekend days. (Open Office is getting there.)

With all the rouge geniuses in the IT world, why are we still even talking about MSFT?

In short, give me anything, any software, that is not MSFT conceived, and I’ll gladly try it. But to rely on the unreliable for critical back-ups, no thanks. Even for free, I’ll pass on MSFT software. Snake oil…. Just say “NO!” to MSFT. (Hint: why are back-ups recommended if the OS is adequate? It is not. See above.) Disclaimers: No, I do not compute on fruit machines. I never have been nor will ever be a MSFT employee. I have no interest in, make no fee, and do not work for Corel. This message is not MSFT approved.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:47:38 +0000

This is good, but I’ve done the online backup thing too. No good having a HDD backup if the house burns down and burns the backup drive too. Same for theft. I use Carbonite, but haven’t researched the services available in quite some time.

By: Patrick Daly

Patrick Daly — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:51:46 +0000

Phew…4TB of movies and music?! I guess it wouldn’t take too long for movies to add up to that amount.

I’ve tried Dropbox a couple of times, but I never keep up with it. Plus I haven’t wanted to upgrade to a paid account which I would need to do immediately with all the stuff I’d want to keep there.

Why use Dropbox and Skydrive, by the way?

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:30:29 +0000

I keep my most important Design Files and Project related stuff on Dropbox and Skydrive.

For tutorials and important documents.. roughly 300 GB, I use a Backup External HDD.

Finally all the other movies and music, which i wont care if i loose, I dont backup. It amounts to around 4 TB, which is a difficult task in itself.

On other note, I am liking what you are doing with Hybrid Themes. Keep up the good work.

Regards TJ