Hey,
I was just curious, who here makes regular backups of their system? I've honestly, never, ever done it. Part of me sort of worries about what would happen if I lost all of my data though, since I have spent many years acquiring everything on there (heh, I am a digital packrat, I never delete any random cool little thing I find, and every time I get a new system, I just drag and drop the contents of the old hard drives from that system into a folder in the new one, thus I think I have three layers worth of windows installs on my current computer).
But, now, I am up to 350 gigs worth of space, and I think I want to add about 600 more before the end of the year. How does somebody back that up? I mean, on CDs it would take like, 1200 CDs. Even with DVDs thats over 200 per backup once all that space is filled.
So what do you all do? Are there other solutions? Cheap tape drives? RAID 1 arrays? (eh, don't know if I could do that last one, just knowing all that space was around just duplicating old stuff would drive me nuts, I'd want to fill it with new stuff).
I was just curious, who here makes regular backups of their system? I've honestly, never, ever done it. Part of me sort of worries about what would happen if I lost all of my data though, since I have spent many years acquiring everything on there (heh, I am a digital packrat, I never delete any random cool little thing I find, and every time I get a new system, I just drag and drop the contents of the old hard drives from that system into a folder in the new one, thus I think I have three layers worth of windows installs on my current computer).
But, now, I am up to 350 gigs worth of space, and I think I want to add about 600 more before the end of the year. How does somebody back that up? I mean, on CDs it would take like, 1200 CDs. Even with DVDs thats over 200 per backup once all that space is filled.
So what do you all do? Are there other solutions? Cheap tape drives? RAID 1 arrays? (eh, don't know if I could do that last one, just knowing all that space was around just duplicating old stuff would drive me nuts, I'd want to fill it with new stuff).